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DOH!: I FRIED my poweredge 400sc (p4 2.8 ) today!!

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I had the box open because i was switching drives around so i can boot gentoo as a master. Anyway I decided to rest my feet on top of the box. I didnt realize that the snow on my shoes was melting and DRIPPING inside of the case. Once the screen went white/green with crazy patterns and when the machine locked up i went to investigate:

There was a puddle of water sitting on the videocard PCB and watter was dripping from the PS cables. After hard reset (pull the batter cable), the machine wouldnt boot up anymore. I removed all pci cards/ memory/ CMOS batt and let it dry for an hour. I tried again the machine would only beep after i plugged the powercable in (it didnt care about the powerbuttons🙂 ).


But yeah dell is overnighting me new mobo/cpu/ram. I just hope that the videocard is ok (fx5600)...
 
I never put my feet on my case with shoes!
You win the "Dumbest Idiot" of the day award.\\\

😀

and wtf do you have the 🙂 symbol in post this is a sad event.🙁
 
Originally posted by: Twista
I never put my feet on my case with shoes!
You win the "Dumbest Idiot" of the day award.\\\

😀

and wtf do you have the 🙂 symbol in post this is a sad event.🙁
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haha i think its pretty hilarious that the poweredge went that way.... O well i should have it back up running in no time. The geforce better be working thought, i really like the accelerated nvidia x11 drivers...
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
What is the story you fed dell?
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This is what I want to know too. But dell is rather generous. My company had a laptop which had a Hard Drive password on it, so nothing could open it. They just sent us a new drive, even though it's our fault. And I even told them the whole story.
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
What is the story you fed dell?
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reminds me of the time one of my users dropped his laptop and cracked the screen. the warrenty excludes cracked screens.

but i called anyway and said i had a video problem 😛

they sent a tech the next day and since he was there already with the part, and it was easy to swap out the lcd screen, he did it. i said thanks and gave him a beer. 🙂
 
wooo the videocard works! yay

there was about 1 in diameter puddle of watter sitting on it... i jsut tested it in another machine and it works!!!

and i told dell that it stopped working... which it did🙂
 
wooo,
i got it working!!!
it turns out i only fried one of the memory banks. Once i moved the ram over, it worked fine. YAY
 
Originally posted by: Twista
I never put my feet on my case with shoes!
You win the "Dumbest Idiot" of the day award.\\\

😀

and wtf do you have the 🙂 symbol in post this is a sad event.🙁
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Actually, I think we need a "dumbass" icon ........ :beer: 😀
 
Originally posted by: TheToOTaLL
Originally posted by: Twista
I never put my feet on my case with shoes!
You win the "Dumbest Idiot" of the day award.\\\

😀

and wtf do you have the 🙂 symbol in post this is a sad event.🙁
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Actually, I think we need a "dumbass" icon ........ :beer: 😀
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I can only picture that..

Bill
 
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
WTF? You put your wet shoes on top of your open case?

Give me your computer.
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they werent wet.... apparently there was snow/ice stuck in the thread ( i guess you call it thread) that slowly melted down....
Its been around 10def F around here so it not something that youd notice as being wet
 
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