Why does this always happen 2 me?

[[dannzig]]

Last week or so my graphics card burned up..
this week my harddrive.... ok... its an old drive ... but i haven enough dough to get another one. right now im sitting om my backup ´puter and guess what? i really really
miss my main ´puter.... 266 mmx isn´t much to work with.... /forum/frown.gif but what the hell...
i guess its the way it is with hardware...

just wanted to get some compation... /forum/smile.gif

/dann

[socalgal]

This is why it's a good thing to have a backup puter! Now, don't you feel better? /forum/wink.gif

Maybe you have a magnetic personality! /forum/smile.gif

[Dominus]

800XL, I sort of have that effect in reverse /forum/smile.gif. "Dead" components come back to life if I work with them. I guess computers (and all electronic equipment) just like me.

[Ed_S]

Speaking of people with magnetic problems...

A friend has a lot of trouble with floppy disks mysteriously going blank - has to be him, it's been going on in two houses and several computers now.

Got bad enough he stored backups here & would bring the original (now blank) to be recopied.
I came up with the idea to copy each disk to separate directory on hd, then burn cdr. Now all he does is copy it back from the cd & change the "read only" attribute which is set when cdr is burned.
He still blanks disk & we've never figured out why, but at least this system works! Plus, we don't seem to be using too many floppies these days!

[800XL]

I'm one of the PC resurrectors myself. The dead walk, the sick are healed, and the blind see, etc, etc. My 'magnetic' friend and I make a great team. He is the best stress test I can think of for a piece of hardware or software. If he can hop on my machine and nothing goes wrong, I know it would be solid for years. Who needs Prime95 to test overclocked CPUs, not me. /forum/wink.gifConversely, I help him find the random factor that keeps his stuff from being stable for him.

I honestly believe the personal electromagnetic field theory. My girlfriend has terrible trouble with watches. Wind up watches wind down in less than a day on her arm, and go for a month sitting on her nightstand. Digital watch batteries go dead inside a couple months if she wears it, but will last forever if she does not. Some people are just strange that way.

I personally have no problems with watches/electronics. They seem to 'like' me. I am however prone to electrical shocks. I discharge static by accident about 20-30 times a day unless it is very humid. On the plus side, electric shock does not bother me much. Household current (120-120V AC) bites me, but not badly enough to really cause great discomfort. I will sometimes test the spark on car/truck motors by grabbing a spark plug wire and a ground. Anyone remember that TV show 'Misfits'?

[800XL]

I think some people just have a disturbing electromagnetic field that causes damage to computer equipment. A friend of mine used to kill something almost monthly. It was strange though. I would take his dead parts, test them(indeed, they were dead), then let them sit away from him for a month and somehow life came back into them. Voodoo and exorcisms have their place in modern society I guess.