My Computer Just Died!
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Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9374Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9374Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">thank god for my laptop</div>Ok, my computer just seems to have.. died.
It won't turn on at all anymore.. well, -something- is turning on, but the pc itself just won't boot, it just spins up the drives & fans but it sounds odd, something must have broken.
The flashing coloured things on the screen and the sometimes minutes long attempts to get the damn thing started might have something to do with all this...
And after opening the cover to look inside:
From the looks of it, something's gone awfully wrong with the psu and I'm pretty sure it took the mobo with it. :(
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<b>My Ode To Rechner.2</b>
My dear computer, you have been a brave machine.
Your conception may have been a bit.. troublesome but you were welcome nevertheless. And you were a lot like your spiritual old man too.
Sadly, you have departed too soon,
you were too young to be taken away to your electronic heaven.
At least you were spared a horrible death, your father died under much sadder and flamable :D circumstances.
But you also 'spawned' a child, Rechner.3.laptop-1 and with it your legacy lives on.
You were weird looking but lovable and you gave me my music, my videos, my games, my pr0n, my Documents, Program Files, Windows and my access to the electronic superhighway and LANs
For that, I shall always be grateful. Farewell my friend :'(
R.I.P. (Rechner.2 2002 - 2004)
'k enough with the fun 'n games for a moment.
I really have a bit of a problem now.
I don't think I'll be able to connect S-ATA Mike Sierra Foxtrot to my laptop and I only copied part of all the data to Hannibal because the HD is much smaller.
OMGWTH dataloss!!!@# HLoriginalcdkey.txt is on that disc! :o
(I name my computers. And their hard drives. After their first partitions..
...
It's beyond sad, I know :/)
It won't turn on at all anymore.. well, -something- is turning on, but the pc itself just won't boot, it just spins up the drives & fans but it sounds odd, something must have broken.
The flashing coloured things on the screen and the sometimes minutes long attempts to get the damn thing started might have something to do with all this...
And after opening the cover to look inside:
From the looks of it, something's gone awfully wrong with the psu and I'm pretty sure it took the mobo with it. :(
---
<b>My Ode To Rechner.2</b>
My dear computer, you have been a brave machine.
Your conception may have been a bit.. troublesome but you were welcome nevertheless. And you were a lot like your spiritual old man too.
Sadly, you have departed too soon,
you were too young to be taken away to your electronic heaven.
At least you were spared a horrible death, your father died under much sadder and flamable :D circumstances.
But you also 'spawned' a child, Rechner.3.laptop-1 and with it your legacy lives on.
You were weird looking but lovable and you gave me my music, my videos, my games, my pr0n, my Documents, Program Files, Windows and my access to the electronic superhighway and LANs
For that, I shall always be grateful. Farewell my friend :'(
R.I.P. (Rechner.2 2002 - 2004)
'k enough with the fun 'n games for a moment.
I really have a bit of a problem now.
I don't think I'll be able to connect S-ATA Mike Sierra Foxtrot to my laptop and I only copied part of all the data to Hannibal because the HD is much smaller.
OMGWTH dataloss!!!@# HLoriginalcdkey.txt is on that disc! :o
(I name my computers. And their hard drives. After their first partitions..
...
It's beyond sad, I know :/)
Comments
First, a timeline:
October 31st: Computer stops working, hardware issue. Still not sure what, it wasn't the hard drive. It was the motherboard or the video card.
November 11th: New computer parts purchased. 3 hours spent trying to get them to work.
November 12th, late night: Computer back online.
The story starts on November 11th. My mom just got paid, so we went to the store and bought an ASUS P4P800S-X and a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 80 GB HDD. We brought it home and took the computer apart. (I was the one assisting her. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> She usually handles the hardware... I'm learning from her. She took a course in PC repair when I was a little kid because she had a feeling that I would love computers. Man, was she ever right.) After installing the new parts, we switched the power on.
The computer didn't boot. There was power, the fans started going, but the computer didn't boot. So we took it apart and spent two more hours playing with plugs and switching hardware around and everything. Finally, we just gave up for the night.
The next day, after she came home, we took everything apart again. Every single piece. We took it out and gave the case a good cleaning. We also cleaned the heat sink and the fan on the CPU. (They were full of clumps of dust and dirt.) We put the CPU back on the motherboard as well as the RAM. As she snapped the first stick in, we realized the problem. The memory slots were rather tight and we just hadn't pushed them all the way in, yesterday.
We pushed them in all the way and put everything back together and tried it. Boom. It boots. What a silly mistake.
At least the computer is clean now.