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Old April 20th, 2004, 07:45 AM

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Default Infinate Bad Luck...

somewhere in an alternate univers an alternate 'me' must have broken 13 mirrors or something.

a copple of weeks ago the little clips holding the heatsink/fan onto my abit IC7-G mobo came loose (dont ask me how, they just did bad solder maybe? or maybe the fan was unbalanced?)
anyway, I sent the mobo back to where it came from (unfortunaly half way donw the contry - they had the best price and largest range at the time)
and they sent me a new IC7-G (YIPPY!!!) so I stuck the whole thing back to gether (and had fun lapping the cpu heatsink at teh same time - and had my uncle laugh at me since I wasint overclocking it) and it worked great for a week (YAY!!)
then, it just shut down.
wouldent boot.
fans didnt even turn
nada, zip, nogo.

so I took it to the local pc co who I deal with ocasionly (not as cheap as down south and dont have such a large range) and got them to test it.
guess what?
it was the ****** mobo!
they tested everything elce, all seems to be working fine, psu (which we suspected may have caused the problem) was fine also.
so consequently I have to send my mobo back down contry again, *sigh* annother 2 weeks withought my kickass system.

like I said, my alturnate me must have done some prety heafty damage to some mirrors which included the number thirteen (or something)
seriosly though, Im not superstisios. but you gota wonder sometimes heh.
I think ill go mad
you know what???
I BET you that valve will release HL2 to top the whole thing off.
*sigh*

well at least Iv still got 3 pcs that will run seIV
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Old April 20th, 2004, 08:02 AM
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Default Re: Infinate Bad Luck...

I've got two pc's that will run seiv. I've got two pc's, period and one of them is 333MHz.
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Ok, you got me what is a Mobo?

And if you think your luck is bad, I just discovered that my truck has had no less than 14 recalls since 1996 and many of the issues for which it has been taken into service for are on the recall list. Yet they found no problems and guess what the problems still exsist and I can do nothing but eat *hit.

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AT: Mobo = motherboard.
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Old April 20th, 2004, 03:14 PM
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I would reccommend to anybody with 50 bucks to spend to get an old klunker. Toss win98 on if they don't have it already, and they're plenty good enough for SE4.

I recently got such a laptop for $60 Canadian, bringing the total of SE4-worthy computers in my house back up to 6. Only 3 actually have it installed, and one dosen't have windows installed yet, but that's OK.
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hehe... Last night i was talking with at and the computer died in mid sentance... sorry at... But hey that is a few pc's in a few weeks... looks like i missed adm11 game turn
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