https://L0g.is/tags/failure/ Recent content in Failure on L0G.is Hugo en-us Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://L0g.is/posts/horrors-in-raid-ville/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://L0g.is/posts/horrors-in-raid-ville/ <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <p>The past few days have motivated me to build a new computer from scratch. I mean I’ve been meaning to build one for the last year, this just was the straw that broke the camels back. This is an embarrassing story given how boneheaded I was in assessing the problem, but nonetheless.</p> <p>It all started when I moved to Long Beach, for some reason my monitor was going to sleep immediately after booting up. A fix I saw online had me reset the CMOS to no avail, but it wasn’t until I was able to finally boot in safe mode (with a DVI from the onboard video rather than the Nvidia video card either) that I realized its an issue is something deeper. So I decided that a clean install of windows was in order, hey I’ll finally make the plunge to windows 10 then, I thought. After $200 dollars on a clean license, the USB tool that Microsoft provides to create a bootable USB wouldn’t work in safe mode. So I downloaded Rufus and then scoured the web for a clean, uncracked version of windows 10. I have the license, I now just need the iso file.</p>