should it be doing this?
THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE TO BUY STUFF OFF EBAY. THIS IS NEITHER THE TIME NOR THE PLACE. STOP BEING SO ****ING NAIVE!
hey, gues what arrived in the post today, a fried x-fi, time to resell as faulty
Edit: you win this round, but the war is not over yet!
Shock horror as everyone else is proven right again.
You know nothing about electronics.
You've pointed a heatgun at an xbox once, and read some stuff on the internet maybe, and now think you are a PCB Jesus.
Stick to prebuilds, you are STILL incapable of taking advice. You are, by own admission, incapable of building a PC that works for more than a few days.
You have a load of hair brained, ludicrous, possibly fraudulent scheming ideas to make money or "fix" broken ****.
You are either a properly great troll, or properly useless with anything that requires electricity to function.
This is what EVERYONE is thinking, take THIS ONE PIECE OF ADVICE and get a prebuilt
What's the story behind this X-Fi? Did he buy an untested or something?
And has he tried reflowing it?
I've come to the conclusion ZZZAC that you are one of two things, you are either...
The unluckiest guy to ever buy PC components... or... you are a genius.
*IF* you are the unluckiest guy to ever buy PC components, then my advice to you is to stop farting around buying from e-bay and buy from OCUK or any other reputable PC component company, where their stock is tracked and WILL be delivered usually on the specified day.
*IF* you are a genius, then I applaud you for one of the best windup's I've seen in a long, long time, to have a 'build log thread' last 13 pages, get banned and suspended numerous times and still be allowed to post is what can only be described as amazing.
Either way ZZZAC it's been an entertaining read and I 'doff my cap' to you, well done .