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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: magus on November 02, 2011, 12:03:19 PM

Title: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: magus on November 02, 2011, 12:03:19 PM
well you guys know that a while ago i had some problem with a broken hard-disk... but here's the thing,recently once in a while the PC starts to beep and doesn't stop beeping until i reboot the whole thing

soooo i'm starting to suspect the hard-disk wasn't the only thing that broke! so far it's a pretty rare event but it got me worried,it emits a low sound beep at intermittence's like *beep      beep     beep      beep*

maybe there is a problem with the fan and the CPU temperature ends up too high?
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 02, 2011, 12:06:22 PM
Yeah it's done for.
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 02, 2011, 12:54:18 PM
sell your fuckin' consoles, get a gaming rig
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: bork on November 02, 2011, 01:06:48 PM
Start saving up like $400 and go to fry's and just get a budget pc. They're actually pretty okay if you're not trying to have a monster pc *shrug*

Magus lives in Italy, IIRC.
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Brehvolution on November 02, 2011, 01:11:06 PM
reseat the ram
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 02, 2011, 01:20:01 PM
Maybe you can torrent a new computer from a local shop.

Or just copy it.
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: magus on November 02, 2011, 01:22:52 PM
Maybe you can torrent a new computer from a local shop.

Or just copy it.

man you guys can act so childish
yes yes i pirate stuff,do you guys want me to put it in my tag?

now with that said,are you guys going to help me recognize the problem or continue to squawk?
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: demi on November 02, 2011, 01:24:23 PM
um... your post is a bit vague to help. when does it beep? does any errors occur? have you looked inside your unit itself? cleaned it out?
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: magus on November 02, 2011, 01:47:10 PM
it starts to beep after around 4 hours since been turning on i think?
no errors of sort occur
i cleaned out the thing a while ago when i removed the faulty hard disk

so far it only happened twice,since i removed the faulty hard disk which could have be around a month ago which is why i wasn't worrying too much about it in the first place
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 02, 2011, 01:53:19 PM
can we put that magus is a yucky poor and a degraded pir8 in his tag?
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Brehvolution on November 02, 2011, 02:05:07 PM
Probably a temp alarm. Clean off the old crusty shit from the cpu and get some new heatsink grease.
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 02, 2011, 02:06:47 PM
well you guys know that a while ago i had some problem with a broken hard-disk... but here's the thing,recently once in a while the PC starts to beep and doesn't stop beeping until i reboot the whole thing

soooo i'm starting to suspect the hard-disk wasn't the only thing that broke! so far it's a pretty rare event but it got me worried,it emits a low sound beep at intermittence's like *beep      beep     beep      beep*

maybe there is a problem with the fan and the CPU temperature ends up too high?


Lots of the computers in our compsci lab do the same beeping problem.  I wouldn't be super worried.
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 02, 2011, 09:22:34 PM
Wow, magus, I knew your computer was old, but I didn't think it was THAT old.

Does it sound anything like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOL4q5tDDQ
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 02, 2011, 10:09:08 PM
Start saving up like $400 and go to fry's and just get a budget pc. They're actually pretty okay if you're not trying to have a monster pc *shrug*

We're looking to get a new laptop, so I've been eying the Fry's ads lately. I'll probably drop ~$400-$500 on a new laptop.
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Smooth Groove on November 02, 2011, 10:30:17 PM
sell your fuckin' consoles, get a gaming rig

Make this the new EB headline.
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: magus on November 03, 2011, 06:08:07 AM
Wow, magus, I knew your computer was old, but I didn't think it was THAT old.

Does it sound anything like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOL4q5tDDQ

i wish it was that old

gaming on a 486 :bow

instead it's just shitty old :(
Title: Re: time to throw away my computer?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 03, 2011, 06:59:19 AM
You can build a new PC for 300/400 that will play almost anything on high settings and will shit all over 360/PS3.