Pete's QBASIC Site

Hey guys --

In case you didn't know, my computer broke when I brought it home over Thanksgiving break, and as a result, I was unable to finish and release the new issue of QB Express.

A week went by as I tried absolutely EVERYTHING to fix it without sucking up and buying new hardware. But in the end I could come to only one conclusion: my motherboard was fork.

So I bought a new motherboard and installed it... and my computer is working again!

$109 down the drain...for a crappier motherboard than I had before... but it works! (I will be sending in my broken ASUS K8V Deluxe motherboard and getting a replacement soon, (3 year warranty!), but until then, I have a semi-working computer.)

Only 2 of my 4 hard drives are currently operational at the same time, and my DVD+-RW burner was giving me problems, so I unhooked it. (That actually might have fried my motherboard in the first place... it kept on shorting out or something.) I also have only two of my three 512MB DDR RAM sticks in, since this motherboard supports only two sticks. And I have significantly fewer firewire and USB ports to work with. But for the three weeks until I come home from college for winter break, it will do fine. When I get home, and get my replacement K8V motherboard, everything will be back to normal.

Anyway, I'm gonna get to work on QB Express Issue #4 so that I can get it out...

...even if it is about 12 days late.

Any good thing is worth the wait Peter .... and QB Express is definitaly worth the lil 12 days late ..... I still can't wait to read it .....

Signed
Your #1 fan ....but some might debate that .

Good... I was woundering if you dissappered without a trace again

Signed,
You #0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 fan!

Wow Nathan, not bad for a mental calculation ...You got me beat dude, I couldn't calculate that many decimals if my life depended on it .

lol

great work pete!

(heh, can't resist..)
your 1.0*10^-1000000th fan.

Update: I am the 1.0^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20^20

Good ol' copy'n'paste.

Gah, you're the bastard that did that Nathan!

Great news pete, I've got (shock+horror) another set of issues of BBY and a music-writing tutorial for the next issue, I'll send them to ya soon

matt

You have my sympathies Pete, I wen't through something similar about 3 weeks ago. Finally tracked it down to my crappy power supply unit causing everything to malfunction, had to fork out ?30 (US$50) for a new one. And now my video card is starting a long, painful, random-dots-on-screen kinda death..

Tempted to bin the bloody PC and dig out my ol' P200. That never gave me a moment of grief

Nice to see you're back

Pete, you are mean. Now that your computer is fixed, mine is broken. It must be some sort of chain. I just use it for about ten minutes and it shuts itself down. We have always had bad sh*t going sown with our fans

Ewww....when is it schedule that they come up with air conditioned CPUs, not fans, A.C. for crying out loud ???? don't yall think it's about damn time???? it's cold here, but my window is open help keep things nice and cool in my tower .....