Argh! -- got in tonight, and my faithful computer THE PRESENCE (because it's a 70 lb black monolith), which has been showing signs of minor instability for the past few weeks, now won't completely load up at all. Nor does it want to restart or even shut down. Hard cold reboot (physical switchoff plus unplugging) leads to the Bios screen saying that overclocking has failed, and the system needs reconfiguring.
I'm on wait-call for Falcon Northwest tech support. I doubt I actually need overclocking, especially with the 1080ti card I put in several months ago (to replace the aging 600 series SLI from the original purchase), but experience suggests this is something in the motherboard finally failing.
My system has been a hard puncher since mid December 2012, a little more than six years, and was still totally competent at running anything I wanted no matter how moxie (once the gfx card was updated -- which I'm sure I can port over easily if I need a new computer). I'll miss it, if it can't be salvaged.
The practical point to this announcement, is that I may be unable to join the conclusion of the epic trilogy tomorrow night.
My portable backup, a Surface Pro 3 (almost as old
), might or might not be able to run TTS sufficiently along with a mic arrangement through Steam. (It's fine for doing this, or for light gaming including many older wargames, but...)
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