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Loading ...When It All Goes Horribly Wrong… :’(
Elemental Dragon ¦ Bex
No one ever wants to think that their project will go wrong, but sadly mine did…. I’m absolutely heart broken. My boss and I carted my PC out of the office and into the work area where I could hook it up to a keyboard, mouse and monitor. All the wiring had been checked and double checked. Hooked everything up and checked once more. I pushed the button. Nothing… Something was wrong…
I pushed it again, life. What had it not started for? Got it up and into Windows, ran 3D mark 06 for testing. Then it went al wrong… BANG! My boss and I startled immediately saw there were sparks and smoke coming from my top graphics card. I just yanked the power lead out. Falling to my knees, I checked as best I could to see what was wrong. Nothing… No leaks had sprung. My fiance ran down as soon as he heard what happend to comfort me.
My fiance took the lead and earthed the PC just incase and helped draining and taking it apart. Bit by bit we took the top card apart. Beneath the block we found blackness. The card had blown. Theheatsink blackend. My next concern, “Have I just killed my PC?!”. I couldn’t even bring myself to trying… My fiance had to move my bottom card into the top slot. We used the cables that were attached to the card that had blown incase it was the leads. Cautiously he turned it on. Life… From such tragedy, something had survived… I hadn’th blown it all away… my many months of work…
Sadly I just can’t bring myself to having another go just yet. I’ve already started to try and RMA my card piecing it back together. However I’m guessing it will be difficult as I bought it from my last place of work. But we shall see…
[UPDATE] No longer trading. Oh great. This is going to be fun. just going to have to be direct with Asus.
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