... mine seems to be having a bad day put my cdrom back in my case today (dont ask) and went to turn the PC back on, pushed the power button, and all that happened was a horrid squealing noise came from the speakers, fans powered from the PSU started, but the mobo refused to turn on, or boot, or something. power switch wouldnt respond to being pushed again to turn off, so i dived for the wall plug and ripped it out. tried turning it on again and same thing happened. by this time my mind is racing (damn my CPU is f00ked, mobo b0rked etc etc etc........) turned it off at the wall again. took the CD ROM out, out it back in again turned it on, worked fine?!?!?! then, about 5 mins ago I dived in my case again to plug a fan in (im using one of those Y splitters) and its a bit temperamental and sometimes needs to be pushed back into the molex thing to make it make contact, and i knocked another PSU cable and it booted my machine let it get back to windows, went to dial-up, and the modem isnt responding. rebooted and all fine WHAT EVER NEXT
Oh yes.... Show me an overclocked PC that doesn't have the occasional bad day...In fact, most non-oc machines have bad days too (unless I set them up, in which case they're solid as a rock...). Last time mine had a bad day (in fact it had about 5 in a row) I reformatted the hard disk. Basically, most forms of windows need reinstalling periodically, because they become unstable. My recorded/recommended schedules: Win95a: Don't do it to start with Win95 OSR 2.1-2.5: 6 months Win98: 4 months or less....95 OSR 2.5 or 98SE much preferred Win98SE: 6 months + WinME: Don't do it to start with WinNT4: not needed, lasts 2 years+ easily Win2k: SHOULDN'T need it, but I found it packed up every 3 months regular on my machine. WinXP: Due to activation, bl**dy well better not need it, too early to say. As for hardware, if one thing gets unhappy, you can be sure that will cause another to. Moose- you've got it wrong. Some people give their machines TLC, and let the machine get away with murder. Keep that machine in line, and make sure it knows who is boss. Remember, you have control of the power switch!
At which point, with comic timing (although right now, I'm failing to see the funny side), my winXP box decides to go down, so rather than the tasty machine you see in the signature, I have to write this from my PII 266 linux box. Today would appear to be a bad day for my main box...
The forward right channel on my Cambridge Soundworks speakers has borked up, i know the sattelite works fine i tested it, and the sound just sounds crap , any ideas what to do??
mine does that! check all the 3.5mm jack connections! i have to fiddle with the jack at the sound card to make my left speaker work prolly dust or something
tweaked the connections for 10mins and they work fine no probs freakin wierd i dont get computers at all
LOL! Every day was a day like that for me in Win98, I'd do something to make it work better, and we all know that isnt possible, and it would f00k up. Cos I know it would take sooo long to fix it I always used to format Now I dunno about my PC having a bad day, but I can have bad days with it if that means anything
U bet - every other day on my PC is a "bad" day just about. Cos i screw round with it to much probably..... but its no fun if ya just leave it Right now its pretty busted - random restarts and no games else it crashes - also random lockups. All this on windows XP Pro. Yeah it may usually be pretty stable, but not any more 4 me Restart time..................again Charlie
