3 bricked computers? *3*!?

[mainegreen]

Somehow I've bricked 3 computers this week.

Good god, I better not touch the TV. I'm on a roll. I'm sure I can brick that one too!

x(

Crap, crap, crap.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

1. I had 2 bricks yesterday.

First time I have had one literally smokin'. That one is probably a permanent brick. I reloaded Windows on this one, and I am in the long and painful process of setting it up. Can't seem to locate my Office disks, though...

x(

[mainegreen]

4. Yeah, I had one smoke. Smelled nasty.

[hobbit709]

2. What did you do to them

[mainegreen]

5. I attempted to fix them.

I failed miserably, I can tell you that.

One in smoking ruins.
One that clicks after changing memory. The mother board clicks at me and blinks ominously. No matter what peripheral is attached now.
I had to reset the bios on the third. It did not end well.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Must be something going around.

I managed to kill my main PC last week, and had to assemble a system from the corpse of that one and two others. It's slower, which is a pain in the ass, but I can't afford a new machine right now, so this will have to do for a few months. :evilfrown:

[mainegreen]

6. The replacement costs are a pain.

I'm going to have to dig deep in the closet to get something running temporarily.

[GoneOffShore]

7. I'm sort of worried about posting in this thread

Just in case my computer die..................

[mainegreen]

8. I've got the touch

and it's catching

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

9. Update on mine...

I've got most of my stuff working on the new one. One big problem, though... I cannot get my data that was backed up on the old machine to restore on this one. Spent hours chatting with symantec today. I have a file on my external HD named Norton_360_backup with 5+ GB of stuff in it. You cannot tell it to go to a specific file location and it cannot find the file on its own. The Norton techs keep telling me it should work.

Tomorrow I am raising hell. Just too tired to deal with it any more tonight. :cry:

[margotb822]

10. I've killed both of my work computers

I'm scared to keep messing with my own computer...