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Grrrr bloody PC parts.
All's been working well recently, until yesterday morning.
My son was having a morning nap, my daughter was playing in her bedroom, so I was sat in my room with a pot noodle, happily watching an episode of CSI, then *boomf*, PC hangs.
I hard reset, get back into windows, couple of minutes later...boomf does it again.
So I turn her off, open her up and it seems the fan on my Raden 9800 Pro has decided to stop playing.
I managed to get a functional PC by unhooking everything, so I could put the PC on desk, with a big B&Q fan pointing right inside it to cool the GFX down.
So today I head off to Aria, to get an Arctic Cooler as a replacement.
I fit it before tea and everything's hunky dory.
Come suppertime tonight, I've *just* finished watching Episode 1 of Eureka (ace show BTW), and all of a sudden PC slows to a crawl.
After much thumb twiddling, Task Manager manipulation and lots of strong words, windows kicks back into life.
I go to browse the folder again, where it had hung on me a few moments ago and bingo...it did the same again.
I hard reset, and uh oh, my 120 gig drive has disappeared from my BIOS
Check all cables, plug it back in, still nothing.
Its quite warm to the touch, but I've had drives that are painfully hot to touch before, so I don't think it's that.
I've got it sat on my desk and I'll try it again in the morning...when it's cooler.
I bought it in 03 when warranties for HD's were at the "1 year" phase, so it's out of warranty.
It contained two partitions, Media and Backup.
So its got all my backup utils on it, and application data (OK I backed up last month, but still).
Worse thing is, it's got all my music vids, TV episodes (incomplete series like Goodnight Sweetheart s3, On the buses etc), and also ALL my mp3's, every single one. All god-knows-how-many-gigs of em that I've collected. Some hard to find stuff too, that I've had for years.
That, and worse of all it's got some DV footage...I hope I haven't taped over the tapes again..It's footage of my kids...was waiting for a DVD full before I burnt.
GRRRRRR
All's been working well recently, until yesterday morning.
My son was having a morning nap, my daughter was playing in her bedroom, so I was sat in my room with a pot noodle, happily watching an episode of CSI, then *boomf*, PC hangs.
I hard reset, get back into windows, couple of minutes later...boomf does it again.
So I turn her off, open her up and it seems the fan on my Raden 9800 Pro has decided to stop playing.
I managed to get a functional PC by unhooking everything, so I could put the PC on desk, with a big B&Q fan pointing right inside it to cool the GFX down.
So today I head off to Aria, to get an Arctic Cooler as a replacement.
I fit it before tea and everything's hunky dory.
Come suppertime tonight, I've *just* finished watching Episode 1 of Eureka (ace show BTW), and all of a sudden PC slows to a crawl.
After much thumb twiddling, Task Manager manipulation and lots of strong words, windows kicks back into life.
I go to browse the folder again, where it had hung on me a few moments ago and bingo...it did the same again.
I hard reset, and uh oh, my 120 gig drive has disappeared from my BIOS
Check all cables, plug it back in, still nothing.
Its quite warm to the touch, but I've had drives that are painfully hot to touch before, so I don't think it's that.
I've got it sat on my desk and I'll try it again in the morning...when it's cooler.
I bought it in 03 when warranties for HD's were at the "1 year" phase, so it's out of warranty.
It contained two partitions, Media and Backup.
So its got all my backup utils on it, and application data (OK I backed up last month, but still).
Worse thing is, it's got all my music vids, TV episodes (incomplete series like Goodnight Sweetheart s3, On the buses etc), and also ALL my mp3's, every single one. All god-knows-how-many-gigs of em that I've collected. Some hard to find stuff too, that I've had for years.
That, and worse of all it's got some DV footage...I hope I haven't taped over the tapes again..It's footage of my kids...was waiting for a DVD full before I burnt.
GRRRRRR