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ThinIce
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That's right, share when you've had computer hardware pull a suicide or even, a mass suicide!
I'll begin with my biggest hardware failure stories;
first, for some reason, I never have an isolated incident when ONE component goes bad; My frequency of such issues however is relatively low, but when the shit DOES hit the fan, it seems to seriously HIT THE FAN!
LAST WEEK:
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Last week my video card decided to go (readon 9500) and decided to take my motherboard with it as well; Now, even though my motherboard was an old piece of shit from hell (epox 8khal+) it was still the best thing I had. So now i'm on some shitty ECS board that doesn't support more than 160 gigs (yes, firmware/bios up to date) and am down to 512 ram (hey could be worse eh'?);
Apparently my 3rd stick of ram got Fubar'd along the way because it lit up the diagnostics screen like christmas.
(from this i have learned, buying brands like 'crucial', 'kingston', etc are totally pointless because my 'ValuRam' from fry's electronics outlasted my kingston stick.
So now my computer has barely enough gusto to play any games; even if it did i wouldn't bother playing with the shittyness. 3dsmax (my newfound favorite hobby) is now pointless as before because of less ram and I'm back to my old ti500.
I'm running out of hardware to help me out of these 'tight spots', I knew the mobo would need upgrading but money hasn't come easy for me lately. I've just been announced as gainfully employed but I haven't started yet and it doesn't sound like I'll get a decent amount of hours.
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MY BIGGEST BLUNDER EVAR:
About 3-4 years ago my Epox 8KHA+ and my XP1800+ decided to get a little toasty. The cpu fried like a nut, and the mobo decided to fry with it, along with, yes A STICK OF NEW RAM.
Vidijoe card, sound card and other ram was fine though.
I was lucky enough to get the mobo RMA'd through newegg (they gave me a replacement 8KHAL+, not an 8KHA+ though) and my memory got replaced as well.
But what could be shittier than having your mobo, relatively shiny-new cpu and a brand (2 day old) stick of ram get fucked up in a toasty event?
SHARE YOURS NOW!!!! make me feel better, or make me laugh or something!
Posted on 2005-02-12 19:27:12
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Ness
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The computer I'm running right now likes to fall apart at random intervals. About an hour and a half after I put it all together the motherboard (Asus A7V8X) went. Static Shock!
I got that fixed and a few months later the Hard Drive (120 GB forget the brand) decided life wasn't worth living, and went out with a shred/thunk. I was sitting next to the computer at the time and heard it, but didn't think anything of it until the next morning when all the hard drive did was spin around and make little scratching noises. Oh yeah this was also before the era of backing up everything I store...so yeah....
Just to make that event complete, it happened right in time for my birthday.
Finally after all that the computer decided to double as a space heater. At one point the CPU (AMD Athlon 2700+) temp never dropped below 77C or so. It auto shuts down at 79C. Mmmm toasty.
Posted on 2005-02-12 21:16:48
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loretian
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The last three places I've lived, including my current place, have all had shitty power problems. Of course, I have a surge protector, but I always have hardware die because of how jacked the power is. I just have bad luck.
The last time it took my hard drive and my relatively new LCD screen. A viewsonic LCD screen, which, they decided to change the warranty to one year on, if you happened to buy it in April 2003 or later. So, I was just a month or two past the warranty, and I had, of course, bought it in April, so it was just in time to get the shitty warranty. Fucking bitches.
Posted on 2005-02-13 14:01:38
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vecna
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I've had a few hardware problems in my days...
My 21' Trinitron (that I bought refurbished for like $150 and had for like three years, so I got my moneys worth out of it) died several months back and just last week I replaced it with a 21.3' Samsung LCD (which has a 36mo warranty. damn straight since it costs $800) which is currently awesome. It does suffer, being LCD, from slight ghosting on games, but, I'll get over it. I still have my 19'viewsonic CRT I may use for gaming if I get a new game or something that requires a lot of fast reflexes, but otherwise I dont really play a lot games anymore anyway.
Also a few months back, we had a big powersurge+outage that also killed several hubs at my work (I live like .5 miles from my job) and even tho I did have a surge protector, it .. damaged my power supply. It still works. But one of the two fans in the power supply no longer spins. So I should probably replace it, but I've been too lazy, I've just left the case off for the last few months and its been fine. Otherwise it would sometimes shutdown while gaming from heat.
When I first got my Athlon64-3000 I bought a gig of some no-name DDR400 RAM, and I had to clock it at DDR133 in order to get it to work. That was hella gay. I took it back and upgraded to Corsair RAM, no problems.
I've had like 3 power supplies blow up, but they never damaged anything else in the process.
All optical media drives I've ever had have been worthless heaps of diarrhetic horsecrap. I had a working 4x CDR that I recently 'upgraded' to like a 52X CDR.... I probably burned about 10 CDs with it. It no longer works. I should probably get me a DVDR drive but... Can anyone recommend one they can vouch for?
Posted on 2005-02-13 19:14:40
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Interference22
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I eat through DVD drives like you wouldn't believe: my current PC has been through THREE in two years. Grr.
While nothing other than that has outright failed (phew) I've had to take out my graphics card once or twice on the odd hot night and brushed all the cack out of the heatsink and fan just to get my PC to boot properly. Had to leave the case panels off one evening..
Posted on 2005-02-14 04:17:22
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ThinIce
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21' LCD! O_o whoof....
Update on my schpeal, typing from my sister's lapflop. I hooked up my backup mobo and everything worked dandy, coupla days later I decided to see if the 9500pro was truely fubar'd ... so I plugged er' in, all my vidijoe was all corrupted so I took it out and put my ti500 back in, everything worked fine for a day or two, then I decided to turn it off to lube up my reasonably loud 120mm fan on the side panel; so I lubed it up, turned my comp on and 'voila'! no video, so I was like 'WTF MATE^^' and I put my ass old 8500 in and it worked, so I was like 'maybe it was a fluke' so I took er' out and put the ti500 back in, no go... so I put the 8500 back in because it 'just' worked... nogo..
The only thing that remained static that COULD take out a component would be the PSU, last time I checked bad ram/HD's/CDRW's don't create mass suicides.
The fishy thing is, I had the same psu back in the day when it decided to take out my shiny (then, new) 8KHA!
HMMM....
So now I gotta wait 3 weeks for my first paycheck (I got a job now!) to buy a new mobo and case (now I have an excuse to buy a sexy case!); My uncle works at a comp repair joint and I let him take the 9500 and my ti500 in to sheck them. I know the 9500 is gone but the ti500 is still ok... I hope, I dont really wanna drop money on a new video card quite yet, I just want my comp to 'work'; and then I can build that AMD 64bit system I've dreamed of >=D
Posted on 2005-02-16 05:37:29 (last edited on 2005-02-16 05:39:38)
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