Hehe, just had a stupid thought. You know in those movies when someone is dying, they give him/her an electric shock to try and get the heart pumping again? Try that with your hard drive Take apart one of your Molex connectors and get ready if the drive stops spinning Sorry. I just woke up.
Boy do I have lots of broken hardware...for some reason many people think I am a convenient dumping ground for old/broken hardware, and I'm enough of a sucker to take it all in! Here's just a brief tally: Hard disks 1. Toshiba 4.3GB 2.5" lappy drive...damn thing fell down as I was moving some files into it. Can you say click of death? 2. 13.6GB IBM Deskstar. Damn thing just quit and died one day about a month after I got it from IBM (was a replacement for a prior failed drive). 3. Quantum Fireball 30AS...died right after I bought a DVD burner just to backup all my data off it. Convenient, eh? 4-nnnn: Lotsa them...I have a 20MB Conner laptop drive from who knows when somewhere. Can't remember where I got it from... I also have a Seagate ST157A (first-gen ATA drive!! First hard disk I took apart that used a stepper motor instead of a voice coil to move the head...) collecting dust somewhere! Motherboards: I have about a dozen busted ancient boards at home. I'll get round to throwing them out someday. Most of them died natural deaths (leaky NiCD CMOS batteries took out a few), but I do recall killing the VESA slot on one when I accidentally bumped out an IO card while the system was running. I have since stopped hotplugging components that were never designed to be hotplugged. Drives (non-HDDs): A few floppy drives. I hate floppies. I managed to kill them in some interesting ways...one of them I accidentally put the power connector in offset by one pin. Bang, smoke and a dead PSU. A few CD-ROM drives. Let me state again how much I hated my 12X Wearnes/Philips drive. I have never heard a drive as noisy as that. The 32X Creative/Samsung that followed sucked too. They both died. Processors: One dead Duron 700. I can't believe I chipped the core putting on a new heatsink. Oddly enough I lost the processor not long after I killed it. Can't figure out what happened to it. A couple of years after that I killed a Duron 1200 by frying it (dunno how it died, honest), but that might not count because I got it replaced under warranty. Power supplies: Besides the aforementioned PSU that my floppy blew up I have a few more dead ones. I know at least one of them was cooked by Zeus, one more was cooked when I hooked up the power wires wrongly (AT supply with the mechanical switch...oops). I am almost certain I've cooked more hardware than that, and I don't even want to begin cataloguing the junk I've got...I think I've got a couple of dead laptops somewhere and lots more of the usual small items - 2400bps modems, 5.25" floppy drives, etc. My junk pile is nothing compared to what my dad had though...he had a room full of Apple ][s, weird old-time consoles, and lots more 'interesting' stuff .
i gave it a knock ontop .. then tested with another PSU .. seems like .. it is running .. or maybe not .. but there is no clicks anymore.. :O .. maybe it is dying ..
It's not my fault that hardware just happens to die when I start fiddling Besides, the last thing I killed was the Duron 1200 and that was like two years ago
Haha no that's why I can still smile about it My dad saves all his important stuff on a USB thumb drive...and we managed to boot up to export all the email addresses from Outlook. So everything's ok
I had a 4200 v-card go south on me. Thanks to a tip from a fellow ARP'er 'Mike' I got it RMA'ed for free!
I have 3 broken CD-ROMs, 1 broken PC-CHIPS M598 m/b (and it's used for my soldering/desoldering practice field), a whole mess of broken Datamini 486 CPU (comes with the case and the I/O board as well)..... and lotsa cables! Heh heh...
