Mmmm

Well I'm home on lunch so I thought I'd make a quick update. Not too much going on new except trying to keep up with schoolwork and all of that. And hangin with Melissa ;) We were playing Zelda a lot yesterday. And watched some of the Superbowl (ugh!), and that kinda thing. It's good ;) Did I mention I got accepted to Rowan too> So that's 3 out of 4. The only problem is that Rowan wants to hear back within 30 days. That's kinda soon - I might not even hear from TCNJ by then. My new computer is built, but apparently RAM needs to be put in in pairs in this motherboard, so I need to get another chip or I can't use the third one I have :( Now I need to start loading on all the programs again, that should be a load of fun. Well, that's about it, except this: Click here for a VIEW FROM THE TOP (sorry, the picture won't show up when I try to display it. You need to click) The park opens March 25th. Kingda Ka doesn't open until April. But I can't wait!

Almost Done

So this week hasn't been too spectacular in terms of things happening. Work, school, and Melissa for the most part. She's had me watching American Idol, oh no! I tried to stay way from that reality TV stuff and now it isn't working! ;) Right now she's still asleep on my bed (since I fell asleep like two hours before she did last night), so I'm updating my journal and doing some homework. My old computer was definitely done for, so many errors that I had to give up. I'm in the process of putting together the new one; it's total stats are: AMD Althon 64 3500+, 1GB RAM (its pc266, so I need to get new RAM later), 250GB hd, 120GB hd, 60GB hd (one has to go, just need to transfer stuff), CDRW and DVDRW (need to get a DVDROM), and my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Whee! I just need to run to CompUSA and (hopefully) get some copper studs to raise the motherboard up. I thought I had some lying around but apparently now. So the computer is just kinda sitting in the case right now. I bought the most GIGANTIC heatsink and fan. Wow. Better not overheat now! School is going alright. I made a crazy cool model in my 3D Modeling w/ Maya class. Once it's finished on Monday I'll post some pictures (I have some now but it's a black bg vs a black object so it's a little hard to see). Calc 2 is eh, Calc. my other online classes are fine. Just getting into the groove of making time to get all the homework done. I got accepted to Rowan yesterday. So all that's left now is TCNJ. I have no idea where I want to go :( Anyone who's heard anything about the Computer Science/Computer Networking stuff at TCNJ, Rowan, Rider, and DeVry please speak up! Not sure what else is going on this weekend. Hanging out with Melissa, if she comes up with anything she wants to go we'll go do that. Otherwise just lounging, playing Zelda.. watching movies, doing my hw and getting my computer up.. Hmm, it's going to be warm today.. maybe a nighttime trip to LBI is in order ;) And sometime this week we're going to go to the Philly Auto Show. It's nice to see cars that you know you can never own, and sit in them! I think the funniest part of the whole thing is that when I went to the auto show a year ago I saw the Scion symbol and go "what the hell is that?" And when I saw the xA and xB I said "eww, I'd never own a Scion".. cue to 6 months later, lol. That's about it for now; just wanted to update. Oh yea, and GO EAGLES!

Computer Techs Unite!

Alright guys, I know you're out there and reading this. Anyone who can help me with my computer issues would be a godsend right now. The past two weeks my computer has been randomly resetting itself, or just turning itself off, or taking 6 boot attempts to get into windows, sometimes stalling and not even going into POST. It will either: boot up fine Boot up to windows and turn off Boot up to BIOS and say my CPU setting was incorrect and it hung (no, I do not overclock) Not even do POST and just hang Sometimes like now I can get into Windows fine and everything seems to work great, until it just turns off. Like I turned it on before I left for class at 3, when I got home at 5 it was off. Now it's been on for an hour and a half again. I replaced the power supply; same issue. Oh, the computer wasn't keeping time either; so I replaced the battery today. I read at one point it was a driver issue, so I reinstalled all my drivers. Was working fine for a few days, and then it started up again. I just recently got the HP 6100 AIO which might be causing the driver conflict, IF that's the only error. I uninstalled the printer but it's already turned off once since then. I learned how to make it show me the blue screens instead of turning off all the time. Some of the error messages I've gotten are: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. STOP: 0x00000050 BAD_POOL_HEADER. STOP: 0x00000019 MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 0x0000001A Then just a STOP: 0x00000023 I've tried looking it all up but it doesn't seem to really be related. The computer is 3 years old :( Can anyone help me? What should I do?