So got a new video card and monitor ...
Posted: 2008-08-26 08:39am
A 22-in Samsung SyncMaster 2693HM - very sweet, and an ATI Radeon 4780 (the most powerful card my system could reasonably take advantage of).
Unfortunately the video card causes an annoying sound that I haven't yet managed to get used to (sort of like a barely audible hissing water pipe sound even though it's obviously just the fan) and my friend got the genius idea of turning my computer on its side to see - well, something.
Unfortunately for me, he didn't realise (and I wasn't paying attention) that I had my 4GB USB stick inserted on the right hand side of the tower (it has 2x USB ports on the side along with other things) - the act of putting it on its side obviously wrenched the stick out of the port, ruined the port, and reduced my lovely Sony 4GB microvault to a twisted wreck.
After much straining with a screwdriver to get the metal back in place, we put it in other port, it worked, I transferred all the data to my hard drive, and now I've got a fucked up port on my tower, and a useless memory stick.
Of course, it doesn't mean dick because I've got one port on the front side left and two spares on my keyboard (a Logitech G15) - but dont you fucking hate it when the "perfection" of your PC is ruined by something like this? Anyway to fix it? Can they replace those?
Unfortunately the video card causes an annoying sound that I haven't yet managed to get used to (sort of like a barely audible hissing water pipe sound even though it's obviously just the fan) and my friend got the genius idea of turning my computer on its side to see - well, something.
Unfortunately for me, he didn't realise (and I wasn't paying attention) that I had my 4GB USB stick inserted on the right hand side of the tower (it has 2x USB ports on the side along with other things) - the act of putting it on its side obviously wrenched the stick out of the port, ruined the port, and reduced my lovely Sony 4GB microvault to a twisted wreck.
After much straining with a screwdriver to get the metal back in place, we put it in other port, it worked, I transferred all the data to my hard drive, and now I've got a fucked up port on my tower, and a useless memory stick.
Of course, it doesn't mean dick because I've got one port on the front side left and two spares on my keyboard (a Logitech G15) - but dont you fucking hate it when the "perfection" of your PC is ruined by something like this? Anyway to fix it? Can they replace those?