I know it’s a while since I’ve posted about anything other than my ongoing computer problems, but today, Beastbits really did go the proverbial journey, due to a hardware failure in another machine.

The scribcam.co.uk server popped its video card earlier today, so the machine couldn’t boot without beeping a diagnostic code. (AMIBOIS, 1 long beep, 8 short beeps for the record).

I had an old Radeon 9200 which I’d been given at some point. I’d put that in, only to get the same series of beeps. Bugger.

It was then I remembered about Beastbits, and it’s Geforce FX5200. I knew that definitely worked, so in it went. Machine came right up. And, because Beastbits was definitely goosed without its video card, I also moved the RAM over, and the DVD writer.

In other news, I attended my second flickr meet on Sunday, at the historic Quay. I enjoyed it, as there were a couple of people there who I knew, and a couple of people I’ve been wanting to meet for a while. Unfortunately, out of 113 photos, there were only a couple that were any good…