Finals are done (finally!), and I'm just waiting for the grades to come out. I expect 2 As, and the other two classes are somewhere in the B+ to A- range, so we'll see what comes out of that.
During this winter break I set myself the goal of building a virtual sandbox and messing around with analyzing malware. I bought the parts for a PC previously, though I set it all aside to get through finals week. Yesterday I put the finishing touches on, booted it up...
And can't get it to work. It keeps cycling through the reboot process, never displays anything on the screen or gets into the part where I can actually do something with it. I can probably figure it out (I can search online with the best of them), but I'm not sure the time/effort is worth it...after all, if I spend all break making the computer work I'll never get to the point where I'm messing around with malware. Or rather (what with the holidays and everything) I might not get much time before school starts up again.
So I'm debating taking the computer to a repair shop, see if they can figure out what's wrong. I did do some initial tests (i.e. removed various components to try and narrow down where the problem is coming from, re-read the manuals on how to connect various cables, etc) but I'm worried it's something I did wrong with installing the CPU cooler. I think the choice depends on how expensive it's likely to be. :/
So anyways. I figured I'd get back around to typing some of the other things I'd put on hold for the past week or so.
During this winter break I set myself the goal of building a virtual sandbox and messing around with analyzing malware. I bought the parts for a PC previously, though I set it all aside to get through finals week. Yesterday I put the finishing touches on, booted it up...
And can't get it to work. It keeps cycling through the reboot process, never displays anything on the screen or gets into the part where I can actually do something with it. I can probably figure it out (I can search online with the best of them), but I'm not sure the time/effort is worth it...after all, if I spend all break making the computer work I'll never get to the point where I'm messing around with malware. Or rather (what with the holidays and everything) I might not get much time before school starts up again.
So I'm debating taking the computer to a repair shop, see if they can figure out what's wrong. I did do some initial tests (i.e. removed various components to try and narrow down where the problem is coming from, re-read the manuals on how to connect various cables, etc) but I'm worried it's something I did wrong with installing the CPU cooler. I think the choice depends on how expensive it's likely to be. :/
So anyways. I figured I'd get back around to typing some of the other things I'd put on hold for the past week or so.
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