My first piece of equipment died since I started crunching.
My power supply went out. Probably a few days till I get around to replacing it, so only 2 computers going now, but it is still sad. It served me well.
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My first piece of equipment died since I started crunching.
My power supply went out. Probably a few days till I get around to replacing it, so only 2 computers going now, but it is still sad. It served me well.
Ashes to ashes...
I've heard you're not a true cruncher till you burn something up...congrats!
I can understand you
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I think you have done pretty good to have crunched as much as you have, with no hardware loss until now.
I've never had a piece of hardware fail since i started crunching. Not even a fan. I don't know why, but i haven't. In fact, the only piece of hardware i've ever had fail was a power supply in an HP computer i had before i started crunching. It didn't really fail, it was kinda struck by lightning :p Has it plugged into a really cheap surge suppressor and should've known better lol
I've had floppy disks fail me, both 5.25" and 3.5". And i once had a hard drive with a few bad sectors on it around 20 years ago. Oh! and i once had a broken 486 IBM ThinkPad, but only because my ex-girlfriend's 3-year old daughter pulled it off the table and it reacted poorly with the floor. The only thing i ever had happen to a crunching computer was i had to get rough with a graphics card once. It was refusing to go to it's slot and i accidentally hit a capacitor on the motherboard with it and tore it off. Got a new capacitor and soldered it in place and everything was fine. And i broke the 2 front USB ports in this computer i'm typing on. There was some stuff plugged into the ports and i tripped over something and when i went down, i fell across the plugs and snapped off chunks of plastic which i couldn't get out of the plugs, so had to buy new wires for those devices :p USB ports are still broken. Had to unplug them from the motherboard because they would shoot sparks and cause the PSU to shutdown for protection.
All i have are examples of things breaking because of my carelessness :p Nothing has ever worn out on its own or failed from wear and tear, age, or whatever.
And i've never had to RMA anything either.
I do feel for you though artemis. I know it sucks when things you rely on break. But since i'm not a real cruncher, i don't know how much weight my condolences really carry ;(
Crunch on! **==
Didn't O/C to the max and crunch 24/7 at the same time. :D That is a recipe for multiple hardware failures at any time. Don't ask me how I know. :rolleyes: :D
Artemis, consider it a battle scar! ;) Seriously, I do hope everything else is working well, and glad it served you many good years. If you're paying for electricity, I would recommend an 80 Plus gold/silver/bronze whatever is on the "affordable" list for you, because I know I pull less watts at the wall from this rig with the 80 Plus gold in it, so it's not just hype.
And last but definitely not least - THANK YOU for being such a dedicated team member!
Give it a good burial and consider yourself extremely lucky. Others may not have had parts fail but I have and the lesson I learned is always have spare parts. I've got several old power supplies (small ones which won't run all the stuff in my new box) and an old vid card. I can always crunch with the cpu unless it or a mb goes out.
I've had HDD's fail on me while running not fun let me tell ya - Spinrite + the fact it was a replacement for another HDD that was failing + new disc of diff brand...
NO major hardware fails though :D