Stories of fixing computers

[Red Dragon]

Well it wasn't a virus at all that killed my Laptop. It was a simple disconnection of a little plug underneath the keyboard, didn't cost me a single penny either.

What are some of your stories of fixing your computers? What happened to it and what did you have do to fix it?

[thetruecoolness]

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Well at one point my computer randomly started not starting up. So first I thought maybe the power button wasn't pushing in correctly, but I switched the faces of my two computers and the same thing kept happening. I looked online and some people said it might be the RAM, but both of my sticks were really good, though I took one out and it booted up, but then tried it again and it failed. So at this point I suspected the Power Supply (as it was one I got with my case so not the best, and around 450W, and I have 4 HDs now an XP 2600+ processor, and a GeForce FX 5600 which together do draw quite a few amps). So I got me a new power supply for $50 with active power factor correction and 500W, and now my computer works just as good as it always did.

[jvrlopez]

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HD crashed after 4 years (with .5 GB left) so I bought a new computer.

[Smurf Taco]

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My computer is broken right now so I'm using my laptop full time. I'm waiting on a PS/2 keyboard to (hopefully) fix it. It should be here tonight.

Besides that, a hard drive crapped out, so I upgraded it (running with 400 GB right now).

I overheated/burned my processor so I upgraded that, along with a new motherboard. Cost a decent amount... about $300 for that one.

That's all that has actually broken, though I have done hundreds of upgrades, and each time I had a problem or two while installing it.