Well the replacement parts for my dead PC finally came on Saturday.
After much annoyance I have finally got the system up and running in a Media Centre style case, which will be desk bound until we can afford a decent 2nd PC, allowing this one to move under the telly.
The end count for my damage of the other week was:
Processor - DEAD
Motherboard - DEAD
1 of 2 RAM modules - DEAD
Wireless LAN Card - Seems DEAD
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Card - Also Seems DEAD
Hard Disks - Survived
Important Data - 100% Recovered
PSU - Survived (but obsolete)
So all in all I well and truly stuffed it! Ho Hum!
This does mean that we now have 4 PCs up and running again! Since I only have space for 2 monitors and a laptop, I have two machines driving off the dual inputs on one of the monitors... I just wish you didn't have to go through 3 menus to switch between inputs!
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One man's diary of emigrating to Australia (from the Geek's perspective)
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Are you ever going to admit what you did to stuff it?
The PC had started to make a horrible noise, so I reckoned one of the fans had thrown a bearing.
I opened up the PC whilst it was powered on to locate the offending fan and whilst I was looking a case screw rolled off the desk and landed smack bang in the middle of the motherboard causing a multitide of sparks and then a very dead PC!
Don't try this at home, kids!!
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