Fscking computers!

[EyeMWing]

Every December, my computers give me the hardest damn time. This also happens to be upgrade time. Anyway, last night, my nForce 415 machine stopped POSTing. This is the sixth board that this machine has had die (Last year, I had 5 DOA mobos in a row for it)

This frustrates me in every way possible because I had originally intended to replace that board with an NF7-S, but decided to save a few bucks since it still worked. Now I have a bunch of upgrades for this machine arriving in a day or two and no functional motherboard for it.

It's a similar story EVERY December, with at least one critical malfunction (Back in the day, the Performa 630 would need to be reformatted. Then the two commercial prefab PCs blew PSUs. Then my custom machine had overheating problems. Since then it's been fried mobos.

 

[dmcowen674]

One word: ASUS

Never have problems like that.

 

[Ogg]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Every December, my computers give me the hardest damn time. This also happens to be upgrade time. Anyway, last night, my nForce 415 machine stopped POSTing. This is the sixth board that this machine has had die (Last year, I had 5 DOA mobos in a row for it)

This frustrates me in every way possible because I had originally intended to replace that board with an NF7-S, but decided to save a few bucks since it still worked. Now I have a bunch of upgrades for this machine arriving in a day or two and no functional motherboard for it.

It's a similar story EVERY December, with at least one critical malfunction (Back in the day, the Performa 630 would need to be reformatted. Then the two commercial prefab PCs blew PSUs. Then my custom machine had overheating problems. Since then it's been fried mobos.

Aaaaaaaaahhhh to be young and carefree again......

enjoy it while you can:beer:

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
One word: ASUS

Never have problems like that.

It IS an Asus.


PWNED.

 

[TuxDave]

Every Decemeber? There has to be a reason for that. Power in your house unstable in winter? Getting one too many static shocks to the computer? *shrug*

 

[BCYL]

If you have so many dead mobos, maybe it's your case or the location of your computer....

hard to believe 6 dead mobos in a roll are all cause by defective products...

 

[Hammer]

Originally posted by: BCYL
If you have so many dead mobos, maybe it's your case or the location of your computer....

hard to believe 6 dead mobos in a roll are all cause by defective products...

its possible. the defective product is sitting in front of the keyboard.

 

[Vic]

You wouldn't happen to have a cheaper power supply would you? That high of a failure rate seems to me to be a sign of a larger problem.

Don't feel too bad about it though, I just bought a DOA mobo this last weekend (Antec power supply though). I fscking hate it when you go through all the hassle of the install, double- and triple-check everything, then hit the power switch and it doesn't POST... then you spend hours troubleshooting, only to come to the final conclusion that you got a lemon and have to take it back and exchange. Big waste of time.

edit: oh yeah, and I had a hard drive failure this morning. Thankfully it was an old (5 years old) 8.4GB drive that I only use for temporary backups/scratch (when in itself is backed up every other week, so total data loss was minimal). The data corrupted and an NTFS chdsk was only able to partially recover (directory structure was hosed), but the drive utility says no bad sectors so I saved what I could and am going to low level it tonight. First hard drive failure I'd had in 2 years though, but that was a Deathstar 60GXP which doesn't count IMO.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
One word: ASUS

Never have problems like that.

It IS an Asus.


PWNED.

I just saw that, however it is an Nvidia chipset. I do not have experience with this NForce series. Perhaps ASUS and others that went with it should've done a better trial run with this series first. I see a lot of posts in the Motherboard area related to this series.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
One word: ASUS

Never have problems like that.

It IS an Asus.


PWNED.

I think the problem lies between the chair and the keyboard.