My Computer

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:33 am

Hey, im getting my Home PC repaired, it had a lot of damage, those that have "shenmue0" on thier buddy list know what happened. The guy said we will replace the Damaged Componets, so thats now MOBO, new HDD, etc maybe ill get more ram, one can only hope. If he cant repair it quickly he will give me a new one free of charge

i think im going to be Okay

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:38 am

Wow, what happened?

At least you'll have another computer weather he can fix it or not!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:55 pm

Wow the Motherboard and the hard drive went?! Thats got to suck, losing just about everything. How'd it happen thunderstorm hit and you didnt turn the computer off and unplug it?

sam · Post by **sam** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:38 pm

Wow smaller avatar man. And wanna elaborate on what happend to your pc?

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:52 pm

Well the HDD was Clicking for a while and all of a sudden i smelled a funky smell like plastic was melting, i opened up my tower and it was sparking, BAD

xriverfalconx · Post by **xriverfalconx** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:32 pm

If your HDD is clicking, then the reader is touching the HD head. That's not good at all (obviously) and means your HDD needs to be replaced ASAP!!! (just filling you in for future purposes)

But sparks too? Wow...that must have scared the living shizzle out of you.

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:42 pm

reminds me of one of the HDs I had in this computer a while back.

See, I had just gotten it, but it had no HD in it, so I threw in this old one I had in the garage. It was all dented on the top, and the "DO NOT REMOVE" labels were long gone. Surprisingly it worked, but about 60% of the drive was bad, so I had it formatted to 800MB. It worked fine, I could run a minimal Win98 install and Firefox on it, but that was all. (If I remember right, I signed up here with that HD)

However, after a couple weeks the drive wouldn't start. So I opened it up and reconnected a couple wires, and it worked just fine. It ran for another couple weeks with the platers spinning in the open air (that's right I didn't bother putting the HD covers back on!

. Then my dad upgraded the compy in the workshop in the garage to a 160GB HD (so he could play all the digitized versions of his LPs and all the MP3s and CD copies on the kickarse stereo out there), and I recieved the old 40gb HD with the "broken" Windows 2000 install on it. So I plugged it in and booted it up, and it worked just fine! (turns out a couple drivers were corrupt) So I threw in some extra boards I had lying around and it works just fine.

And don't ask me about the problems I had with the optical drives...

Oh well that's to be expected for a computer made from a bunch of junked/scavenged parts!

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:40 am

Well i got the info back for my PC, the RAM was fried, the MOBO was wasted, the processor pins were melted

i have to pay $200 for an alienware-esque PC custom built

not bad eh

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:45 am

The price isnt bad. But damn what did you do to your computer? I cant image what you did to cause the computer to heat up enough to melt the cpu pins.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:48 pm

The Damn thing pretty much caught on fire with the sparkage

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:39 pm

mmmm.... toasted cpu. The best kind.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:51 pm

gamer2 wrote:Well the HDD was Clicking for a while and all of a sudden i smelled a funky smell like plastic was melting, i opened up my tower and it was sparking, BAD

Is this the 3mhz one? You should buy a new computer.

Darth Fett · Post by **Darth Fett** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:11 pm

My computer has a broken sound card

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:18 pm

I got my computer today

it is a lot better than my old one

xxxeagle · Post by **xxxeagle** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:48 pm

Did shenmue0 pay for it. And how much did he pay for it? Good luck with your new pc.