Mark Whipple ([info]partywhipple) wrote,
@ 2009-04-25 18:09:00
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Current mood: aggravated

Fuck
My PC has been mortally wounded. The power supply is going so it turns off randomly and then won't turn back on, or stay on I should say, unless I wait a good long time. Then it just goes for about 25 minutes and repeats. So I unplugged it and opened it up to yank the power supply. No can do. It's a fucking Alienware and the frame literally wraps around the lines. i need to look up on line if there is a way to do it. Though buying a new box might be easier in the end. Until I figure something out, though, I am out of games and fun. Boo. Fucking annoying. Also, I have no clue how to get the hard drive out. It's in there in some crazy ass way I can't comprehend with my puny mortal brain. FUCK.


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[info]dlanor
2009-04-26 12:53 am UTC (link)
Now that really sucks.

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[info]kfringe
2009-04-26 02:17 am UTC (link)
Bring it on up when you visit. We'll get that bastard apart. It'll be in pieces by the time you go home.

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[info]jrthro
2009-04-26 02:42 am UTC (link)
Now, that sounds *really* encouraging!

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[info]cramer
2009-04-26 03:46 am UTC (link)
yes, it will come out. Everything in there will come out. it's just not a simple "remove this 'jesus screw' and it falls out." In that respect, it's like working on a laptop.

My money says the fan(s) are bad. You can temporarily hang a fan to the outside of the power supply/case to pull air through it -- I have a machine setup like that right now as I'm too lazy to pull the PS and replace the fan inside it. Of course, you'll need a fan :-)

If you don't have any local techies (like that could happen), I'm only a 2-3hr drive away :-)

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[info]cramer
2009-04-26 03:50 am UTC (link)
Ok, Google says 4hr 39min (270 miles) But I drive that far (284mi) to go home in about 3hrs.

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[info]brattay
2009-04-26 04:07 am UTC (link)
OMG I know how you feel! I was typing up study notes for my pharmacy final Tuesday when my computer randomly decides it hates microsoft word and crashes it!! UGHH Now, it doesn't work. Stupid ass microsoft.

I hope you figure out a way to fix your computer!! :(

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[info]jupiter29
2009-04-27 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Ouch, that stinks! I had somewhat similar problems this weekend. I decided it might be a fun weekend project to build a new computer, so I got the motherboard/processor/RAM/graphics, etc., and started building it Saturday. By Saturday night it was all together and I plugged it in to make sure it would boot okay and recognize everything. Then Sunday morning I cannibalized my old computer for the hard drive and installed that and started to load Windows XP, only to find it would crash 20 minutes into the install. I spent the rest of the day ruling out memory errors and hard drive errors and whatever else I could think of, now I think it is a driver issue. Windows won't load without the driver and won't allow me to install the driver except using a floppy drive, which I didn't actually bother to put into my new computer. :)

So not only did I spend a weekend building a computer that doesn't work, but I tore apart my old computer that did work somewhere along the way. Not my best planning ever. :(

Regarding your problem (which, after all, is what this post was about until I started rambling on!), I hope you are able to work it out. I have never bought Alienware but I would certainly hope that they make it possible (if not particularly easy) to get the power supply out. I will keep my fingers crossed for you.

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[info]partywhipple
2009-04-27 05:52 pm UTC (link)
I had to cut the power supply out. But I was able to install the new one, which has a fan on it and is nicer than the old one, so everything seems pretty good right now. :)

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[info]jupiter29
2009-04-27 07:38 pm UTC (link)
Good news!

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