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When good computers turn bad |
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
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Donna's computer started playing up a few weeks ago. The video would drop out and the light on the monitor would flash as if the computer had been turned off, even though the disks and stuff were still making noises. I lent her a spare monitor, but it still did it. We sucked out all of the dust and stuff but it still did it. I lent her a spare video card but it still did it. She took it to one of the local computer shops and all he could say was "I'll reinstall windows and you will loose everything" over and over again in a very rude and unfriendly manner. I grappled it back off him before he did anything stupid and had another look. I tried to boot it up off a CD to prove if Windows did need reinstalling or not, but it still failed. It was about now that it gave me a little hint. I smelt smoke. Computers don't work when their smoke gets out, so that had to be a bad thing. I disconnected the power, looked inside and found the main motherboard power connector to be a strange brown colour in places and it was "welded" in place. I had a real tough job unplugging it and when I did I found four of the pins all burnt out. It's stuffed! Have a look at the photo below to see what I found.
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