Hey, I have sort of a DEAD myself. Since Christmas I had been buying a computer part with each paycheck and finally collected everything together and built the thing:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/D3FMQP

It booted, I installed Windows, it recognized all the drives, everything works, we’re good to go. I put the front and back panels back on to close up the case to finish up:

and all of a sudden it won’t start. It won’t even post to BIOS. The debug lights on the motherboard say that it doesn’t recognize the CPU and RAM. It’s not a powee supply issue, so it seems that the motherboard has just shat out on me. I really hope the processor isn’t fried. It would probably fall under warranty but the thought of $350 evaporating when I had triuble affording this computer is just ugh. I’ve opened a service ticket with MSI (the motherboard manufacturer) omitting that the computer worked at first before I put the panels back on. As far as they need to know, the board was always DOA. Companies like this usually aren’t too picky about returns and will just ship out a new board. The build was more challenging than my first (the cable mess was a nightmare but I stayed on top of it) but totally smooth. I ran into no problems to speak of until the board went kaplooie.

If I wanted to, I could take the games drive out of the new PC and put it back into my old one and use that. I had just started a game of Nethergate: Resurrection before doing ghe new computer. The UI is clunkier than the Avernum remake, thiugh if I’m not mistaken it uses the Blades of Avernum engine. There are talk, look, get, etc. buttons that you click before clicking on things in the environment instead of Avernum’s one-click smoothness. Also you have to click next to your party and hold down the mouse button to get them to move instead of Avernum’s, again, smooth design of “you click here, you move here”. But the game seems good, minir quibbles aside. I like that there are two completely different quests, Roman and Celric.

Anyway my gaming is on the shelf until I get my new computer operational and I’ve been too busy to listen to much music. There’s nothing besides gaming that mu computer can do that my phone and TV can’t do, so I’m in no rush. I’m not going to out the drives back in the old computer just to play a few levels of Secret Agent.