feinicks
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sadly... no more pc for sometime.
well long story short, my heat sink was not working for some time now. that was rectified by getting a new heatsink. But even after that, my PC kept freezing and overheating and what not. eventually, 2 days ago, my PC decided to give up on me. My AMD X2 5600+ 64bit processor died leaving the entire setup without a working brain.
Now I have filed an RMA with AMD (or at least am going to now) to have it replaced. Luckily I have internet on my phone, but it can't edit word documents. So i have come to a netcafe... an experience I had long forgotten... (which is, I dunno, a good thing or bad... you see, a real hot girl just walked in!!)..
anyhoo, so the entire pickup and replace process is gonna take more than 15 days. So my machine is a dead machine for that time. I no longer have my sister's Aspire One or any laptop @ home...
so the bottomline is, for those who care, that I won't be online as much. I could still access internet from my workplace (like always lol) but apparently wee are getting a new sys admin who I've been told, is gonna screw peoples donkey regarding net connectivity. Luckily I am in that department that needs full internet access, so I don't think I'll have any tabs or bars on which sites I visit.
One good thing taht can happen from this episode is that now I can prioritize getting a laptop. I have been puttong tht of for quite some time now. oh well...
well, anyways.. the point is that I ,ay not be on as much... so it be awesome if someone will fill up on wats been on later!
well... later. be good
(This post was last modified: 12/10/2008 06:57 AM by feinicks.)
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12/10/2008 06:53 AM |
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Vegetano1
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RE: sadly... more pc for sometime.
:( ,.. broken cpu, hot girl, RMA, useless admin, new laptop! << be back soon!!
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12/10/2008 07:00 AM |
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Method
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RE: sadly... no more pc for sometime.
Oh man!! Another one bites the dust :/
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12/10/2008 07:10 AM |
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RE: sadly... no more pc for sometime.
Well migh be back which is good, hopefully everything works out for you. :\
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12/10/2008 07:17 AM |
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RE: sadly... no more pc for sometime.
damn sucks about the overheating...what caused it....just not noticing the heatsink was dead quick enough?
Cya soon, and get a lappy!!!! Doooooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeett
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12/10/2008 07:35 AM |
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RE: sadly... no more pc for sometime.
spoon man. balls about that cpu. if i were in your situation i wouldn't be able to live without a working pc at home. i'd go down to the local pc store and buy the cheapest CPU i could that would fit.
at home i have a total of 6 (mine, brothers, dads, ghetto computer (remember that? still going strong!), and my parents' work laptops) usable computers so if ever mine breaks i always have another i can use. this is annoying for the rest of my family as my computer seems to break on a daily basis. usually because i changed some setting i wasn't meant to.
so far though i haven't had a single hardware failure except a fan that seized. luckily speedfan noticed something was wrong and alerted me before anything went bang.
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12/10/2008 07:57 AM |
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feinicks
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RE: sadly... no more pc for sometime.
Balls to mobile internet. Its so slow n expensive over here.
Thanks all! It turns out tht i kno the admin frm my MCSE days. He stuck to that. So...
I don't think I'll invest in another cpu.
How the cpu fried, is beyond me. It just started overheating only a week back or so. I can only attribute it to overclocking.
I'd love to get a laptop but lets c!!!
Hope to be back properly soon...
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12/10/2008 10:17 AM |
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RE: sadly... no more pc for sometime.
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12/10/2008 10:44 AM |
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RE: sadly... no more pc for sometime.
Hmm, my AthlonX2 4200+ gets hot in use, but I don't overclock (see little use in it).
Thought the newer X2 series were meant to be more efficient... AM2 CPUs are pretty cheap - I could pick up a Sempron for AU$40 (probably cheaper over where you are), but then, it's kinda a waste if it's only going to be used for 15 days.
Best of luck!
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