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AFAIK backwards timetravel is impossible, and I am still trying to get my head around forwards timetravel.

Ground is just a common point on the circuit, so as long as everything connected to ground is connected physically, it's fine.

Hunt down the person who sold it to you. :o

Mmm, yeah you should still get the PSU to turn on if you connect it to the Mobo. You can test it without connecting it at all though. Ground pin 14 (http://www.xtronics.com/reference/atx_pinout.htm) and then check that the voltages across the pins are ok.

No idea on the cause, but it might be best to put your hard drive in another computer and back up your files, then so a full format/reinstall. The time to diagnose and fix that would probably make it not worth it... I guess I'm not much help, am I?

Do you have a PC that they work on? Very odd, they work fine on my Mac.

I'm not up on my quantum physics, but bascially isn't it impossible to focus it in a direct line? That is, won't the wave propagate in every direction anyways?

If you have a voltmeter lying around, you can do it yourself without buying anything. If you can get the computer to boot ok, then turn it on, go to the BIOS, grab one of the molex connectors and check the Yellow to Black and Red to Black connections. If those are ok, you can try checking the...

Doubt it's a hardware problem. If it were all games I would guess overheating due to failed fans, but if it's only CS I would guess a software issue (recently update the game or drivers?)

I found the exact same symptoms on a computer recently. What happened is the hard drive would start up, start loading windows, then die. Sometimes, the hard drive wouldn't even get recognized. I figured it was a HDD or IDE controller problem, but ultimately I found it was because the power...

Strongly suggest checking the power supply first. Take a digtal multimeter, and check the voltage on each rail, and make sure it is within ATX tolerance. That's where I always start, and rather surprisingly, it often is the problem when it isn't immediately obviously a single component, or the...

The problem with transmitting on the electromagnetic specturm is the combination of these two things: it carries energy in the wave/photons, and waves diffract (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens-Fresnel_principle)... thus you capture a fraction of what you sent. You could have almost perfectly...

Ok, so I am a decent programmer. I can code in a variety of languages, have good understanding of general hardware and general CPU design, have good computer math and logic understanding, good datastructures and OOP understanding. Basically I can program what I need. But there is one thing...

I've eaten at Armadillo once, had no problems with it though. Nothing special either.

Is PSU faliure common? I've always used antec, and never had a problem. But i always thought Enermax were good and wouldn't fail (at least not new)...