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Originally Posted by cookie
Yes Ezer, my nephew advised the same thing when my almost 8-year-old monster dinasaur of a desktop fluttered and turned black and white recently. Its time is up. This was what he said, “A freshie will set you back $$$. If you want to keep the old goat, it is going to cost you a lot of trouble getting it fixed”.
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EXACTLY! PCs aren't too expensive nowadays... and it'll be 1000s of times more powerful.
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Will definitely check out i-Jeanne and i-Dollah. They come without hard disks.
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i-jeanne and i-dollah?
I say
I-PODAH.
Like Penghulu said, just buy a nice clone from lowyat...
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Originally Posted by vivienlpl
wah your pc on whole day one ar..then possible lightning.....strike
if you are on a lightning protector device - normally it is a device connected to your computer - then maybe it strikes that device - you need to get it replace..if it is not working - it zap straight your pc - your most expensive part of the CPU might get "goreng"
try opening the box - you might smell the burnt smell
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Even if you have a voltage stabilizer (which acts to protect you from surges), a strong surge may still get thru. That's why when you're not using your pc, unplug it from the socket.
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but you said lightning arrestor on top of the roof hhmmm it wont help
it wont make a difference - unless your pc is next to it...
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Here's the myth... Most ppl think that a lightning strike means striking your house. Althought that can happen, it rarely does. Lightning usually strike the telephone or electrical line miles away from your house, and that causes a huge surge that would arrive at your house in less seconds and fry your equipment.
In the US or some other developed countries, they hide a lot of their cables underground and that's why the don't have this problem.