I need anger management classes!

thegoonden said:
BTW.......
Did you warn the machine?

As in....."turn your screen blue ONCE more, you jumped up adding machine, and I SWEAR I will gut you and give the parts to random loonies on OCUK's fora"

?
Cos if you did, under new legislation I propose, you'll be able to RMA the lot and have free brand new kit.

Seriously if you give fair notice, and it still acts the amstrad, you should have a legal right to reduce it to 15KG of bits only big enough for phone charms.

Vote Goonden, you know it makes sense.
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lol i've done that.

Girlfriend in the room wonders wtf is wrong with me, growling at a computer! :p
 
Fail. I'm sure it would have been more satisfying in eventually finding the cause of the BSOD and repairing rather than making yourself look like a complete tool by smashing it up.

Systematic testing would have found the route of the problem. It's not hard to narrow down a BSOD. Based on the time spent diagnosing with no results I can only presume you're a complete nooblet.

What a waste of decent hardware :(

I doubt the hardware was even the route of the problem so again Fail.
 
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all that damage for probably one bad hdd not allowing it to be used as the boot device.
i agree wate a waste of hardware.
im strugling just to find the dosh to get a new case
 
Dude I feel your pain , I understand your anger
BUT for the love of god , work out your agression in a cheaper manner

Me Myself when I feel the red mist start to cover my eyes I go out to the garage and kick the carp out of my kickbag , it feels GOOOOOD

Or Alternatively use really cheap keyboards < £5 and execute one of them when things get to you.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Fail. I'm sure it would have been more satisfying in eventually finding the cause of the BSOD and repairing rather than making yourself look like a complete tool by smashing it up.

Systematic testing would have found the route of the problem. It's not hard to narrow down a BSOD. Based on the time spent diagnosing with no results I can only presume you're a complete nooblet.

What a waste of decent hardware :(

I doubt the hardware was even the route of the problem so again Fail.
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It would have indeed been satisfying finding the root cause of the problem.
Output voltages from the PSU were stable
Stress testing memory for 24hrs > not one error (overclocked, underclocked and at "auto" settings.)
Error checking both HDD's individually and in RAID format showed nothing
Stress testing HDD's over night both in RAID and indivdually showed nothing.
Stress testing the CPU overnight showed nothing (clocked or not)
Temps of everything were normal
Basically if it did fall over I couldn't identify one component at fault, even after putting various bits of it in another machine.

Having it crash on trying a repair OS install was the first WTF
All that had originally happened is that an audio driver disappeared.
Then I did have problems getting it to see the HDD's as a boot device mentioned above, sorted that fine afer sticking the HDD's in another machine and usuing WD diag tune.
Then when in widows update after getting the OS back online it decided it didn't want to download any updates (failed because of a problem on your computer) < Really helpful error message lol
Another from scratch reinstall then, that saw the one of the processors now working at 50% yet the pc was at idle (no AV or spyware) this was literally an install straight from the OS cd, none of my own software on there..
Deleted everything I could from the task manager, still there.
Ok sod it, I'll do another install from scratch (not like I was losing anything)
Installed fine, Loaded on the windows updates and kept an eye on what it was downloading.
This time i noticed when I selected the update for the monitor (dell 2407) this made the updates fail from that moment on and also the Processor was back at 50%.
- FORMAT again and another install and this time I was going to stay away from those drivers (there was nothing to remove previously as the driver failed to install)
Everything was going smoothly during the automated from O/S XP disc windows install when it blue screened and I red screened!
No biggy to be honest, the Case was tired anyway, the front's been broken for a while and the buttons had fallen out a while ago anyway. Having to take off the front cover to start the thing was getting tedious anyway.
Could have down without wrecking the 1950's but meh.
 
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The amount of times I've wanted to do that, but at the last second common sense prevails. That looks like major fun.. until the aftermath when you obviously realise you've just trashed a lot of kit >.<

Kudos. :)
 
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haha nice
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Could be as it's fairly old, but has been kept in a dark drawer in it's proper case.
Suppose the dye could have degraded.

Vista next anyway :D
 
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