Post your experiences with Desktop PCs

[SGVaibhav]

Post your experiences of you screwing up the HARDWARE in your desktop PC.

I will post mines tom.

[SGVaibhav]

I tampered with my pc, after opening the casing.

Many cases, i will discuss a good one, which happened recently, like 2 weeks ago.

I had installed an extra fan below the power supply long back [got it for 5 dhs/0.66394732 British pounds]
so suddenly it was making SO MUCH SOUND that day,
i opened my casing and just touched the fan and it got fixed.

Now i had a huge fasination with my cpu fan, i always wanted to remove it , clean it with vacuum cleanear and see what is inside [i cannot use vacuum directly, because of the presence of the fan] (actually i wanted to clean the heat-sink below the fan with vacuum).

So i tried to open the cpu fan,
i had tried that out many times, but it did not open, so i left it.

Same thing happened that day also,
just when i was going to give up, it came out [difficult to mention the technical stuff, so leave it]
so some screws came out, and i thought they broke and stuff
i was scared.
Later something else came out and then the WHOLE FAN came out.
omggggg!!!!
the fan came out, but i found out that the fan was attached to the heatsink and i cannot just remove the fan to clean the heat-sink.

no use of all that hard work.

now while putting it back, i removed it in such a bad way, that putting back was a very big problem (now that cannot be typed)
so like after 45 mins, i managed to put the screw back, and i found out that two screws were not fitting properly (damaged )

then i left that and started my pc.
later that day, while restarting my pc, i just thought to peek into my bios

i went into the cpu health settings and fount out
OMGGGG   

cpu temperature shooting above 70 deg celcius, after few seconds, it reached 85 deg celcius .

now i knew happened because i did something.

awwwww

later, i opened my casing and found out, that if i apply little downforce on the fan, it INSTANTLY cooled to 45 deg celcius.

Then someone told me, that this thing has to be fitted very tightly.

Then i was trying that for the next 2 hours.
And somehow, 2 screws becoming tight, but it happened somehow later.

poof.

i know its little long, but pc freaks like me find it interesting.

[zara]

hahahahaaaaa!!
ROFL!
boy ur soo curios...pity tht poor thing...u made hell outta it!

[SGVaibhav]

Once, my pc was getting stuck at startup
i could not use the bios as well.

later someone told me to clear the bios, by short circuiting the two pins to clear CMOS values.

i did that, but i felt that it had not been cleared.
so it was written in my motherboard manual, that it bios can also be reset ted, by removing the battery from the motherboard.
i tried to remove the battery, and it poped out and got stuck in the motherboard badly.

position showed in diagram

it could not be removed as there was no place to remove it.
the cpu fan was there, so there was no place to remove it.

lol the cpu fan came in again.
at that time, i did not knew how to remove the cpu fan (this incident happened before the cpu fan incident)

lol then it took me like 30 mins to remove the batter.

later, after so much analyzing, i found out, that either the motherboard, or the RAM is screwed up.

i took it for warranty and they found the RAM was damaged.

[astarmathsandphysics]

It is just plain awful to install windows from a torrented version.

[SGVaibhav]

hehe.
burn it to a cd first,
that might help.

[SGVaibhav]

my power supply fan in my current pc was spoilt.

i had to change it,
so while i was removing it

i had to remove its wire from the motherboard (the connected wire)

it was attached SO TIGHTLY

that i was holding the motherboard and pulling it,
still the motherboard BENT SO MUCH

but nothing happened to it after that also

[SGVaibhav]

LOL
SCREWED MY WHOLE GRAPHICS BOARD TODAY 
Because i wanted to play this game (http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2128567/mario-war)
i love it so much

it is a DOS game, and did not work on my pc, it used to work before i got a new graphics card. (on my onboard motherboard VGA)
so then, i tried to disable my current graphics card.
then i removed that driver
then i tried to install drivers for my onboard vga.
it failed
then i was doing something with BIOS
i messed up all display options, that i could not see anything again, and access the BIOS.
then i searched for my motherboard manual
i found out 2 pins (called CLEAR_CMOS), if i shortcircuit them, the BIOS will be reset.
i shortcircuited that.
then i tried little more and did some stuff to install drivers for onboard vga
i installed, but display was going blank was xp was restarting.
then.. i tried to restore the seettings that worked in XP
but nothing happened again.
then i went into safemode.
i removed drivers for onboard vga
restarted
put back drivers for current vga.
lol, the i was cleaning my system with vaccuuum cleaner, there was lots of dust in it .....

while cleaning i realised that, the onboard graphics was not working at all, because the place the VGA cable was plugged in -- it was plugged into the graphics card outlet, (it should have been plugged into the onboard VGA outlet).

a technically expert person will understand what ever i told here

[SGVaibhav]

i had 2 main questions
stylish, help me plz.

[EDIT : i got the game Working]
1)how can i play this game on my pc.
its not working because its very OLD DOS, and IT COULD BE conflicting with my widescreen monitor maybe. (http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2128567/mario-war).
it used to work before
my graphic card is xfx nvidia geforce 9400 gt 1 GB.
something to do with DOS platform.
lol, i will ask 2nd question, once im done with this ...

2nd question to be asked in sometime

[$tyli$h Executive]

Set compatibility settings (from properties) to "Windows 95" for the game's executable file.

[Saladin]

The best thing to do it install it from a flash drive.

It worked like a charm for me.

[Dasith]

i had 2 main questions
stylish, help me plz.

[EDIT : i got the game Working]
1)how can i play this game on my pc.
its not working because its very OLD DOS, and IT COULD BE conflicting with my widescreen monitor maybe. (http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2128567/mario-war).
it used to work before
my graphic card is xfx nvidia geforce 9400 gt 1 GB.
something to do with DOS platform.
lol, i will ask 2nd question, once im done with this ...

2nd question to be asked in sometime

i think wat u gotta do is mabe try & set graphics settings to mabe 256 colours or 16 bit (try both)
reduce resolution to 640 x 480
open up MS-Dos
use CD command to go to your file path
then specify subfile\file or file name
& u r done! it opens up in dos

[SGVaibhav]

used dosbox (Y)

[astarmathsandphysics]

Disaster recovery.
I always mangaed to recover all the data on my ubuntu server, but never on any windows pc.

[andryaa]

MY first PC  i bought around 15 year back but still am having with me.till date it is working good , but it slow now.even that i dnt want to sell that one.