Ever have one of those weeks (or stretches) where nothing seems to go right? Our HD 6900 series article should have been posted last week, but wasn't due to a multitude of problems that arose during testing with our test machine. This is not the fault of the cards, but something else to do with the motherboard. Those problems are all gone, at least for the time-being.
In wrapping up the article, though, the power button on the chassis (HAF X) became stuck, which was shorting out the connection to the motherboard. I unplugged the power switch ATX connector, but that wasn't enough... all of those chassis connectors had to be unplugged. After about an hour of fiddling around, I finally managed to fix the button, but what a pain in the ass.
I had to also reset the BIOS, so I pushed the CMOS clear button on the back of the motherboard, and the freaking cover for it fell off! That made the button there stick in for some reason, and once again, that took me some time to fix. The PC works now, but I can't use that CMOS clear anymore.
So the time came for me to wrap up the graphs, which I started while in Linux through my virtual machine. I was almost done them, so I was glad to boot it up again and finally pound out this article. Until I saw this error:
Unable to open file "G:\VMware\Windows XP Professional (32-bit)\Windows XP Professional (32-bit)-000001.vmdk": The system cannot find the file specified.
Of course, the file IS there, and VMware can't use it in either Windows or Linux. I looked around the Web, but there is no simple fix, or one at all. It looks like I'll need to wipe the entire VM and start one from scratch. What I did before this broke was pause the VM, which is natural, and then came back to it later. SOMETHING got botched in the meantime and ruined it though, along with all the work I put into the graphs up to that point.
*sigh*
/rant
In wrapping up the article, though, the power button on the chassis (HAF X) became stuck, which was shorting out the connection to the motherboard. I unplugged the power switch ATX connector, but that wasn't enough... all of those chassis connectors had to be unplugged. After about an hour of fiddling around, I finally managed to fix the button, but what a pain in the ass.
I had to also reset the BIOS, so I pushed the CMOS clear button on the back of the motherboard, and the freaking cover for it fell off! That made the button there stick in for some reason, and once again, that took me some time to fix. The PC works now, but I can't use that CMOS clear anymore.
So the time came for me to wrap up the graphs, which I started while in Linux through my virtual machine. I was almost done them, so I was glad to boot it up again and finally pound out this article. Until I saw this error:
Unable to open file "G:\VMware\Windows XP Professional (32-bit)\Windows XP Professional (32-bit)-000001.vmdk": The system cannot find the file specified.
Of course, the file IS there, and VMware can't use it in either Windows or Linux. I looked around the Web, but there is no simple fix, or one at all. It looks like I'll need to wipe the entire VM and start one from scratch. What I did before this broke was pause the VM, which is natural, and then came back to it later. SOMETHING got botched in the meantime and ruined it though, along with all the work I put into the graphs up to that point.
*sigh*
/rant
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