A warning!!

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Last night I started up FS and after the flight had loaded everything locked
up and a horrendous noise appeared followed by a 'broken' image and then
nothing.
Not one to panic I switched off immediately!
Now the machine had been switched on for some hours previous and the problem
only occurred with FS. I had a Norton Ghost image from the day before so I
restored that; same problem! The other problem was I had consumed rather too
much Stella so I decided to tackle the problem this morning!
All I had done yesterday was removed a SCSI cd-writer and replaced it with
an IDE dvd writer. Now I am pretty careful and experienced with ensuring
cables are 'tidy' but guessed the video card may have been disturbed.
On opening the case I discovered the SCSI ribbon cable had 'kinked' and was
resting nicely on the fan of my Radeon 6800XT! Under normal loads this
obviously didn't present a problem but with FS loading.....
I got lucky but it could have been very expensive!!
So check those cables carefully and then check them again!

Chris

 

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"Chris Curtis" wrote:

> Last night I started up FS and after the flight had loaded everything
> locked up and a horrendous noise appeared followed by a 'broken' image and
> then nothing.
> Not one to panic I switched off immediately!
> Now the machine had been switched on for some hours previous and the
> problem only occurred with FS. I had a Norton Ghost image from the day
> before so I restored that; same problem! The other problem was I had
> consumed rather too much Stella so I decided to tackle the problem this
> morning!
> All I had done yesterday was removed a SCSI cd-writer and replaced it with
> an IDE dvd writer. Now I am pretty careful and experienced with ensuring
> cables are 'tidy' but guessed the video card may have been disturbed.
> On opening the case I discovered the SCSI ribbon cable had 'kinked' and
> was resting nicely on the fan of my Radeon 6800XT! Under normal loads this
> obviously didn't present a problem but with FS loading.....
> I got lucky but it could have been very expensive!!
> So check those cables carefully and then check them again!

I actually don't know what is "Stella", but it would like to taste it!!!

Cheers,
Jan

 

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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:36:07 +0100, "Jan Berg" <jan@epost.de> wrote:

>"Chris Curtis" wrote:
>
>> Last night I started up FS and after the flight had loaded everything
>> locked up and a horrendous noise appeared followed by a 'broken' image and
>> then nothing.
>> Not one to panic I switched off immediately!
>> Now the machine had been switched on for some hours previous and the
>> problem only occurred with FS. I had a Norton Ghost image from the day
>> before so I restored that; same problem! The other problem was I had
>> consumed rather too much Stella so I decided to tackle the problem this
>> morning!
>> All I had done yesterday was removed a SCSI cd-writer and replaced it with
>> an IDE dvd writer. Now I am pretty careful and experienced with ensuring
>> cables are 'tidy' but guessed the video card may have been disturbed.
>> On opening the case I discovered the SCSI ribbon cable had 'kinked' and
>> was resting nicely on the fan of my Radeon 6800XT! Under normal loads this
>> obviously didn't present a problem but with FS loading.....
>> I got lucky but it could have been very expensive!!
>> So check those cables carefully and then check them again!
>
>I actually don't know what is "Stella", but it would like to taste it!!!
>
>Cheers,
>Jan
>

Stella is a Belgian Beer that is sold all over the world. It is a
light Belgium beer, ( I much prefer the darker Belgian Beers), but
many people love it. Stella Artios is the full name for the Beer.

Bob

 

[dallas]

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"Chris Curtis"
> up and a horrendous noise appeared followed by a 'broken' image and then
> nothing.

The minute you said 'broken' image I knew it was your video card. (been
there, done that)


Dallas

 

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"Jan Berg" <jan@epost.de> wrote in message
news:d23ocd$pjs$01$1@news.t-online.com...
> "Chris Curtis" wrote:
>
>> Last night I started up FS and after the flight had loaded everything
>> locked up and a horrendous noise appeared followed by a 'broken' image
>> and then nothing.
>> Not one to panic I switched off immediately!
>> Now the machine had been switched on for some hours previous and the
>> problem only occurred with FS. I had a Norton Ghost image from the day
>> before so I restored that; same problem! The other problem was I had
>> consumed rather too much Stella so I decided to tackle the problem this
>> morning!
>> All I had done yesterday was removed a SCSI cd-writer and replaced it
>> with an IDE dvd writer. Now I am pretty careful and experienced with
>> ensuring cables are 'tidy' but guessed the video card may have been
>> disturbed.
>> On opening the case I discovered the SCSI ribbon cable had 'kinked' and
>> was resting nicely on the fan of my Radeon 6800XT! Under normal loads
>> this obviously didn't present a problem but with FS loading.....
>> I got lucky but it could have been very expensive!!
>> So check those cables carefully and then check them again!
>
> I actually don't know what is "Stella", but it would like to taste it!!!
>
> Cheers,
> Jan

Who knows - Stella might be his wife or partner?
If it is the same Stella I know, she has given me some headaches!

Cheers,
John

 

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"John Ewing" <none@needed> wrote in message
news:42457260$0$22221$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>
> "Jan Berg" <jan@epost.de> wrote in message
> news:d23ocd$pjs$01$1@news.t-online.com...
>> "Chris Curtis" wrote:
>>
>>> Last night I started up FS and after the flight had loaded everything
>>> locked up and a horrendous noise appeared followed by a 'broken' image
>>> and then nothing.
>>> Not one to panic I switched off immediately!
>>> Now the machine had been switched on for some hours previous and the
>>> problem only occurred with FS. I had a Norton Ghost image from the day
>>> before so I restored that; same problem! The other problem was I had
>>> consumed rather too much Stella so I decided to tackle the problem this
>>> morning!
>>> All I had done yesterday was removed a SCSI cd-writer and replaced it
>>> with an IDE dvd writer. Now I am pretty careful and experienced with
>>> ensuring cables are 'tidy' but guessed the video card may have been
>>> disturbed.
>>> On opening the case I discovered the SCSI ribbon cable had 'kinked' and
>>> was resting nicely on the fan of my Radeon 6800XT! Under normal loads
>>> this obviously didn't present a problem but with FS loading.....
>>> I got lucky but it could have been very expensive!!
>>> So check those cables carefully and then check them again!
>>
>> I actually don't know what is "Stella", but it would like to taste it!!!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jan
>
> Who knows - Stella might be his wife or partner?
> If it is the same Stella I know, she has given me some headaches!
>
> Cheers,
> John
>

Her surname is Artois and as John rightly states she is good at providing
headaches particularly if you spend too long in her company!

Chris

 

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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:32:25 +1000, John Ewing wrote:

> If it is the same Stella I know, she has given me some headaches!

I know two of them....and they both have quite a kick!

--

Marcel
(Gear up, AP engaged...hey...what's that emergency light?)

 

[DB]

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I feel a Marlon Brnado moment coming up..

STEEELLLLAAAAA!

lol

Damian

 

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"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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>
> "Chris Curtis"
>> up and a horrendous noise appeared followed by a 'broken' image and then
>> nothing.
>
> The minute you said 'broken' image I knew it was your video card. (been
> there, done that)
>
>
> Dallas

And some of the early video cards did that when they overheated. Often more
cooling fixed the problem, but it seems that yours was a terminal illness.

John