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media computer motherboard swap
Thursday, February 13 2025
I had to get the Subaru's tires rotated, its oil changed, and an inspection (it hadn't technically been street legal since January), so late this morning I took it to VanKleeck's Tires for an appointment. I also brought my MacBook Pro, which I've been using more since all my old Chromebooks started choking on newer versions of the websites I use. VanKleeck's offers WiFi, but all I needed to do was write about my recent adventures in Virginia. VanKleeck's also has free coffee, so the hour all that work took passed pleasantly. It probably helped that I'd taken a recreational 150 mg dose of pseudoephedrine, which also kept my snot production to a minimum.
On the way home, I stopped at the 9W Hannaford mostly to buy citrus (lemons and grapefruits) to help Gretchen get through the illness she developed while I was in Virginia. I also bought a lot of beans. (Gretchen thinks that Trump's poorly-considered tariffs are going to raise the price of steel, and thus the prices of canned goods.)
In the teevee room, the "media computer," which featured a tiny Intel-J1900-based motherboard, has been in continuous use for over a decade. It runs Kodi and we use entirely for playing content I download via Bittorrent. In recent months, the media computer has become less and less reliable, and just before I left for Virginia, I had a plan to replace the hardware with a motherboard containing the same processor (which used to power Gretchen's Badger computer, which is now powered by an Intel i7 from 2014). Today while Gretchen and I were trying to watch an episode of Jeopardy! I'd downloaded, the media computer kept crashing. I tried a few things, but now it was crashing the moment I tried to start playing a video. I took the SSD it boots from out of it and put it on the other Intel-J1900-based motherboard and it booted up okay, but only if I didn't use the memory stick from the old media computer. So perhaps the problem is just that the memory has gone bad. I was able to cobble together a makeshift media computer using this other Intel-J1900-based motherboard with its memory stick in a case that was way too large to deploy in the teevee room.
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