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Offline Redfang

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Reply #20 on: August 16, 2002, 07:32:48 am
That's... extremely bad. Lucky nothing happened to you. Was that IBM 75GXP drive?
 
And also, you weren't touching the computer, but still a bolt of electricity hit you... :wtf:
 

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Reply #21 on: August 16, 2002, 07:44:05 am
*Counts Thorn's Avatars*

Wow - a lot of people are going to be pissed.

(Not at you of course, nothing you could have done, just at circumstances in general). You didn't lose anything important did you? Non FS I mean, like a thesis or whatever, coz that would be the ultimate piss off.
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Offline Thorn

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Reply #22 on: August 16, 2002, 09:17:06 am
Nope... not in school right now luckily.... did lose a resume though.. thats just irritating..
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Reply #23 on: August 16, 2002, 10:10:24 am
It would seem to me that something was seriously wrong for it to shoot a bolt of electricity and hit your leg...wow...I didn't think there was enough power in your computer to arc like that.
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Offline Thorn

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Reply #24 on: August 16, 2002, 10:35:36 am
I'm thinking power surge.. but that would have damaged everything else too, which it didnt....
I'm clueless... all I know is I'm missing some hair on my leg and I have a 20 gig paperweight...
 

Offline TheVirtu

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Reply #25 on: August 16, 2002, 11:24:20 am
And this people is why Surge Protectors are 1337.
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Offline Thorn

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Reply #26 on: August 16, 2002, 11:43:37 am
Which is why I have one...
hmm.. thats still under warranty too...
hmmmm!!
 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #27 on: August 16, 2002, 01:27:40 pm
I bloody well hope that some other Tappers have the files, cos I lost those icons I made a few months back.
 

Offline Thorn

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Reply #28 on: August 16, 2002, 01:38:24 pm
I'm pretty sure Pera does...
 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #29 on: August 17, 2002, 02:33:24 pm
Good job, too.
 

Offline Dr.Zer0

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Reply #30 on: August 18, 2002, 11:17:01 pm
damn, dont give my HD any ideas now, I alredy gave it 2 sectors of brain damage, it might attack as I put it in my new comp, so what about your numb leg
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Offline demon442

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Reply #31 on: August 18, 2002, 11:31:37 pm
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
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Offline CP5670

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Reply #32 on: August 18, 2002, 11:44:52 pm
This looks pretty bad. My computer also messed up a week ago and has been down since then, but the problem has been localized to the graphics card and the hard drive is probably safe. I am waiting on a warranty replacement, which should be here later today or tomorrow.
 

Offline Kitsune

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Reply #33 on: August 19, 2002, 12:30:33 am
Ouch man.
And I was just about to pm about those pics you had offered to do when I saw this thread.

Get some salve on your leg and check the box for the surge protector.  (My roomie bought one and noticed it had a $5,000 warantee on it!)
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Reply #34 on: August 19, 2002, 12:35:31 am
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Originally posted by demon442


1: it's Gordon Freeman
2: Do you play online?
3: I'm DeathBringer(TFC\FA)


I cant play online, HL got messed up and I need the CD key to get to work, and Iv tried key generators, but I need the CD
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Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #35 on: August 19, 2002, 02:08:34 am
wow, i'm still trying to picture the arc.. heh damn that blows...  yeah, live long and may you prosper off that warranty :D
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Offline Redfang

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Reply #36 on: August 19, 2002, 06:54:01 am
It might be possible that the data isn't completely lost... some specialists with their stuff can maybe read fried HD's... I don't know about it but it's so. :)
 
Also when hard drive blows it might help to put it to the freezer, I've not tried but some have and it has made it to work again for a while. I have no idea if it would help in your case or not...
 

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Reply #37 on: August 19, 2002, 08:21:58 am
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Originally posted by Redfang
Also when hard drive blows it might help to put it to the freezer, I've not tried but some have and it has made it to work again for a while. I have no idea if it would help in your case or not...


Yeah, I've actually heard of that working a number of times. Just make sure it's in a sealed container so it doesn't get all wet from condensation or anything like that.
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Reply #38 on: August 19, 2002, 10:52:38 am
It rattles....
 

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Reply #39 on: August 19, 2002, 02:30:12 pm
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Originally posted by Thorn
It rattles....


Your HD?? :nervous:

:( Somebody hold me!! :shaking:

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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
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