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I bumped what was left of a cup of coffee, panicked, tried to catch it, and instead flung it through the top fan of my case, which ended way worse than what would have happened if it just tipped over (i.e. a small mess)

My wifes computer is the same, so I was able to test the RAM, PSU, HDD, CDROM good. CPU should be fine, but the video, tuner card, and mobo are dead.

Trying to get a like GTX 280 to what I cooked on ebay... if not I'll just order a similar one tomorrow; mobo and tuner are already ordered and should be here later this week.

What a cluster fu***. But anyway, if I'm not around for the next ~week you know why. What an assclown, eh.

Doh! That sucks man. Hope you are back up and running soon.

got the same gtx 280 vid card that I had on ebay; just under $200 bucks; takes some of the sting out of the replacement cost... /me goes back to punching himself in the kidneys

motherboard newegg sent is DOA. I even swapped the CPU out of my wifes computer because I was afraid maybe it was dead... nope mobo = crap.

So I'm sending it back and ordered from Amazon. Should be here friday; vid card by monday... by then maybe I won't be in a completely craptastic mood.

On top of that I lost another hard drive in the raid array on my media pc.

Week... from... hell...

WTF. Sounds like you're having my kind of weekend with computers, except typically, I have no way of determining how the trouble all started. Hope you can get it up and running again soon.

Got a working motherboard today. I swiped my wife's video card for an hour this morning and was able to get the new tuner card going too. Also called Microsoft and got Windows 7 re-activated, as I expected I would have to. So, at this point I just need the video card to show up, so I can pop it in and go, which should be Monday.

New hard drive for the RAID array should also be in Monday as well... coming back online... slowly...

In retrospect I'm really glad that I bought 3 of those disks and put them in a RAID, otherwise I could basically say 2/3rd's chance that I'd just have a dead disk and would have lost all my data at this point. This way it's a royal PIA ass to have to swap them out, but no loss of data...

back online...

Hudson wrote:back online...

Cool. Maybe we can do some flying this week?