Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Hmmm... it seems like mishaps happen to me a lot on Tuesdays. I'm quite sure of this because it's the same night as our worship team practice. Anyway, this week isn't car related like other times, but computer related.
On my way to practice, my brother called me up and said, "I think something blew up on your computer." To this I replied, "What do you mean?" He said that when he turned it on, there was a zapping sound and a flash of light that came from the computer. Ok, so when I got home and opened up the computer case, the first thing I noticed was this strong smell of burnt plastic. Looking through the power supply's vents, I could see all this melted plastic all over the place, as if something did explode in there. It must have have blown a capacitor or something. Oh well. I think I have a spare power supply unit somewhere, but I don't know if it will provide sufficient wattage. This AV editing machine probably is the most demanding of all the computers in the house.
It's a good thing I just finished this music video that will be shown at this conference up in Fresno that our youth group is going to this weekend. The last thing my computer did before the power supply died is burn the music video to a DVD this afternoon. Music videos are really fun to make, but they're probably some of the hardest videos to edit in terms of technical difficulty.
In case your wondering, I'm writing this blog entry on a backup Linux computer made from five or six year old leftover computer parts.
On my way to practice, my brother called me up and said, "I think something blew up on your computer." To this I replied, "What do you mean?" He said that when he turned it on, there was a zapping sound and a flash of light that came from the computer. Ok, so when I got home and opened up the computer case, the first thing I noticed was this strong smell of burnt plastic. Looking through the power supply's vents, I could see all this melted plastic all over the place, as if something did explode in there. It must have have blown a capacitor or something. Oh well. I think I have a spare power supply unit somewhere, but I don't know if it will provide sufficient wattage. This AV editing machine probably is the most demanding of all the computers in the house.
It's a good thing I just finished this music video that will be shown at this conference up in Fresno that our youth group is going to this weekend. The last thing my computer did before the power supply died is burn the music video to a DVD this afternoon. Music videos are really fun to make, but they're probably some of the hardest videos to edit in terms of technical difficulty.
In case your wondering, I'm writing this blog entry on a backup Linux computer made from five or six year old leftover computer parts.
