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Whilst testing a faulty floppy drive today, i had a spare working one plugged in lying flat on my pc case, which was on its side with the panel off. Anyway god knows how but the floppy drive slid off the side and straight onto my Radeon 9800 Pro, there was this nasty crackling noise and a jet of sparks shot out of the case. The pc immediately shut down, and i honestly thought i'd killed it well and truely. I gave it a second turned the psu back on and lo and behold it started straight back up. In 4 years of building pc's messing about and the rest this is the closest i've come to sending a component to the big silicon graveyard in the sky. As a reminder i know have a small black scorch mark on the graphics card where the floppy drive short circuited on it as a reminder that i'm not imortal :P

Chances are that any credibility that i had just went down the drain but i thought i'd give you guys a quick chuckle on the house. Either that or this was a message from the powers that be to get soemthing better i.e an x800 *innocent whistle*
 
That was lucky! Both components still work then?
 
Yeah thank my lucky stars, put the graphics card through a couple of benchmarks and it's still playing ball, a close shave for the home team i think :P
 
When playing games for a long period i take me pc out the desk, take the side panel off and put it next to me chair to let it get some air while im playing so it does not overheat. Well sometimes i get so involved in the game that i forget the pc is next to me leg, and ive actually put my foot into the side of the pc and kicked components in it :| . Ive dislodged me 9800pro and done the same with the processor fan. All that happened when i done it is that it froze and i hit the main power switch at the wall as quick as possible so nowt explodes :p. I really dont know how my pc is still alive :s.
 
its not how much cool air you can get in, but how fast you can get the hot air out of the PC case. leaving a case open will bugger up a bit the airflow, and probably make it hotter. i never have my PC turned on while the i get her nekkid, static scares me :(
 
Wow... That was lucky!!

Its actually amazing how rugged computer components are, they look delicate, but they really are tougher than they look.

For example. I take an old P4 ATX motherbord. Chuck it 15 feet in the air, meets the concrete and CRACK.

Nothing was even damaged! not a chip!

I was suprised.

Also i had a 70Mhz P1 CPU, that wouldnt break by throwing it at concrete, Had to take a sledgehammer to it, that required a fair whack!

I dont rick kicking bits of my stuff like reffy - my case is built like a tank - 1.0mm SECC steel stops my foot going where it shouldnt. Good cooling means it stays in place.
 
Kye said:
its not how much cool air you can get in, but how fast you can get the hot air out of the PC case. leaving a case open will bugger up a bit the airflow, and probably make it hotter. i never have my PC turned on while the i get her nekkid, static scares me :(
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I drop around 15-20c with the side of my case off. When your case is all shut the only air that is circulating is warm air, which is pointless. Its like trying to cool down your bath with more hot water ;).
 
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Kye said:
its not how much cool air you can get in, but how fast you can get the hot air out of the PC case. leaving a case open will bugger up a bit the airflow, and probably make it hotter. i never have my PC turned on while the i get her nekkid, static scares me :(
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;););)Kye and computer up a tree, doing what they shouldnt be ;););)

nah you cant do much harm to a computer when its opened up and turned on, so long as you dont ground your TV aerial into it during a thunderstorm or something along those lines...
 
i cant do that with my PC. if i tap it, it restarts or shuts down. this was what i blamed the PSU on.

im curious too see if the MX will work or not after i mutilated it...but then again im too busy doing nothing.
 
oh yeah and if you go with the powers and buy an X800, lets hope the powers like it!!!

Well done...
 
Next time i'll check i'm on the right page before posting, oops. Yes Mr Thermaltke i think that the powers especially warm kindly to the works "platinum and edition" :P
 
Maybe this was a totally unrelated incident. But this evening whilst playing joint operations online, the game froze, well the whole computer did. After 5 seconds i came back to the desktop in the windows default resolution and an error box popped up "VGA ERROR" Basically the report box said something along the lines of, the graphics card was not responding to the commands being sent to it by the graphics card drivers. I was like OH MY GOD !!!!! But after i closed the error box i clicked the minimised joint operations box, went straight back into the game. Once i finished killing the nasties i set my desktop resolution back to 1280x1024 and nothings happened since.

Do you guys think that maybe i have damaged the card or that this could have been a totally unrelated incident ??? If it does go downhill rapidly i'll buy another 9800pro, the difference in price between that and the next best card is £150-£200 and i think i'll pass on that one now. Checking up on it my overclocking results have easily overtaken a 9800xt so i should be happy.

"Radeon 9800 Pro One Previous Owner Low Mileage Spares Or Repair" On eBay anyone :P
 
well i think personally you damaged the card :) maybe BECAUSE YOU DROPPED A FLOPPY DRIVE ON IT! (small hint there) but i'd be looking into buying a new one pretty soon :)
 
Now are you sure it was the floppy drive, i'm starting to wonder if u did a Uri Gellar and bended time to lodge the drive on my graphics card, either that or you might be in cahoots with the powers that be :P If it behaves for now then i shall not worry, but if problems start occuring more regularly then i shall look into a replacement. I'll only be able to afford another 9800pro at best.
 
oops did i just post that???

What i meant was maybe they'll fix it for you, yeah thats the one, they might be able to fix it ;)
 
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