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My NAS is currently sitting apart while I turn my wife's old PC into our new media/game/whatever server, it's been 3 weeks of different random shit not working/being forgotten (whoops, I tossed all my old sata cables! Oops, forgot that the PSU is shit and needs replacement! Oops, the dog PISSED ON JT AND RUINED THE MOTHERBOARD)
Wife is clearly annoyed that the automatic piracy machine isn't working and has threatened to resubscribe to streaming services if I don't fix it soon lol
(Just gonna upgrade my gaming PC and use MY old parts to cover the busted mobo I guess)
Ok, clearly this one is on you. And I donāt blame your wife.
- You tossed out perfectly good cables. Iāve made this mistake too, so I feel your pain.
- You need to have at least two piles: one for working parts, and one for non-working parts. Any organization beyond that is icing on the cake.
- The cake is a lie.
- I have no words for how your dog was able to piss on your computer. I would suggest looking up clicker-based training and teach your dog to piss on the carpet and not the hardware.
I mean comāon. Those are all rookie mistakes!
You tossed out perfectly good cables. Iāve made this mistake too, so I feel your pain.
Ha ha, I haven't!
<is consumed by giant pile of IDE, parallel, serial, VGA, telephone, USB A-B, RCA, and other assorted very obsolete cables>
And there will come a day where you will be asked for a cable, and eventually youāll find it in the tangled mess of cables that youāve put somewhere in your domicile, youāre sure of it, just give yourself a minute to check; hold on, you swear you have it, just give yourself a minute to find itā¦. No not that one, almost but not quiteā¦. Ah ha! Found itā¦ no, youāll keep looking.
It's definitely not the dog's fault. This is their case:
What, you took the old one offline before the new one was ready? What the hell, man
I am not made of money and cannot afford new drives, so once the backup was done I pulled em out thinking it was going to be a quick weekend job
Then... Life happened.
The REAL issue is the dog pissing on the mobo one night when I left the parts on the ground. He doesn't do that usually so my guess is the Spray-Paint (I also painted the case) was causing doggy nose problems so he doused the smell or something. Took 2 days (I only have so much patience after work) of troubleshooting to figure out what fucking parts were functional after that.
This is not my first rodeo. No, I will never learn. If I still had my ADHD medication this would have been done in 1 weekend without issue but hey, I have broken brain!
Don't work on electronics on the floor. Spread them across the dining room table so that it can't be used for meals and your wife can complain about that, too!
When I had a dining room table I did that one time and earned anger.
Nowadays the only table big enough currently has a different project sprawled all over it because a part is on Back-Order, so I make due
Buy a table saw, hammer, and screwdriver and build yourself a new table. What could go wrong? š
Jeez. I'm tempted to send you my old Dell R710. It'll at least work. The system is pretty bulletproof.
You can generally get something newer with lower power requirements for cheap.... So I won't, but still.