You know of others who've done regretful things with problem solving computer issues, or you have yourself.
Be it an OS reinstall, incorrect handing of equipment etc
Share stories, make an interesting thread.
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I'll start
Whilst It's not the worst thing in the world that's happened, there seems to be a common problem recently amongst 7970M users where occasionally the sound card will stop working.
My Driver for Soundblaster corrupted probably a week ago the card was still there; i just lost the ability to use the program and customisation abilities.
Then earlier this morning, the card wouldn't boot and i had no sound.
I tried a few methods to resolve it; eventually gave up and tried an OS reformat incase firmware or a driver was causing the issues.
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.... 20 Minutes later after the OS had been reinstalled, I googled solutions again and the problem was solved by a power drain.
... a friggen power drain could've solved it without an OS reformat. UGH. Now an hour or two reinstalling drivers.
long story short, i did an OS reformat when it wasn't needed
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on someone elses behalf, an issue I can't get over; because I find it so funny would have been from my local tech.
I had issues with a m18x and a motherboard quite a while ago; had to get the whole mobo replaced; the technician who worked on it pulled the computer apart, replaced everything one by one as you should; got all the way to the end and HDDS weren't detected
So; the tech pulled apart the back plate, used a screw driver to pry the latch up that attached the motherboard HDD cable to the HDD caddy ..... and he breaks the latch; I was annoyed as hell as it rendered my drivers useless; but funny thing was, he came back 2 days later; replaced the motherboard once again, and did exactly the same thing LOL
I ended up having three motherboard replacements.
Share your stories!
Be it an OS reinstall, incorrect handing of equipment etc
Share stories, make an interesting thread.
--------------------------------------
I'll start
Whilst It's not the worst thing in the world that's happened, there seems to be a common problem recently amongst 7970M users where occasionally the sound card will stop working.
My Driver for Soundblaster corrupted probably a week ago the card was still there; i just lost the ability to use the program and customisation abilities.
Then earlier this morning, the card wouldn't boot and i had no sound.
I tried a few methods to resolve it; eventually gave up and tried an OS reformat incase firmware or a driver was causing the issues.
.
.... 20 Minutes later after the OS had been reinstalled, I googled solutions again and the problem was solved by a power drain.
... a friggen power drain could've solved it without an OS reformat. UGH. Now an hour or two reinstalling drivers.
long story short, i did an OS reformat when it wasn't needed
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on someone elses behalf, an issue I can't get over; because I find it so funny would have been from my local tech.
I had issues with a m18x and a motherboard quite a while ago; had to get the whole mobo replaced; the technician who worked on it pulled the computer apart, replaced everything one by one as you should; got all the way to the end and HDDS weren't detected
So; the tech pulled apart the back plate, used a screw driver to pry the latch up that attached the motherboard HDD cable to the HDD caddy ..... and he breaks the latch; I was annoyed as hell as it rendered my drivers useless; but funny thing was, he came back 2 days later; replaced the motherboard once again, and did exactly the same thing LOL
I ended up having three motherboard replacements.
Share your stories!