Recent content by Spelunx

Its the no-fan, no beep action that is making me lean heavily towards the motherboard being kaput. Is there any way to test my power supply without the use of a motherboard, some way to trick it into turning on?

You're completely right about the fuse thing, I just call them fuses out of habit. I know it's mainly circuits now (at least hopefully, fuses are a pain in the ass). I also assumed that the motherboard would be receiving the brunt of the surge and was worried about it primarily. Then when the...

Hello [H]ard|Forums, Yesterday while playing super mario world on my computer, running the air conditioner full blast, having multiple lights on and making popcorn in my microwave one of the fuses blew. Once I had access to flip the switch back over (the fuse box lay in the apartment below...

So basically it becomes dependent upon the type of drive I own? As far as a drive being mounted facing up it shouldn't have any issues playing the CD/DVD?

Hello all, I'm looking into getting a rackmount case (3 or 4u) when I realised I might run into trouble from my DVD burner. Is it possible to have a drive facing upwards (towards the sky, not lying vertically like some might assume) and have it still read/write properly? I was thinking that I...