The good side of your computer dying

[Shitoryu Dude]

Wednesday night I came home and my computer was locked up. I tried to reboot and the poor thing never came back to life. After some 4 years the power supply had given up the ghost and was totally dead. Since my hard drives were most likely intact and I hadn't lost any data, I remained rather calm about the whole thing and the next morning promptly went to Fry's Electronics and bought a brand new HP Pavilion a1250n.

So small, so quiet, so fully loaded - my previous computer, despite the massive upgrades to CPU, RAM and other hardware didn't even come close to the performance this baby has: 3800+ Athlon 64 X2 CPU, 250 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM, Stealth Radeon X300SE video, DVD & CD writer, DVD player, more ports than I can keep track of.....I love it. And I also just transferred over to cable broadband so the whole package is just so fast it blows my mind.

Of course, I have to slave in my old drives and recover a few gigs of data and install a lot of software again, but what the hell, if I only have to this every few years it isn't so bad. :cool:

[Kevin Geaslin]

My Pavilion laptop died a few weeks ago, the month of its 3 year anniversary. It gave me an excuse to go to Fry's and pick up a Toshiba Satellite laptop, which I love. Half the price, twice the computer. It's amazing what happens in 3 years. Maybe in 2008 you'll be able to get a desktop-replacing laptop for under 500 dollars!

[crazykl45]

Hmm...I've had a toshiba satellite model that "burnt out." It had something to do with the system overheating and melting the hard drive. I must remind people, if you buy new computers make sure to get the BIG warranty. You never know when it may come in handy. I made the foolish mistake not preparing myself.

And yes, my post is really random.

[yoj]

Given the cost of a psu I would have bought a new one, then set it up with sharing, transferred by stuff over and had 2 boxes. You could ram your old box with HDD and controllers and start stuffing cool martial arts videos on it! Oh, and give us the IP address ;-)

[crazykl45]

Arghh. I meant the big service plan, cause I bought mine from best buy, which was also a mistake.

[Shitoryu Dude]

They offered my a 3-year warranty, but I passed. HP gives me a 1-year warranty, and really, anything that is likely to die is going to do it within a year.

Repairs that I can't do myself are likely cause for a new computer anyway.

:cool:

[dojo]

well, as long as the data was intact, then you do have reasons to smile ;)

Congratulations for the new acquisition ... may it run smoothly forever :)

[Shitoryu Dude]

Now that I've finally finished installing lights, bathroom fixtures, and ceiling fans in my new house, I can actually get around to installing my old drives. Maybe by the end of the week I'll have all my data recovered. :cool:

[monkeyboy_ssj]

I always custom build my PCs, It's cheaper plus you can customise it for what you want it for.

I've got 4 Gigs DDR all in all, AMD 3600 clocking at 3.5ghz, water cooled, MSI motherboard and 5.1 sound, Soon to get a new Radeon x850XL around Christmas time as my 256ddr 9800 pro is getting abit warn...thinking about getting 8 meg soon but my 2meg BT line does us for now. Mainly a gaming machine. All i've got on it is games, MP3s and that's it.

[Shitoryu Dude]

I used to custom build all my own boxes, but the prices just kept dropping and dropping and dropping.....couldn't see the point to it anymore.

4 gigs of RAM? Wow, I was only going to go up to 2 gigabytes ( I used to have 750 megabytes). I ran a few utilities and found that I have 650M free at any given time and I have 500M dedicated video RAM.

You must either play a lot of high-end games of watch a lot of hi-def porn. :rolleyes:

[monkeyboy_ssj]

Both :D

Battlefield 2 & Joint Operations and Gang Bang Girls 14 ;)

Just stole a 19" monitor from work but it's WELL HEAVY!! I've got no idea how i'm going to get it home...

[yoj]

http://bianca.ctrl-c.liu.se/~emax/eclipse/baksatet.jpg

[monkeyboy_ssj]

I work in Soho Central London, have you ever tried getting a car there?!?!?

Plus i'm still learning to drive. mihgt have to pick it up and take it on the tube....

[yoj]

I work in Soho Central London,

Oh yeah? something you aren't telling us? ;-)

have you ever tried getting a car there?!?!?

Only by complete accident! It was only a joke ;-) As i figured that was the case!

Plus i'm still learning to drive. mihgt have to pick it up and take it on the tube....

Dude, take the piss completely, box it up and stick it in goods out with your home address on it, but some made up business name, always works, trust me ;-)

[monkeyboy_ssj]

Now that last idea is a very very good one! I'm going to find a box :D

[Shitoryu Dude]

Cars over there suck - I drive a small SUV and could stuff a mini Cooper in the back with a little grease.

My next monitor is going to be an LCD of at least 19" - I've been using this CRT clunker for 5 or 6 years and refuse to go smaller.

:cool:

[monkeyboy_ssj]

Cars over there suck - I drive a small SUV and could stuff a mini Cooper in the back with a little grease.

My next monitor is going to be an LCD of at least 19" - I've been using this CRT clunker for 5 or 6 years and refuse to go smaller.

:cool:

heh, name us a good American car in the last 10 years mate :D hmmm? :D

British/ European cars rock :D

Jellies on wheels they are, plus they can't break for crap! takes you 3 miles just to stop one of those 50 ton pickups :p

[jest]

stuff a mini Cooper in the back with a little grease.

You really do like anal, don't you Harvey? :D

I've got 4 Gigs DDR all in all, AMD 3600 clocking at 3.5ghz, water cooled, MSI motherboard and 5.1 sound, Soon to get a new Radeon x850XL around Christmas time as my 256ddr 9800 pro is getting abit warn...thinking about getting 8 meg soon but my 2meg BT line does us for now. Mainly a gaming machine. All i've got on it is games, MP3s and that's it.

Ricer :) Have you got racing stripes and case lights too?


I'm currently running in safemode because that's the only way my machine will still start up...
Someone please buy me a new computer.

[Shitoryu Dude]

I wouldn't buy an American vehicle unless I was forced to (or a European one) - I buy only Japanese cars.

What, me carry lube when looking for the ladies? :cool:

[ScottUK]

I've got 4 Gigs DDR all in all, AMD 3600 clocking at 3.5ghz, water cooled, MSI motherboard and 5.1 sound, Soon to get a new Radeon x850XL around Christmas time as my 256ddr 9800 pro is getting abit warn...thinking about getting 8 meg soon but my 2meg BT line does us for now. Mainly a gaming machine. All i've got on it is games, MP3s and that's it.Didn't know you were such a geek - watercooling is for big girls' blouses...

You want www.16meg.co.uk, you do...

[Chrono]

So small, so quiet, so fully loaded - my previous computer, despite the massive upgrades to CPU, RAM and other hardware didn't even come close to the performance this baby has: 3800+ Athlon 64 X2 CPU, 250 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM, Stealth Radeon X300SE video, DVD & CD writer, DVD player, more ports than I can keep track of.....I love it. And I also just transferred over to cable broadband so the whole package is just so fast it blows my mind.

I'm jealous! I want cable internet, too. The other stuff I can get easily. :cool:

[Shitoryu Dude]

I just bought another gigabyte of RAM