celticfan11
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Grandmaster said:celticfan11, there's no need to get so agitated.
im not agitated lol. Im just messin with good ol derek. Just like good ol college days,
Grandmaster said:celticfan11, there's no need to get so agitated.
celticfan11 said:im not agitated lol. Im just messin with good ol derek. Just like good ol college days,
Grandmaster said:My bad. I feel sorry that you know him in person
VERY quiet, will be even quieter when those new fans come in. I had to use a 120mm that I had laying around, which is very noisy.Brad said:How is the noise level?
I wanted the ability to burn two DVD's at once, which I did today finally.celticfan11 said:just curious... why did you go with 2 dvd burners?
kcnychief said:I wanted the ability to burn two DVD's at once, which I did today finally.
Very cool to be able to do
I paid $700 extra for my keyboard and mouse, thank you very much.Grandmaster said:Get a 360, gaming problem solved
kcnychief said:Well, as they say - "if I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all"
Yup, that pretty much sums it up.
Friday before going to work, I set some stuff up to run, a few batch jobs, downloads etc. I left a little early, so by the time I came home the PC was "un-attended" for roughly 15-16 hours. I came home to check on the results of the jobs and downloads - and found my PC had frozen. No biggie - these things happen, so I power cycled the biatch.
Took about 15 seconds longer for the PC to get to the DFI Lan Party splash screen (that's my motherboard), and then it hung there for roughly a minute. That screen finally passed, and then I got a message stating the frequency on my processor had changed, and the system was now in safe mode. It is recommended to enter the BIOS to reset it - blah blah blah....
I go into the bios, not there for more than 3 seconds, PC locks up.
Little annoyed by this point, as it's roughly 4:30 and I was hurtin for some sleep. But I cycled it again, this time I got into the BIOS, had about 10 seconds - froze. This time, before cycling it, I looked into the case as I had the side panel off for something I was working on earlier that day. The HSF was not spinning - at all. I knew that didn't look right, so that woke me up a little bit out of shock.
Cycled the PC again, noticed everything else powered up, cept for the HSF. ****, I thought to myself.
I unplugged everything, put the case on it's side, removed the HSF, and found that my previously beautiful AMD processor had been burned like an Albino spending a day on the beach in 100 degree weather.
Furthermore, the thermal damage was so extensive, some areas of the mobo looked to be a little brown, but that could have been the lighting.
This blows - I don't have a PC for a few days, I'm going to order some parts from Newegg tomorrow and overnight them - hope to have a new rig up and running on Tuesday. This happened Friday, so I didn' thave a chance to order anything. Because I don't want to risk anything, I'm replacing the CPU (obviosuly) and the motherboard. May replace the PSU as well, but I want to do some testing on the leads first.....
Mother ******