datsunlover Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Well, I have not been here for the last 5 days bacause my girlfriends computer decided to blow up last thursday . And I mean BLOW up. The mother board shorted out the power supply, and it shut down. So my brother (the computer guy in the family) comes over, and puts in another power supply. Starts the machine up, and it works great. Cool! So he says "I'd think about backing up anything important, cause the mother board is ready to go soon by the loks of it" as he goes to shut down the computer........ "POP!!!! sizzle, smoke ting ting ting...." AAHHHGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Crap.... It actually fired a part OFF of the main board. Blew it right off! A transistor in the voltage regulator circuit or something.. I dono, but it was really crazy anyway! And it took out the 'new' power supply too. So after a new mother board and power supply ($300 all told) it's back up and running. Lucked out too, as nothing else got fried and all the data is still intact on the HD. I'll try to remember to get a few pics of the old board and post them up.. heh heh.. When I touch things, they blow up all the same; Cars, sleds, computers, it doesnt matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluto Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Good grief! My hard drive just crapped out on me too.. i was down for a week.. couldnt find a bloody hard drive under 120 gig to save my life! I couldn't even fill up the 40gig i had befor! What the heck do I need with three times that?! Darn computers, now I have to upgrade the ram too.. becuse its, uh.. the right thing to do.. yea, thats it.. Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
materchan Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 movies my friend, movies. ive for 300 gigs worth of drives and i have to keep deleting games so i can have more movies, i need a 250 gig drive when a good deal comes by Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okimoto Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 I remember when me and another user here, BANG were kids, we used to have these old motherboards... XT motherboards, they were called. One day, I brought a torch over to bang's place and we had fun removing integrated circuits from the motherboard... and in a hurry! If the backside werent so burned, we could use those boards as clipboards. We did it outside, and it smelled like burning brakes after we were done. It was kinda fun watching them melt to oblivion. Back then, I wasn't all too great at building computers safely... and mine caught on fire. I learned that the computer chassis served as a ground to both the primary and secondary on the power supply! After that, I stopped using scotch tape and started to use electrical tape. come on, I was just a kid! But then again, old habits die hard. I better fix the Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phailure Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 Good grief! My hard drive just crapped out on me too.. i was down for a week.. couldnt find a bloody hard drive under 120 gig to save my life! I couldn't even fill up the 40gig i had befor! What the heck do I need with three times that?! Darn computers' date=' now I have to upgrade the ram too.. becuse its, uh.. the right thing to do.. yea, thats it.. Sam[/quote'] WD 80GB 7200RPM Not the SE (2mb cache instead of 8mb) but only $67 with free shipping http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=22-144-102&DEPA=0 Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM for $50 shipped... http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=22-140-133&DEPA=0 But then... you should just pay the extra 17 and get the WD... twice the size and better quality Also... RAM prices are ridiculously low right now... so if you're going to upgrade, now is the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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