Bad luck streak

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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Semi-serious thread, but troll replies are fine too :-)

1st June: Graphics card on my desktop PC fails, display corruption, kills Windows session etc. Not a biggie, just buy a cheap 2nd-hand to replace my HD4850, so I thought. So, a Geforce 8500 arrives. Fan bearings have gone, 70°C idle, 88°C on load. GPU lasted 2 days then popped its clogs. Got refund from the seller. Then a Geforce GT220 (a.k.a. old 9600) arrives, noisy fan, 60°C idle, 80°C load. Visual artefacts on Windows desktop, GPU death is imminent. Time to switch over to my laptop PC...

5th June: So the laptop, my remaining PC in the house. Hard disk full of bad sectors, HD light always active. Spinrite ran for 16 hours and only got to 1.6% Oh yes, and it's a Hitachi 'Travelstar', although you know it's really a Deskstar, the good ol' Deathstar. No spare 2.5" hard disk in the house. Try bootable Ubuntu CD? Nope, CD-ROM's knackered too. No PCs left in the house.

8th June: The house boiler dies. Gas Safe™ engineer installs new mainboard (£210) and new switch (£60). Costly.

13th June: Friend lends me their PC. Plug my LED monitor into it and the LEDs are failing (dark patches on the screen).

All this in the space of 2 weeks. Someone's got it in for me? lol

Feel free to share your bad luck streaks.
 
No such thing as luck :p things happen for a reason. This is what I tell myself every week when I dont win the lottery :D
 
Only £270 to sort your boiler?

Bah! I had to shell out £1600 after a powersurge last year to replace ours! (although we did ask for the best one)
 
Sounds like you may have power issues in your house. PC issues sound like a PSU problem, laptop sounds like bad luck though.
 
cheechm said:
And it was covered on insurance?
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Nope.

The power-surge was caused by locals nicking copper from the power lines. When they turned it back on...huge power surge, boom.

The compensation they offered was repairs to boilers but not replacement, ours was blewn to smithereens :(

Could've claimed on house insurance, but I had the money so just decided to do it and leave the house insurance untouched.
 
Phate said:
Nope.

The power-surge was caused by locals nicking copper from the power lines. When they turned it back on...huge power surge, boom.

The compensation they offered was repairs to boilers but not replacement, ours was blewn to smithereens :(

Could've claimed on house insurance, but I had the money so just decided to do it and leave the house insurance untouched.
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Am I confused with someone else, or did you have a powersurge and have to replace your iMac or something?
 
Phate, to me that sounds a bit dodgy... if they were going to do repairs then that's pretty much admitting they were at fault... have you tried to get the money out of them?
 
cheechm said:
Am I confused with someone else, or did you have a powersurge and have to replace your iMac or something?
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That was Feek :)

The Halk said:
Phate, to me that sounds a bit dodgy... if they were going to do repairs then that's pretty much admitting they were at fault... have you tried to get the money out of them?
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It was November last year dude, I can't remember the exact wordings now. And no I haven't, it was freezing and Dads plumber friend did the boiler the next day. We just wanted it warm again! Lol
 
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