Skybuck's Dream PC dead again for the (4th?) zillion-th time ?!? (Electrical fault with X-Fi Elite P

[GMAN]

Hhmm... I wrote that I would explain my investigations and what I learned
from it further but failed to do so... the posting was already long so
didn't do it... but I will in this follow up post... first a remark about my
picture request... I am mostly interested in your face and how you look
it... now onto the investigation report:

In short:

In 2008 my system/dream pc was acting weird, it was still using the chieftec
case... the weird behaviour was probably caused by a defect memory chip... I
didn't know at the time... I wasn't happy with the chieftec case... it was
humming and was too hot for my liking... so I replaced it with the antec
1200... also removed one graphics cards after a few days or so... two months
later or so I discovered the bad memory chip and rma-ed it... and got two
new ones for free from corsair.

The same motherboard that I suspected of being fried was still being used...
this surprised me today... it had the "burn" marks back in 2008, so it might
have been burned by the chieftec case as well... for now I will assume the
"shock" from the receiver caused it to die... I also found a little hair on
it while it was on my table... but I suspect that hair land on it after I
assembled it... hairs can cause system failures... but I don't think this is
the case of it... perhaps I will test later to be sure...

Conclusion:

So far there is no real hard evidence that heat caused any deaths at all, it
could all be electro-shock related, your system which must be running very
hot could be further prove of this that heat inside a pc does not
necessarily have to be a bad thing.

Yes, this "ALL" could be "electro shock related" LOL!!!!!

 

[I AM THAT I AM]

Remember it's still not certain what killed

Yes it is. YOU killed it, you dumb fuckhead.

and therefore I will give you
the same response as I did towards that other "imbecile":

Who, your father? That makes two in this thread. You and him.

"I dare you to reset your PC/motherboard ten-thousand times continously !

You're a goddamned idiot.

=D"

Moreso with the smiley retarded baby bullshit.

And then we'll talk... ! =D

No, we won't dumbfuck.

Asstwat ! =D

You are so stupid even your attempts at insults are adolescent
stupidity.

^ I added that part just for you ! =D

You and your entire family should be stripped from the gene pool.

 

[Skybuck Flying]

Only a colored person can be as nasty as you ?!

Am I right ?!

Go see a shrink ! =D

Bye,
Skybuck =D

 

[Skybuck Flying]

Well, well, well, well well wellll....

This puts on a new perspective on things:

http://www.aavidthermalloy.com/technical/papers/engineering.shtml

Might be heat afterall...

Perhaps heat caused an eletrical failure... (on motherboard).

But I still think shock had something to do with it as well...

Maybe even both

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Skybuck Flying]

For the record.

ESD fail theory can be shoved straight up your ass.

I fokked my Pentium III 450 mhz harder then you can possibly imagine.

I touched every motherfokking component of it, touched it with water, dust,
poop, screws, screw drivers, fluffy stuff, dust, fingers.

And it's still working after 12 years or so.

So nope...

ESD theory straight up ass

(static electricity bullshit)

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Skybuck Flying]

Hmmm...

I just noticed something that I probably have not noticed before.

One of the power extension boxes has no ground pins !

The receiver was probably connected to it, the PC was not, the monitor was
not, they were both on a different power extension box.

This probably allowed the PC and the Receiver to have different voltage
potentials.

Anyway... I am now in the process of replacing the two power extension boxes
with just one extension box which I got from the fridge.

Good thing I noticed it because the fridge ofcourse must be grounded !

So I am gonna use the spare power extension box with ground for fridge...
and I will use the non-grounded power extension box for non-grounded
equipment.


This includes:

cable modem, tv and lamp.


The cable modem is not grounded so it has little use plugging it into the
same power box as the PC...

So in a way this changing of power extensions is pretty useless, the
previous situation was probably better.

However when I need to plug in my printer I need to use a 4th slot... but I
can probably unplug receiver for that.

I don't feel completely safe with the power box from the fridge... it's big
but it's max power wattage is unknown...

Also it's pretty dusty near my PC and the dust builds up in the holes which
could short circuit or cause fire... leaving those holes un-exposed is also
a risk for screws falling into it and then me being stupid enough to try and
get them out while it's all on... nope that not gonna happen lol.. cause I
am not gonna do that ever... it could also short circuit everything.

So I think I already correct the situation when I swap receiver to pc power
box...

So one it died the situation was bad, after that I corrected it, now I was
thinking about correcting it more... but that would be worse...

So anyway... interesting to notice one power box misses grounding and cable
modem is missing grounding.

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Skybuck Flying]

This is a situation where a pc speaker would have come in handy.

Unfortunately the antec 1200 case does not have a pc speaker.

This is a pretty big negative for trouble shooting

I am not ready to start my re-build.

Let's see what happens...

I am going to record it with my camera and then maybe place it on youtube.

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[FatBytestard]

This is a situation where a pc speaker would have come in handy.

Unfortunately the antec 1200 case does not have a pc speaker.

This is a pretty big negative for trouble shooting

I am not ready to start my re-build.

Let's see what happens...

I am going to record it with my camera and then maybe place it on youtube.

Bye,
Skybuck.

You are more than just a little stupid if you do not know how to place
a speaker in your PC case.

 

[Beryl]

This is a situation where a pc speaker would have come in handy.

Unfortunately the antec 1200 case does not have a pc speaker.

This is a pretty big negative for trouble shooting

I am not ready to start my re-build.

Let's see what happens...

I am going to record it with my camera and then maybe place it on youtube.

Bye,
Skybuck.

No, your camera is broken.