I got to a lan party and now I owe money... Wow...

[FoBoT]

I just poured hot grits down my pants. Thank you.

 

[Ricemarine]

you know. now they changed the story again...

Now they said when I left, they found my psu smoking... What the heck. If it was smoking I would've noticed.

 

[Thegonagle]

So you just show up with RAM and a video card (with very high power consumption), and ask them to lend you the rest of the computer?

And out of the kindness of their hearts, they do? And after you left, they found it broken. Be a man and help them out. Try to get them to split the cost.

 

[Ricemarine]

Well if they TOLD ME THAT IT WAS A MICROATX PSU in the freakin server, I wouldn't have put my stuff in there. Omfg, they use a microatx psu in a atx case. What the heck.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

ur retarded

QED

 

[ToeJam13]

My 2 cents...

I think these guys are trying to swindle you. Although, they could just be very dumb as well.

What brand of memory did they have in the system previously? Corsair has a lifetime replacement warrenty, as do most other name brand manufacturers (Mushkin, Patriot, Viking). Demand to know the manufacturer and part number, and demand to know if they have attempted to RMA the product.

If a failed power supply damaged their memory, I would suspect that they had a faulty mainboard to begin with. Power supplies have fuses, and mainboards have regulators. Spikes in the power supply shouldn't just nuke memory, it should nuke every other component that gets its power from that rail.

I call BS.

Of course, I've been in this boat before. When I was much younger, I had an Amiga 3000/030-16 desktop computer, and I borrowed my friend's 68040-25 processor daughterboard. Damn thing overheated and blew my whole system out. His board still worked, but my mainboard was toast.

I sucked it up and took the loss. It wasn't my friend's fault that my computer couldn't take it. Sometimes these things happen.

The guy who let you use his system should have been aware that you were putting stuff into his server. If it blows up because your components overloaded his stuff, he should suck it up and chalk one up to learning not to buy the cheapest gear he can get.

Garbage in, garbage out.

 

[Ricemarine]

Apparently, he voided his FREAKIN WARRANTY by opening up the psu.

I'm not at fault anymore am I?

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: amcdonald

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
they aren't really nerds... More like those regular people that know how to build computers cause they are cheap..

Ok buddy.. here's a harsh dose of reality.

If you goto a LAN party, YOU ARE A FREAKIN NERD.

The reality is we are posting in a computer based forum so we all are nerds.

This should be understood

I was making the point that these guys are definitely nerds.

 

[Ricemarine]

so are you if you are talking in these forums

 

[SilentZero]

No its not your fault, just tell them to deal with it and your not paying them anything.

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
they aren't really nerds... More like those regular people that know how to build computers cause they are cheap..

Build a cheap computer with cheap parts, its gonna blow (literally).

 

[Pabster]

Geez, what kind of geek walks in with a video card and some RAM to a LAN party?!?

 

[bmacd]

:music:"it's a lan party, and they'll cry if they want to, cry if they want to. You would cry to if it happened to you...duh dunn dunn!" :music:

-=bmacd=-

 

Get your hardware back and tell them to kiss your ass.

If they don't like that, they cant get a lawyer or bring you to small claims court.
Neither of which they can afford.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
my mobo was going under rma process.

Then what the hell were you doing at a LAN party? You need a computer for that, and unless you'd made special arrangements (in which case you should have made sure their PSU didn't suck a nut, which it apparently did) you f'd up.

if someone wanted me there and offered me, i'd take it.. why the hell not?
normally i agree, but if you have buddies that want you there... who cares?

 

[brxndxn]

It's not your fault.. don't pay. You didn't blow their PSU. They can go to hell.

Cheap power supplies piss me off.. They seem to break 10x more often than any other computer part.. 10x more often than hard drives which break 10x more often than optical drives which break 10x more often than motherboards and video cards which break 10x more often than anything else..

 

[Goosemaster]

Dude.

DUDE.


You need some fvkign sense. They are fvkign conning you and you are walking into the palm of their hands.

They fvkign voided their warrenty: fvk 'em.
They let you use their pc with no agreements: fvk 'em
THey fvking installed it: fvk 'em
They are blatantly lying about costs: fvk 'em

Just tell them this, then log off of aim, log of AT, and throw your computer into your local swimming pool:

You fvkers said I could use it. YOu fvkers installed the fvking parts. You fvkers are now changing your fvkign stories. You fvkers are quoting fradulant prices. I have logged all these conversations and if you do not cease and desist from this attempt (and A VERY BAD ONE AT THAT) at extorion I will send this convo to everyone in the fvkign world tomorow.

 

tell them to kiss your ass.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Dude.

DUDE.


You need some fvkign sense. They are fvkign conning you and you are walking into the palm of their hands.

They fvkign voided their warrenty: fvk 'em.
They let you use their pc with no agreements: fvk 'em
THey fvking installed it: fvk 'em
They are blatantly lying about costs: fvk 'em

Just tell them this, then log off of aim, log of AT, and throw your computer into your local swimming pool:

You fvkers said I could use it. YOu fvkers installed the fvking parts. You fvkers are now changing your fvkign stories. You fvkers are quoting fradulant prices. I have logged all these conversations and if you do not cease and desist from this attempt (and A VERY BAD ONE AT THAT) at extorion I will send this convo to everyone in the fvkign world tomorow.

haha, nicely done!

 

[Pepsi90919]

I got to a lan party and now I owe money... Wow...

just wow?

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
so are you if you are talking in these forums

What are you blind? I just said that's understood.
The OP said these guys aren't nerds, they just have lan parties... and I said that in and of itself makes them nerds.

 

[Cheesemoo]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
You brought a video card and RAM to a LAN party, but not a whole system? You're retarded.

 

[intogamer]

lol make them pay for your video card... say that their POS psu fawked your card up >_<