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Post by YodaBreaker on Aug 11, 2005 23:23:59 GMT -5
I swear, I've been having the worst luck with my computer hardware lately. Over the pastt month or so, I've had to replace:
1 motherboard
2 SATA hard drives
4 SATA cables
1 video card
1 case fan
1 512 MB DIMM
And over the last two days, the 2 NEW SATA hard drives in my software RAID array have been flaky, which necessitated reformatting the whole 200 GB array and restoring the important files from backups (getting the automated backups to happen on a different machine from my main server was also a nice 3 weeks or so of unmitigated hell). Needless to say, I've been absorbed in computer problems lately.
Anyone else been having bad luck with your electronic beastie lately?
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Post by punisherad on Aug 11, 2005 23:41:36 GMT -5
Ouch, that hurts. My video card went dead *sigh*.
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bobafett
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Post by bobafett on Aug 17, 2005 8:57:55 GMT -5
nothing on the grand scale you have but, my flat panel popped a dead pixel which is just annoying. how do you have a cable go bad unless it burnt the connectors?
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Post by YodaBreaker on Aug 17, 2005 11:28:48 GMT -5
how do you have a cable go bad unless it burnt the connectors? Lots of ways, the first of which that comes to mind would be mechanical deformation of some/all of the wires inside it (e.g., excessive bending of the cable or running something over it). We've had that happen a lot in our lab. |
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Post by webhead817 on Aug 17, 2005 13:34:52 GMT -5
I work IT, and deal with hardware/software problems daily, but I've got an older dell at home that is like the energizer bunny, it just keeps going and going...and I beat on the thing, ride it hard and put it away wet. Now, at work, if I look at a PC wrong it's bound to blow it's network card or something. Today we had a port go bad in a Cisco Switch that is only two weeks old. Bah! Saturday I'll be getting up extra early to come in and install the latest and greatest to our agency management system, I'm sure that will go off without a hitch...  |
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Post by YodaBreaker on Aug 17, 2005 13:44:29 GMT -5
I work IT, and deal with hardware/software problems daily, but I've got an older dell at home that is like the energizer bunny, it just keeps going and going...and I beat on the thing, ride it hard and put it away wet. d**n, and I thought that I treated my main Linux box badly...sounds like you and your Dell get downright kinky! Yeah, for me, it's hard drives now, but a year ago, it was video or network cards that seemed to feel my wrath. Or be the cause of it. And upgrades...I *really* feel for you there. I often prefer a full-blown wipe-and-reinstall to an upgrade, especially with Linux systems. Debian's been the only distribution I could upgrade without a hitch. But any big software upgrades (OS or major server software) like what it sounds like you've got to do...*shudder* |
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Post by Lonestar on Aug 17, 2005 14:40:49 GMT -5
and I beat on the thing, ride it hard and put it away wet. d**n, and I thought that I treated my main Linux box badly...sounds like you and your Dell get downright kinky! It's an ole Horse rider saying! Nothing Kinky.  I guess that you have to be 30 or over to have heard it. At least not in these forums I hope.  I am in IT as well and KNOW that something can and most certainly WILL go wrong on Saturday!  Good luck though! |
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Post by webhead817 on Aug 17, 2005 15:10:57 GMT -5
Yes...anyone that thinks collecting plactic men is expensive doesn't have a wife whose hobby is horseback riding. Owning a horse is arguably more expensive than raising a child.  |
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Post by YodaBreaker on Sept 17, 2005 21:42:52 GMT -5
And now, my CPU died, my case warped, and I'm out $700 for additional repairs and a new server. I may not be able to participate in Series 2, with as much money as this d**nable hard drive power surge seems to have cost me. My wife says we'll be fine, but I hate having to spend this much money on it, and I don't think I can justify spending money on toys when I have no kids with whom to play with them.
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Post by Phoenix on Sept 19, 2005 16:36:49 GMT -5
And now, my CPU died, my case warped, and I'm out $700 for additional repairs and a new server. I may not be able to participate in Series 2, with as much money as this d**nable hard drive power surge seems to have cost me. My wife says we'll be fine, but I hate having to spend this much money on it, and I don't think I can justify spending money on toys when I have no kids with whom to play with them. This is so sad YB. I hope this doesn't mean you leave the board! It's understandable though you dont want to invest into something you can't play with anyone though. But you're such a killer! You know you wont be able to resist Series 2 when they come out..... |
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I guess that you have to be 30 or over to have heard it. 
Good luck though! 
