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I feel like ranting [message #39561]

Fri, 01 December 2006 16:59

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

I think someone has jinxed my computer. It was working perfectly until a few days ago.

Yesterday my optical mouse stopped working -- or rather, it still works, but very inaccurately and intermittently, which is far more annoying.

The PSU fan started making whooshing noises randomly as it turned itself on and off for no apparent reason (which is very stressful, bearing in mind that if the fan stops the chances are it will overheat).

In the middle of the night a cable jumped into a fan, and I had to take the computer apart while half asleep to get it to shut up.

One of my hard disks makes loud intermittent clicks and sometimes hangs the boot-up process -- I expect it'll fail pretty soon, so I can't put anything worthwhile on it.

Today the PSU fan gave up altogether, but luckily I had a spare (albeit a cheap one) to hand.

I just broke the power connector on my firewire card while trying to insert the a 4-pin molex connector from the new PSU into the socket.

The sound card has started giving odd errors on startup, and only works 50% of the time after booting.

Windows takes about 5 minutes to shut down (though I accept that's normal for anything other than a clean installation).

There's a built-in fan on my motherboard (a chipset fan, not the CPU fan) which has given up the ghost, and it's soldered on, so I can't (easily) replace it.

One of the external hard drives makes an annoying periodic buzzing.

The CPU has jumped about 10 degrees (currently it's 58 degrees C) for some, unknown reason. Maybe the new PSU isn't as good at clearing the warm air from inside the case as the old one was.

And my nose has felt awful since I blew out the dust from inside the case and ended up breathing most of it in.

This is a computer that has been running pretty constantly for 6 years, in an assortment of environments, though with occasional components replaced from time to time.

David

[Updated on: Fri, 01 December 2006 17:13]

		I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Fri, 01 December 2006 16:59
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		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Fri, 01 December 2006 17:34
		Re: I feel like ranting By: NW on Fri, 01 December 2006 17:16
		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Fri, 01 December 2006 17:35
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		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Fri, 01 December 2006 21:20
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		Re: I feel like ranting By: Nigel on Fri, 01 December 2006 18:14
		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Fri, 01 December 2006 18:39
		Re: I feel like ranting By: jack on Fri, 01 December 2006 18:50
		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Fri, 01 December 2006 19:09
		Re: I feel like ranting By: tBP on Fri, 01 December 2006 22:55
		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Fri, 01 December 2006 23:39
		Re: I feel like ranting By: jack on Sat, 02 December 2006 11:07
		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Sat, 02 December 2006 11:32
		Re: I feel like ranting By: jack on Sat, 02 December 2006 13:27
		Re: I feel like ranting By: kupuna on Sat, 02 December 2006 17:22
		Re: I feel like ranting By: timmy on Sat, 02 December 2006 20:43
		Re: I feel like ranting By: jack on Sat, 02 December 2006 20:50
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		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Sat, 02 December 2006 21:45
		Re: I feel like ranting By: timmy on Sat, 02 December 2006 22:54
		The saga continues By: Deeej on Tue, 05 December 2006 13:44
		Re: The saga continues By: Deeej on Tue, 05 December 2006 13:49
		Re: The saga continues By: dyllbrad on Tue, 05 December 2006 21:23
		Re: The saga continues By: Deeej on Tue, 05 December 2006 22:11
		Re: The saga continues By: timmy on Tue, 05 December 2006 21:57
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		Re: The saga continues By: timmy on Tue, 05 December 2006 22:34
		Re: The saga continues By: Deeej on Tue, 05 December 2006 22:49
		Re: The saga continues By: marc on Tue, 05 December 2006 22:52
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		Re: The saga continues By: timmy on Tue, 05 December 2006 22:57
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		Re: The saga continues By: timmy on Thu, 07 December 2006 11:12
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		Re: The saga continues By: Deeej on Thu, 07 December 2006 13:02
		Re: The saga continues By: electroken on Thu, 07 December 2006 16:11
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		Re: The saga continues By: marc on Tue, 05 December 2006 23:23
		Re: The saga continues By: Deeej on Tue, 05 December 2006 23:26
		Re: The saga continues By: timmy on Tue, 05 December 2006 23:31
		Re: The saga continues By: Deeej on Wed, 06 December 2006 00:07
		Re: The saga continues By: kupuna on Wed, 06 December 2006 00:26
		Re: The saga continues By: Deeej on Wed, 06 December 2006 00:33
		Re: The saga continues By: jack on Wed, 06 December 2006 11:08
		Re: The saga continues By: kupuna on Wed, 06 December 2006 17:27
		Re: I feel like ranting By: Deeej on Wed, 14 March 2007 14:33
		Grumble, grumble, grumble By: Deeej on Wed, 14 March 2007 14:39
		Re: Grumble, grumble, grumble By: Roger on Wed, 14 March 2007 17:19
		Re: I feel like ranting By: kupuna on Wed, 14 March 2007 21:28
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