I am a computing god!

chrispystix said:
About two months ago I decided to build my own. After several posts with specs I decided to start collecting old PCs from mates and a GF.

My best model, an old TIME athelon 900mhz (from the latter) declined to turn on tonight.

I deftly plunged in and changed the power supply with one from a mates garage.
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I know for a fact he is telling 3 lies -

1 - He said he collected old PC's from mates and a GF. Everybody knows that girls don't have PC's.

2 - There is no such thing as an athelon.

3 - No way will a power supply that powers a garage can supply a PC because it will be too big to fit in the case.
 
dmpoole said:
I know for a fact he is telling 3 lies -

1 - He said he collected old PC's from mates and a GF. Everybody knows that girls don't have PC's.

2 - There is no such thing as an athelon.

3 - No way will a power supply that powers a garage can supply a PC because it will be too big to fit in the case.
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What if the garage was the case?
 
My best model, an old TIME athelon 900mhz (from the latter) declined to turn on tonight.
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Now you just have to encase it in a hermetically sealed enclosure and dip in liquid nitrogen to overclock to 5GHz... then the guys in GH will become aroused :p
 
I think the OP is just rightfully chuffed with his first home built PC.

I was dead chuffed with my first home built one, a MMX200 which I managed to overclock to the motherboard max of...............225!!!
 
chrispystix said:
Well,

The PC was her grandfather's (and she has read this)

I cant spell

Maybe it was a shed

and up yours! for starters.
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lol, I like you :)

Although I think this would be better in GH.
GD is full of dirty dirty spammy trolls! :D
 
Ah, I remember my first PC, it was a competitor, with it's name rhyming with Stackhard Hell.

'Executive' Multimedia Computer
Intel Inside Pentium Processor 120Mhz
32MB of RAM
1GB HDD
Windows 95

Cost about £1800. :o
 
Congrats on your first sucessful "operation" ;) Just try not to let the bug bite too hard, or you'll be trying to talk yourself into buying a new graphics card every 3 weeks and posting about the fact that you gained another 13 3Dmark points in the overclocking forum. Hmmm, I remember those days :eek:
 
iCraig said:
Ah, I remember my first PC, it was a competitor, with it's name rhyming with Stackhard Hell.

'Executive' Multimedia Computer
Intel Inside Pentium Processor 120Mhz
32MB of RAM
1GB HDD
Windows 95

Cost about £1800. :o
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I hear you and I raise you a similar (but even more pathetic) system from the same people.

Pentium 100
8 Meg RAM (did this thing even load windows without using virtual memory!!)
1GB Drive
4* CD ROM

Executive multimedia lol. Well it sounded new and exciting at the time :)
 
iCraig said:
Ah, I remember my first PC, it was a competitor, with it's name rhyming with Stackhard Hell.

'Executive' Multimedia Computer
Intel Inside Pentium Processor 120Mhz
32MB of RAM
1GB HDD
Windows 95

Cost about £1800. :o
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Wouldn't catch me paying that much for a Stackhard Hell :p

Our first PC was custom built from a company named Pulse if i remember correctly, doubt they're still around though. Still got it in the garage tbh, hoho. About 9yrs old. :D
 
With all due respect Chrispy, what you've done tonight is what I did in a computer workshop as a work apprentice nearly ten years ago.

It might feel like a major achievement, but right now most people on here are laughing (hard) at you.

Part of me respects you for having the nuts to brag about something so minor and easy to fix. But another part me respects you for starting to learn about computer hardware.

First trick of the day: Get an old, tired PSU. Plug it in, and unplug after a second or two. Dismantle PSU, remove PCB completely from PSU chassis. Short the pins of any of the big capacitors with a metal screwdrivers - enjoy the spark. This is safe if done properly, and you don't touch the metal part of the screwdriver while shorting the cap. :D

Second trick of the day: Again, dismantle PSU, remove PCB completely from the metal PSU chassis. Get a large piece of tin foil, and put the PCB solder side down on the tin foil - but don't touch the tin foil while the PCB is on the foil. Plug PSU in, and turn on at the switch. Enjoy as the sparks fly, and the trip switch/fuse in your fusebox trips. Again, this is safe if done properly - and even safer if you do it outside, to avoid fire hazards. :D
 
One of the other blagged systems was a pentium pro with a 2 g hard dive.
I spent 2 hours with a mini vac removing inches of dust before windows 98 returned to the world.....
 
basmic said:
With all due respect Chrispy, what you've done tonight is what I did in a computer workshop as a work apprentice nearly ten years ago.

It might feel like a major achievement, but right now most people on here are laughing (hard) at you.

Part of me respects you for having the nuts to brag about something so minor and easy to fix. But another part me respects you for starting to learn about computer hardware.

First trick of the day: Get an old, tired PSU. Plug it in, and unplug after a second or two. Dismantle PSU, remove PCB completely from PSU chassis. Short the pins of any of the big capacitors with a metal screwdrivers - enjoy the spark. This is safe if done properly, and you don't touch the metal part of the screwdriver while shorting the cap. :D

Second trick of the day: Again, dismantle PSU, remove PCB completely from the metal PSU chassis. Get a large piece of tin foil, and put the PCB solder side down on the tin foil - but don't touch the tin foil while the PCB is on the foil. Plug PSU in, and turn on at the switch. Enjoy as the sparks fly, and the trip switch/fuse in your fusebox trips. Again, this is safe if done properly - and even safer if you do it outside, to avoid fire hazards. :D
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lol...shall i turn off the fire alarm????

as long as people are laughing dude....thats the point.
 
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