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Another victim of the thunderstorm (I think)

Postby [DK]Vectra16V on Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:01 am

My graphicscard in my old gamerpc I use for mta/samp with no mods or anything, the graphicscard is a inno3D 6600 GT 128MB
You can see a capasitor has blown out, and the powerinlet was burning, I started to smell something, turned my head and looked inside the tower, "FIRE!!!" the flames was crawling up the powerlead, tickeling a SATA cable for the hardrive, smoke was pouring out from everywhere inside the tower, In my raging panic, I grabbed my cup of coffee (with sugar) and hurled it at the side of the tower though a went for a 12v fan, causing the ATX to finally shut down and the flames went out...
WTF caused this I cant figure out, but the capasitor to the far left was blown, (and this I didnt hear!) They usualy make a loud "POP" when they blow.
The computer was working fine just up untill I saw the flames, I was on SAMP hauling petrol on CVT, when it happend, it was at 2am in the morning, so I basicly woke up the whole house screaming FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!
Wifey came running down the stairs, and looked at me as if I was a complete idiot "Oh its just your computer, I thought it was serious" GRRR "Woman, go back to bed"


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Re: Another victim of the thunderstorm (I think)

Postby [DRuG]NikT on Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:41 am

wow dude.. lucky you were home I guess.

LoL @ partner reaction.


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Re: Another victim of the thunderstorm (I think)

Postby [DK]Vectra16V on Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:59 am

Ill put up a pic of the tower later, its currenly at my workplace being refurbished
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Re: Another victim of the thunderstorm (I think)

Postby [DRuG]NikT on Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:26 pm

At first I read that as "you are at work getting refurbished".


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