Botch Up

Man... I really botched it. So I went to get the parts needed to rebuild Ma's computer, and here was what I got:

Description	Price
Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX DDR4 + Core i5-14400 (μATX) bundle	SGD 492
Seasonic PRIME GX-650, 650W 80+ Gold	SGD 250
Total	SGD 742

So problem #1 was spending SGD 250 for a new PSU. Granted, this was supposed to last for 12 years compared to the 4 for the original, so it's sort of acceptable (which explains why I bought it).

What I really botched up was the installation of the NVMe drive (the re-used Seagate Barracuda 510 (256GB)).

I installed it into the mobo, and put on the heat spreader, being careful to remove the liner on the cooling pad, but forgot to remove all the bloody stickers on the chips on the drive itself.

So it all booted and worked for a glorious five to ten minutes, before having drive read fails due to the chip being scrambled from the heat.

🤦

Now, that just means that the boot drive is gone. We have a spinny rust left, and that had been mapped to /home in the original machine. So it's just a matter of adjusting the mount-points, and loading a new operating system into it. Easy peasy, right?

Except all my USB thumbdrives are so old that they cannot be reformatted properly by Rufus to create the necessary boot medium. There were write errors, and other bullshit.

🤦🤦

So I was just this close to finishing the build, but thanks to my initial botch up, it is snowballing away. To continue on the plan, I will need to get a new USB thumb drive (I should be doing this anyway), and depending on how I want to play it, maybe another m.2 NVMe SSD drive for boot (this is costing money, and I'm already close to hitting the original SGD 999 amount spent, despite reusing parts).

But I'm likely to do this not over tomorrow through Thursday, because I have plans™.

That's all [that I can write here] for today. Till the next update.