April 02, 2003
Don't mess with Steve

I should have known better than to mess with Apple on April Fool's.

Tech troubles continue. Michele told me on my way home from work that her computer was not working. When I got home and took a look, she mentioned that earlier in the day, there was a strong 'hot electrical' smell coming from the computer.

I feared the worse, but pulled off the heatsink anyway...

That's a burned up CPU. The brains of the computer to you non-geek types. An AMD 1700+ XP processor to be exact.

All the computers in the house use AMD chips so I pulled the chip from the kids computer and put it in Michele's so she could check her email.

A new CPU is on the way from Newegg, so we are down to only 4 computers in the house until it arrives.

I'll never mock Steve Jobs again.

Posted by michael at April 02, 2003 07:36 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Wow, it's rare that you can actually SEE a compute problem. That's pretty cool. I wish things were always that easy to diagnose...

Posted by: ethan [http://www.carwreck.com/] on April 2, 2003 10:21 PM

See? If you were using a Mac, this wouldn't have happened...because their PPC chips just don't have the clock speed to burn out...or something.

I've got nothin'.

Posted by: Eddie Williams [http://nullified.spankyrainbow.com] on April 3, 2003 04:25 AM

hahaha, and to think that the wife just asked me last night what a headsink was for.... =)

Posted by: roXet [http://www.roxet.net] on April 3, 2003 06:44 AM

Friends don't let friends forget the thermal paste...

Posted by: Brad [http://www.flyingw.org] on April 3, 2003 08:43 AM

Dude...

I dont wanna kick you when you're down but...

http://www.hackemate.com.ar/media/Videos/THG_CPU_Cooling.avi

Posted by: Yoshi [http://www.oblivitor.com/] on April 3, 2003 09:41 AM

Don't forget new Apple board member Al Gore. He just sent a big EMP down his internet and fried your wife's CPU with it.

Posted by: patinhisrightmind [http://blog.patbryant.com] on April 3, 2003 01:32 PM

Typical PC user... always coming up with excuses: "If I hadn't done X, then I wouldn't be having problems with Y. Don't blame Steve. The problem is that you're using a windoze machine. Period.

Posted by: Mister P. [http://misterp.blogspot.com] on April 3, 2003 01:33 PM

hrmmm, a piece of hardware failed because of some software? That's a new one on me.

Posted by: roXet [http://www.roxet.net] on April 3, 2003 08:23 PM

I have some overclocking software that I can blow up a PC with...

Posted by: BillB [http://squidly.com] on April 4, 2003 10:33 AM

bah, you got me bill, doh!

Posted by: roXet [http://www.roxet.net] on April 4, 2003 02:52 PM
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