After 2012's late summer vacations, i returned back to work and things got a bit messed up.
(Serious relationship, lots of work +2nd one, some more trips, etc etc)

Had some of the same during winter holidays so i didnt race much since then.


A week ago, i decided to login at cargame.nl as soon as i came back home from a bar late at night.

Booted up my laptop (2006 "gaming" model) opened up firefox, tabs, e-radio, skype, mtorrent etc... and clicked on LFS
when LFS started, my computer gave its spirit. Pppppzzzzffffeeeww.... silence.

Thought, wtf, pressed the button but nothing happened. Took it out of charger for a couple of minutes, inserted battery, removed it again, connected charger, 100% dead with a buzzing sound near the psu connector.
I sniffed the back of its vent ports, smelling burnt

Oh well, time to get a new one, i was thinking about this summer, but well, it escalated quickly.

Yesterday, my new one, came home, this time though its a 17"


In the meanwhile i sliced open my burnt old one, taking apart each piece from the barebone.
Core 2 Duo was fine, 8800M GTX fine, 2x 2Gb fine, wlan/bt/tv modules fine and so on.

THE BIGGEST FACEPALM I HAD, was when i took out the hard drive out of its 2ndary casing (2,5"). Its PCB had a small burnt spot.

Im waiting for a WD blue series (i'll add S/N etc) same size with mine, used, just to match its pcb to get mine working again and hopefully recover my files if that's possible.



-90Gb of travel pictures, motorcycle/car/family/army/friends/etc
-TONS of important documents and work templates
-9200 .mp3s
-Firefox bookmarks, passwords, settings, etc..
-Software collection (legal, legal !! )
-MY EPIC crazy videos with best friends etc etc...
-Direct executable games (no installation) among with their settings - in example LFS, settings, skins, setups !!!! FFS


I feel so bad, having to set again my setups for LFS, but i'll give it a go, who knows i might reinvent something and level up my potential of crashing onto other people.


I'll be back, soon !!!

Greetings to everybody from Greece

Yesterday I packed your setups folder and placed it on a virtual disk in the network , in any case, if you have setups regardless of whether my computer will burn, drown, evaporate I will have setups



we will wait




PS:if you want to download, this is a little out there http://chomikuj.pl/edpawel

it's not only the setups, but my whole "library" of files which is gone maybe!

The only thing bothering me until the used drive comes, which i will use to swap the PCB to my old one making it work, is that i can run lfs but without setups, skins, .dds mods etc...

setups are most important in lfs , the rest can easily rebuild.... so I can help you if you want to download, not forcing


I know when you lose all your data is not a mile, but as I said once lost too 400GB

I'll give it a try with the used drive i ordered to do the "surgery", by the end of the month, we'll see how it goes.

Ah, that sucks

I hope it is possible to recover the stuff

pls stay away for as long as possible.


regards, everyone on cargame.

Franky, are you having your period again?

Why are you starting Firefox, an online radio and a torrent program of all things before you go on LFS?

Lol Franky.

Morx: long story but:

Cool

Sorry for the long coast