Heat, Dust, Water and FIRE!

[congo]

It's been so hot here.  A drought was declared.

I always keep the case open so the system doesn't overheat.

It's easy to keep the dust under control, a long soft brush cleans off the insides easily.

Went out of town and took the unit with me to show a friend, that's when it started to rain........

A week later I drove home in my leaky Ford, still raining.

Left the computer in the car all night cause I didn't want to unpack in the rain. Got it out in the morning, the car was all steamy from the morning sun.

Put it all together, plugged it in and K A B O O M !!!

Very pretty flames and a neat little puff of smoke........

Power supply Fried very nicely, and OH! LOOK! My pretty new motherboard is fried also, Oh Dear!

Seems I should have dusted the inside of the power supply as well. But I didn't want to void the warranty by opening it. Yes, it was full of dust. Moist dust.

I like a good warranty.......... but I missed out on a month of simming........  

Good to be back    8)

[asnamara]

cool  :D that's sweet (not funny though )

good to have you back.

[Iroquois]

Don't worry Congo, your not alone. This actually happend in to somebody else. I read in the local paper that some guy's house burnt down when his computer caught fire.  :o Probably overloaded the power pack.

My own computer's mother board just went on my last week for no apparent reason. While playing Jedi Knight 2, the game froze when I paused it and then when I reset the computer, the bios would not boot.  :'( Now I'm down $290 but on the plus side I added more Ram, 512 MB SDRAM 133 in total from my old 320. DDR is still too expensive for me.

[congo]

Orenda,

Have you got DDR slots in your MOBO? My last board had both, it was an Elite K7S5A.

$290 sounds expensive, was that just for the MOBO?

That would buy the lastest top of the range Gigabyte board here in OZ with change left over from Aussie dollars!

Also RAM here is down to $90 for 256mb sticks of PC2700 which runs at 333mhz or $250 for 512mb of PC3200 @ 400mhz with lifetime warranty. Aussie Peso is up to $0.60 U.S. now  ;D

[Iroquois]

That's $290 Canadian and $74 of that was for a new 256MB ram chip. I do have the dual DDR slots and the SD slots I use SD.  

[congo]

Hmmmmm, maybe we should import hardware to Canada,  ;D  It sounds lucrative!