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Post Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2001 5:47 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Just watched a Quantum drive go up in flames!!!!! WOW!!!!
I just got the Celeron from Random this afternoon and was givin it a whirl on some MSI MB I got from Ebay... The Drive was from some dude I fixed his pewter for that thought he had a bad drive... Smile Well I guess it was after all... HEH
Heard a click kind of sound and look at it then POW!!! Flame on!!!! Not big but was on fire.... Lasted about 3 seconds and no more HDD!!! That was definatly a first....


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Post Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2001 7:06 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Wow, never herd of a hd bursting into flames. At least not without outside influence. So you gonna get some pics for us?


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Post Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2001 7:21 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I've let the smoke out of a few hard drives in my time

it's always cool as hell to watch (tho the sound can really suck if you get a head crash when it happens)

what size HD was it anyway ?



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Post Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2001 7:46 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
This post makes me remember the time I fried my Riva TNT while running 3D mark at too high of a res... it didn't burst into flames, but the smell was definitely a sign that it toasted... HEHEHE [}Smile]

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Post Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2001 8:44 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
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what size HD was it anyway ?

10 Gig Fireball...
Didn't hurt anything else and the Pewter stayed at the screen but was locked... Duh!!!!
It was installing shit cause it was on a different MB... And it had 95 on it...




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Post Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2001 9:07 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
LOL welcome to vahlaha,

OH what fun it is.

Quantum drive = you did a service to the HD world.

Hmmm could be a real fun topic: Phiffff....what the hell????? Oh shit...turn it off TURN IT OFF....OH god...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Post Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2001 4:44 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
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10 Gig Fireball...
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Hehehe. Guess it really was a Fireball Tongue Smile.

Sorry, bad pun.

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Post Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2001 3:13 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Had a hard-disk controller chip blow up over summer.
Some guy said his puter was making funny noises so we opened the case and fired it up. There was a smoky smell but nothing visibly wrong. Looking at the HDD later, something had bubbled its way from the middle of a chip to the outside and a sooty mark the shape of a comet's trail carried on across the PCB... not as good as flames but still a pretty impressive looking battle-scar!!!

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Post Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2001 8:42 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Saw a 386 chip blow up once.
My first attempt at overclocking.
Was 20mhz, tried it at 80mhz in my new mobo, heard a VERY high pitched whine, POW!
I was 8.

Good times... Big SmileBig Smile[Very Happy]

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Post Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2001 11:25 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I had a Dell monitor smoke, and it stank bad. I stuck with my Compaq monitor then.

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Post Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 7:40 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I had a powersupply blow up at work!

It was great the building was evacuated and closed for half an hour. Black smoke started billowing out of the back and filled the case. Then the power cords to the motherboard started on fire. It was sweet!

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Post Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2002 12:16 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Sweet! But only because its not my puter.
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2002 6:12 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Bugger! My friend's HD just went up in smoke. He called me to see if I had a bootdisk as his puter wouldn't boot.
After much fiddling with IDE cables, I thought I caught a whiff of something smoky.
What do you know, one of the controller chips burnt out (deja vu?) and took out one of the pin connects with it!

I already know the answer but is there any way to recover any data off the disk?

If it was anyone else I'd just tell them "sorry, your data is now with the big BBQ in the sky" but he'd quite like to rescue his final year dissotation!

I'll educate him in backups later but for now, can anything be done Confused:



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Post Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2002 9:43 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
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Bugger! My friend's HD just went up in smoke. He called me to see if I had a bootdisk as his puter wouldn't boot.
After much fiddling with IDE cables, I thought I caught a whiff of something smoky.
What do you know, one of the controller chips burnt out (deja vu?) and took out one of the pin connects with it!

I already know the answer but is there any way to recover any data off the disk?

If it was anyone else I'd just tell them "sorry, your data is now with the big BBQ in the sky" but he'd quite like to rescue his final year dissotation!

I'll educate him in backups later but for now, can anything be done



"Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas"


You'd probably need to mount the platters inside another hard-drive, but this isn't really something you can do yourself. It'll probably be expensive as hell to get done too, with no guarantee that the data is still there.

Backups rule.

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Post Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2002 9:47 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
No guarantee, but the success rate is quite high. But it is expensive

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