What a stroke of luck....Not.

Went to my father's company straight after work today to transfer one program from their old, and dying a slow miserable death P166 onto their newer Athlon 1.6XP. Ripped the hard drive out of the old one, into the new one and transferred all data. Took the old drive out, replaced covers and powered on. Hard drive spins, monitor light flashes then nothing. Powered off and on. Still same.

Off with the covers. Powered on. Oh. S h i t. CPU fan not spinning. Immediate power off, try to check the cable for the fan and burned my bloody knuckle on the heatsink, it was that damn hot. Now I'm pissed 'cos I've got to get it working by close of business tomorrow for a major payroll run.

Bring it back home and whip the CPU and heatsink out. CPU fried. Big time. Smell hit me immediately and all the chips are burnt. So I've got to send that back to AMD (had the CPU/Heatsink bundle that comes with AMD's 3 year warranty fortunately).

By coincidence, I've got their 3rd machine waiting to go in (ironically a replacement for the fubar'd P166) when they were ready, so quickly ripped the CPU out of that and into the buggered machine. All OK. But now that's going to be stuck in the spare room without a CPU and the wife isn't pleased, as it was supossed to be going next week.

And my day off tomorrow is blown out because I've still got to get this payroll program working. Bloody computers, wish I'd stayed in the army.

Sorry, feel better now.

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Maybe you should use thermal compound next time.

23 days and counting.....
<font color=blue>War</font color=blue> <font color=orange>Eagle</font color=orange>

.....waiting for someone we both know to come on here and volunteer to supply you with his own version next time.....

Somewhat shocked he hasn't done so yet. He must have lost a step lately.

22 days and counting.....
<font color=blue>War</font color=blue> <font color=orange>Eagle</font color=orange>

absofuckingloutly

Death, taxs and P2P are we clear?

Easier with your Dad. He'll be thinking "My own son wouldn't con me."

Naw, I'm kidding. I built my Dad a great system for £1100, and all his pals are still having RMA or warranty issues with their OEM systems.

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