Thursday, October 07, 2004
Done the big reinstall
The big reinstall went fairly well. It took a good portion of the day. All told, I think around five hours before everything was done (including the reinstallation and update of EverQuest).
I took EQ out for a spin a little while afterwards and nearly got killed. You see, the last time I had crashed, I was in Dulak's Harbour. Well, I popped in, got big-time lag (there's something about that zone) and started getting wailed on by a bunch of mobs. I didn't have Spirit of Wolf up because I had been in Greater Wolf Form when I crashed (and wolf form goes away when you close the client). I threw SoW on ASAP. A quick run for the thankfully-nearby zoneline and I was at 77 percent health. Then I had to get through the Gulf of Gunthak. That went bad. My Superior Camouflage spell failed at the wrong time and I trained a dozen mobs around the zone and out to the Nadox zoneline (but not after trying to make a swim for it to the Stonebrunt zoneline, which was just one of the stupidest things I've ever done in EverQuest -- for non EQers, dying in the water is bad, as you gotta swim down and risk drowning just to get your corpse; thankfully, I didn't die). I managed to survive this ordeal, though I'd dropped to 22 percent health by the time I zoned into Nadox.
Anyway, all seems well with the newly-cleaned gaming machine, but I really need to find some loose cash to upgrade the RAM. I'm sure having only 256 MB of DDR in my machine isn't helping my lag and crashing problems any. I don't have any idea what a new RAM chip would cost right now. I really should find out and then get some.
Funniest thing is I haven't purchased RAM on its own in several years. Generally, by the time I need more RAM, I also need a new processor, a new video card and everything else, so I just go buy a new computer. However, I made a vow to keep this system for a few years and upgrade it as necessary. So how's this for being a lameass? It's been so long since I bought RAM, I don't know what I need to consider when buying it anymore. I suck as a computer geek.
I took EQ out for a spin a little while afterwards and nearly got killed. You see, the last time I had crashed, I was in Dulak's Harbour. Well, I popped in, got big-time lag (there's something about that zone) and started getting wailed on by a bunch of mobs. I didn't have Spirit of Wolf up because I had been in Greater Wolf Form when I crashed (and wolf form goes away when you close the client). I threw SoW on ASAP. A quick run for the thankfully-nearby zoneline and I was at 77 percent health. Then I had to get through the Gulf of Gunthak. That went bad. My Superior Camouflage spell failed at the wrong time and I trained a dozen mobs around the zone and out to the Nadox zoneline (but not after trying to make a swim for it to the Stonebrunt zoneline, which was just one of the stupidest things I've ever done in EverQuest -- for non EQers, dying in the water is bad, as you gotta swim down and risk drowning just to get your corpse; thankfully, I didn't die). I managed to survive this ordeal, though I'd dropped to 22 percent health by the time I zoned into Nadox.
Anyway, all seems well with the newly-cleaned gaming machine, but I really need to find some loose cash to upgrade the RAM. I'm sure having only 256 MB of DDR in my machine isn't helping my lag and crashing problems any. I don't have any idea what a new RAM chip would cost right now. I really should find out and then get some.
Funniest thing is I haven't purchased RAM on its own in several years. Generally, by the time I need more RAM, I also need a new processor, a new video card and everything else, so I just go buy a new computer. However, I made a vow to keep this system for a few years and upgrade it as necessary. So how's this for being a lameass? It's been so long since I bought RAM, I don't know what I need to consider when buying it anymore. I suck as a computer geek.
// posted by Chris @ 9:18 AM 
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A stick of 256MB of DDR RAM will run you anywhere from $58.00 CAN to $112.00 CAN depending on the speed of the RAM itself. I'd say find out what speed of RAM you're using currently and then grab more of the same.
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