The last 48 hours drove me crazy!
Friday, July 25, 2003 by kona0197 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Well it is good to be back I guess. Let me tell everyone what happened. 
Thursday morning was no different than any other, I woke up late (3 days off, this was my second) and botted up the old emachines. I got up after checking my email and the message board. Then it happened!
My power supply finally hit the dust!
So after trying to get the power supply to come back to life for hours, and after calling every computer shop in town (and some out of town) I finally got ahold of our neighbors downstairs and he let me borrow one of his power supplies. I booted the machine and everything seemed OK. XP said it just recovered from a crash or something like that. No sooner did I check my email when something else happened!
My hard drive bit the dust! >
It had been making weird noises for the last month and apparently when the power supply went it took the HD with it cause I could not get XP running again. Machine keep booting over and over. XP said it could not write to disk. So Friday I bought a new 2 gig drive hoping that would get me by.
NOT! My Mobo decided to through a fit and die to. By 5:00 pm today I was pissed. So I turned on my playstation to get some relief, bit my lip cause I missed WC, and played Final Fantasy 7.
I only got 5 hours into it before the game hung up on me! dame murphy law... Anything that can go wrong will.
Luckily UPS dropped off my new Dell laptop that I have been waiting for forever today so until next week I am stuck on my laptop.
I am glad to see everyone!
Thursday morning was no different than any other, I woke up late (3 days off, this was my second) and botted up the old emachines. I got up after checking my email and the message board. Then it happened!
My power supply finally hit the dust!
So after trying to get the power supply to come back to life for hours, and after calling every computer shop in town (and some out of town) I finally got ahold of our neighbors downstairs and he let me borrow one of his power supplies. I booted the machine and everything seemed OK. XP said it just recovered from a crash or something like that. No sooner did I check my email when something else happened!
My hard drive bit the dust! >
It had been making weird noises for the last month and apparently when the power supply went it took the HD with it cause I could not get XP running again. Machine keep booting over and over. XP said it could not write to disk. So Friday I bought a new 2 gig drive hoping that would get me by.
NOT! My Mobo decided to through a fit and die to. By 5:00 pm today I was pissed. So I turned on my playstation to get some relief, bit my lip cause I missed WC, and played Final Fantasy 7.
I only got 5 hours into it before the game hung up on me! dame murphy law... Anything that can go wrong will.
Luckily UPS dropped off my new Dell laptop that I have been waiting for forever today so until next week I am stuck on my laptop.
I am glad to see everyone!
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kona0197
Reply #23 Saturday, July 26, 2003 8:11 PM
Reply #23 Saturday, July 26, 2003 8:11 PM
could someone shed some light on the problem I am having? Anybody hear anything about having no fan hurts my laptop? Got me so worried...
yrag2
Reply #24 Saturday, July 26, 2003 8:18 PM
Reply #24 Saturday, July 26, 2003 8:18 PM
Some of the older CPUs did not have fans, all though you could get them as an add on. Most of the 233 OEM (which never come with fans to this day) were just thrown in w/o fans and would run at about the temp (in laps) you're getting. Fans were not recommended, but it certainly didn't hurt. You have another 30 degrees to go before it fries. If it's not locking up on you due to heat, you're fine........
kona0197
Reply #25 Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:23 PM
Reply #25 Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:23 PM
Wife says it locked up once today but I blame that on windows ME....
Strange.. there is a small fan on the back and a exit air port but no fan on...
and I found out that my cpu temp is lower than sisandra reported. Sisandra says it is overcompenstating the temp becuse this is a notebook.
Strange.. there is a small fan on the back and a exit air port but no fan on...
and I found out that my cpu temp is lower than sisandra reported. Sisandra says it is overcompenstating the temp becuse this is a notebook.
XX
Reply #26 Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:24 PM
Reply #26 Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:24 PM
its not really possible to add fans to laptop unless theres suffecent room. but from what i read here it shouldn't be a problem at all.
kona0197
Reply #27 Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:26 PM
Reply #27 Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:26 PM
it has a fan... little one abiut half a inch squared. damn thing just is not working.
XX
Reply #28 Saturday, July 26, 2003 10:43 PM
Reply #28 Saturday, July 26, 2003 10:43 PM
ahh you could probably replace it if you can find the same type fan.
Jafo
Reply #30 Saturday, July 26, 2003 10:57 PM
Reply #30 Saturday, July 26, 2003 10:57 PM
XX...no overclocking.....just a bog-standard Pentium100....'perhaps' it's an Aussie thing.....ambient air temperature....the only comps I've seen without fans have been 486's and older....
kona0197
Reply #31 Saturday, July 26, 2003 10:58 PM
Reply #31 Saturday, July 26, 2003 10:58 PM
Jafo I have seen 133 and 166 and 200 with nothing more than a gigantic heatsink... mostly from the old compaqs!
Jafo
Reply #32 Sunday, July 27, 2003 12:52 AM
Reply #32 Sunday, July 27, 2003 12:52 AM
Kona...yes it's gotta be a climate thing....average temps being different...
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Reply #21 Saturday, July 26, 2003 8:03 PM