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Sean K - Oct 13, 2005 1:21:50 pm PDT #5063 of 10003

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

DAMMIT!

My frelling disk error problems causing startup failure have FUCKING RETURNED.

I don't know if it's a problem with the main hard drive, or a problem with the motherboard, but I cannot afford EITHER.

And CHKDSK is now only getting through about 40% of the disk before telling me that the volume appears to have one or more unrecoverable problems. This just started happenening now, after I tried to install an IRC client, and the client wouldn 't launch.

evil jimi - Oct 13, 2005 3:19:57 pm PDT #5064 of 10003

Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Wow, Tivo are a bit behind the times. I heard about the discontinuation of VCRs months ago. It's why you can now pick up a decent dvd-recorder for less than $AUD300 nowadays.

sean ... the fact you are also having problems with the ps/2 ports, along side the hdd problem, strongly suggests a faulty mobo.

DCJensen - Oct 13, 2005 5:13:49 pm PDT #5065 of 10003

All is well that ends in pizza.

Sean, I dismember. Did you ever try another power supply?

Sean K - Oct 13, 2005 5:20:20 pm PDT #5066 of 10003

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

No, this one was brand new, bought because I'd previously been having power supply problems.

DCJensen - Oct 13, 2005 5:27:18 pm PDT #5067 of 10003

All is well that ends in pizza.

Ah, okay

DXMachina - Oct 13, 2005 5:52:05 pm PDT #5068 of 10003

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Speaking of power supplies, a loud cracking noise just came from my main machine, followed by the odor of electrical smoke. That can't be good.

Sean K - Oct 13, 2005 5:56:01 pm PDT #5069 of 10003

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Um... Yeah. Unless you got some new after-market tesla coil add-on.

DCJensen - Oct 13, 2005 6:44:51 pm PDT #5070 of 10003

All is well that ends in pizza.

Whoops. That's the magic smoke. Without it, your computer can't compute well.

DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 2:28:40 am PDT #5071 of 10003

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Yup. The smoke seems to have escaped completely (probably when I took the side panel off), because the machine is dead like a thing that is dead.

DCJensen - Oct 14, 2005 4:06:46 am PDT #5072 of 10003

All is well that ends in pizza.

I hate it when that happens.

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