On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 19:52 +0100, Tan, Xuan wrote: > Farran: been there, done that. =) > > When I was 15 I single-handedly fried three motherboards because I > failed to notice the dark spot on the video card that had just toasted. > I swapped the video card out to test (didn't have a spare video card, > but had a few spare mobos with AGP slots in them around). (that probably > reveals how old I am now heh.) > > Be careful when diagnosing/testing! > > XuanYou Tan > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Farran Lee > Sent: 17 April 2008 17:48 > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo? > > > > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:44 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: > > Farran Lee wrote: > > lots of people have had problems with the same motherboard. > > I'd call that a fairly massive hint, and other than hard drive > failure, > I'd say we're coming to the end of the list of possibilties. > > Update the motherboard BIOS, and if it still won't play, swap it > out for > a spare motherboard and see if that fixes it. > > Of course, I'm saying this as someone aged 37 with a shed full > of > obsolete PC spares I can delve through; the only worry being > whether the > mice have eaten/pooed-on anything important (clue: never keep > chicken > food and electronics in the same shed). > > If you're 15 and have just bought your first... everything... > then > you're probably going to have to make friends with someone who > can lend > you a spare. > > By "spare" I mean "they won't mind if you break it". Do NOT > disassemble > your best mate's very expensive, and only, PC and then discover > that > your PSU subtly fries every motherboard it comes into contact > with. > > I recommend joining your local Linux User Group and finding > someone with > their own shed full of spares nearby! > > http://lug.org.uk > > -- > Andrew Oakley > > > > > > okay, will do :D > actually I don't have any friends... > > that have anywhere full of 'spare' m/bs. Weird really :/ > > I'll RMA it if they'll accept, and if that doesn't work, I'll get a new > one. got a separate /home partition, so if anything goes wrong, I can > safely (I hope) reinstall it :D > > > =================================== > Farran Lee > I'm only 15 :P >
hehe I'll watch out for that then was that a challenge? I'm sure I could beat that if I tried hard enough :P =================================== Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P
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