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The last 48 hours drove me crazy!

The last 48 hours drove me crazy!

Well it is good to be back I guess. Let me tell everyone what happened.

Thursday morning was no different than any other, I woke up late (3 days off, this was my second) and botted up the old emachines. I got up after checking my email and the message board. Then it happened!

My power supply finally hit the dust!

So after trying to get the power supply to come back to life for hours, and after calling every computer shop in town (and some out of town) I finally got ahold of our neighbors downstairs and he let me borrow one of his power supplies. I booted the machine and everything seemed OK. XP said it just recovered from a crash or something like that. No sooner did I check my email when something else happened!

My hard drive bit the dust! >

It had been making weird noises for the last month and apparently when the power supply went it took the HD with it cause I could not get XP running again. Machine keep booting over and over. XP said it could not write to disk. So Friday I bought a new 2 gig drive hoping that would get me by.

NOT! My Mobo decided to through a fit and die to. By 5:00 pm today I was pissed. So I turned on my playstation to get some relief, bit my lip cause I missed WC, and played Final Fantasy 7.

I only got 5 hours into it before the game hung up on me! dame murphy law... Anything that can go wrong will.

Luckily UPS dropped off my new Dell laptop that I have been waiting for forever today so until next week I am stuck on my laptop.

I am glad to see everyone!
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Reply #26 Top
its not really possible to add fans to laptop unless theres suffecent room. but from what i read here it shouldn't be a problem at all.
Reply #27 Top
it has a fan... little one abiut half a inch squared. damn thing just is not working.
Reply #28 Top
ahh you could probably replace it if you can find the same type fan.
Reply #29 Top
hmm i guess i will contact dell!
Reply #30 Top
XX...no overclocking.....just a bog-standard Pentium100....'perhaps' it's an Aussie thing.....ambient air temperature....the only comps I've seen without fans have been 486's and older....
Reply #31 Top
Jafo I have seen 133 and 166 and 200 with nothing more than a gigantic heatsink... mostly from the old compaqs!
Reply #32 Top
Kona...yes it's gotta be a climate thing....average temps being different...