10-14-2008, 11:42 PM
Some of you may have noticed that the OP LurkerLounge channel bot has not been up. I should have explained why awhile ago:
First, prices of everything was going up, so to save a few bucks, I shut down my computer when I went to sleep and turned it back on when I woke. I looked into some figures after an electrician friend of mine told me leaving my computer on was probably costing me more than I was aware, and found out that leaving my computer on while I was sleeping was costing an average of $6.00 more per month. While not a drastic increase, it did make a difference when gas was hitting $4.00+ for my cars. But I knew I would put the chat bot back up soon when things got more financially secure for me, so I never bothered posting this info.
Then, I forgot. I got into the habit of turning my computer off so much that for another couple weeks I simply forgot. No excuses here, just forgot.
Then I remembered and turned the bot back on, however after the second day of being on for 48-consecutive hours, my computer's CPU fan froze and my computer crashed. I restarted my computer and received an error from Microsoft that my computer had just suffered a major hardware problem and the issue needed to be resolved. The next two times I restarted my computer, a "warning" poped up from ASUS that said my CPU fan was not working and my computer crashed within 10-20 minutes of being turned on. The next day I turned on my computer to the same error message, but this time I opened my chassis and actually saw the chipset fan not working at all... so I manually moved it with a paperclip and it started without any problem. My guess is it has too much dust on the turning mechanism, but I don't know how to lubricate it without damaging the motherboard or chip itself, and trust me when I say that fan is not coming off the motherboard. Now every time I start my computer, I have to manually start the chipset fan also! Very annoying, and I have to babysit my computer to make sure the fan does not suddenly stop again, which has also happened. I contacted ASUS, but they tell me to ship the old fan in for a new fan (free), but it won't come off the damn motherboard!
So anyways, until I get this resolved, the chat bot will definitely NOT be back up. I'm really sorry about that guys:(. I hope I can figure out what is going on with my fan, preferably sooner than later. If someone is interested in running it in the meantime, I would be happy to share the .ini settings with you in a PM.
First, prices of everything was going up, so to save a few bucks, I shut down my computer when I went to sleep and turned it back on when I woke. I looked into some figures after an electrician friend of mine told me leaving my computer on was probably costing me more than I was aware, and found out that leaving my computer on while I was sleeping was costing an average of $6.00 more per month. While not a drastic increase, it did make a difference when gas was hitting $4.00+ for my cars. But I knew I would put the chat bot back up soon when things got more financially secure for me, so I never bothered posting this info.
Then, I forgot. I got into the habit of turning my computer off so much that for another couple weeks I simply forgot. No excuses here, just forgot.
Then I remembered and turned the bot back on, however after the second day of being on for 48-consecutive hours, my computer's CPU fan froze and my computer crashed. I restarted my computer and received an error from Microsoft that my computer had just suffered a major hardware problem and the issue needed to be resolved. The next two times I restarted my computer, a "warning" poped up from ASUS that said my CPU fan was not working and my computer crashed within 10-20 minutes of being turned on. The next day I turned on my computer to the same error message, but this time I opened my chassis and actually saw the chipset fan not working at all... so I manually moved it with a paperclip and it started without any problem. My guess is it has too much dust on the turning mechanism, but I don't know how to lubricate it without damaging the motherboard or chip itself, and trust me when I say that fan is not coming off the motherboard. Now every time I start my computer, I have to manually start the chipset fan also! Very annoying, and I have to babysit my computer to make sure the fan does not suddenly stop again, which has also happened. I contacted ASUS, but they tell me to ship the old fan in for a new fan (free), but it won't come off the damn motherboard!
So anyways, until I get this resolved, the chat bot will definitely NOT be back up. I'm really sorry about that guys:(. I hope I can figure out what is going on with my fan, preferably sooner than later. If someone is interested in running it in the meantime, I would be happy to share the .ini settings with you in a PM.
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