So much technical fail, none of my doing, but as an end user of course it is as far as help is concerned. Tropical Cyclone Tam is about to hit us in the next few hours, so that’s one. My websites need work, I’ve got the dreaded squeal/squeak of yet another failing drive (or it could be c or p state, or my mobo, or the CMOS battery.) I’m hoping it’s the ssd my OS is on- I’ve been running on as few apps as possible, but I’ve taken my HDD out because it just sounds like that particular issue.

The squeak sounds like when a firealarm battery is *just* starting to fail. Like a very weedy attempt to make an actual beep.

I have found a couple of videos with a similar sound that are for when HDDs start to fail. Something something ceramic coating heating up…. That would fit the first time I heard it, and promptly ejected it and it was warm from use.

But yesterday it wasn’t in use, and I had OS hang trying to open/close apps. Suggesting a P or C state issue.

And my processor and gpu are not longer supported so that winds up trickier to work out.

Especially with the cycle about to bring 20km gusts and we need to do some things like get this pc a bit further away from windows.

I will try and get as much in the cloud as I can before that. Find what drive I’d already started to make room on for the rest. And cry.

There is more.

Probably best kept to myself for now.