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RIP...The Computer That Would Not Die

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
My old computer, a P4 3.0gig system, has been running for MONTHS and MONTHS with leaking MOBO capacitors. Six of them. All in a nice row right beside the CPU. I have scratched my head time and time again when I come across a system that goes belly up with just a single capacitor blown or leaking...while my old box continued to run smooth as silk.

Well, tonight...The Computer That Would Not Die did die. But not of natural causes. I killed it so that it may live again. A week ago, I came across a MOBO on E-Bay that would support the CPU, RAM, Video card, PSU from my old system. Tonight I gutted Ol' Faithful and rebuilt it in a much nicer case with the new MOBO and some newer cooling fans. The Computer That Would Not Die is now living in a sleek, shiny Black and Silver ex-E-Machine case.

And to prove that it was the roughest, toughest old P4 system on the face of the earth...at some point since the last cleaning I gave the system a month or so ago, a 7th capacitor blew its top and sprayed its dark gray goop all over the place....and yet the system still ran like a dickens.

I hope that The Computer That Would Not Die has a few more years left to live. Tomorrow I will take it to Tina, my sis-in-law, whose computer went belly up last week after 1 of its MOBO capacitors blew..what a chump! This will be the fastest PC she has had...her previous three were an 800meg P3, a 2.2gig P4, a 2.2gig AMD something or other. She will enjoy the extra speed and power offered by the 3.0gig P4, 512meg Nvidia 7600GS, 2gig of PC3200 RAM, 2 500gig IDE drives, 2 DVD burners, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 9-in-1 media card reader.

OBIO
 
I build computers for free for disadvantaged kids and for charter schools out of old computers people send me. It's amazing how much stuff is still out there that will provide pleasure for those who do not have a computer. It is even more amazing to realize that not everyone in this country has access to a computer. Good on ya Tim!
Ted
 
Don't laugh my Friend,
But my new computer is set up with a P4 3.066 cpu, 512 meg video card,
a Audigy 2 Pro sound card, 2 gigs of ram, two DVD burners, 6 USB slots, a used E-machine I now have..
And this is my new one....:icon_lol:

Very Glad you got yours running for your family..:applause:

I wouldn't know how to act if I had a New fast computer..:isadizzy:
I am very grateful for this computer..:engel016:
It is the fastest I have ever had..

And the sound card and one of the DVD Burners was sent to me..

By a Very Kind Soul from here at SOH.. God Bless Him..:engel016:

There are some wonderful kinds folks here and I am grateful for Our SOH family..:salute:
 
My old system....The Computer That Would Not Die...was sent to me by a site member. The system before was given to my by another site member. Yep, lot's of wonderful folks here on SOH/Combat Flight Center.

OBIO
 
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