Date: 5/18/2012

This is why I love Corsair. Even though my mobo took out one of my 4 year old RAM chips when it over heated, Corsair says they will give me a replacement of the RAM. I'm gonna send the chips back to them and get some working chips in return. Hopefully I'll be back to 4 gigs of ram in no time. :D

I've been working on homework lately and am rather busy, but I'll try to make time to do more AoR 2012 testing in the coming weeks. There will be a two week vacation next month so I should be able to work on AoR 2012 at full speed by then.

Date: 5/16/2012

Date: 5/16/2012

In the weather today, temps are cooling down with a forecast of rain. My computer is happy about this news. My processors have cooled down to around the 35c mark where they were once loading at 50c. The OC settings are on - yeah I know, risky - but temps are holding though I don't want to ruin my morning by trying to test if 4 gigs of ram works yet. I'll see if I can ruin my evening...

So if you don't see any posts from me tonight then there was a problem.

Date: 5/15/2012

I got the computer to read ram again. The problem appears to be with an overheated processor. The motherboard went into safe mode to protect hardware, but I must say, this is the worst issue I've had with this computer. Usually I can replace failed hard drives, ram chips, or video cards fairly easily. I cannot, however, easily replace the processor since it's socket 939. Socket 939 dual core processors are not as easy to come by anymore. What appears to have happened is that the thermal paste dried out and caused the processor to heat well beyond standards. I didn't keep as much of an eye on the processor like I should have during intense gaming. Hopefully, I can ween a little more life out of this computer regardless of near fatal damage the computer almost took during my FEAR 3 playthrough. So far I got it read 3 gigs of ram. During the SAFE MODE issue, the computer was only reading 1gig tenuously even with 3 gigs of ram. I got some fresh thermal paste on the processor and that started to bring it back to life. I'm gonna have to be more careful. I need to do some serious redneck cooling if I'm play anything intense like FEAR 3 in the future. This hot weather doesn't seem to help much either.

Date: 5/15/2012

The repairs are not going well. My 7 year old computer's mobo appears to have given up the ghost. If it remains in its current state by the weekend, I'll be ending my internet service. No point paying for something I can't use. I do plan on getting a laptop come summer quarter if my financial aid goes through. So AoR development will be on hold till summer. At least I got this website transferred in time. My hard drives don't appear to be effected by the demise of the mobo so the AoR 2012 data should be intact.

On the other hand, some liberal donations to E-Mods.net could hasten the purchase of a new laptop... just saying. lol

Date: 5/13/2012

The Coppermine has been nuked, but all of its pictures will eventually be assimilated by Facebook. I noticed that barely anyone views the Coppermine anyway. So keep an eye on the photos section of E-Mods.net's Facebook page here:

E-Mods.net Facebook Page

Date: 5/12/2012

Earlier today I added a new channel to Tunngle. Here's the login info:

Channel: AoRMod
Password: aor

When single player testing of AoR 2012 is completed, multiplayer testing will commence on that channel. If you're interesting in beta testing the multiplayer phase of AoR 2012, simply log into the AoRMod Tunngle channel.

Date: 5/12/2012

I think I got everything. Moving sucks, but we'll get some perks from this move. Namely a much larger disk capacity so now E-Mods.net has room for more game content and can thus expand. I am, however, noticing a few oddities in fatcow. Nothing too major. I'm guessing this might actually have more to do with updating xoops to a newer version, which appears to no longer support gif transparencies. Hmm