It finally blew up!

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No, it didnt blow up, thats just what I say when things break lmao...

Anyways, it wasn't as extreme as I thought it was, yes there is something wrong with the cpu, and the AUTO setting on my board did the ram wrong, but after getting all that fixed (put my timings back on the ram, raised the voltage on the cpu, and checked all the cables) I went to boot, and a file was missing... So i grabbed my vista disk and went to reinstall, still getting errors and BSOD's, each time a different code, so i pulled the entire system out of the case and bench ran it, discovered what my problem was

A FAULTY SATA CABLE!

i lost 3 years worth of file saving, 60gb of downloaded files, etc... all because of a $5 cable

gotta love computeres eh? luckily enough I have a backup as of 3 months ago on my old 160gb (which i gave to my friend) and he has yet to reformat, we have the same motherboards basically so he just put it in, it updated drivers and worked) so today when we are painting our cases, (I might post a worklog somewhere) I will have the "My Downloads" folder copying to my 320GB, back up all his files, then reinstall ultimate for him)

Todays gonna be a fun day... Theme for the paint is the amd logo (he is gonna get a stencil), green and black, plus we have pearl blue and purple! sometime at the end of this week I am going to paint the inside/back of my case aswell


and thats pretty sad about the 5200+ cap on my board... thats my next upgrade then, considering that biostar TForce board, going to couple it with a 7750 kuma

No data is lost....get "Get Data Back NTFS" from Runtime and you can restore all the data from that drive. If you did not use WipeDrive or other DOD overwriting software....it is all still there and worth the investment in the software!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
i had already installed vista :eek:

I got my files back anyways, just lost a couple movies and a rip of my COD:WaW disk

OH update on the case, the back is purple, front is blue and green (im gonna take the green back to aluminum and do that purple instead) and the rest of the case is black until I can get a rivet gun and do the inside of the case purple or something. lemme get a picture of the rear
 
The back before paint:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/bmxfreakrider/SDC11763.jpg

The back after paint: (sorry for the blurryness, not enough light in there so the autofocus didnt do so well)

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/bmxfreakrider/SDC11778.jpg

My desk until i finish the case:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/bmxfreakrider/SDC11777.jpg

The front panel before:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/bmxfreakrider/SDC11765.jpg

The front panel after: (i know the green looks like crap...)

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/bmxfreakrider/SDC11779.jpg
 
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