Ugh. I've got to ride down tomorrow morning on that piece of poo, the scooter. This brings me onto the bike situation. It turns out that although it was just the arm that had siezed and they'd ordered the replacement, it didn't come with the pins so they had to order the whole caliper. So I was effectively paying £200 for some pins. Not happy. Anyway, there was an issue surrounding the labour they were going to charge me, as they were charging me for the labour to find out which bit was wrong. Aah well it's been sorted out and the total cost is going to be £328.01 and the caliper's going to take 7-10 days to deliver.
I have this poxy scooter for all that time. Oh. My. God. I'm SO not impressed.
I have been trying to sort out when I will next be down in Winchester, which is now going to be Monday and Tuesday of next week.
As I don't have any transport worth speaking of it looks like I'll be getting a hire car. Let's hope that's not a shitty Micra or something.
Aaaanyway, with any luck this weekend
Sounds like
In other news, I hacked about
Then I had to fashion another paper air guide to go from the heatsink to the fan, which was tricky but my best effort yet I think.
The computer is not really quieter but the CPU is about 10 degrees centigrade cooler, and the noise is a different kind of noise, somewhat more acceptable somehow. There is a suggestion for a dial for fan speed on the front for use when watching films/listening to music etc.
[EDIT: I also used Partition Magic to resize the 2k partition on the test disk in there and install a fresh copy of XP to see if that was the problem with it crashing all the time but unfortunately it still crashes. I have a couple last things to try software wise before I declare the motherboard in