make bad art for the love of the game now!

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Troubleshooting

2026-03-08

Troubleshooting is simple. First, define what the correct behavior is, what you're actually seeing, and if there's a difference. Sometimes they're the same, and the "problem" you saw was with your expectations.

If they're different, you start the loop: Replicate the problem, change something, repeat. Preferably change pieces in isolation, and zoom in on changes that have an effect. Once you can't replicate the problem anymore, you've either succeeded, or bungled it so bad you can't even see what you've done. Hopefully the former.

This isn't really a creative writing. It's 2AM and my home server finally boots. Sleep time.

this project was my weekend. could not get any output from the damn thing. i assumed it was cause the cpu had been left in a snowbank for 3 months, but i tested it in another computer and it worked fine. eventually i started cannibalizing my desktop to swap in known-to-be-working parts. it was the damn ram. works fine, but is apparently incompatible with my mobo