Aw crap

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:27 AM

My best PIII's mobo just died, it took everything atteched to the system along with it. It killed my brand new GF4, a SB live, a 60 gig and a 20 gig hard drive, a 16/12/40x burner, 512 megs of pc133 ram, and my pIII700 that used to run at 980MHz.

One little flame just shot out from a resistor near the CPU, then the monitor went black. I tried all of the other parts in other computers, but nothing works. The PSU still works fine though.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:29 AM

that sucks thats werid too i figured it would have just took the proc....well lets hope you can RMA all that stuff!

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:35 AM

I don't think so, it wasn't the fault of the manufacturer. I have also had the majority of it for more than 3 years. The mobo is 4 years old, and the other companies are probably going to tell me to talk with the mobo maker. Abit hasn't been good with accepting returns in the past with me, and its especially unlikely that they will accept a OEM product that even has its retail warrenty expired.

shortstuff · Jul 17, 2003, 03:37 AM

That really sucks.

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:41 AM

I always hated the mobo too, it always gave me trouble. No one should use the Abit SE6. It had increible performance, and once it acctually was set up it almost never crashed, but it constantly required tweaking and adjustments. Sometimes things would randomly malunction, and with a reboot they would work agian. I tried RMAing it (back when it was new when I got it) but the new one had the same problems.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:42 AM

Well the hard drives should be able to be RMA'ed if there no to old not to sure about the SBLive the ram is more the liky shoot.

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:44 AM

I'll try, but all of my stuff is OEM stuff.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:46 AM

shouldnt matter with the HDD i rma'ed a compaq hdd before....where did you get the GF from you may be able to send it back.....with the hard drives the best way to send them is through the maker..

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:56 AM

I got the GF4 from shuki, its a gainward GF4. I already RMAed it to gainward once.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 03:58 AM

Wouldnt hurt to do it again! lol

Judas · Jul 17, 2003, 04:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by craig588
I'll try, but all of my stuff is OEM stuff.

ah, the word....you spoke it.... no, worst word to hear when anything goes wrong....

"OEM"

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 04:36 AM

ya but if your lucky!!!

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 02:57 PM

My hard drives were accepted for RMA, and so was my sound card. I need to call up some more companies. This is taking forerever.

shuki · Jul 17, 2003, 03:37 PM

man craig so sorry to hear the news

Dom · Jul 17, 2003, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by craig588
My hard drives were accepted for RMA, and so was my sound card. I need to call up some more companies. This is taking forerever.

Good luck, man. Hope everything works out good.

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 04:02 PM

The mobo wasn't accepted, and neither was the PIII, but the cd burner and ram were.

Stormy · Jul 17, 2003, 06:18 PM

You're pretty lucky so far...

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 08:12 PM

The gainward guys are never there, I need to call really early in the morning. I have another mobo and a pIII933. (that only overclocks to 960! My 700 was faster than that) If I can get the GF4 accepted I'll have almost the same computer.

***Veridian3*** · Jul 17, 2003, 08:15 PM

I assume you have no house contents insurance with accidental damage ...always good in situations like this.

Stu

~~craig588~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 08:17 PM

I have no insurance on anything. I don't belive in insurance.

Judas · Jul 17, 2003, 08:36 PM

Considered Gambling?

***Veridian3*** · Jul 17, 2003, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Judas
Considered Gambling?

lol

Stu

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 17, 2003, 09:16 PM

no insurance not very wise!

DriveEuro · Jul 17, 2003, 09:58 PM

Craig..... I thought you were younger than 18.........Yup just checked......15....... I think no less of you, but you personally don't have insurance.

Davidgt · Jul 18, 2003, 02:39 AM

That stinks craig. Good luck on getting everything replaced. Hate when freaky things like that happen

~~craig588~~ · Jul 18, 2003, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DriveEuro
Craig..... I thought you were younger than 18.........Yup just checked......15....... I think no less of you, but you personally don't have insurance.

Huh? I said I don't have insurance. What do you mean by that? My dad doesn't have insurance either. Except for his trucks, but only because its a law to have insurance.

DriveEuro · Jul 18, 2003, 04:07 AM

That's what i mean,...... YOU PERSONALLY wouldn't have insurance.

~~craig588~~ · Jul 18, 2003, 04:09 AM

It seems like your insulting me in some way. Whatever.......I don't care.

DriveEuro · Jul 18, 2003, 04:14 AM

Nevermind, I just knew that someoen thought that you were older. And I knew you were younger. And being that you are the age that you are you wouldn't have your own insurance. That's all that it is. I was not insulting anyone. I was just pointing out that you are younger and not living on your own. Just forget it, I didn't word it right to begin with so now I sound like a moron.

BWX · Jul 18, 2003, 04:34 AM

I understood what you meant Drive.
Anyway, sorry about your misfortune craig588, that's the worst feeling. I've never had a MB catch on fire- but I've come close to wrecking some expensive parts. It suxs bad, no matter what. Live and learn.

Jul 17, 2003, 03:27 AM	#1
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	Aw crap My best PIII's mobo just died, it took everything atteched to the system along with it. It killed my brand new GF4, a SB live, a 60 gig and a 20 gig hard drive, a 16/12/40x burner, 512 megs of pc133 ram, and my pIII700 that used to run at 980MHz. One little flame just shot out from a resistor near the CPU, then the monitor went black. I tried all of the other parts in other computers, but nothing works. The PSU still works fine though.

Jul 17, 2003, 03:37 AM	#4
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Jul 17, 2003, 06:18 PM	#17
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Jul 17, 2003, 09:58 PM	#24
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	Craig..... I thought you were younger than 18.........Yup just checked......15....... I think no less of you, but you personally don't have insurance. __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Jul 18, 2003, 02:39 AM	#25
Davidgt Car Audio Guy Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Atlanta, Ga Posts: 499 Rep Power: 0	That stinks craig. Good luck on getting everything replaced. Hate when freaky things like that happen __________________ Sales/Support Manager Taraautosound.com wonderful sig by tastyweat

Jul 17, 2003, 03:29 AM	#2
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	that sucks thats werid too i figured it would have just took the proc....well lets hope you can RMA all that stuff!

Jul 17, 2003, 03:35 AM	Thread Starter #3
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	I don't think so, it wasn't the fault of the manufacturer. I have also had the majority of it for more than 3 years. The mobo is 4 years old, and the other companies are probably going to tell me to talk with the mobo maker. Abit hasn't been good with accepting returns in the past with me, and its especially unlikely that they will accept a OEM product that even has its retail warrenty expired.

Jul 17, 2003, 03:41 AM	Thread Starter #5
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	I always hated the mobo too, it always gave me trouble. No one should use the Abit SE6. It had increible performance, and once it acctually was set up it almost never crashed, but it constantly required tweaking and adjustments. Sometimes things would randomly malunction, and with a reboot they would work agian. I tried RMAing it (back when it was new when I got it) but the new one had the same problems.

Jul 17, 2003, 03:42 AM	#6
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	Well the hard drives should be able to be RMA'ed if there no to old not to sure about the SBLive the ram is more the liky shoot.

Jul 17, 2003, 03:44 AM	Thread Starter #7
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	I'll try, but all of my stuff is OEM stuff.

Jul 17, 2003, 03:46 AM	#8
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	shouldnt matter with the HDD i rma'ed a compaq hdd before....where did you get the GF from you may be able to send it back.....with the hard drives the best way to send them is through the maker..

Jul 17, 2003, 03:56 AM	Thread Starter #9
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	I got the GF4 from shuki, its a gainward GF4. I already RMAed it to gainward once.

Jul 17, 2003, 03:58 AM	#10
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	Wouldnt hurt to do it again! lol

Jul 17, 2003, 04:36 AM	#12
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	ya but if your lucky!!!

Jul 17, 2003, 02:57 PM	Thread Starter #13
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	My hard drives were accepted for RMA, and so was my sound card. I need to call up some more companies. This is taking forerever.

Jul 17, 2003, 03:37 PM	#14
shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	man craig so sorry to hear the news

Jul 17, 2003, 04:02 PM	Thread Starter #16
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	The mobo wasn't accepted, and neither was the PIII, but the cd burner and ram were.

Jul 17, 2003, 08:12 PM	Thread Starter #18
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	The gainward guys are never there, I need to call really early in the morning. I have another mobo and a pIII933. (that only overclocks to 960! My 700 was faster than that) If I can get the GF4 accepted I'll have almost the same computer.

Jul 17, 2003, 08:15 PM	#19
*Veridian3* Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cloaked Posts: 5,028 Rep Power: 182	I assume you have no house contents insurance with accidental damage ...always good in situations like this. Stu

Jul 17, 2003, 08:17 PM	Thread Starter #20
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	I have no insurance on anything. I don't belive in insurance.

Jul 17, 2003, 09:16 PM	#23
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	no insurance not very wise!

Jul 18, 2003, 04:07 AM	#27
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	That's what i mean,...... YOU PERSONALLY wouldn't have insurance. __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Jul 18, 2003, 04:09 AM	Thread Starter #28
~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	It seems like your insulting me in some way. Whatever.......I don't care.

Jul 18, 2003, 04:14 AM	#29
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	Nevermind, I just knew that someoen thought that you were older. And I knew you were younger. And being that you are the age that you are you wouldn't have your own insurance. That's all that it is. I was not insulting anyone. I was just pointing out that you are younger and not living on your own. Just forget it, I didn't word it right to begin with so now I sound like a moron. __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Jul 18, 2003, 04:34 AM	#30
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	I understood what you meant Drive. Anyway, sorry about your misfortune craig588, that's the worst feeling. I've never had a MB catch on fire- but I've come close to wrecking some expensive parts. It suxs bad, no matter what. Live and learn. __________________