You know your computer sucks when...

[Igloo]

32) your best mate's phone can play better games than your computer

33) your screen is black and white, and you explain its a fault with the game

[Nestor]

32? When you have to walk in 6 feet of snow, with burlap for shoes, thirty miles (uphill both ways) before your computer will finish the poast process.


AND YOU LIKE IT THAT WAY!!!!

[scuzzy]

You know your computer sucks when you use it to vacuum your carpets.

[Wade777]

notice anything funky?

[Andrew S]

what exactly is that block of wood doing/holding?

[Mark H]

Yep, I have to agree with Andrew. The wood does stick out to me.

Mark H

[trav]

Wow Wade, pretty cool, The wood adds an OLD FASHIONED style ;) ;D

[Neon]

The top edge of the motherboard appears to extend beyond the mounting tray. I'm guessing the block of wood is a shim for the power supply, and this case is the wrong size for the mobo?

[Ace]

Scuzzy is a mobo.  He probably has an oak computer, to match his new cabinets.

I remember when there was a company that had wooden PC cases, and when Dell had the faceplates like that.  I thought that was pretty cool.  I wish I could find one of those old "antiquing" kits, where you put on the base coat and a top color and rub it with steel wool to make it look like wood grain.  That'd be pretty neat on my Monarch.

Pretty.  Neat.

Ace; you know your Jester sucks when he won't vacuum.

[Wade777]

Well... Neon is correct
The power supply does not fit the ATX case that I have .. so I had to be very creative ...
AND I couldnt change power supplies because the ghetto Compaq MB that I have has 2 more pins then the standard ATX p/s ..!  Sounds like they just want to make me buy power supplies from them.

[Neon]

Oh yeah, many of the OEMs do that now - Compaq is well known to use nonstandard parts. Dell has even used some power supplies that look like standard ATX, but are wired differently. Pretty sneaky.

[Andrew S]

Does Dell use Intel based motherboards?  How would you go about using a Dell power supply in another motherboard?  Snip some wires and re arrange them in the proper positions or? what

[Neon]

I'm not the expert on Dell, but to my knowledge most Dell mobos are custom OEMs based on existing (Intel??) designs.

It might be possible to rewire a power supply, but it depends on the particulars, and who wants to have to do that anyway? There is nothing wrong with the ATX standard.

[Wade777]

Yes, you can rewire everything, but that is really risky and you need to be sure you are doing everything right... unfortunately there is not adequate documentation on my motherboard (or Compaq just doesnt want to give it)

[Carskick]

You know your computer suck when the only intresting thing it can do is visit Poasters.com

[trav]

Hey! That makes it interesting! :)

[Ace]

Geez.  I thought this poast was dead.  Or at least blocked.  

I don't find it "interesting" when my computer winds up over here.  There are some days I come home from work and find the dang thing parked here, poasting away some gibberish.  And it doesn't always come when it's called.  I've tried running cords and cables and stuff from the back of it, to anchor it to the faux Scandinavian computer desk, but even that doesn't seem to help.  I still find it's gone online and took off for Poasters, all by itself.  Probably just to annoy children and slap smiley faces all over creation.  

I suppose it's better than the time it got to playing DiabloII by itself, and I got ambushed by my dang Barbarian when I went to start a game in Links.  I thought the golfer could've defended himself with a 9 iron, even though he was up against a seasoned veteran, with double axes...   Criminy, the green was a mess after that.  

Ace; wasn't exactly green, either.  

[iansl]

40 or so) When you have to add Win to autoexec.bat to start in Windows.
41) When the PC's too old to run Knoppix well and too new to run GEM and is used for mainly internet.
41a) When its CD drive randomly stops working.

41 describes our old Gateway.

42) When your free space on your hard drive is measured in kilobytes
43) When there ain't no CD drive, and there ain't no room for one.
44) When it has AT-style keyboard connector and serial port for your mouse (believe it or not, a Windows 95 PC had this setup but a Windows 3.1 Compaq that we have doesn't)
45) When your computer ships with the manufacturer's OS (except for Apples, of course)
46) If your USB port randomly stops working
47) If your CMOS battery is dead, meaning that when you start your PC up on battery power (laptop), you can oly do Safe Mode
48) When You get the blue screen of death several times a day
49) When Ace is at your keyboard
50) When your virus count is more than the number of programs on your PC
51) When you have to wait two hours for a 3-page publisher document to save, and another two hours for it to print to PDF using PDF995

My PC isn't that bad, but Publisher is a big resource-hog

52) When you have an average of 10 minutes of internet time a day
53) When MSN Messenger requires overnight to download

[Nestor]

was that an AT style mobo up there? ???

[Wade777]

up where?

[Nestor]

In the pic!