My computer toasted itself this morning!!!!!

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Damn it, there's another project that I have to do when I get home. This morning I wake up and it's frozen, I go to reboot it and it won't find it's hard drive. It sucked. I hope that it was just a heat problem... either way, it's time to format the drive....


DAMN IT.
 

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luckily I have a second computer to keep up with my posts, but until I get the other one fixed... no WC3 for me.
 

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my comp is messed up because it was a 95 and i needed acsess codes so i tried to install 98 and now it is a melon:(
 

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I wanted a new cpu so I F***** up my last one and I got a new one for Christmas Ü
 

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I think there is like this Internet Plague going around, cuz lately my CPU has been screwing up and alot of my friends who have Internet access are having problems too! Even my schools CPU's are screwing up and getting hacked to hell! This morning I did a scan on my home CPU and it found 517 infected files and 36 different types of viruses and my CPU was turned off over the night soon as I sent all the infected files to the virus vault I was forced to reformat. Windows 98 installed perfectly, but after about 30 minutes running my CPU crashed and it hasn't successfully rebooted yet! My friends have had the same problem, but in different forms. I have to do all my posting while I'm at my aunts house now and hopefully her CPU won't start messing up...
 

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Well I can certainly tell that you are all PC users with support Windows. So I just want to laugh at you for your misfortunes and say that even though you are using the most popularly used OS in the U.S., do you think that makes it the best. You would obviously see it is not if you used other OS's like Linux, Unix, Lindows, and Mac OS X. I would run these for reliability any day of the week. Personally I use Mac OS X version 10.2.2 and I LOOOOVE it. And you may say it doesn't have as many apps for it. I say to you, it has everything I need and more. I have Microsoft Office X so I can read Office documents from my professors. The most important thing is that Blizzard makes its games for Mac and so I'm good-to-go as far as most games go. Sorry about your computer though, that has to suck, I do know what it is like to have a non-working PC because the stupid computers in high school crashed and burned all the time. Very frustrating for all of us, especially when I had to go to all the computers and repair the hard drives after a virus infected them. But I still use Windows and I still think people should use whatever makes them fee comfortable. So I guess if that is what makes you happy then power to you. Plus most people are afraid to try something new, I have kept an open mind and unlike many Windows users I know, at least I know how to use more than one OS.
 

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Yeah, I know exactly what you mean BAALsminion. It's a force of habit and people cling to what they know and they mostly stay away from unfamiliar things. This is relatively speaking of course. I am probably the same way with Macs because I grew up with them and I never had a serious issue with them so I have kept with them all these years. And I really don't mean to offend anyone by what I say about Windows, I have had some bad experiences and have heard of bad experiences, and I don't feel it is worth my time to own and use Windows on my personal machine. But I'll use whatever my job requires, I'm not going to pass up a good job just because of the computer. I don't think anyone is like that. If they are, they are insane or maybe they just think they are hardcore.
 

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I remember at my school I was at fault for a computer catching fire and it being destroyed. I tried overclocking a 500Mhz to a 700Mhz. It worked for about 10 minutes and then the screen started to fade. Then there was a funky smell in the room and the next thing I knew I was cussing like crazy. Unfortunatly the room had a fire extuingisher in it. If it didn't all of the crappy computers would've been lost :-D. No one ever found out what happened because the Hard Drive disks melted and nothing was traced to overclocking.

Moral of the story: Don't ever try overclocking a 500Mhz to 700Mhz. It's a disaster.
 

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You know if you want to overclock like that you can do it. All you need to do is buy stuff to cool down the processor. Buy fans, heat syncs, and you can even cool it with water or even better, liquid nitrogen :). I don't know all the exact things you can do but you might try going to the TechTV website.
 

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WOOO! I'm currently using my "Toasted" PC, it should be fixed completely to my WC3 playing standards with tweaking here and there.... ah hahahahaha!!!!!
 

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i didn't grow up with windows, either......well, i didn't start with windows. i started with some crappy comp that ran dos. and only dos.
 

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i watched a cool tech show, and the hosts on the show invented thier own sort of cooling system where they took 4 metres of rubber tubbing, and spread it all through out the computers inside. they they took a small tub filled with ice cold water and placed it about 2 metres away from the computer, and connected one end of the tubing to a small, and held pump use for filling basket/foot balls with air, and the other end of the tube open in the water. to the hosts surprise, his experiment worked and it even worked 4 times better then with a fan.
 

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I didn't grow up with Windows either my first computer words were "C:\" DOS man.... DOS was the way to go... in fact, I can't play WC2 anymore because it's DOS Based and it's too friggin' simple for XP to understand.
 

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