My PC is completely FUBAR

[Warik]

Lovely.

Right now I'm speaking to all of you from this ghetto rig I set up with my laptop. I've got my laptop with my desktop's keyboard, mouse, printer, monitor, speakers, etc connected to it - not a single damn free port on there except for the serial port, and I've got the LCD/CRT display toggled so I can see it on my normal monitor. It almost looks as though I have a functional PC, which unfortunately I know is not the case.

This ends a 2-month journey of trying to figure out wtf was wrong. Started 2 months ago when I was getting random freezes/reboots. Tried reinstalling WinXP to no avail. Later I tried going to the ends of the earth and back trying to find drivers that hadn't been invented yet for all of my shit. Didn't work. Then I tried using my old cord keyboard & mouse instead of my cordless shit. That didn't work. THEN I tried removing my 2nd network card. That didn't work. Finally last night I tried installing Windows 2000 instead, that didn't work! What is it? My CPU? My motherboard? My RAM? A little insect that sneaked into my case, got fried over some set of circuitry, and created a permanent current-jumping connection that fucks everything up whenever I move my mouse to X=300,Y=290, double-click, use my scrolling wheel, and then move the mouse precisely 326 degrees? Maybe.

Gr... I want a new PC. I want one of those ungodly Alienware sex machine monster computers. There I was thinking I'd be nice and cheap since I already have an HD and all the non-bare bones shit. Little did I know that it'd still be expensive. I can't justify spending $2500 for a bare bones + video card system. God damn those Alienware people. I'm probably going to be stuck on my laptop rig for the next week at least while I have my dad's friend look at my desktop. I'll take my hat off to the guy if he can fix that damn thing. Times like this I wish I had a MAC. (Cause my boss has one and it breaks all the time but the nice folks at Computer Village have it fixed in a day always and for real cheap).

Anyway... this concludes my rant. I hope you have all taken great amusement and pleasure through my suffering. If you ever think your life is bad, just remember me. AT LEAST YOU FUCKS HAVE A COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[danielson]

stories like this are the reason i refuse to use anything other than win98 second edition.......its the most stable ive used and i like it that way

 

[Code]

Get a mac.

 

[Sassy69]

I just spent the last 24 hours trouble shooting my system (consists of a basic 1 1/2 year old laptop, win 98, cable modem, emergency dial up service, and a 2 year old CD burner). In trying to add in a wireless PCMCIA card & a wireless router (a zippy 5 min install job I was told....), my IE 5.0 decided to take a crap while attempting to configure the router. 24 hours, 4 calls to 4 diff tech support companies (NO I WILL NOT PAY BILL GATES' $35 for per-incident phone-based tech support) I have backed up my important stuff and wiped the disk. I'm still working thru the dial up as I need to find one more driver for the cable modem to work. THEN I can download a newer version of IE.

Shit. I got OUT of SW dev and started buying packaged systems so I WOULDN"T have to do this shit.

 

[Latimer]

Get a neural-net processor... a learning computer.

 

[naturally anabolic]

i build machines, warik if you need any help PM me.

and what are the specs of the current troublemaker?

 

[Code]

There is no such thing as a single neural net processor.
Neural nets are based on density of components.

 

[Latimer]

There is no such thing as a single neural net processor.
Neural nets are based on density of components.

I was only joking around. Ahhhnold says it in T2.

 

[FarBeyondDriven]

Feel fro you brother, I have XP, with no problems, except for a few bootlegged apps I had to get around.

Built my own PC with an AMD =1800XP chip, 256 DDRam, 64 meg Vid card, my old 40 gig HD, CD burner, CD drive and 3.5 drive. It works fine and only ran me 500 with a copy of XP

 

[Warik]

Built my own PC with an AMD =1800XP chip, 256 DDRam

My friend recommended this exact setup to me from PriceWatch.com He said AMD 1800XP mobo and chip for $134 and that DDR ram was running for less than $25 for128MB. It seems as though I could get the mobo, chip, and 512 RAM for about $250. When did you get yours and how much was it?

-Warik

 

[2 ton hoss]

I BUILT A MACHINE THIS FALL.

ATHLON 1.2
512 MB RAM
40 GB HARD DRIVE

I ALREADY HAD A MONITOR.

COST ME LESS THAN $800.

 

[Drifter]

If you have bad ram that could cause xp or 2000 not to load. If you can install 98 no problem (or ME) then I bet its your problem.

Worth a shot anyways....

What are your specs?

 

[FarBeyondDriven]

My friend recommended this exact setup to me from PriceWatch.com He said AMD 1800XP mobo and chip for $134 and that DDR ram was running for less than $25 for128MB. It seems as though I could get the mobo, chip, and 512 RAM for about $250. When did you get yours and how much was it?

-Warik

My chip was around 130 and the MSI motherboard at 120, then the ram cost 90, tower & power 50, vid card 70 and xp (oem) 90.

A fairly decent price for a top of line system. Of course already had hard drive, 2 cd drives, zip drive, network card and 3.5. I don't think I will ever buy another built PC. It's easy as hell to build one, just follow directions like building a model

 

[Warik]

Shit! It was the fan! I called my dad's friend with a long face knowing that I'd probably have to fork over a few hundred bucks for a new board/cpu/ram, and the first thing he told me was "open up the case and see if the fan turns on." Well, the damn fan didn't turn on. It just sat there laughing at me.

So, it would appear as though my CPU has been overheating and then dying on me for the past 2+ months and refusing to restart until I left it to cool. Well, the first step is obvious, I have to get a new fan... but I'm concerned that the CPU may have been permanently damaged after 2 months of this shit. What do you guys think? Think one of those AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz "Big Fat Long Style" processors can survive 2 months of no fan without permanent damage?

-Warik

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

fans are cheap.. buy a new fan hook it up, and run some of the standard bench mark programs on it.. from what I have seen, if you burn out a cpu, you BURN it out... no sort of in CPU's..

that being said, you probably put a lot of wear and tear on it, and it wont last as long as it should have.. if you have a nice mobo you might want to scrap the old cpu and just get a new one.. Sometimes when a cpu goes, it can cause dammage on the mobo.

 

[Y_lifter]

 

[Code]

With PCs, it's either hardware, the OS, third party software, the weather, a virus, the whim of the Gods, user error, bad fashion sense, poor spelling, a car accident, monsoon season or the fan.

Get a mac

 

[Swoleyoley]

Get a mac.

can we ban this idiot, hes gonna hurt somebody

 

[Code]

D'oh!

My plan to monopolize the software distribution world by converting everyone to mac has been discovered!!!

 

[mrbill]

warik since the system was shutting down when it overheated to protect itself it is probably fine. Just get a new fan or even two. Its no big deal, my system did the same thing when my fan went out. Of course when I opened it to check it out, the fan was one of the first things I checked out

 

[Swoleyoley]

D'oh!

My plan to monopolize the software distribution world by converting everyone to mac has been discovered!!!

 

[Warik]

With PCs, it's either hardware, the OS, third party software, the weather, a virus, the whim of the Gods, user error, bad fashion sense, poor spelling, a car accident, monsoon season or the fan.

Get a mac

Lol... at least with a PC you know what's wrong AND CAN FIX IT! My boss's mac poofed while he was working with it right before my eyes. Happens countless times in a week upstairs too. Apples are fruits... not computers.

-Warik