Only Glowy in my computer is the CPU fan that's Red-Green-Blue when you look. If you see white light from it spinning too fast, it's a sign that the CPU's getting a wee bit hot!
This week I've had my BFG 5700LX-512MB Toast, and my Mad Dog version of the same (but 256Meg only) Heat glitch...
Both of their fans died w/in a day of each other and were running smoothly - I checked the warranties and the BFG has a lifetime replacement, they're overclocked right out of the box and so tend to burn out a lot. Now I get to see if they are still around as a business and will honor the replacement warranty.
The MadDog reached 5 years to the day when it burned out. It was like the fan just stopped receiving power. I removed the Vid Card cpu fan and tested it. Works fine, so something in the card decided that it wasn't gonna power the fan anymore and let the CPU burn out. I'll need to check w/others who've had similar cards to see if they've had hardware just stop working after a certain amount of time due to firmware code.
Both my CD-RW and my DVD-RW I had from Creative, bought at same time, both suddenly stopped working last Nov 31'st too for no reason.
Both still spin, eject and laser test shows they are functional. Ran a cleaning CD in both and no dust/gunk came off the reader head or lenses.
They just stopped being able to Read/access a CD or DVD at the same time.
I popped them into my Win-98/XP old box (used for writing only normally- no internet access) and changed the date in CMOS back to 2003 when I bought the CD and DVD players.
They worked fine. So they stay there. Both are discontinued as Creative supported hardware now, but something definitely triggered them, by date, to stop working. Pisses me off.
Anyone else have hardware suddenly stop functioning or self destruct like my vid cards did? (BFG lasted longer than expected, especially since that was my gaming/internet CPU/Box. The Mad Dog was a self destruction- hardcore.)
Or working Drives or R/W Media drives just stop working on software side for some reason, but otherwise fully functional?
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