Bad News! Very Bad News!! Update!!!!!!!!! 8O
Posted: 12.01.2004, 12:51
Well everyone I have some very bad news. Saturday night while I was working on my new Volcanic moon texture I started to notice something strange going on with the way my cursor was being drawn on the screen. Well I figured my machine was getting buggy so I saved my work and rebooted the system. Well things started to get worse. After getting back to the desktop I now had four little dash like shadows following my cursor around the screen. Also when I opened any windows or menus there shadow was being very poorly drawn. Then the system locked up on me. I then did a hard start and as the system booted I saw garbage drawn here and there all over the post screen. After getting back into Windows XP again the system was acting goofy. The screen draws then continued to degrade and my system kept locking up. Well I started the normal things like reinstall drivers, no good; I did some tweaking to my system a couple of days earlier and figured that might be causing the problem so I chose to roll the system back. Again no good.
I then figured that what I was seeing was the death of my GeForce4 TI 4600 128MB card. So I pulled the card and dropped the only decent card I had, an old TNT 16MB card. Like an idiot I sold my Nvidia Quadro2 64MB card two weeks ago because I needed the cash. Well the system booted fine and Windows XP was behaving itself. Well I got to thinking maybe the card was over heating. It was quite dusty so I cleaned it off and reinstalled the card.
WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS!
Windows XP than totally keeled over and died on me. Nothing but kernel panics. Even after I put the TNT back in. So I had to resort to a good old repair install and I just finished getting things up and going again. But there is a major problem. I can no longer test any of my work under Celestia as this TNT card does not run Celestia worth beans. So now I am looking at a nearly dead GeForce4 card and no way to continue to test anything I do. I can still work on my textures but I simply have no way to test them any longer. It is going to be quite a while, probably several months before I can purchase a replacement card.
So here is what I plan to do. I plan on continuing to work on my textures and add-ons but be aware that I am flying blind. I am not sure how I can release anything without testing it at this point. And if that wasn't bad enough I might also be loosing my access to the internet for a while.
I hate this. Things were just starting to roll at a good pace and now this. And this GeForce4 card is just now a year old. Life sucks.
Well I have always said that the Edwards were cursed when it comes to electronics. If there is anything bad that comes down the assembly line we seem to be the ones to pick it up. I could make a list of electronic equipment and appliances that would turn your hair white be the time you were done reading it. In the last year alone I lost 2 hard drives, 1 stereo receiver, 1 car cdplayer, 1 Sony Clie Palm handheld, 1 Power Mac 9500, one iMac, and that just the beginning.
So just bare with me on things. I have a couple of plans possibly in works to solve some of this. But if I disappear from the forum for more than a week than you can assume I lost my internet connection. Don't worry I will eventually be back.
Don. Edwards
I then figured that what I was seeing was the death of my GeForce4 TI 4600 128MB card. So I pulled the card and dropped the only decent card I had, an old TNT 16MB card. Like an idiot I sold my Nvidia Quadro2 64MB card two weeks ago because I needed the cash. Well the system booted fine and Windows XP was behaving itself. Well I got to thinking maybe the card was over heating. It was quite dusty so I cleaned it off and reinstalled the card.
WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS!
Windows XP than totally keeled over and died on me. Nothing but kernel panics. Even after I put the TNT back in. So I had to resort to a good old repair install and I just finished getting things up and going again. But there is a major problem. I can no longer test any of my work under Celestia as this TNT card does not run Celestia worth beans. So now I am looking at a nearly dead GeForce4 card and no way to continue to test anything I do. I can still work on my textures but I simply have no way to test them any longer. It is going to be quite a while, probably several months before I can purchase a replacement card.
So here is what I plan to do. I plan on continuing to work on my textures and add-ons but be aware that I am flying blind. I am not sure how I can release anything without testing it at this point. And if that wasn't bad enough I might also be loosing my access to the internet for a while.
I hate this. Things were just starting to roll at a good pace and now this. And this GeForce4 card is just now a year old. Life sucks.
Well I have always said that the Edwards were cursed when it comes to electronics. If there is anything bad that comes down the assembly line we seem to be the ones to pick it up. I could make a list of electronic equipment and appliances that would turn your hair white be the time you were done reading it. In the last year alone I lost 2 hard drives, 1 stereo receiver, 1 car cdplayer, 1 Sony Clie Palm handheld, 1 Power Mac 9500, one iMac, and that just the beginning.
So just bare with me on things. I have a couple of plans possibly in works to solve some of this. But if I disappear from the forum for more than a week than you can assume I lost my internet connection. Don't worry I will eventually be back.
Don. Edwards