Jamison killed my mother...board

[Liar]

Holy crap.

I was just done with a bunch of work related emails, so I logged on to Lit to see what was up with the AH.

And I thought Jamison's "So Good Their Bad" thread sounded interresting. So I clicked on the header, not really sure what to expect.

What I certainly didn't expect was for my screen to go dark, and for a black plume of smelly smoke to start steaming out of the computer's power supply fan.

Somehow, I managed to yank the power cord, open all windows and air out the foul fumes before the fire alarm went bonkers. And as soon as I killed the monster, the smoke stopped.

Now I have a dead computer with a black soot stain in an inconspicious corner of the motherboard. I know computers fairly well, and I can't see any reason it should go *poof* right there. (Bottom corner, right beside the last PCI slot, for you geeks. Nothing there that normally would overheat, afaik.)

So I'm leaning towards the inflammatory nature of Jamison's thread. Yeh, that must be it. Curses upon ye, J-man.

So now I write to you courtsey to brother with a spare laptop, that he said I could borrow til I get my monster fixed. And I keep my money making stuff on a server at work. So I'm good, work-wise. But I have buckets of music projects and a whole season of Mythbusters that I can't get at until I have salvaged my hard drive.

 

[Guest]

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[Liar]

Are you implying I keep bunnies in my computer?

There is a nice bunny selection in a folder on the desktop I can't boot up to to see. Vintage stuff, from back when Hef was a playa.

 

[Guest]

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[impressive]

You shouldn't have fucked his mother.... board!

Bad boy!

 

[glynndah]

So, who stole my Flash Player and turned off my Java Script yesterday? I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but I was probably somewhere on Lit at the time.

 

[Guest]

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[Guest]

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[S-Des]

This thread title reminds me of the Dweezil Zappa album, "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama." That was a talented lad.


Hey Liar...long time no see. I have nothing against Jamison, but there's no way I'd let him near my mother.....board.

 

[glynndah]

I messed with your Java Script, stole your Flash Player, and your little dog too.

Ha! I figured out the problem all by myself. When Netscape said they were going to discontinue all services, they weren't kidding. And as far as the dog goes, she's dumber'n snake mittens. Have at it.

 

[Liar]

I messed with your Java Script

Huh, I thought this cup tasted a little weird.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Holy crap.

I was just done with a bunch of work related emails, so I logged on to Lit to see what was up with the AH.

And I thought Jamison's "So Good Their Bad" thread sounded interresting. So I clicked on the header, not really sure what to expect.

What I certainly didn't expect was for my screen to go dark, and for a black plume of smelly smoke to start steaming out of the computer's power supply fan.

Somehow, I managed to yank the power cord, open all windows and air out the foul fumes before the fire alarm went bonkers. And as soon as I killed the monster, the smoke stopped.

Now I have a dead computer with a black soot stain in an inconspicious corner of the motherboard. I know computers fairly well, and I can't see any reason it should go *poof* right there. (Bottom corner, right beside the last PCI slot, for you geeks. Nothing there that normally would overheat, afaik.)

So I'm leaning towards the inflammatory nature of Jamison's thread. Yeh, that must be it. Curses upon ye, J-man.

So now I write to you courtsey to brother with a spare laptop, that he said I could borrow til I get my monster fixed. And I keep my money making stuff on a server at work. So I'm good, work-wise. But I have buckets of music projects and a whole season of Mythbusters that I can't get at until I have salvaged my hard drive.

I feel you, brother.

I recently fried an external HD by stupidly plugging a power jack into the wrong port...and I was told data recovery on it would be at least 800 clams. That's because recovery is done on drive size, not amount of data on it, which in my case is a little over half 160G.

Expensive lesson loined. I'll recover the data (which most was already on burned discs), but I'll wait a month after saving some fucking-around-money cuz that shit wasn't nowhere NEAR the year's budgeted expenses! Just keep in mind data recovery ain't cheap when you go turn it in.

By the way, Jameson's has fried my own internal hard drive after about eight or nine straight glasses.

 

[Liar]

Aw jeez, I'd better take a chlorine shower tomorrow morning before going to work, or I'm gonna smell like charred transistors all day. People are gonna look and point more than usual.

 

[Liar]

I feel you, brother.

I recently fried an external HD by stupidly plugging a power jack into the wrong port...and I was told data recovery on it would be at least 800 clams. That's because recovery is done on drive size, not amount of data on it, which in my case is a little over half 160G.

Been there done that. In case of hard drive hardware failure, recovery is crazy expensive. I have an old drive in a box that has five years of music recordings and scripts and photos on it. When I get filthy rich, I'm having it brought back to life, no matter the cost.

I take backups, these days.

 

[gauchecritic]

Did you have any wiring loose (like those 18" ribbon fuckers) or spare power connectors make their way there?

 

[impressive]

I'm such a mother...board fucker. Better watch yours.

Okay, that got a shiver.