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Its a very difficult thing to go through and i hope no one here ever has to experience it. At 9:32 PM on March 17th 2005, "Beast" took a turn for the worse. He fought a valiant fight but just couldnt go on any longer. Beast's motherboard had slowly started to fail, he had been showing signs over the last few weeks but i kept denying it. It started with mouse clicks not registering, keystrokes being missed and progressed to random freezes. I starting running multiple test but he always came back clean on software and peripheral hardware. He eventually moved into the rebooting stage then came the video glitches. Sudden black screens or complete lock ups even at idle took place, a video card and memory transplant had no affect. Beast finally booted for the last time so now i'll let him rest. He had only lived to be just over 2 years old, way to young to die. He was called beast simply because he was a beast at heart, his ending system specs were the following:

Motherboard: ECS K7S5A v3.1/5 pci/1-4X AGP/1-AMR/
Processor: AMD XP 2000+
Memory: 512 MB DDR PC2700
Video: 128 MB Nvidia GeForce 4 MX440se
HDD: 120 GB IBM Deskstar 7200rpm IDE
LAN: Onboard SiS 10/100
Sound: Onboard Cmedia
Case: Antec Full ATX
PSU: Antec True 350
Cooling: 4-80mm Blue LED fans/Thermaltake Volcano 9 CPU HS/Fan
CD Drives: Iomega 4X DVD+-RW/Lite-on 16X DVD Rom

He wasnt the strongest around but he brought me to the end of several game titles and countless video and photo projects. Doom 3, Far Cry, StarWars Battlefront, Ghost Recon, UT2003 and 2004, Halo, HL1 and 2 were several of our favorites. On top of that, he carried my home network as a server, sharing numerous files, printer and internet access to 3 other systems. Beast also hosted many lan parties as a game server. He went through several cosmetic changes, like different paint schemes, added a side window and gave him a face. It wont be the same without him. Rest in peace my friend, rest in peace.

sorry for the loss..i know its hard! i think im going to give my computer a transplant.

Tis truely a sad day for you.....

*a moment of silence...*

I'm also afraid I may have a PC joining yours in that silicone grave yard.... Unfortunatly I can't give you it's name..... as I'm sure it would be moderated!

Sorry for your loss Liljim

Junior

Lets do an autopsy and see if any vital organs can be donated then creamate it.

Thanks for your support guys (& lilpink), it really means alot. I currently have another board on the way that might just bring him back to life. I'll let you know how surgery turns out, just keep your fingers crossed.

hey dude sorry for your loss
guess that means no more lan parties till you get your new motherboard

any way i know you and you wont go long without it.

bigwes!!!

Well guys,

Surgery was a success although it turned out to be more than what i was expecting. Upon motherboard extraction, i discovered another problem that resulted in a PSU transplant. The power connection from the PSU to the board has welded together and slightly melted. Im back up now and am undergoing a new windows installation. The new board is awesome, i highly recommend it to athlon users. Its a . I had a little 290watt PSU on hand so thats what im down to until i order a better one, i disconnected my lights and a couple fans for now to try and save some power. I also upgraded to a 512 Kingston HyperX DDR 400 stick. After i get the new PSU it will be time for a new CPU i guess. I want to thank a very special person over at for setting me up with parts. This guy knows his stuff.

The beast is slowly returning!

Download and go to Motherboard, that will tell you what you have.

thanks liljim its a Gigabyte GA-7VM400M-RZ would motherboard monitor work with that??? thnx again

heres the picture they look a bit like the same

Hey lilbro, maybe we can get Beast together with the beauty I just built for Gaffey.

Beauty: Appox. Cost=$1400

Case (silver)
Titanium coated Black Chrome 550w PSU
Brushed Aluminum Shuttle DVD-RW Dual Layer
AMD 64 3500+ Winchester Core Dual Channel CPU
1 Gig Kingston HyperX
Skt 939 Main Board w/onboard wireless-g
eVGA GeForce 6800Ultra 256MB PCIe
Seagate Baracuda 200 GB SATA HDD
Matching wireless keyboard and mouse


Might be too sexy for Beast.... (singing I'm too sexy... )

P.S.
Beauty would like some crawfish....if you happen to be in the neighborhood.

Yo bigbro,

I think thats a little too much beauty for beast to handle! Thats alot of system man, i guess next time i come your way, we'll let Gaffey host the lan party . Its kinda ashame though, all that system and i'll still eat him up on UT . I wonder if he'll play "title for title"?




Were boiling about 80 lbs tomorrow, you up for a road trip?

Well, after some part stealing and a couple generous donations i've got beast back better than ever, here are the new specs.

AMD XP 3000+
MSI KT880 Delta
Cooler Master ACC-L81 HSF
512 Hyperx PC3200
256 Nvidia GF4 FX5500
420 watt PSU
Onboard VIA 6 channel sound
Onboard 10/100/1000 Lan
and the rest is unchanged

My XP2000 chip gave out today so my lovely wife Sweeteyes donated her cpu and vid card from her machine until i replace mine. Thats so sweet, gotta love her


peahead, your right dude, cant hardly tell them apart

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