I was forced to make a few purchases today that I didn't want to do. So this is just a rant about my day.
Came home from work around lunchtime, bad chinese food the night before and didn't feel like dealing with it at work any longer. Get home, wife's not working today, sitting on the couch watching stuff on her laptop and headphones on, before my foot hits the floor "The TV is broke. Says no signal. Happened right after a clap of thunder shook the house". Oh goody.
Seems my AV receiver is toast as was the media PC. Ended up being just the video card in the PC. All other electronics are fine, including the ps3, blu ray, 70" vizio in the living room fine and the 55", blu ray, sound projector in bedroom, main pc and wife's laptop. What was odd was that the two items that died were plugged into the same surge protectors as the devices that were also on at the time that were fine.
Anyway, ended up fussing with it a bit to find out no inputs or outputs worked, hdmi, fiber or coaxial, so it was dead. Then logged back into work to finish up some stuff and while I wait for developers to fix stuff, I was researching a new receiver and a cheap vid card since I don't use the media pc much. I use it more as a file server to host my movie library. After finishing work for the day, pulled the vid card out of my main pc, put it in the media pc, it was fine, so just the Nvidia 650 card was fried. Drove an hour to BestBuy, picked up cheap vid card and a new receiver, hooked up/fixed both. Got the receiver setup enough to eat something while not sitting in silence and staring at a big blank screen.
I ordered a new PC a week ago, it's showing up tomorrow, so my current PC will become my media PC and the media PC will become something I tinker on or sell. Had a buddy that I was going to sell it to for $100 just to get it out of the house, then the lightning happened. So now, I just spent $35 on a PC I was planning to sell for $100. lol.
Now fussing with my stupid programmable remotes because the receiver was different enough that the arrows and whatnot don't work (same brand, newer model). What really sucks is setting up the eq for each channel takes forever and the fact that the receiver that got fried, I got for $250 off the list price since it was a demo model 2 years ago. To get the same features in a current, I had to fork out over $700! But hey, now I have atmos and bluetooth... lol!
For a few hours, my office looked like best buy threw up in it. I was pulling the drives and PSU out of the media PC to throw in a lower wattage spare PSU and cloning the SSD in it to a spare HDD I had. I mean, I'm selling it for $100... he can put in his own SSD. Put the media server drives in my main PC, setup the server software so now my movies are back online. Now I just have to wait for the new PC, then spend a week getting everything setup right.
As a software QA guy... I really feel like an IT guy today.
What a day.
Came home from work around lunchtime, bad chinese food the night before and didn't feel like dealing with it at work any longer. Get home, wife's not working today, sitting on the couch watching stuff on her laptop and headphones on, before my foot hits the floor "The TV is broke. Says no signal. Happened right after a clap of thunder shook the house". Oh goody.
Seems my AV receiver is toast as was the media PC. Ended up being just the video card in the PC. All other electronics are fine, including the ps3, blu ray, 70" vizio in the living room fine and the 55", blu ray, sound projector in bedroom, main pc and wife's laptop. What was odd was that the two items that died were plugged into the same surge protectors as the devices that were also on at the time that were fine.
Anyway, ended up fussing with it a bit to find out no inputs or outputs worked, hdmi, fiber or coaxial, so it was dead. Then logged back into work to finish up some stuff and while I wait for developers to fix stuff, I was researching a new receiver and a cheap vid card since I don't use the media pc much. I use it more as a file server to host my movie library. After finishing work for the day, pulled the vid card out of my main pc, put it in the media pc, it was fine, so just the Nvidia 650 card was fried. Drove an hour to BestBuy, picked up cheap vid card and a new receiver, hooked up/fixed both. Got the receiver setup enough to eat something while not sitting in silence and staring at a big blank screen.
I ordered a new PC a week ago, it's showing up tomorrow, so my current PC will become my media PC and the media PC will become something I tinker on or sell. Had a buddy that I was going to sell it to for $100 just to get it out of the house, then the lightning happened. So now, I just spent $35 on a PC I was planning to sell for $100. lol.
Now fussing with my stupid programmable remotes because the receiver was different enough that the arrows and whatnot don't work (same brand, newer model). What really sucks is setting up the eq for each channel takes forever and the fact that the receiver that got fried, I got for $250 off the list price since it was a demo model 2 years ago. To get the same features in a current, I had to fork out over $700! But hey, now I have atmos and bluetooth... lol!
For a few hours, my office looked like best buy threw up in it. I was pulling the drives and PSU out of the media PC to throw in a lower wattage spare PSU and cloning the SSD in it to a spare HDD I had. I mean, I'm selling it for $100... he can put in his own SSD. Put the media server drives in my main PC, setup the server software so now my movies are back online. Now I just have to wait for the new PC, then spend a week getting everything setup right.
As a software QA guy... I really feel like an IT guy today.
What a day.
