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Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:53 am

So far, that's like $300 worth of damage. Computers should be a bit more resilient, IMO. I wouldn't mind paying an extra $20 for a moisture-resistant hard drive.

Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:17 pm

Renter's insurance cover it?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:01 pm

That sucks, Tsu.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:46 pm

Mikey wrote:Renter's insurance cover it?

It might, if I had any.

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:47 pm

Reliant121 wrote:Mine was designed to cope with HD television, as my PC was a family experiment with running the Virgin Media Cable box through the TV. That didn't work, but the graphic card is pretty damned powerful. It copes with Legacy (which completely pwned my old computer) with ease.

Ah, but can it run Crysis? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis)

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:05 pm

My computer is a HP Pavilion with 640 gb HD, 3 gigs of RAM, AMD 64+ dual core processor running at 2.6 GHz, with an Acer 19" LCD HD monitor, and standard keyboard and optical mouse, and Boston Acoustics 2.1 digital speaker system I pirated from an older Gateway computer we used to have at Radio Shack as a customer internet kiosk. They sound AWESOME!

Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:32 pm

Sorry, Tsu.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:16 pm

I bit the bullet and slapped down $130 for a 500 GB drive. Now I shouldn't need another HD for a loooong time.

Post by **Mikey** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:18 am

Hope this one lasts. That's a LOT of porn.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:53 am

Mikey wrote:Hope this one lasts. That's a LOT of porn.

My next investment will be a DVD burner.

Captain Picard's Hair · Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:17 am

Tsukiyumi wrote:
Mikey wrote:Hope this one lasts. That's a LOT of porn.
My next investment will be a DVD burner.

It's fortuitous that the things aren't terribly expensive, since they do tend to die and need replacing after a time depending on how heavily used (or, at least to a greater extent than most other computer parts, though HDD's aren't held in awe for their longevity either - as you know far too well).

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:30 am

My old Seagate 80GB held out for almost six years; I'm confident that the humidity was to blame for all of these failures in such a short time span.

Generally speaking, you're right, of course. I'm just going to get a low-end DVD-RW and use it to make backups.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:41 pm

And, now I had to re-install Windows...

I didn't format; I just overwrote the old install. We'll see how well this works...

Grundig · Post by **Grundig** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:44 pm

Ugh. You have the worst computer luck, Tsu.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:47 pm

Grundig wrote:Ugh. You have the worst computer luck, Tsu.

Lately, yes. But, my system was almost six years old; it's no wonder a lot of these things started breaking down. Now, the only old components left are the processor and motherboard.

Also, if I weren't at least somewhat knowledgeable, I would've been totally stumped a while back. I guess I needed the practice.

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