I went home last night booted up my PC and it powered down . Now the floppy both CDrom's (one is a burner} do not respond AT ALL so I got to miss the new influx of members My pc is in the shop right now (I am writting this from school).

PC specs
1 ghz AMD althon processor
20 gig maxtor hard disk
512 DDR Ram
64MB Radeon 8500 Video Card

I hope it can be fixed if not I will only be on BG at this time in the morning

Damn that sucks, hope it gets fixed.

I have to wait and see by 5PM tonight I will know if A) It can be fixed and B) how much it will cost. There is still a chance I could be online tonight

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I know how you feel, I'm having some computer troubles of my own.

Basically my motherboard doesn't like either of my GeForce 4s...

Thats why ATI is better Although the nv30 will blow the radeon 9500 pro to bits

ATI is god damn expensive.

I can only get my card replaced by the same type of card, so I couldn't switch my Geforce for an ATI.

And my parents won't buy me one because stupid Christmas is a month away.

If you get the chance get a radeon 8500 or above (if you do choose to go ATI in the future) its one nice card. Playing UT2k3 at full speed (45 fps) all at max! SWEEET!!!

I was going to get ps2 (I have $300 extra from my last pay check) but now with a broken pc I have no clue how much it is going to cost now LOL. To replace the CDRW's and floppy is close to $200 atleast

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Did you build this PC yourself?

I did . It worked fine since march 2002 (when I built the machine my self.) this is the first problem I have encountered with it. It seems to be a serious one at that.

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hope you get it fixed soon