WPI is on hold!

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I give up.

My mobo just smoked and it looks really bad. Memory area is toast.

I hope my harddrive is good and ok.

WPI is officially on hold.

I cannot do this for nearly no support anymore.

.... sent from my phone.

[Mr_Smartepants]

Check your PM over at RyanVM's.

[crashfly]

Yowsers, Kel!  I hope things get better for you.  It is not fun to lose a computer.

 

Slightly off topic: How did your computer get "smoked"?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Blown caps it had been having major I/o transfer issues

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I see several blown capacitors and quite a bit of black, burned area. Weird though the psu tests ok.

[ricktendo]

Dirty electricity and brownouts (daily occurrence in my country,) very damaging to electronics

[ianymaty]

I agree with Rick. 3 HDD's died on me and others suffered some degrade in the 1 year warranty period before I got my UPS. 

 

Now it's about 5 years since I got it and all HDD's work well even if some of them have more than 1500 - 1800 days of continuos uptime and stoped degrading.

 

The oldest (WDC WD3000JS-19PDB0) counts 2164 days of work and still contains my system partition installed almost 3 years ago (28.03.2010).

[crashfly]

I see several blown capacitors and quite a bit of black, burned area. Weird though the psu tests ok.

I have seen this issue, although it is generally on the "older" motherboards that have the cap problem (and usually the capacitors have not literally 'blown' up).  I have even replaced quite a few and have restored most to working condition.  Sucks to hear though.