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Re: spontaneous PC power losses - HELP!

#322
From: ���hw��f
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:03
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Aratzio <a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com> clouded the waters of pure thought with:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:53:35 -0700, in the land of alt.usenet.kooks,
> ���hw��f <snuhwolf@netscape.net> got double secret probation for
> writing:
> 
> >On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:32:32 +0100
> >"Dr.Hal0nf1r�$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> ���hw��f wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:15:06 +0100
> >> > "Dr.Hal0nf1r�$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> ���hw��f wrote:
> >> >>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:34:16 -0700
> >> >>> Aratzio <a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:09:53 -0500, in the land of
> >> >>>> alt.usenet.kooks, snuhwolf@netscape.net (���hw��f) got double
> >> >>>> secret probation for writing:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> Aratzio <a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com> clouded the waters of pure
> >> >>>>> thought with:
> >> >>>>>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:01:56 -0700, in the land of
> >> >>>>>> alt.usenet.kooks, ���hw��f <snuhwolf@netscape.net> got double
> >> >>>>>> secret probation for writing:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:35:53 +1000
> >> >>>>>>> "Kadaitcha Man" <nospam.nospam.nospam@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> "Aratzio" <a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
> >> >>>>>>>> news:9opi0456deigk7ihd4bq4mq3u9mar9tha3@4ax.com...
> >> >>>>>>>>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:26:03 +1000, in the land of
> >> >>>>>>>>> alt.usenet.kooks, "Kadaitcha Man"
> >> >>>>>>>>> <nospam.nospam.nospam@gmail.com> got double secret probation
> >> >>>>>>>>> for writing:
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>> "Butch Haynes" <butch@huntsville> wrote in message
> >> >>>>>>>>>> news:zbmdnUfjYIjDTZXVnZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> <radiant_x@outgun.com> wrote in message
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> news:293e3140-e027-496c-89d8-27906e8991f7@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> >> >>>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> I recently installed a DVD drive into my PC. (2 days ago.)
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> Since then, I get spontaneous power loss periodically -
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> sometimes seconds after booting, other times after hours of
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> operation. I've tried replacing the power supply, and I've
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> tried removing all my hardware (other than RAM), so I'm
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> thinking it must be motherboard related.
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Unplug/replug all power and data connections. That way, the
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> errant loose one will be fixed and your problem will be
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> resolved.
> >> >>>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
> >> >>>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>> Tech support by feng shui.
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> "I've tried removing all my hardware(other than RAM)"
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> Do none of them understand what that entails?
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> None of them understand anything.
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> I go toetally on into-ition.
> >> >>>>>>> Just do what feels good for a few hours...take out a few
> >> >>>>>>> cables...fondle them...blow out the dust bunnies...listen to the
> >> >>>>>>> Grateful Dead live at Winterland for inspiration. Drink another
> >> >>>>>>> beer...
> >> >>>>>>> Change a bunch of jumpers on the Mobo at random.
> >> >>>>>>> Leave shit scattered around on yer workbench and wander away.
> >> >>>>>>> Watch cartoons for another hour...
> >> >>>>>>> Come back and put it back together.
> >> >>>>>>> Holy Shit! Now it works.
> >> >>>>>>> Thats how I do it anyway.
> >> >>>>>>> FYI
> >> >>>>>>> HTH
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Dunno why you geeks muck about with all that crap.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> I take em out to the back 40, prop em against the side of the
> >> >>>>>> gully and show them my Springfield 30-06.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>> <BLINK>
> >> >>>>> <BLINK>
> >> >>>>> OMG! I would never shoot a poor defenceless computer!
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>> They always work after that.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>> I assume you miss...
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Works good with the employees, wife and kids too.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>> Note to self: dont work for 'Ratz.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Never had need to actually fire the damn thing.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>> Interesting. So you say that pc's respond to threats of
> >> >>> annihilation? I've got a sledge hammer laying about...
> >> >>> Will it solve my booting problems?
> >> >>
> >> >> Try steel toe caps.
> >> >>
> >> > That didnt help at all.
> >> 
> >> You didn't kick it hard enough.
> >> 
> >Now it wont turn on at all.
> >You owe me a new computer.
> 
> Ask Kman.
> 
Kman bestoweth upon the unwashed masses the new computers?
ALL HALE KMAN FOR HE HACE MUCH GRATENES!!!1111!!!!!

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Subject: Re: spontaneous PC power losses - HELP!
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