Computer fettling

[ewx]

...specifically swapping the motherboards of the upstairs and downstairs machines, in order to put the fast CPU in a more sensible place. (I should have organized it like that from the start, but never mind.) Everything seems to be working again except the onboard sound on the downstairs machine - however since the upstairs machine has ejected a PCI sound card as part of the process, I have a workaround available if I can't get it sorted.

Oh, and the whole process generated two spare screws.

(Fixed the sound. There are two places where you can turn audio things on in the BIOS, I'd got the wrong one.)

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[acronym.livejournal.com]

... two spare screws.

They must have travelled through a wormhole from my case; I'm missing two and I don't know where they are (well, probably the vacuum cleaner is as good a guess as any).

My PC is currently facing the wrong way round with the side off, which makes putting CDs in the drive an interesting contortion. However, it hasn't *quite* annoyed me enough yet to actually fix the situation, astoundingly.

- A

sorry to be prosaic, but...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Actually one is from the ejected sound card; the other is a consequence a network card moving to a case which doesn't use restraining screws for PCI cards.

Re: sorry to be prosaic, but...

[acronym.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that there were cases where you didn't need to screw in the PCI cards - I've always found that the fiddliest part of getting any new hardware to work (more than once, I've screwed in a card to find the extra tension is pulling the connector out of the relevant slot).

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

High-end cases and things like Dell kit tend to have retaining clips for things rather than screws, it makes it much easier to swap things. At work we have a machine with hot-swappable *fans* ...

hot-swappable *fans*

[ewx.livejournal.com]

"cool"

Re: sorry to be prosaic, but...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'll take a photo of the widget next time I have that case open.