End of year thread: Tally up the dead parts!

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 12:11 pm

2 15" Daewoo Monitors
1 T-Bird 1.4
1 XP 1800
1 XP 1900
1 15GB WD
2 2.1GB WD
1 2GB SeaGate
1 Egronomice Keyboard
1 Laptop KeyBoard
1 LexMark z11
1 Orion VCR
1 19" TV
1 Mustek 600III EP Scanner

N Das All.. I think.. heh.. Not as bad as some others, but sure ain't great..
eGo

fearfox · Post by **fearfox** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 2:44 pm

2 AMD XP 1800's
1 P2 400mhz
1 3gig hd
Ge Force 3 TI 200

MAC · Post by **MAC** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 5:06 pm

1 - Creative Labs Annihilator Pro (3 yrs old)

1- MS Intellimouse Optical (You just can't slam these new mice down like you could the old ones.)

Thats all

MAC

tenax · Post by **tenax** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 10:50 pm

tbird 900 that cost me $200 u.s. at the time..it was an expensive lesson.

1969 cutlass 442...white leather interior, 4 speed..588 horse power high output 455 from a transam..sold for $150, a winter coat, a bag of cashews, a slurpy and a place to stay for a month..

it was a rather dark period in my life..1980..what i learned..and what i lost

bentwookie450 · Post by **bentwookie450** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 11:47 pm

To anyhow who fried and old small hard drive, does anyone still have it and want to send it my way. I need the hard drive magnet to attach to my motorcycle so I can get traffic lights to detect me. Thanks in advance.

tenax · Post by **tenax** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 11:48 pm

WHAT THE HECK? never heard that trick..i have one, but i'll have to put it on my bike

JC · Post by JC » Thu Jan 02, 2003 12:14 am

Heh, I'm -1 on dead parts this year. A VA-503+ mobo that seemed dead last year (but I couldn't bear to toss out) is working again, and at 600+MHz.

JC

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 12:15 am

P.S.
I buy dead vehicles

Anyone else selling 69 442's or buses cheap? Motorcycles? VW BUGS?

I got a yard full of dead stuff and 3 not here yet. Also got to pickup a Firebird I bought day before leaving for vacation, last year

If it is not real common or is old and worth coming to get, cheap, and I can drive/tow/trailer it home and within about 800 miles of South Central MO, tell me about it. That's like Ohio to half of Texas area and WI too!!

If it's something I'd like to play with I might actaully get it.

And how does the magnet on the cycle work? I've had light problems too and plan to buy another bike this year! Might need to try that me self.

jealous57 · Post by **jealous57** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:02 am

http://www.greenlighttrigger.com

This is how it works....and if you want ya can order from here too. I have one on mine and it seems to work pretty good.

Now stuff I killed.........
An 18gig Ultrastar (promptly RMA'd)
An Intellimouse Explorer (MAC is absolutely correct)

Oh and Happy New Year!

jealous57 · Post by **jealous57** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:06 am

Hmm link seems to be dead.........

Ok I'll try to explain the best I can.

You mount a strong magnet as low as possible on a cycle (they say the center stand, I don't have one, I have a real bike

- kidding- so I have mine mounted on my swingarm). When passing over a traffic light sensor it make the light "see" you. And light changes when it is your turn.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:13 am

Thats when you look and if there's no traffic just go... most of hte cops around here know thats a problem and if its clear and a guy on a motorcycle goes they won't pull them over for running a red light. Think the only reason they do this is cause the cops around here have 4 harley's they ride in 8 months out of the year.

Post by **TonyH** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:19 am

Athlon XP 1600+ (Replaced with 2000+)
Athlon 1.133 (Replaced with 1800+)
Seagate Barracuda IV 40GB (RMA'd)
Acer 24x10x40 CDRW (RMA'd)
IDE Zip Drive (Who cares)
Surge protector
20" TV (Replaced with a 46" HDTV)

It's was a light year.

LoneWolfX1X · Post by **LoneWolfX1X** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 2:22 am

after a tumultous last year (what with those damned fragile socket a's, lightning strikes, and a failed experiment in 3 year olds near water cooling) this year was pretty mild.

Asus P4B533: DOA
EVga ti4600: killed by the asus' wonky retention mechanism
more CDRoms than I can count (they always seem to die on me....I have no idea why)
27" TV (aforementioned 3yr. old decided to squirt windex on it and shot right into the a/v ports frying the mobo inside)

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 5:36 pm

one dead FDD
one dead 60GB Seagate HDD
partially dead Soyo DRAGON+
one dying Powmax 500w PS
one dead Athlon Tbirds
one dead Athlon XP
one dead AOpen 24x CDRW drive

Tomuchtime · Post by **Tomuchtime** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 12:04 am

Lets see...
1 gf-mx400 (my fault)
15 cheesy cd jewels (got knocked over and the 'hinges broke)
1 bottem end of a 302 I had in my ranger
(long boring story but expensive nonetheless).I know it's not pc related but it pains me all the same.
Not too bad in the pc dept. this year - thank god.

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End of year thread: Tally up the dead parts!

It's sad.. lol