Computer exploded :(
Friday night my computer exploded. Thankfully it wasn't my music computer, it was my other computer that was mainly used for games. In anycase It's done. Twiin and I spend the better part of Saturday working on it and this is what we've come up with.
PSU - dead, and was the casue of all the other issues somehow
Motherboard - Dead, BIOS randomly resets its self, but only clearing some settings, and they are different almost every time. Also randomly won't boot and shutdown.
RAM - came up with errors, but further scans come up with nothing.... might be good
HDDs - BAD, one tested ok, the other failed a test. When writing zeros to them, they crashed out, so assuming they are done aswell.
VIDEO card 1 - so far so good. Just a PCI card, testing in a media center PC streaming videos to the TV.
Sound Card - So far so good - also in the media ceneter PC, again testing now.
Vidoe card 2 - getting it tested in a AGP slot this week.
Burner - will test later, but since they are onyl 65 for a DL 16x DVDRW, I'm not really worried.
I've priced out some new gear upgrading to the new standards, and it looks like it'll be something close to 1300. I have no idea when this will happen, so until then, I'll be online mainly at work and here and there at home. I do have a K62 350 overclocked to a 400 at home ready for a windows install, which I'll probably setup tonight after work and just use it for e-mail, chat and forums. I'd rather not use the music computer more then I have to.
Hope to be back online one way or another soon.
Hope to have a new computer soon aswell, but probably will take a month or 2.
PSU - dead, and was the casue of all the other issues somehow
Motherboard - Dead, BIOS randomly resets its self, but only clearing some settings, and they are different almost every time. Also randomly won't boot and shutdown.
RAM - came up with errors, but further scans come up with nothing.... might be good
HDDs - BAD, one tested ok, the other failed a test. When writing zeros to them, they crashed out, so assuming they are done aswell.
VIDEO card 1 - so far so good. Just a PCI card, testing in a media center PC streaming videos to the TV.
Sound Card - So far so good - also in the media ceneter PC, again testing now.
Vidoe card 2 - getting it tested in a AGP slot this week.
Burner - will test later, but since they are onyl 65 for a DL 16x DVDRW, I'm not really worried.
I've priced out some new gear upgrading to the new standards, and it looks like it'll be something close to 1300. I have no idea when this will happen, so until then, I'll be online mainly at work and here and there at home. I do have a K62 350 overclocked to a 400 at home ready for a windows install, which I'll probably setup tonight after work and just use it for e-mail, chat and forums. I'd rather not use the music computer more then I have to.
Hope to be back online one way or another soon.
Hope to have a new computer soon aswell, but probably will take a month or 2.