One Step Forward...

[timill]

Back in December, when the container arrived, my main PC wouldn't boot. So I bought another, and both Marcia's and my spare booted OK with the PSU swapped to 110V instead of 230V. No problems, then...

Today I finally got around to swapping the PSU out for a new 110V job from Staples, and it boots quite happily now. So now all I need to do is buy it some new speakers and a wireless mouse and keyboard, and it can live by the TV in the family room so I can watch MLB.TV on the big screen.

To balance this, one of the light sockets in one of the fixtures there has failed (swapping bulbs showed that it wasn't a bulb failure) and the batteries in my multimeter are flat...

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Ordinary wireless keyboards and mice are the pits - we had four at work and all of them died within a few months, while the one I had here rarely worked reliably across a fairly small room, and ate AAA batteries - the mouse is always using power even when the PC is off.

If you can manage it without the room looking horrible, long cables are a better bet. After the wireless debacle I put the mouse and keyboard for my media PC on the end of two 10-metre cables and ran them around the edge of the room to the table by my setee, the cables weren't expensive and it works really well.

[timill]

Interesting - I've found Logitech wireless meeces to be reliable, and they don't eat (AA) batteries too badly, so I've standardised on them.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Fair enough - haven't tried the logitech models.