Shutting down for a few days

[Rad-FH]

I'm not quitting on ya!... Just shutting down until This Saturday while I'm away. I left the PS3 on however

[HarapAlb]

Ouch, our points are going to plummet this week.
We'll keep up the fort until your return.

[Rad-FH]

Originally Posted by HarapAlb

Ouch, our points are going to plummet this week.
We'll keep up the fort until your return.

What you had to add to the drama and shut down too???? Anyway nice to see you come back!

I'll be back in full production this Tuesday. I accidently left the power blocks of 2 of my monitors at my mothers but she's shipping them back to me. I've been 2 quads down all week due to no monitors for them.

We're gonna have to kick some booty and get back up to speed. We had a few teams we passed up earlier pass us back up.

Nice to see a couple new folders... Milton2 came on board and is already at #8 producer. xfiles came in to test the waters maybe. Still on the board as of tonight. Trexer recently broke 10K.. he was racking in the points for awhile with a few CPU's it looks like. Flyboy1942 and jodonnel are real close to breaking 10K. Further up, Kaffenor is about to break 400K and is currently producing more than I am. Maximus is folding steady, baobab is back producing, and MrBlond is still in the race. Wlverine and Apo are in the blue still producing over 500 points per day. Toinen Aine and MaxaFH are still turning in top 10 production numbers too. Great job everyone.

[HarapAlb]

That was an unplanned outage. I had just bought a Q6600 for a few days, OC-ed it to 3.1 GHz, but the temps were a bit high. So I thought I will remount my heatsink using a backplate instead of the plastic push-pins.

I decided to get some additional washers to increase the pressure between the heatsink and the CPU for a better contact, plus some insulator washers (plastic or rubber) to place between the backplate and the motherboard to make sure I do not short anything.

And here comes the part that I am ashamed to tell. I went to home depot and bought some gaskets that looked like rubber. The only non metal washers I could find there. After I assemble everything, computer doesn't power up any more. I thought I shorted the motherboard with the backplate.

I turns out that it was the rubber-like washers which were conducting electricity. Nevertheless, the motherboard was dead.

So I finally got the cheapest and still ok motherboard that I could find and I rebuilt my system without the (non-)rubber washers. Now it is working, but I think the voltage regulators on this MB are not as good as on my old one so I am staying at 3GHz for now.

At least my core temperatures are about 14 C lower with the new mounting system.

[Rad-FH]

Well guys, unfortunately my folding machine is shut down for an undefined amount of time.

I no longer had access to my folding machines. This thing we call life can really be a roller coaster ride. My wife has promised to keep the PS3 folding, but we'll see.

[Mr. BlOnd.Dk]

Hey Rad. What ever is going on, I hope things work out for you.

[Rad-FH]

Originally Posted by Mr. BlOnd.Dk

Hey Rad. What ever is going on, I hope things work out for you.

Thanks BlOnd... yeah eventually it will. Unfortunatly My PS3 is not folding either. I forgot that the PS3 uses the main hub which is currently turned off. The hub needs to be on for the PS3 to send and collect WU's and I have no way of turning it on. Hopefully after next week I will be back home and fire up my folding machine again. I only have my old dual xeon with me atm and it only makes SMP deadline if I run it 24/7 which I'm unable to do in my current situation.

Kinda sucks being this close to 1 million and not being able get there... Hope you guys will pick up the slack. I will be back!

[kaffenor]

Welcome back Rad.
And congratz with over 1 million points.