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so this p much blows.
Topic Started: Aug 19 2009, 01:15 PM (140 Views)
James Exeter
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a truck ran through a power line right near my house, and it sent a power surge through my entire area. It fried my PC's motherboard, making me lose everything on it for the past 5 years that I've had it. All my RPs, all my photos, music, everything.

On top of that I lost my External Hard Drive, My X Box 360, My Nintendo Wii, My television, my mother lost her television and her DVD/VCR. It's just a complete mess.

THE GOOD NEWS, is that I have an auxillary computer, so I'm not un-done as far as SCW goes. And the better news is that on this auxillary PC I still have my geocities RP format saved! So woot.
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Jake Starr
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ACK! I lost both of my ethernet ports on my two Macs due to a surge once... Damn dude I don't even want to imagine losing my stuff like that! I'll pray for your comps, Wii, and Xbox... Oh and the external drives too!
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Porno Lad IWC
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a shame you lost your porn collection my prayers are with you during these dire times
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Syren
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That happened to me once. I lost my motherboard, both hard drives, external hard drive and DVD ROM, but oddly my RAM and CPU survived. Don't ask me how. For me it was lightning hitting the house though and frying half of the electronics in it. It was funny the random stuff that broke and that didn't though. My TV and consoles were all ok, but my computer, stereo and alarm clock all got killed.

The only benefit I can tell you of the whole experience is that we claimed on the insurance and paid the excess (which I think was about £100, so $150) and I got a new computer, new monitor, new stereo (which I still have), my mom got a new laptop, my sister got a new TV... we basically got half the stuff in the house replaced. I lost all my data though, which still bugs me sometimes... :(

You'd think that would teach me to back up more, but it didn't. :lol:
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James Exeter
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My porn collection wasn't very extensive, but I had a lot of irreplacable ex-girlfriend pictures that are really a bitch to lose.

My tech savvy friend has said that he's going to try to connect my hard drive to his computer, and then put everything onto a new external. Here's hoping that works.
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Syren
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If your motherboard got fried I doubt it will. Not unless he takes the hard drive apart and goes all forensic investigator on it anyway. Good luck though, it sucks when you lose stuff and it's not your fault.
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Jake Starr
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Usually if the mobo goes, the HD should still be ok. It's pretty rare for a hard drive to be completely hosed. I've seen, and have pics in fact, a laptop get run over by a semi and the hard drive was the only thing that didn't get destroyed...

Hope it works out...
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Porno Lad IWC,Aug 19 2009
06:38 PM
a shame you lost your porn collection my prayers are with you during these dire times

i enjoyed this post
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Danny Mignona
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Cid,Aug 20 2009
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Porno Lad IWC,Aug 19 2009
06:38 PM
a shame you lost your porn collection my prayers are with you during these dire times

i enjoyed this post

I did as well.
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