Whew. It’s nice to finally be back online and able to post.

After my damning of Clippy the other night, I apparently awoke the technology gods, and needless to say they were NOT happy with me. Monday morning, my faithful Shuttle SV25 that i’ve been using as a webserver since last April, decided to start randomly crash. After 20 minutes of putzing around with it, the end was at hand. It rebooted, and hung at the BIOS POST screen. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Dead.

The first thing I thought was to replace the memory. No luck. Same problem.

Next, I pulled the hard drive and threw it in an old machine - it booted ok, then after an hour, the system crashed. Aha! I found the culprit. I ran down to Office Depot, picked up a new 80gig Maxtor, plopped it in, and everything seemed ok.

For 15 minutes, that is. Windows crashed. On the reboot, it hung at the BIOS POST screen again. After awhile of screwing around, I found that if I shut off the Internal CPU cache, the system would boot. Aha! It’s the processor! I overnighted a new Celeron.

And of course, upon installing it this morning - No go.

I finally lost it. In a fit of desperation, I ripped the Epia Mini-ITX motherboard out of the MP3 box I’ve been building, and, with Dremel in hand, headed off to the garage to start sawing off the back of the SV25 case so it could better fit the connectors on the board.

FINALLY. The Epia has been up and running for several hours now, and all seems well.

Everything, except Movable Type. Apparently, the export that I did of the website missed about 50 entries. I had to manually get them inserted. What a pain. It’s great software, but really could use a backup/restore feature.

Anyways, everything should be up and running now. Hopefully, the tech-gods are satisfied with tormenting me for now.