Bean

Honestly, besides one stick of SD ram a while back, I can't recall one piece of hardware I've ever owned that crapped out permanently. I've had some hard drive crashes, but the drive was always salvageable, but never anything that permanently wounded my system.

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--James T. Kirk

Cymro

Not that bad really. The two hard drives, which apparently some other people have had identical issues with are both covered for 5 years (which means they're pretty confident about it), so I think that was just lightning striking twice.

The Graphics Card was just my fault, because I was backing up data onto some older drives and I had to unplug the graphics card's power cable to get to the IDE connector. Basically, I switched the power onto the system after swapping drives, but forgot to plug the graphics card in, so I did it while the power supply was live, and I heard a zap, when I turned it back on the graphics were all corrupted and shit, tested the nVidia card I got for free and that worked fine.

But yeah, I sent it back to the supplier and ommited the "my fault" part, the model's now been discontinued, so I get credit equal to the price I paid for it in December, which is now the price of a card with ATI's latest chip.

So by breaking my 3850 HD 256MB card, I have earned myself a 4850 512MB card.

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"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Brikar

Awesometacular.

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Cymro

Hehehe, notice how it says "Windows is Activated" on the bottom left, I feel so legit.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Brikar

very nice

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"A million monkeys typing until the end of time will produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. Ten thousand monkeys typing for ten thousand years will write a Hemingway. Ten monkeys typing over Columbus Day weekend will give you a Dan Brown."

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http://benforrealz.blogspot.com

Bean

Activated? Legit?

You fuckin sold out to da man!

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Sam Cogley

Got my machine back together with it's new bits last week. Big improvement over the decade-old P4 and Win 2k.

Cymro

Heh, not quite.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."