3rd August 2003, 12:37 PM
I didn't bother ordering online, because I have this thing where when I give money away I like the thing I'm paying for immediatly, but indeed making your own machine DOES save you money in the long run. Not only that, when you make your own you can be sure you get the best hardware rather than stuff like inferior sound card clones (most PCs STILL ship with stupid Sound Blaster 16 clones, with SBlive clones just now getting popular to include).
I feel for you. I've been using my old machine for a month now because something shorted out my new machine's mother board. In fact, after calling a few days ago it seems it usually takes between one and two months, so I may be waiting ANOTHER 4 weeks to get the thing repaired. I'm just glad the repair is free. If I were you I'd test all the parts in other machines to see exactly what was destroyed and what can be saved. If you are lucky, it might even just be the power supply. If you aren't so lucky, every last thing on your machine will be fried, but I highly doubt it could have been THAT bad, unless the lightning actually directly hit your computer :D.
I feel for you. I've been using my old machine for a month now because something shorted out my new machine's mother board. In fact, after calling a few days ago it seems it usually takes between one and two months, so I may be waiting ANOTHER 4 weeks to get the thing repaired. I'm just glad the repair is free. If I were you I'd test all the parts in other machines to see exactly what was destroyed and what can be saved. If you are lucky, it might even just be the power supply. If you aren't so lucky, every last thing on your machine will be fried, but I highly doubt it could have been THAT bad, unless the lightning actually directly hit your computer :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)