Well, I Fucked Up...

Yeahp, fucked up pretty nicely this time.

Broke my computer. Like, seriously broke it.

Came home, and I was booting without video...

Had added a fan to my computer last night, was worried I accidentally unseeded the processor or RAM. So, took the RAM out, put it back in... Still, nothing. So, I tried to take the processor out, to reset it. Well, thats no easy ordeal with the modern cooling fan and heat sink. Unsnapped the unit, tried to pull it up... Nothing... I sort of gave up at that moment. Decided to just snap the unit back down, and give up for a while...

Thats when it happened. Pushing down on the levers that lock the the whole thing in place. I remember it being a tough thing to do when building the unit... Put in pushing down on it, the plastic frame snapped, cutting my thumb pretty well, as well as sliding the heatsink off the processor, which had fused from the heat. Which was nice, because it allowed me to reset the processor into the system... Tried to boot without the heatsink and fan on the processor, and now, the system tries to bootup... But just resets the power after a few seconds...

So, now i'm pretty well fucked.

If we assume it's just the board thats fucked, that's about $150... Processor, ehhh maybe another $250? Then of course, if we somehow fucked everything, with the power resetting as it is, thats not totally out of the question... $1,100... Merry Fucking Christmas.

-Rys4K

p.s.- Least it's West Wing night.