I don't have mine anymore :(
Dave
joined 2 years ago
That part isn't on the original cover. Is this a real foldout from a recent MAD issue that is an updated version of the 1974 cover?
Hmm the original doesn't have that bit in the bottom right about the original concept. Is this a real MAD foldout based on an old cover but updated for the current hot topic?
I don't think this is real. If you search up the issue number you'll see the real version. It's also from 1974.
Ooh I really liked this game, I played it in VR. I remember thinking they did great job with the difficulty curve.
For the record, it was definitely on. I ended up buying a new PSU to check, and it didn't help. I then bought a new motherboard and that fixed it. So case solved!
The luck didn't help haha, I never got that light again, except for occasional split second flashes. I edited some info into the original post, but long story short, after lots of fluffing around in the end it was the motherboard. I got a new one and now I'm back up and running!
Yeah they only have the one trackpad option. I tend to use a mouse anyway.
Probably not much point in getting one if you're going to build your kids a PC anyway.
By the way I managed to get a light on the motherboard, so it might not be dead after all. I'm planning to get some more thermal paste today and keep tinkering, I might save it yet.
I use a laptop most of the time because then I can sit in a recliner with my feet up. I spend the day at a desk I don't much fancy doing the same in the evening.
I have a Framework laptop from the first ones they made, which are upgradeable and repairable. Unfortunately they don't ship to NZ, I got mine by freight forwarding and also got parts a bit later the same way. But now they have cracked down hard on freight forwarding as I recently learned, so I can't get any more upgrades until they start shipping here (no announced plans).
The problem is either my mobo or CPU is dead, so I can't run the old system haha.
It sounds like my old system could handle transcoding better if I had enabled the right options, so now I have to decide whether to buy a new motherboard and risk it being the CPU, or just upgrade everything.
I don't do a lot of gaming these days. When I played Baldur's Gate 3, once I got to Act 3 I switched to streaming from the desktop to the laptop using the Steam function as my laptop couldn't handle it. I also don't do upgrades as frequently as you.
If you had an old mobo and CPU, you could downgrade and keep the NAS running until you had a replacement.
Good point, I didn't think of that.
Maybe one day I'll have time again!
I had an Index, and after many years one of my lighthouses died (was actually from the Vive I had before that). But I wasn't playing it enough to justify buying a new one.
Now the kids are getting older I might get back into it at some point.