this is a total test ... I'll explain if this works ...

alright! awesome

I did that because I tried to post a real long thread about my 486 here, but on the thread submission, it totally crashed. Like, majorly crashed. Like so crashed that it couldn't even show the blue screen of death because that crashed. Yeah.

This post was officially sent be a 486 running at 100 Mhz (edit: typed 200, typo)! I'll do that long post again in a bit, it'd be kinda tiring to type it out again right now if you know what I mean.

/me will be sitting on the edge of his seat....

whatever get's you going...

You fail!

NO POST FOR YOU!!!!

".......this has been a test of the emergency broadcast system. If this had been an actual test....You would have failed."

Stop making a testicle of yourself.

Please move this thread to the test forum.

"There are only two things that are infinite: the Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the first one"
-Albert Einstein

Maybe you're keyboard overheated...
You could try water cooling it for those long posts
; )

cheers

Yeah my megatype-action 200,000 WAM speed!! I go through keyboards pretty quick ... jk

Well I think my 486 crashed and burned. I was rebuilding it this morning and I accidentally put the cpu in upside-down. WHOOPS!!! I smelt this smokey burnt smell, and my mom smelt it too. So, uh, I thought I @*#$%(*@(%*^@($@(@($%^@%^!!!!!!!-ed up the cpu. So I went all the way to RE-PC in seattle from downtown bellevue and got a brand-new-to-me DX4-120 CPU!! That's the fastest CPU in the 486 class! And in the socket 3s!!

Then I come home and glue that ricerocket heatsink I bought onto it. dddooooiiii I put it on the wrong direction. I go downstairs, put in in my vice, and knocked it off with a hammer. Okay I put it on right, super, fantastic, awesome ... I put it in the mobo and it doesn't work. So now I think aw crap I need a new mobo. And I do .... AWWWW CRAP, that really sucks. I bet I can get one with PCI and VESA slots, socket 3 ... socket, and four 72-pin ram slots. I hope.

You know what also sucks??? I don't use a turbo switch. And I don't even care for a turbo LED. I don't even care for a case. I think: whatever, who gives. So without noticing until I fried it, I was running in the lagged-down un-turbo mode all through my '98se days. And my cable internet days. And my print server days. Well, day ... that was yesterday.

I also glued a broken part of a IDE cable plug together, and steupiedly, I plugged it right in. Then I ripped it out and whoops there goes my hdd pins. I'm going to hammer the same IDE plug back onto the hdd and see if I can recover data. Or maybe I won't. I dunno. Maybe I can fix it. I think. ... not. Maybe.

I'll get ya fixed 'ol 486, don't worry ...

If you got some sleep, you might not bust your PC so much

It's 240, go to bed, I am And why all the way to Seattle from Bellevue, I know you've got to have a PC shop closer...

Anyway, I'm about ready to look for a new mobo,cpu and video card too, I'll post up specs as I get them. Good luck on the hammering of the drives and all.

Cool

I got TWO words for you:

Duct Tape.

well i could do that if we had one, but we don't.

I assume you are talking about the forum

Alright! My DX/4-120 is working very dependably! Right now I am running an ATi graphics card and NIC, a Cirrus Logic IO board, 36MB RAM, 1.6GB Quantum HDD, a ZIP 100 drive, and the rest of the basic stuff. A little on the slow side, but I can cope with it, I grew up with this computer and I still use it every day.