Minor updates

[kingandy]

1. Bought a processor and fan from eBay for low-powered Ilkley puter; turns out the new fan reacts exactly the same to power-on as the old one, ie sudden jerk, stop, no movement until power off, at which point it drifts loosely for a bit.  Have deduced that unless faulty fan has been sold to me it is probably a problem with the mothermainboard.  Does anyone know if it's possible that a broken processor might interfere with the mainboard's behaviour in this way (I didn't even bother with the new processor)?  Am thinking about buying a mainboard in ... or maybe just splashing out on a whole new system, they can't cost much at that spec or thereabouts.  Can probably re-use a lot of my old components and at least I'll know I have a MB/CPU/fan etc that work together.  Or, maybe I'll just wait until I have a new job, and get a laptop or something.
2. Government is giving me £500 of the wages I was owed by Delivered Solutions when they laid me off.  God bless National Insurance.
3. Tomorrow evening I cook for the Bolton mob.  I plan to make spaghetti bolognese.  I have no idea how much to buy to feed six.  It will be awesome.
4. Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars is on Sky One in 15 minutes. I will probably not watch it, as Alex is using the TV for documentaries and I've seen it already (without adverts). Hopefully this will not affect the ratings.

UPDATE: Watched PK Wars. Better than VCD, even with ad breaks. huzzah!

Comments

[kneeshooter]

The fan thing sounds like a PSU issue. Apparently some PSUs "break" to the stage where they give out enough power to "wake the components up" but not to start them properly.

Or so I read on the Internet - so it must be true.