Guess what?

#1

Those of you who are regulers to the BM steam chat, those who chat to me I thought i’d let you know that my P.C is now fucked. looks like the motherboard (this I am very un happy about) has gone so im gonna try reinstalling an old one while saving up for a rebuild, thanks to those who tried to help. And sorry DB I know you entered chat tonight to give a bit of expertise but this I feel may be outside of anyones help.

I’ll take it to some It techs when I get paid for some Indepedant verification, but im not holding any hope, As I will be borrowing my dads laptop now, for the internet I wont be in chat, but on the plus side at least my post count should in increase…

Silver linnings and all that.

#2

Well, good luck with that.

#3

Keresh, you know better.

Cool story bro’.

#4

Haha it sucks when motherboards die, I had at least 5 mobo’s break on me so far.

#5

no mainboard died in my PCs so far, but one PSU exploded

#6

I melted one, still don’t know how. O_o

#7

damn gom. that is bad news :frowning: i hope you get your computer back and running soon, few days into 2010 (since it is indeed a day or 2 left of 2009).

well see you in BM chat when you come back, good luck! :freeman:

#8

I killed a Motherboard once. Haven’t got a clue how, but the place I got it from replaced it with a better one (they didn’t have my old one in stock’) without charging me the difference. Score!

#9

I’ve accidentally killed a motherboard or two through fucked up bios flashes. Thankfully I only buy from trusted vendors who are very good about RMA, and reshipping back boards.

PSU failure is most common. I see a lot of failed ‘DEER’ power supplies come across my bench. I have never seen a failed Corsair PSU in my life. I’ve seen a failed OCZ, and I’ve even killed a PC Power&Cooling unit, whose PSUs have been renowned as the top of the pile for years.

Ram and HDD failures are the most annoying because sometimes diagnosing such things is tricky.

#10

Ever seen a thermaltake PSU explode?

Because mine is pretty much under full load most of the time, it’s only 430W single 12v rail.

#11

I’ve seen a TT toughpower go up. 550W

#12

cheers for the good luck wishes and the stories of similiar things, glad im not the only one.
although with the stories of psus exploding and main boards melting. Maybe I have been lucker than I thought.

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