Our winter has been so very mild so far (yes, I know: on the calendar, it’s not officially winter, yet), so it was a surprise to see this, this morning.
-18C, with a wind chill of -22C!!! That is far colder than the forecast for overnight temperatures, last night!
We are expected to warm up to about -7C today. By the weekend, we are even supposed to go above 0C again! Talk about temperature whiplash!
The outside cats seemed all right, thankfully. I think I counted 33. Twenty of them were in the sun room! The smallest kittens were all accounted for.
For the past while, I’ve been getting away with doing my rounds with just a light jacket. A zippered hoodie, really. Today, it was a morning to break out the down filled parka!
Normally, when writing about temperatures, I include the Fahrenheit as well, but it’s not this time. I’m on my phone instead of my desktop. Usually, I have a temperature converter up in another tab on my browser. Can’t really do that on a phone.
I had just settled at my computer to start writing this post, when I started hearing an unfortunate repetitive noise coming out of the tower. So I shut it down.
It didn’t shut down.
I tried again.
Nothing.
Again.
Nothing.
So I did a hard shut down.
Once I’m done this, I want to open up the case and see what I can see.
Crud.
My husband’s computer is toast. Since he tried to increase the RAM, something went wrong. Now, it won’t even boot. He thinks it’s the video card. The cheapest he can find for his machine is $700. If not the video card, it’s the motherboard. Those are cheaper. Neither is affordable. He’s been using his old work laptop. His computer is the newest one in the household, since his previous one did not survive the move. Mine is much older, and has been struggling of late. For how I use it, I knew was already needing to upgrade.
Desktop computers are really expensive these days. Even if all you need is the tower, and already have all the peripherals. Especially for a computer that can handle the graphics and video intensive uses we need. I suppose a laptop would be cheaper, but I hate laptops for general use. I’d just be hooking it up to my ergonomic keyboard and 27″ monitor, anyhow.
I’m really hoping my tower just needs to have the dust cleaned out or something simple like that, but… *sigh*
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 
Okay, I am feeling good about my 19 degrees in South Mo
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Hmmm, I’d guess your husband’s PC is more likely an issue of the wrong type / speed of RAM or it’s not properly seated. RAM is picky. Size of each strip should be the same, it matters which slot is used first, esp if they’re not all used, etc… Any time I’ve been bit the last few years, it was the memory not being seated properly. The video card shouldn’t keep it from booting though. It would boot with no picture normally.
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He did some research, and it’s basically the case, and Dell is known for this happening. He returned the RAM, but not long after, it died. He git it going, but it would suddenly die without warning. Usually, whike he was in the muddke of gaming. Then it just wouldn’t start anymore.
Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing what hardware will fit without trying it, for the same issue.
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Ugh… A Dell… No wonder. They’re notoriously finicky and often use proprietary hardware and drivers. Years back, I spent a week chasing down drivers that would work for my step-father’s sound card. Standard ones that came off the Windows website as an update “broke” his sound.
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