Your Stupidest Hardware Mistakes Ever. - Page 3

Goku7 · May 19th, 2003, 04:12

Heh....mine's only stupid in the sense that my dad got all stupid and misinterpreted my question that caused me to go on this whole escapade:

About 3 months ago, my dad and I recieved a "broken" computer that had been the recipient of a rather nasty power spike (I could go on about that, since that is a story of owner stupidity all in itself.

), and thus meant that anything that still worked, we could canabilize for parts.

Well, to my pleasant surprise, this comp had a 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP, the next step up from my own 3Dfx V3 2000 PCI. So, I started planning to use that (to take advantage of the 166mhz clock rate that I would otherwise have to overclock my V3 PCI to achieve).

At that time, my dad had the entire comp taken to his vender that he gets his parts from (he sells computers as a hobby, at one time it was a full-blown side business), to boot it up with a new hard drive (the one device which was confirmed to have kicked the bucket when it got that power spike....again, owner stupidity for returning a computer and buying a new one when it really only appeared he needed a new hard drive.

), and let it run to assess its stability, because dad was thinking of using the CPU and mobo to upgrade his own machine.

Unbeknownst to me, they also put a different video card in it. So, when I asked him if, when they booted it up with everything in it, it worked, he said yes, not realizing that I was refering to them trying to boot it up with that V3 in it. So, naturally, I got even more excited about finally using the AGP slot on my rig, even if the V3 doesn't take advantage of AGP texturing, etc.

So, I install it, and boot up, everything appears to work fine, I install the drivers, go to reboot, and then catastrophe happens:

At some point during the power-on-power-off cycle, the V3 AGP gave out, which most likely sent a feedback/short circuit thru the AGP slot, frying that and also somehow simulating an incorrect/incomplete BIOS flash. Thus, from that reboot on, I kept getting an error stating I had a "corrupt BIOS, press any key to proceed to bootblock", or something along those lines. I forget if they really called that program "bootblock" but its supposed to be one of those quarantined sections of the BIOS that contain enough boot instructions to get you access to a floppy drive, the idea being so you can apply a BIOS flash correctly and fix the problem.

Well, that part was somehow fried too, either that or the short circuit hit the Floppy cable port too.

Long story short, I wound up without a computer for about a week. Even worse, it was during finals, and all these type-written reports just so happened to be due that week, and me being a procrastinator got stuck. :eyes:

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**Betamax** · May 19th, 2003, 10:50

Ok. This is the best horror story I've got. (Although it was a mate's comp and I wasn't about at the time.)

Anyways, a friend of mine was having a party. Somewhere along the lines they started playing a mutliplayer game of doom (I said it was a while back

). Anyways during the game there was a power cut. As you could imagine copious amounts of alcohol had been consumed during that party and everyone was more or less totally plastered. Hence for some bizaarre reason they blamed the power outage on one of the computers. So they decided to have a shot at "repairing" it. After opening the case up and looking, the booze finally took its toll and the daft sod threw up all over his mobo.

Releasing his predicament he then proceeded to clean up the mess.... by washing the puke off it in the shower, then drying the damn thing off with a hairdryer.

Needless to say the damn thing didn't work after that.

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Galway no Sora · May 19th, 2003, 18:57

I burnt my Athlon 1200. It also caused my mobo stop functioning. This happend because of short circuit when I pluging the new copper HSF.

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**ammoQ** · May 19th, 2003, 19:56

I bought a new laser printer, because I wanted one that works with Linux, and my old one was a GDI printer that doesn't. So I went to the store, checked the offered printers in the Linux-Printing database (they had a PC with internet connection there) and decided to buy a certain printer that should work perfectly. At home, I fortunately checked again, and noticed that I had looked for the wrong model number (something like 3400-L instead of 3400) and the new printer was a GDI printer again, rated "paperweight" in the Linux printing database. I was lucky, because the shop took the (unopened) box back and sold me another printer, this time a real good working one.

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Unicron · May 19th, 2003, 20:15

well with me i had just made some kind of modification to my system and I had forgotten to plug in the heatsink fan...with my athlon xp1900 I thought it would have fried by the time I made it to windows...I shut down and plugged it in...still works fine to this day.

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**Shiori** · May 20th, 2003, 08:21

Quote:

Originally posted by Betamax
Ok. This is the best horror story I've got. (Although it was a mate's comp and I wasn't about at the time.)

Anyways, a friend of mine was having a party. Somewhere along the lines they started playing a mutliplayer game of doom (I said it was a while back ). Anyways during the game there was a power cut. As you could imagine copious amounts of alcohol had been consumed during that party and everyone was more or less totally plastered. Hence for some bizaarre reason they blamed the power outage on one of the computers. So they decided to have a shot at "repairing" it. After opening the case up and looking, the booze finally took its toll and the daft sod threw up all over his mobo.

Releasing his predicament he then proceeded to clean up the mess.... by washing the puke off it in the shower, then drying the damn thing off with a hairdryer.

Needless to say the damn thing didn't work after that.

LOL... I remember that story, Beta.

btw the "washing the keyboard in water" cleaning technique works btw.

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Andrew Hruska · May 21st, 2003, 00:05

i've made so many mistakes, it would take 2 pages to show! he's some
- Forgot to plug in fan, ending up melting cpu
- Forgot a video card
- Forgot to turn off computer before installing a hard drive, ending up frying HD
- Broke motherboard
- Installed TriangleOS on computer

and more

May 21st, 2003, 02:10

I broke an IDE controller, dropped a HD, molested various floppy drives, damaged a ram slot and a Slot 1 (processor) slot and damaged the cables in an msx while trying to soldier something. I'm kind of clumsy, in a way....

The stupidest thing was putting some holder with "anti-musquito juice" (sticky liquid stuff) upside down on an MSX2. .....needless to say the omputer wasnt exactly usable anymore afterwards :/

roxor · May 22nd, 2003, 06:26

After upgrading to an Athlon XP 2100+ (had a P3/500 before), I fried two 250W power supplies before I realized that the Athlon (plus all the other stuff) must be using way more current than a 250W psu can supply. Replaced it with a 400W, works just fine.

Well, until 2 months later, when the processor started overheating from lots of dust that had built up on the heatsink fins during that time. I was really amazed at the amount of dust! It was also a real pain trying to get the damn dust of the heat sink.

A moral here: clean out your computer case regulary, especially if you have one of those thin-fins-with-small-gaps HSFs.

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zukeft · May 22nd, 2003, 06:32

>Forgot to turn off computer before installing a hard drive, ending up frying HD

Now that's just plain insane. I'd understand taking a HD out while the PC was on, but not this. Shame on you!

>Installed TriangleOS on computer

What is that?

quequistos · May 22nd, 2003, 12:18

I bought a geforce 2 mx 200 32Mb SDR.

:stupid: (i hang my head in shame, but hey, it was cheap, and so am I

).

Also, when i was still in school, I did a week of work experience at a local computer shop. Unfortunately, at that time I had very little experience with messing around with the insides of computers, so I had so spend the entire week asking for help. Very embarassing.

Chinoz · May 22nd, 2003, 15:35

>>Forgot to turn off computer before installing a hard drive, ending up frying HD

Tell me...what were you trying to do? Run a serial ata simulation with parallel ata??

n0estoy · May 23rd, 2003, 03:04

i incorrectly flashed my OEM dvd drive a year ago trying to make it region free

, and from then on it could only read cds...until i upgraded it yesterday

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**DarkAurora** · May 23rd, 2003, 09:12

Spilling a drink on an expensive keyboard.

Hanamichi · May 23rd, 2003, 12:06

A case fan almost took my fingers off when I was messing with it.
Well not really but BOTH my index fingers were bleeding.

KillerShots · May 23rd, 2003, 22:09

I had found this "SCSI" card at my company along with seven one-gig hard drives and asked my boss if I can use them (so old even this company doesn't use them anymore... and all their clients don't either). Well, I took them home, carefully made my own connector (took a 2-connector cable and turned it into an eight-connector cable), and plugged it in. Turn on the computer, don't see the hard drives... in fact, smell something burning. Turn off the computer, and realize that the unmarked "SCSI" card is actually a relay card with the same pinout as a SCSI! Fried the cable, but comp and useless board were still OK.

Bought a 350W PSU from CompUSA (CompUSA brand, $30). Plugged it in, nothing happened. Took it back, brought in another one, plugged it in, smelled ozone. Brought it back, brought another one in, and it worked...for a week. Got my money back and won't buy from CompUSA again

.

Plugged a mouse into a PS/2 slot and forgot that the slot was disabled in the BIOS. Took me a few days to realize this :o

Installed Linux Mandrake without knowing a single console command. (It's blinking a cursor at me... why is it blinking a cursor at me?! What's it trying to say??) Consquently ended up installing it about seven times before I could get it the way I wanted it (I now know linux console commands

).

More recently, installed linux mandrake 9.1 on a P-200 MMX using a RAID-5 system with 7 1 gig hard drives and only 64 megs EDO RAM. The install took several days, and there was a 15-20 second delay for every menu option I highlighted (mouse didn't work either). I think I should've tried debian or an old mandrake or something not quite so demanding of my hardware

. On the bright side, though, it is now acting as a gateway for my cable modem connecting five other computers to it, as well as running a web page and counterstrike dedicated server (If you don't mind the 15 minute delay between levels... it runs great in-game, tho).

I bought Bleem!.

On an old AT case, I hadn't mounted the mobo on the backboard quite right, so none of my cards would plug in all the way... I didn't figure out what was causing this until the machine was not used anymore. :o

Bought a monstrous 6 foot AT case to go with my Pentium2 400 MHz (It was an AT/ATX mobo). Awesome idea, except the newer mobos were ATX-only! DOH!

I may think of more later

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**GiGaHeRz** · May 24th, 2003, 02:31

>>Forgot to turn off computer before installing a hard drive, ending up frying HD

I did that too, but it doesn't fried, simply it made a reset.

...

Mine was not really a mistake:

I bought a Creative 3D Blaster MX440, and it doesn't worked well, so I came to the shop to replace it, but it was the only one in stock so I changed it by a Creative 3D Blaster Ti 4200 (somewhat more expensive).

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Player-X · May 24th, 2003, 14:36

Installed a Mobo into a case with a abnormal bump in the Mobo tray that shorted the Mobo,The Mobo is ok but the guys at the store who thought it was a dead mobo isn't anymore

bmecoli · May 24th, 2003, 14:42

Quote:

Originally posted by KillerShots
I bought Bleem!.

OK you win ;p

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Blebekblebek · May 25th, 2003, 19:38

Grr...
well i've got problem... wanna see!

yeah that's P4S5A mobo w/ 1.7 Ghz P4 (Willy) n 256 DDR 333
i already tried all version of BIOS but nothing works... no fixed for this one...and also every time i enabled SMART system from BIOS it always detect that my HDD is broken (bad sector)

well i don't have money to buy a new one... even the store won;t take responsibility for this one...

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May 19th, 2003, 04:12	#41
Goku7 Diehard 3Dfx Fanboy! Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Kicking Kuja's ass, all with the power of 3Dfx!! Posts: 544	Heh....mine's only stupid in the sense that my dad got all stupid and misinterpreted my question that caused me to go on this whole escapade: About 3 months ago, my dad and I recieved a "broken" computer that had been the recipient of a rather nasty power spike (I could go on about that, since that is a story of owner stupidity all in itself. ), and thus meant that anything that still worked, we could canabilize for parts. Well, to my pleasant surprise, this comp had a 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP, the next step up from my own 3Dfx V3 2000 PCI. So, I started planning to use that (to take advantage of the 166mhz clock rate that I would otherwise have to overclock my V3 PCI to achieve). At that time, my dad had the entire comp taken to his vender that he gets his parts from (he sells computers as a hobby, at one time it was a full-blown side business), to boot it up with a new hard drive (the one device which was confirmed to have kicked the bucket when it got that power spike....again, owner stupidity for returning a computer and buying a new one when it really only appeared he needed a new hard drive. ), and let it run to assess its stability, because dad was thinking of using the CPU and mobo to upgrade his own machine. Unbeknownst to me, they also put a different video card in it. So, when I asked him if, when they booted it up with everything in it, it worked, he said yes, not realizing that I was refering to them trying to boot it up with that V3 in it. So, naturally, I got even more excited about finally using the AGP slot on my rig, even if the V3 doesn't take advantage of AGP texturing, etc. So, I install it, and boot up, everything appears to work fine, I install the drivers, go to reboot, and then catastrophe happens: At some point during the power-on-power-off cycle, the V3 AGP gave out, which most likely sent a feedback/short circuit thru the AGP slot, frying that and also somehow simulating an incorrect/incomplete BIOS flash. Thus, from that reboot on, I kept getting an error stating I had a "corrupt BIOS, press any key to proceed to bootblock", or something along those lines. I forget if they really called that program "bootblock" but its supposed to be one of those quarantined sections of the BIOS that contain enough boot instructions to get you access to a floppy drive, the idea being so you can apply a BIOS flash correctly and fix the problem. Well, that part was somehow fried too, either that or the short circuit hit the Floppy cable port too. Long story short, I wound up without a computer for about a week. Even worse, it was during finals, and all these type-written reports just so happened to be due that week, and me being a procrastinator got stuck. :eyes: __________________ A 233Mhz CPU. Its not just slow, its a CURSE!!

May 19th, 2003, 10:50	#42
Betamax Resident Movie Critic Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 9,506	Ok. This is the best horror story I've got. (Although it was a mate's comp and I wasn't about at the time.) Anyways, a friend of mine was having a party. Somewhere along the lines they started playing a mutliplayer game of doom (I said it was a while back ). Anyways during the game there was a power cut. As you could imagine copious amounts of alcohol had been consumed during that party and everyone was more or less totally plastered. Hence for some bizaarre reason they blamed the power outage on one of the computers. So they decided to have a shot at "repairing" it. After opening the case up and looking, the booze finally took its toll and the daft sod threw up all over his mobo. Releasing his predicament he then proceeded to clean up the mess.... by washing the puke off it in the shower, then drying the damn thing off with a hairdryer. Needless to say the damn thing didn't work after that. __________________ Superior marketing of an inferior product will always win over inferior marketing of a superior product.

May 19th, 2003, 18:57	#43
Galway no Sora ~¤ PanZeR ¤~ idRO Thor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Valhalla, on Odin's throne Posts: 3,165	I burnt my Athlon 1200. It also caused my mobo stop functioning. This happend because of short circuit when I pluging the new copper HSF. __________________ One can't get something from nothing in this world. If life is the one you seek, then life is the price you must pay.

May 19th, 2003, 19:56	#44
ammoQ Emu author Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Vienna/Austria/Europe Posts: 1,168	I bought a new laser printer, because I wanted one that works with Linux, and my old one was a GDI printer that doesn't. So I went to the store, checked the offered printers in the Linux-Printing database (they had a PC with internet connection there) and decided to buy a certain printer that should work perfectly. At home, I fortunately checked again, and noticed that I had looked for the wrong model number (something like 3400-L instead of 3400) and the new printer was a GDI printer again, rated "paperweight" in the Linux printing database. I was lucky, because the shop took the (unopened) box back and sold me another printer, this time a real good working one. __________________ If you think my English is bad, wait till you read my Polish.

May 19th, 2003, 20:15	#45
Unicron Git er done Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC USA GO us! Posts: 2,829	well with me i had just made some kind of modification to my system and I had forgotten to plug in the heatsink fan...with my athlon xp1900 I thought it would have fried by the time I made it to windows...I shut down and plugged it in...still works fine to this day. __________________ It is the soldier, not the court, that has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protestor the freedom he abuses to burn that flag. -Senator Zell Miller

May 21st, 2003, 00:05	#47
Andrew Hruska Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: somewhere Posts: 1,121	i've made so many mistakes, it would take 2 pages to show! he's some - Forgot to plug in fan, ending up melting cpu - Forgot a video card - Forgot to turn off computer before installing a hard drive, ending up frying HD - Broke motherboard - Installed TriangleOS on computer and more

May 21st, 2003, 02:10	#48
Samor Guest Posts: n/a	I broke an IDE controller, dropped a HD, molested various floppy drives, damaged a ram slot and a Slot 1 (processor) slot and damaged the cables in an msx while trying to soldier something. I'm kind of clumsy, in a way.... The stupidest thing was putting some holder with "anti-musquito juice" (sticky liquid stuff) upside down on an MSX2. .....needless to say the omputer wasnt exactly usable anymore afterwards :/

May 22nd, 2003, 06:26	#49
roxor Nutcase Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Great Southern Land Posts: 703	After upgrading to an Athlon XP 2100+ (had a P3/500 before), I fried two 250W power supplies before I realized that the Athlon (plus all the other stuff) must be using way more current than a 250W psu can supply. Replaced it with a 400W, works just fine. Well, until 2 months later, when the processor started overheating from lots of dust that had built up on the heatsink fins during that time. I was really amazed at the amount of dust! It was also a real pain trying to get the damn dust of the heat sink. A moral here: clean out your computer case regulary, especially if you have one of those thin-fins-with-small-gaps HSFs. __________________ "I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!" - Tom Lehrer

May 22nd, 2003, 06:32	#50
zukeft Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Bogota, Colombia Posts: 1,157	>Forgot to turn off computer before installing a hard drive, ending up frying HD Now that's just plain insane. I'd understand taking a HD out while the PC was on, but not this. Shame on you! >Installed TriangleOS on computer What is that?

May 22nd, 2003, 12:18	#51
quequistos Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK Posts: 7	I bought a geforce 2 mx 200 32Mb SDR. :stupid: (i hang my head in shame, but hey, it was cheap, and so am I ). Also, when i was still in school, I did a week of work experience at a local computer shop. Unfortunately, at that time I had very little experience with messing around with the insides of computers, so I had so spend the entire week asking for help. Very embarassing.

May 22nd, 2003, 15:35	#52
Chinoz ... Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Desa Park, Key Ell, Malaysia Posts: 2,307	>>Forgot to turn off computer before installing a hard drive, ending up frying HD Tell me...what were you trying to do? Run a serial ata simulation with parallel ata?? __________________ System specs P4 2.6c \| Abit AI7 \| Radeon 9800pro \| 1024mb kingston ddr400 \| 120gb seagate sata \| 40mb wd \| And all the minor bits and pieces 3dMark2001SE

May 23rd, 2003, 03:04	#53
n0estoy old-timer Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: texas Posts: 1,319	i incorrectly flashed my OEM dvd drive a year ago trying to make it region free , and from then on it could only read cds...until i upgraded it yesterday __________________ .::system specs::.foxconn rs233.:.zotac g43-itx.:.intel e5200.:.vertex2 90gb ssd.:.ati hd5570.:.2gb ddr2 ram.:.liteon bdrom.:.win7.:.xbmc:. .::playing::. SF4.:.FF Tactics:. .::listening::.mia.:.gorrilaz.:.lady sov.:.sigur ros.:.bebel gilberto:. .::watching::.naruto.:.outsourced.:.family guy.:.american dad.:.30 rock:.

May 23rd, 2003, 09:12	#54
DarkAurora Back from the dead Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Seymour, TN Posts: 3,741	Spilling a drink on an expensive keyboard.

May 23rd, 2003, 12:06	#55
Hanamichi Crotally Tazy Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Malaysia Posts: 4,580	A case fan almost took my fingers off when I was messing with it. Well not really but BOTH my index fingers were bleeding.

May 23rd, 2003, 22:09	#56
KillerShots War Games coder Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Florida Posts: 1,927	I had found this "SCSI" card at my company along with seven one-gig hard drives and asked my boss if I can use them (so old even this company doesn't use them anymore... and all their clients don't either). Well, I took them home, carefully made my own connector (took a 2-connector cable and turned it into an eight-connector cable), and plugged it in. Turn on the computer, don't see the hard drives... in fact, smell something burning. Turn off the computer, and realize that the unmarked "SCSI" card is actually a relay card with the same pinout as a SCSI! Fried the cable, but comp and useless board were still OK. Bought a 350W PSU from CompUSA (CompUSA brand, $30). Plugged it in, nothing happened. Took it back, brought in another one, plugged it in, smelled ozone. Brought it back, brought another one in, and it worked...for a week. Got my money back and won't buy from CompUSA again . Plugged a mouse into a PS/2 slot and forgot that the slot was disabled in the BIOS. Took me a few days to realize this :o Installed Linux Mandrake without knowing a single console command. (It's blinking a cursor at me... why is it blinking a cursor at me?! What's it trying to say??) Consquently ended up installing it about seven times before I could get it the way I wanted it (I now know linux console commands ). More recently, installed linux mandrake 9.1 on a P-200 MMX using a RAID-5 system with 7 1 gig hard drives and only 64 megs EDO RAM. The install took several days, and there was a 15-20 second delay for every menu option I highlighted (mouse didn't work either). I think I should've tried debian or an old mandrake or something not quite so demanding of my hardware . On the bright side, though, it is now acting as a gateway for my cable modem connecting five other computers to it, as well as running a web page and counterstrike dedicated server (If you don't mind the 15 minute delay between levels... it runs great in-game, tho). I bought Bleem!. On an old AT case, I hadn't mounted the mobo on the backboard quite right, so none of my cards would plug in all the way... I didn't figure out what was causing this until the machine was not used anymore. :o Bought a monstrous 6 foot AT case to go with my Pentium2 400 MHz (It was an AT/ATX mobo). Awesome idea, except the newer mobos were ATX-only! DOH! I may think of more later __________________ Primary CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Mobo: Biostar N4SLI-A9 RAM: 2G Crucial (DDR400) Video: eVGA GeForce 7900 GTX (512M) Audio: HDA X-Mystique HD(s): Maxtor 300G SATA2, Samsung 400G SATA2 OS(s): WinXP x64 Pro, Vista x32 Ultimate, Gentoo x64 Monitor(s): Primary - 19" Flat Panel (1280x1024) Secondary - 19" Flat Panel (1280x1024) Tertiary - Zenith 42" Plasma TV (1024x768 res) Many other machines... sig too short

May 24th, 2003, 02:31	#57
GiGaHeRz B( o Y o )BS! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 895	>>Forgot to turn off computer before installing a hard drive, ending up frying HD I did that too, but it doesn't fried, simply it made a reset. ... Mine was not really a mistake: I bought a Creative 3D Blaster MX440, and it doesn't worked well, so I came to the shop to replace it, but it was the only one in stock so I changed it by a Creative 3D Blaster Ti 4200 (somewhat more expensive). __________________ "There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years) The Book and other stories: Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME! MetaLife, Inc. (intro) SubGaea (intro) Crow Blade (intro for now) Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts. My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho. For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

May 24th, 2003, 14:36	#58
Player-X Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: From Kuching in Malaysia now stuck in Houston Texas Posts: 9,111	Installed a Mobo into a case with a abnormal bump in the Mobo tray that shorted the Mobo,The Mobo is ok but the guys at the store who thought it was a dead mobo isn't anymore