Snicker, snicker, hee, hee... he said breasts....
Seriously?
Apparently we're all pubescent boys here.
When will this website grow up and realize that people other than males, ages 13-25 read their news?
She didn't get a grant. Where do you see that she received a "grant". As seems to happen here frequently, articles posted play fast and loose with the facts in order to grab attention.
She raised around $20,000, she wasn't given a grant (public or private). She solicited funds for this...
I have to echo this sentiment. I'm not sure what the issue was, but the two I had both wore out in much less than a year each. I gave up on them after the second one lost all its texture and was no longer "slippery".
Well, I wasn't really going too fast, and I've built many a system before, I've just never had (nor really thought) a spark would jump from the metal tang inside of a plastic shrouded molex connector to the chassis. It's not like there's 400kV or something... only 12V max. I deal with static...
Woofer and others,
Thanks for the input. I am suspect of all the components at this point but am loathed to face that possibility since I just put the stupid thing together.
After the initial spark jumped to the chassis, I did have to power the unit up a couple of times before the HDD caught...
This is the new BFG PS. The system is plugged into an APC RS 1500 Battery backup/line conditioner.
Everything was fine till that little spark jumped from one of the molex connectors to the chassis... I don't know if that screwed something up on the hdd or if it screwed up something on the PS...
So... I built this system a week or so ago....
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1396869
You can see that I had some hdd problems, and I'm waiting for an rma for a dead hdd from newegg.
Anyway, I have had the system up and running for about a week on an old sata hdd I had lying...
Well.... I got all the components and assembled them. I then realized the motherboard was crossfire and not SLI.... oh well...
Anyway, I am having severe problems with the build now. I bought a new SATA HDD to install Windows on as well.
First windows install attempt resulted in BSOD before...
Thanks... Looks like I need to research more. I'm getting a headache from trying to figure out all the new names and codes etc... I've been away far too long...