Posted by cowsarenotevil on 14:03:00 08-06-2003
Obviously this only applies to people who have built computers, but what problems did you have? The only problem I had was that my AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton reported that it should run at 1.1 ghz (as opposed to the actuall 1.8 ) and my motherboard's BIOS thought I was overclocking it and set it down to 1.1 ghz, but it was fixable by telling it to allow overclocked speeds. Well, what happened to you?
[ This Message was edited by: cowsarenotevil on 2003-08-06 14:36 ]
Posted by dxprog on 14:33:00 08-06-2003
I have had a lot of problems with heat. A hard drive of mine started smoking once, I scratched some paint on a motherboard (which I fix with a piece of stripped wire ). An ancient CD-ROM controller decided to die on me for no reason, and my current CD drive has had some problems reading brand new discs (I had to open it up and reattach a cable, but it still won't read this one disc ). Is that enough for you?
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Posted by Henning on 17:47:00 08-06-2003
I got some bad problems with that fu***** motherboard pins ;(
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Posted by KaGez on 23:36:00 08-09-2003
..... uhm....
looks like I've been lucky up to now
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Posted by welshbard482 on 04:13:00 08-13-2003
I once added a 40g HD to supplement the old 9g one and the computer said it was only 9g
Posted by ice911 on 18:32:00 08-20-2003
My computer would short out every time i hit it on one of the case sides, because i have an unshielded wire from my fan monitor touching the sides of the case when it got hit.
Posted by eosp on 09:31:00 09-18-2003
I haven't built a PC yet, but I installed a hard drive and my bios makes me hit the reset button after it turns on.
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Posted by welshbard482 on 21:56:00 10-08-2003
Heck, I have trouble putting a new hard drive in my computer: (box says 40g; "my computer" says 9g)