Jay Kae Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 PMPL.... I just fried my Alienware to kingdom come, that is what you get when you forget that you have disabled the temperature alerts due to a test that got rudely interrupted by a phonecall Time for a new computer me thinks, now to bring the news to the little lady... I just bought this one at the end of last year and only got it delivered beginning of this year I am not having much luck off late, first my yoke and now this one..... I will have to cough up blood for this one whahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmrich28 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 ouch.. hopefully things don't go in 3's for ya, because I'd hate to see the sacrifice you make for that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heiko Glatthorn Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I'll fry mine soon too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Shows how good their Thermal shutdown doesn't work in the event of a fan failure It should have shut down irrespective of anf alert being on of off I'd have thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Holy crap! Nothing salvageable from the wreck Jay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butch Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Ouch! I feel for you... but then again its a great excuse to get a new one! Hope your luck changes soon, might be an idea to start buying lotto tickets because when it turns it may REALLY turn. Butch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Kae Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Not sure yet, the liquid cooling burst as well so I am gonna have to check every component seperately on performance and whether or not it is still working, chip and mobo are gone though and there is a wonderful smell in my office... we'll see... will get back and let ya guys know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 MAYOR OOPS ! Sorry to hear that Jay, hope you can salvage some bits and tits from it, to safe some hard cash for the new one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stian Rolandsen Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Sorry to hear that Jay. Ahhh I remember the day when I could afford to just "fry" my system to be allowed to buy a new one. I'm planning a system upgrade in silent...if she knew...oh dear!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Kae Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 All I needed was a new mobo and CPU so it wasn't too bad :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 I'm planning a system upgrade in silent... LOL! That is too funny - the secret upgrades we keep from our partners eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffman Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Yeah know what you mean Stian and John, as far as my wife knows I'm still running a pentium II! (Well probably not quite that bad....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Webb Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 I'm not too far away from a capital expediture request where I live - of course, they always get approved. Sorry to hear about your troubles Jay. Glad it wasn't "too" serious.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 All I needed was a new mobo and CPU so it wasn't too bad :) So to what did you treat yourself ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Good Lord Jay im certain you only just bought that system thats crazy badness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Kae Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 I got a QX9770 (3.2GHz) and as a motherboard the Intel DX5400XS @nick, yes I did, beginning of this year mate lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZ255 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 What was your old CPU? Any FPS changes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreddyG Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 Now that is one to remember. Next time I want a new computer I tell my darling wife that I blew it up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Walker Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 PMPL.... I just fried my Alienware to kingdom come, that is what you get when you forget that you have disabled the temperature alerts due to a test that got rudely interrupted by a phonecall Time for a new computer me thinks, now to bring the news to the little lady... I just bought this one at the end of last year and only got it delivered beginning of this year I am not having much luck off late, first my yoke and now this one..... I will have to cough up blood for this one whahahaha Better garage the Merc for a while Jay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzy_06 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 Hey...same thing happened to me last week only it seemed to happen overnight. Went to startup up the PC for work and .....no pwer. Zip. Took the box into a shop to put in another PSU and.....blows another PSU (3 times!!). As I have a lot of work commitments I couldn't waste any time trying to fix the problem - motherboard probably, ANOTHER powersupply, fault/fried chip So I quickly got online and came up with a Q9550 on a Gigabyte EP35-DS3P MOBO. Finally I'm up and running and itching to get all the FSX goodies installed. The strange thing is - a few days before this happened I decided to shell out on a WD USB 350GB drive and do a major backup ....Lesson learnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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