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Post by Ian Noble on Jan 10, 2021 13:57:26 GMT
Running on new hardware
Everything is ok but the 11 year old PC that has simmed everything we do in D5 has died! Rest in peace, D5 PC!
It was only 1 month ago I actually posted on Instagram to celebrate its 11 year birthday
The full story: Yesterday I drove 11 hours from my parents house near St Andrews in Scotland all the way back to Falmouth in Cornwall and whilst unloading my car I stupidly dropped the PC tower and it smashed all over the road
The motherboard actually split in places, especially around where the CPU fan attaches which would mean gravity (and a lot of thermal paste) would be my heatsink. It is definitely dead.
Incredibly the hard drive is still alive and I managed to salvage it! Using my housemate's even slower Windows 10 laptop I can still boot from the drive whilst it runs in an enclosure and everything D5 still works. Obviously I do keep a continuous backup of everything on my personal Microsoft OneDrive, so no matter what D5 is always in good hands, but I'll have to save for a while to eventually replace the old PC.
Mostly though I'm going to miss the old PC. After 11 years it's seen D5 through everything and has been solid as a rock.
Rest in peace, old D5 simmer
Everything is ok but the 11 year old PC that has simmed everything we do in D5 has died! Rest in peace, D5 PC!
It was only 1 month ago I actually posted on Instagram to celebrate its 11 year birthday
The full story: Yesterday I drove 11 hours from my parents house near St Andrews in Scotland all the way back to Falmouth in Cornwall and whilst unloading my car I stupidly dropped the PC tower and it smashed all over the road
The motherboard actually split in places, especially around where the CPU fan attaches which would mean gravity (and a lot of thermal paste) would be my heatsink. It is definitely dead.Incredibly the hard drive is still alive and I managed to salvage it! Using my housemate's even slower Windows 10 laptop I can still boot from the drive whilst it runs in an enclosure and everything D5 still works. Obviously I do keep a continuous backup of everything on my personal Microsoft OneDrive, so no matter what D5 is always in good hands, but I'll have to save for a while to eventually replace the old PC.
Mostly though I'm going to miss the old PC. After 11 years it's seen D5 through everything and has been solid as a rock.
Rest in peace, old D5 simmer
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