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Jul. 3rd, 2002 06:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grindmonkehMy fucking computer is still fucking fucked. I went to the shop where I buy most of my components and asked them for advice after spending the morning battling the same problems. They said that they would charge me forty dollars to run system diagnostics on my components, all of which I purchased there and are still under warranty. I told them I was certain it was my motherboard or ram which I bought only five days ago, and asked if I would get that forty dollars back if it was one of those components. They said no, and I asked, "so you're going to charge me forty dollars to tell me that you sold me a defective component." The owner just looked at me and didn't really know what to say, but answered yes. I laughed and said, "you're worse than an auto-mechanic. You could get rich doing this: keep one bad stick of memory in stock and infrequently sell it over and over. When the customers have problems you can make that extra forty dollars and send them on their way with a replacement." I was joking and he knew it, but I got my point across. He agreed to check out my board, cpu, ram, and video card, so I made a trip home to collect them, dropped them off, and went to bed. I hope they find something so that I know I'm not inept or crazy, but it's nice just having it out of my sight.
I hope it's fixed by Friday, but if not then Loki has me covered.
I hope it's fixed by Friday, but if not then Loki has me covered.
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Date: 2002-07-03 02:54 pm (UTC)In my experience, most problems like simple instability revolves around the mobo. As long as you haven't crushed your CPU core putting on the HSF or zapped the ram during the install, and you have the most solid bios for the board, AND the proper mobo drivers (ie - Via 4 in 1 set 4.27)....then the mobo is usually the issue....
that sounded really stoopid
What I'm trying to say is, 90% of the time, when I have problems, swapping the mobo solves it.
Anyway, good luck with your mobo juju.
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Date: 2002-07-04 11:50 pm (UTC)I went in and picked it up and they reported that it was running fine for them...they couldn't find any problems with it. They remounted the cpu and heatsink (which they mounted initially so they could post it and make sure it worked) and the cpu temperature dropped by about fifteen degrees from 125-127 degs F. One of the techs told me that was a completely normal temperature range when I was trying to get to the root of the evil...I brought the subject back up and another tech said that the cpu had been running too hot. So now that the cpu is running cooler it's working great. They wanted to charge me for the computer diagnostics since the guy who told me that he would look at it for free wasn't there when they benched it. They had put a lot of their time into running it with a hard-drive, OS, etc. instead of the quick once-over that I'm sure he was going to give it. I almost feel bad.
All the drivers and the bios are current. It's running swell.
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well, anyway, at least you got it working. disregard my earlier post requesting an update.
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Date: 2002-07-05 02:40 am (UTC)I wondered about that too. The heatsink comes with a thermal applicator that they initially mounted it with. After one of them confirmed that the cpu was running too hot, I remounted it with Arctic Silver thermal paste and it still ran hot. That's the only heatsink I've ever mounted, so I'm not sure if I did it correctly. I always let the techs at the shop mount my cpu's so that I don't fry them, but they acted like they didn't want to mess with it.
Anyhow...they remounted it when they checked out the board and it's running cooler.
btw
Date: 2002-07-03 02:54 pm (UTC)Re: btw
Date: 2002-07-04 11:24 pm (UTC)