Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

My power supply died on me the other day. I have no job and no money (I'm a college student, go figure) and so it could be a while until I get a new one. In the meantime I reconstructed my old HP with an old IDE hard drive and installed XP on that.

The horrible thing, I'm back on integrated graphics. There's not PCI-E slot on this thing, and the RAM sucks. So my 7600GT is here collecting dust. But at least I got something working.

Just venting here, feel free to post your unlucky technology stories.

Halo related? I think so. I have to play it on an Intel GMA 900. Right back where I started.

[Edited on 10.30.2007 7:35 PM PDT]

  • 10.30.2007 7:32 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Sorry Vincent, that sucks. Is Halo still playable though?

  • 10.30.2007 10:50 PM PDT
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

Barely, no matter how low kick the settings down it still stutters.

It runs a lot like how Halo 2 runs one some PCs.

  • 10.31.2007 6:10 AM PDT

The Bioshock demo blew up my power supply O_O

  • 10.31.2007 11:40 AM PDT
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I've been running on a Dell Inspirion 1501, a laptop, for everything. However, the charger wire frayed about a month ago, so I could not access it at all. I bought one off of Ebay, and it took about 2 weeks to even send it, and it finally came to me, 25ish days later. And lucky me, no AC plug was included with it, and it requires a strange 3-port connection into it. So now I need to get that before I can finally use a good (relatively) computer again.

  • 10.31.2007 1:22 PM PDT
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oo... shoulda considered maybe taking the PSU from the HP? Of course I'm not sure what kind of rig you were running and any major manufacturer uses really low wattage supplies, but I hope you thought about it lol.

In any case, that's terrible luck. Consider prostitution to raise the $75+ you need.

  • 10.31.2007 4:07 PM PDT
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

Posted by: Ryanman7
oo... shoulda considered maybe taking the PSU from the HP? Of course I'm not sure what kind of rig you were running and any major manufacturer uses really low wattage supplies, but I hope you thought about it lol.

In any case, that's terrible luck. Consider prostitution to raise the $75+ you need.


The PSU is not adequate, thanks for the idea. I was previously running a 420W, this HP PSU is a 250W. I can't remove the 7600GT because there's no integrated graphics on my board.

I only need $50. And the funny thing was I was just talking about becoming a stripper to a friend of mine.

  • 10.31.2007 9:12 PM PDT

One day my i was starting up my computer like normal and *poof* my monitor quit working. It was a 19" had to get an old 17"(yeah i know small!) waited a week for a new 20 widescreen.

Another time i was starting up my computer like normal and the loading screen for windows xp wouldn't come up. i found out later(from the diagnostics from my motherboard) that the video card went bad. installed the video card that came with computer waited for a month for a new video card to come. the new one was a 6600 agp the old one was a fx 5200.

  • 10.31.2007 10:23 PM PDT

Posted by: Wakeboy1337
The Bioshock demo blew up my power supply O_O


You know i've read a story about that.

EDIT: no no wait that was the mb.

[Edited on 10.31.2007 10:24 PM PDT]

  • 10.31.2007 10:23 PM PDT
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

I know it's wrong to be bumping this 21-day old thread, but let me say that all that time sitting in a corner of my room did something.

Plugged in the PSU earlier and it booted up. Actually I'm using my regular machine right now. I missed my decent framerates, and it sucks being confined to playing Doom (even though it was fun). So it looks like the PSU wasn't bricked after all, I'm sure I just didn't properly ground myself before messing with it last time.

  • 11.20.2007 7:39 PM PDT