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My Weekend Disaster.
« on: April 26, 2004 09:04 am CDT »
K, I live with my girlfriend at her dads house. and he WAS using an old p2 450 with 64 megs of ram on a dial up connection. Things started to go really badly for the computer as the internet temp file had 17,450 files in it and deleting it would be allmost impossible. So my girlfriends dad ask me can i fix it....I say yes..BIG MISTAKE. I open the BIOS to check the settings in there and the i go into Proformance....I see i can overclock the CPU, so i put it up about 100 mhz and restart the computer. When i turned the computer back on the moniter wouldn't display. *poops self*

To cut a long story short he realised that his computer isn't getting fixed anytime soon so he goes out and buys a brand new p4 2.6mhz with an 80 gig HD and 256 megs of DDR ram. cost well over $1200.  

Man i felt stupid.
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2004 10:36 am CDT »
Rule #1 Don't ever work on another person's computer again..

Rule #2 You could at least helped them get a newer one for much cheaper than that.
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2004 10:38 am CDT »
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Rule #1 Don't ever work on another person's computer again..

Rule #2 You could at least helped them get a newer one for much cheaper than that.


Rule #3 Know what the hell your doing before you go farting around where you dont belong, LOL!!!!!
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2004 10:53 am CDT »
I just bought an Abit nf7-s motherboard, 512 RAM, an AMD 3000/400 Athalon xp processor,  an AMD BH-625 RT 1 CPU Fan, and a Power powmax  400w powersupply for about $370.  Why would you ever spend 1200 on a pre built computer when you can build a damn near top of the line computer for less than 800.


go newegg.com ;)
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2004 11:26 am CDT »
1. i was trying to help.
2. i didn't know he was going to blow his money on a stupid 2.6 CELERON!!! I just law down on the couch watching TV next thing he came into the house with a big box..im like WTF is that......*knowing what it was* And he said "Its something your not going to f**k with" I would have made him a computer for half that price but i guess he didn't want the hassle. Anyway he's happy with it.

LMAO i just Noticed a button on the keyboard called "Turbo" it's beside the left shift key....
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2004 01:36 pm CDT »
Yeah my computer has a key like that on the keyboard.. I remember once when I had some friends over for a lan and my computer was running like malarkey and one of them jokingly said "Why don't you hit the turbo key" and then everyone started laughing. lol  :)
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2004 05:11 pm CDT »
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1. i was trying to help.
2. i didn't know he was going to blow his money on a stupid 2.6 CELERON!!! I just law down on the couch watching TV next thing he came into the house with a big box..im like WTF is that......*knowing what it was* And he said "Its something your not going to f**k with" I would have made him a computer for half that price but i guess he didn't want the hassle. Anyway he's happy with it.

LMAO i just Noticed a button on the keyboard called "Turbo" it's beside the left shift key....



Above you said a P4...  :wink:
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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2004 05:53 pm CDT »
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2. i didn't know he was going to blow his money on a stupid 2.6 CELERON!!! I just law down on the couch watching TV next thing he came into the house with a big box..im like WTF is that......*knowing what it was* And he said "Its something your not going to f**k with" I would have made him a computer for half that price but i guess he didn't want the hassle. Anyway he's happy with it.

You destroyed his original computer and still can't figure out why he didn't go to you for help in buying a new one?
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« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2004 10:18 pm CDT »
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2. i didn't know he was going to blow his money on a stupid 2.6 CELERON!!! I just law down on the couch watching TV next thing he came into the house with a big box..im like WTF is that......*knowing what it was* And he said "Its something your not going to f**k with" I would have made him a computer for half that price but i guess he didn't want the hassle. Anyway he's happy with it.
You destroyed his original computer and still can't figure out why he didn't go to you for help in buying a new one?


rofl... pwned

WolfTones, you didn't need to play with the damn BIOS in order to clear the internet cache. You should have deleted the files. It may have taken a day to do so at that clock freq, but it's genius compared to the idiocy in which you approached the problem. I'd NEVER increase my processor speed without doing some research.
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« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2004 11:31 pm CDT »
Hey man you should have just pulled the cmos battery out and popped it back in.  That restarts all the bios settings.  Its worth a shot as I see it just as long as you didnt damage it too bad.
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« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2004 12:55 pm CDT »
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Hey man you should have just pulled the cmos battery out and popped it back in.  That restarts all the bios settings.  Its worth a shot as I see it just as long as you didnt damage it too bad.


HELL, I say get the jumper cables out and bring the car around front!  :lol:
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« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2004 03:38 pm CDT »
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Hey man you should have just pulled the cmos battery out and popped it back in.  That restarts all the bios settings.  Its worth a shot as I see it just as long as you didnt damage it too bad.


Yes i know this, and don't think i didn't try it. But i tryed everything. I took the battery out, i took the MB jumpers out, i tryed EVERYTHING to get this thing working again. THEN i took the ram out and started it up, No warning sound. This means the board is as good as dead. The only thing i didn't try was a POST card cause I didn't take mine with me when i moved to this country.
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