Happened to me on Acer AP43... Turned out I did not power one of IDE devices. Bam! - no post. Took the whole machine apart before I found the cause. You've got a lot of skill, so look for the most stupid fault you can think of!

I was using a Western Digital WD400JB 40gb HD to install WinXP SP3 for the Doom 3 timedemo shootout. Right after the final reboot, the hard drive quit spinning and went dead. My level of frustration simply went through the roof! 😖 🤐 😠

After I calmed down, I went looking for my Seagate Barracuda 40gb HD to start all over again. Can't tell you what happened to the WD400JB, other than it's no longer around 😈 (plays casually with some nifty magnets on his desk 😊 ).

Yes, the same day Panda Antivirus Free pwned my work laptop and I spent a day to reinstall Windows 7.

bristlehog wrote:

Yes, the same day Panda Antivirus Free pwned my work laptop and I spent a day to reinstall Windows 7.

Sounds like McAfee all over again.. surprising to see they haven't learned from them.

The day my A7N8X Deluxe decided to smoke my rare Athlon XP 3200+ 2333 MHz (HP 166 MHz FSB version) wasnt very good.

I had clocked lots of other Bartons on that board but I wanted a 3dmark06 score at 2600 MHz or more with the Geforce 6800 GT/Ultra. For some reason things went south even though I was conservative with the voltage and I had clocked that same CPU higher with more voltage using the same board a year earlier.

Ha, glad to see that I am not the only one. +1 on the McAfee fiasco, Dells always ship with McAfee and my family buys Dells alot. So I always end up saving their poor Windows installs from the evil corruption of McAfee. Random hardware failures are the worst. My Soyo p4 board I recapped was running fine and was just going to turn into a Voodoo3 p4 system and it just refuses to even post now. 6 video cards, different psu, different pieces of ram, cables you name it. The board just gave up on life out of the blue. The pretty PCB and purple pci cards will make it a great wall ornament 😁

and that's why I gave up on Super Socket 7. 🙁

Muwhahaha, ok I am not one for naming my machines. But this Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra has died and been resurrected so many times now it deserves it's own name. I hereby dub thee: The Phoenix!

Just last night my FX 5900 died on my Win 98 machine. Had to replace it with a spare 4200 I had lying around. I was always suspicious of that board, its heatsink setup was just plain flamboiant. Upon pulling it out the fan attachment decided to eject itself from its pins. I suspect that happened to some degree while it was in use and that led to its ultimate failure.