Ok, this is not HL2 related but I still want to share because the last 24 hours have been a mess.
I was playing BFME yesterday and at around 15:30 my screen goes totally crazy. It turns black and alot of grey stripes appear. So I restarded it and the screen goes black and the computer starts beeping... Great I think, the video card is dead...
So I start looking trough my computer and then I realise, my watercooling have DRIPPED down onto my videocard. I think that this is the end of my videocard, and this is not the first card my watercooling have killed, the other one burned up...
Anyway, I start cleening the card and completley remove the watercooling system and put on the original fans... Altough I remember my CPU fan is broken so I have to wait until today before I can buy a new one. With that said and done I spend the evening watching TV (I usually watch TV like 10 hours every year, total!).
Today, I got up and bough a new CPU fan. I started up my computer and guess what?! My videocard worked! I mean, I could bath my computer and she would still work! =) But a cupple of minutes the computer dies again, I restart, it dies. So I pick it apart again and when I remove the videocard I see that the liquid from the watercooling have gotten into the AGP port. Damn! Well, the computer works I just have to dry it up. I spend a cupple of hours (three more or less) puching in toiletpaper into the AGP port and then removing it again.
And now, after being apart from my dear Elin (Yes, I have named my computer, after all, she is my baby) for 24 hours she workes fine so far. The questin is, do I have the currage to start BFME again and see if she can manage the pressure?
Only one way to find out.
Thx for reading.
And no, my computer is not my girlfriend, I have a reallife girlfriend, and I live with her. Even my girlfriend calls my computer Elin. =)
I was playing BFME yesterday and at around 15:30 my screen goes totally crazy. It turns black and alot of grey stripes appear. So I restarded it and the screen goes black and the computer starts beeping... Great I think, the video card is dead...
So I start looking trough my computer and then I realise, my watercooling have DRIPPED down onto my videocard. I think that this is the end of my videocard, and this is not the first card my watercooling have killed, the other one burned up...
Anyway, I start cleening the card and completley remove the watercooling system and put on the original fans... Altough I remember my CPU fan is broken so I have to wait until today before I can buy a new one. With that said and done I spend the evening watching TV (I usually watch TV like 10 hours every year, total!).
Today, I got up and bough a new CPU fan. I started up my computer and guess what?! My videocard worked! I mean, I could bath my computer and she would still work! =) But a cupple of minutes the computer dies again, I restart, it dies. So I pick it apart again and when I remove the videocard I see that the liquid from the watercooling have gotten into the AGP port. Damn! Well, the computer works I just have to dry it up. I spend a cupple of hours (three more or less) puching in toiletpaper into the AGP port and then removing it again.
And now, after being apart from my dear Elin (Yes, I have named my computer, after all, she is my baby) for 24 hours she workes fine so far. The questin is, do I have the currage to start BFME again and see if she can manage the pressure?
Only one way to find out.
Thx for reading.
And no, my computer is not my girlfriend, I have a reallife girlfriend, and I live with her. Even my girlfriend calls my computer Elin. =)
