This is kind of half true. Distilled water does not conduct electricity. However, if you put your motherboard in a fish tank, the water would be contaminated by the board and various dirt, which will conduct electricity...
This is kind of half true. Distilled water does not conduct electricity. However, if you put your motherboard in a fish tank, the water would be contaminated by the board and various dirt, which will conduct electricity...
guyver01
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"A Celeron Is Just as good as a P3"
This wasn't told to me.... but i overheard it when i was picking up a new HDD..
"If you want to do video capture... use this USB adapter.... it's faster and better than the card, because this is what USB was designed for"
- Best Buy computer tech..
This wasn't told to me.... but i overheard it when i was picking up a new HDD..
"If you want to do video capture... use this USB adapter.... it's faster and better than the card, because this is what USB was designed for"
- Best Buy computer tech..
calling Iomega Support about Internal Zip Drive.
Me: when i install the Iomega Internal Drive my computer won't post. when i unplug the iomega drive the computers posts fine.
Tech: have you tried putting in floppies and booting from DOS.
Me: well, I would but the COMPUTER WON'T POST.
Tech: well I can't help you untill you try booting from A:
Me: when i install the Iomega Internal Drive my computer won't post. when i unplug the iomega drive the computers posts fine.
Tech: have you tried putting in floppies and booting from DOS.
Me: well, I would but the COMPUTER WON'T POST.
Tech: well I can't help you untill you try booting from A:
Ya, i have a friend whos Tech Support Manager for Merril Lynch, he tells me whenever he talks to one of these techs, he just answers all of their questions in the appropriate manager that will take him to 3rd level tech support. what a colossal waste of time.
One of the "hardware" guys at work told me and a fellow coworker that the reason the webserver we were setting up was BSODing was because we were running Apache on it, and that it was NOT designed to run apache. It was designed to only run our software.
The machine in question is a P3 600 running WindowsNT.
Nevermind the fact that if we put the same drives in an identical system it worked fine.
The machine in question is a P3 600 running WindowsNT.
Nevermind the fact that if we put the same drives in an identical system it worked fine.
I hear ya.
Don't believe everything you read!
"Buy Intel, great bang for your buck"Another good one..
After all the $$$ I have invested in this dual PIII system, I REALLY REALLY wish I had bought a board that run's AMD!
iamme
Lifer
- Jul 21, 2001
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Just hang out at Best Buy's computer department and listen in on sales pitches, that their employees give.
Sometimes, I don't know if I should intercede and say something.
A guy was once selling a $500 Pocket PC to some old guy, who kept insisting that he just wanted to use it as a planner. The salesguy kept saying how outdated Palm is, and almost hinted that all Palms were going to be discontinued.....poor guy. Of course, every 30 seconds, the salesguy would repeat, "I don't work on commision."
Sometimes, I don't know if I should intercede and say something.
A guy was once selling a $500 Pocket PC to some old guy, who kept insisting that he just wanted to use it as a planner. The salesguy kept saying how outdated Palm is, and almost hinted that all Palms were going to be discontinued.....poor guy. Of course, every 30 seconds, the salesguy would repeat, "I don't work on commision."
I have an idiot friend who listens to everything Hard OCP has to say. The poor fool is stuck with a Kyro II video card because he listened to [K]yle. Why anyone would go to that retarded site is besides me.
You'll want a Pentium 3 so you can play all those MP3's, if you get a Pentium 2 you can only play MP2's. :Q
I overheard some sales guy give this pitch to an elderly couple at Futureshop, the funny thing was, an hour before he was trying to sell some fridge to another couple.
I overheard some sales guy give this pitch to an elderly couple at Futureshop, the funny thing was, an hour before he was trying to sell some fridge to another couple.
That's actually true. Distilled water does not conduct electricity, although there could be some problems that I am not aware of.
"just turn off your DSL modem and computer all the way and turn them back on" - verizon tech on my DSL not connecting.
unfortunately this sometimes works.
unfortunately this sometimes works.
So very false. Distilled water doesn't conduct electricity as well as non-distilled, but it does conduct. If what you were saying were true there would be little or no lightning over the ocean because the bolt would have to hit the sea floor to ground (granted salt water but it's water all the same). You'd also be perfectly safe using a hair-dryer in a distilled water bath.
We'd all agree that air is a poor conductor of electricity, but in said lightning strike, it's enough.
What you end up doing is having electrons conducted through a string of H2O molecules to chain the current through... the presence of extra ions (dissolved stuff in non-distilled water) helps with carrying those electrons, but a high enough potential will allow water molecules to conduct (and ionize to eventually for H2 and O2).
I was thinking more in terms of oxidizing some of the parts. Also, this will likely cause all sorts of whacks to CD/DVD-ROM drives and hard drives.
Compared to other potential damages caused by water, conduction is very minor, imo.
hey, no one could have figured that the long term effects of the 75gxp man.. it was a great performing drive. my friend still has two 75GB's in raid running along smoothly. I suppose having a fan keeping them cool all the time helps tremendously.
Not advices, but some quote (approximately).
My friend: "When I bought my 486 I thought it could last me 10 years"
Some customer at PC Club: "That new Trident card is going to be faster than Ti4600"
My other friend: "What??? How can AMD CPU be picky with memory? That doesnt make sense!"
Same Guy: "Quake 3 runs fine on my PII 266, I dont need an upgrade"
Same Guy: "I'd rather pay $100 more for a Yamaha CDRW than some no brander Lite-On"
Same Guy: "WHAT???" (whenever I say something related to computers"
A friend of my dad who built my first PC: "You dont need a 4X CDROM, it'll be too fast for you"
Same Guy: "486 is very good, Pentium is just too fast to keep up with sometimes"
Same Guy: "540MB HD will take you 5 years to fill up"
Same Guy: "You dont need Windows 95, 3.11 has everything you need and then some"
My friend: "When I bought my 486 I thought it could last me 10 years"
Some customer at PC Club: "That new Trident card is going to be faster than Ti4600"
My other friend: "What??? How can AMD CPU be picky with memory? That doesnt make sense!"
Same Guy: "Quake 3 runs fine on my PII 266, I dont need an upgrade"
Same Guy: "I'd rather pay $100 more for a Yamaha CDRW than some no brander Lite-On"
Same Guy: "WHAT???" (whenever I say something related to computers"
A friend of my dad who built my first PC: "You dont need a 4X CDROM, it'll be too fast for you"
Same Guy: "486 is very good, Pentium is just too fast to keep up with sometimes"
Same Guy: "540MB HD will take you 5 years to fill up"
Same Guy: "You dont need Windows 95, 3.11 has everything you need and then some"
To clear your cmos, take the battery out of the moterboard, connect a wire to both sides of it and let it sit overnight.
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