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Unless your PC got hit by lightning, I'd get a new repairman first.

Dana

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mikaeladle 
  To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:28 AM
  Subject: [L-OT] help putting a new pc toghether.


  Hi!
  My PC died last weekend, now repairman called me and said that the 
  motherboard, processor, harddrive and both my cd drives are dead.
  So now I´m about to buy a new pc and wonder if you guys have any 
  recommendations?
  First of all I need a new motherboard, processor, memory and 
  harddrive.

  Thanks for any advice.

  Best,
  Mikael Adle



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errr.. was their any lightning recently that might have fried your computer?

If all these devices 'died' at the same time then you would have known about
it. It sounds like your repair man is pulling a fast one - do you know this
person long?

Having said that good stuff as a basis of your computer:
ASUS P4T-E motherboard
at least 256MB RDRAM
P4 (Northwood) - fastest you can afford
Matrox G 450 or 550 or ATI Radeon for video
RME Hammerfall DSP plus Multiface for audio
and whatever you are having yourself for DVD, CD-R/ROM/RW etc...
and of course one of those nice black aluminium cases.. :)
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From: "mikaeladle" <mikaeladle@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: [L-OT] help putting a new pc toghether.


> Hi!
> My PC died last weekend, now repairman called me and said that the
> motherboard, processor, harddrive and both my cd drives are dead.
> So now I\ufffdm about to buy a new pc and wonder if you guys have any
> recommendations?
> First of all I need a new motherboard, processor, memory and
> harddrive.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Best,
> Mikael Adle
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>

--- In logic-ot@y..., "Dana Kukkonen" <bothvar@i...> wrote:
> Unless your PC got hit by lightning, I'd get a new repairman first.
> 

Well, it´s a repairman from the store I bought it and the store is a 
well known place here in Stockholm. If he says it´s dead then I 
guess it´s dead. Whatelse can I believe.
Anyway, any pointers to a new system would be very much appreciated.

Mikael Adle


>   Hi!
>   My PC died last weekend, now repairman called me and said that 
the 
>   motherboard, processor, harddrive and both my cd drives are dead.
>   So now I´m about to buy a new pc and wonder if you guys have any 
>   recommendations?
>   First of all I need a new motherboard, processor, memory and 
>   harddrive.
> 
>   Thanks for any advice.
> 
>   Best,
>   Mikael Adle
> 
> 
> 
>   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of 
Service. 

> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

--- In logic-ot@y..., "Mark Lennox" <mark@e...> wrote:
> errr.. was their any lightning recently that might have fried your 
computer?
> 
> If all these devices 'died' at the same time then you would have 
known about
> it. 

Yes. It had to do with "electricity". Dont know how to express the 
behaviour, but here it goes. I have all my computercables connected 
to a poweradapter that has a I/O switch. When I was about to start 
the computer I turned it on and then started the computer. Nothing 
happened. I tried a couple of times and then 
something "electricitywise" happened and I felt a burning smell from 
within the computer. Therefore I knew something really bad could 
have happened to everything in it.

Thanks for the P4 etc recommendation.

Mikael Adle

>--- In logic-ot@y..., "Dana Kukkonen" <bothvar@i...> wrote:
>> Unless your PC got hit by lightning, I'd get a new repairman first.

Just what i was thinking.

>Well, it´s a repairman from the store I bought it and the store is a 
>well known place here in Stockholm. If he says it´s dead then I 
>guess it´s dead. Whatelse can I believe.
>Anyway, any pointers to a new system would be very much appreciated.

I would definitely get a second opinion on the health of all those
components -- 
I've heard a few horror stories about repair shops before. See if someone
you trust  can recommend  a competent technician -- if he/she confirms the
diagnosis at least it will put your mind at rest. If it turns out it is
just your power supply or your BIOS needs to be reset or something stupid
like that it will save you a bundle.

Regards,
Murray

--- In logic-ot@y..., Murray McDowall <murraymc@m...> wrote:

> I would definitely get a second opinion on the health of all those
> components -- 
> I've heard a few horror stories about repair shops before. See if 
someone
> you trust  can recommend  a competent technician -- if he/she 
confirms the
> diagnosis at least it will put your mind at rest. If it turns out 
it is
> just your power supply or your BIOS needs to be reset or something 
stupid
> like that it will save you a bundle.
> 
> Regards,
> Murray

Thanks guys, I will follow your advice.

Best regards
Mikael Adle

mikaeladle wrote:

>>I would definitely get a second opinion on the health of all those
>>components -- 
>>    
>>
>Thanks guys, I will follow your advice.
>
Good idea to get a second opinion indeed.
I've worked in a computer shop a long time ago. I managed to blow up 
some computers, but I also managed to recover lots of good components 
from computers that were described as "definitely completely wasted". It 
doesn't take much time to find out (an experienced technician can check 
everything out in 15 minutes max), so it's worth the small extra investment.

As far as new systems, I'm not informed enough right now, so I can't 
help ya, sorry.

Cheers,
Joeri

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