21-08-2004 01:19									#1
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It's been about 3 weeks since I last played Civ III, because my video card seems like it is going out. It will be a couple more weeks until I can get a new card. The problem is I am going through major Civ withdrawl. My question is, will playing Civ III cause it to go out faster or is it going to go out when it does no matter what I am doing with my computer?

	21-08-2004 01:52									#2
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C3 shouldn't be too much of a strain on your video card...

If it's really a problem, play C2 or SMAC until you get the new card.

	21-08-2004 05:39									#3
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As long as you have power to the card you are probably at the same risk, regardless of what you play.

These issues (hardware failures) are among the reason I keep one of my old PC's.

	21-08-2004 06:00									#4
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I have several

Heck, I still have a windows 3.1 computer that can run sim city

	22-08-2004 04:20									#5
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sure, go ahead

	22-08-2004 07:07									#6
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Most electronics fail at the moment of turning them on, so I don't think it would make a big difference.

	22-08-2004 12:37									#7
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I can't see how civ would damage any video card.

Last week my hard disk crashed (oooops, 2000 foto's and 8 years of my documents gone)
I tried to fix it by putting it into my 2nd compute (the one my wife's mostly using) and toasted that computer for some reason as well (do I suck or not?)

Oh well, so at that moment we got 2 broken computes in house. But no worries, I had a 3rd one, my server

That's the one I'm posing from right now.
Always keep 2 computes in reserve! One day you'll need them.

	22-08-2004 20:07									#8
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Try putting your HD in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer for a couple of hours. With any luck, it will work long enough to copy the data.
Yeah, I'm not kidding, this could actually work, the one thing you have to be carefull with is condensed water, so leave the bag on when you hook it up.

	23-08-2004 10:50									#9
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Thats gotta be one of the oddest things I've heard. I'd hate to add to the oddness here but placing a slice of bread in the plastic bag before sealing it will help with the condensation problem (and rest the drive on a cloth when you hook it up. You don't want any moisture to complete a circuit to your chassis. )

	23-08-2004 19:01									#10
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Wow, I may try that with an old 40 Gig hard drive I had and thought was fried before I got some info off of it

	24-08-2004 04:34									#11
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Eh, that's the first I've heard of a harddisk in a freezer....care to offer a decent explanation as to why this should have an effect on a dead/damaged harddisk?

	24-08-2004 05:33									#12
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Never heard of it myself, but the first thing that pops to mind is that if the problem is a damaged platter, similar to a scratch on a CD, lowering the temperature may contract the disk enough to make the data readable, effectively drawing the "scratches" closed. Obviously, that would only work until the disk warmed up, but it may be long enough for a "rescue" operation. I'm sure there are problems with this explanation, but as I said, it's the first thing that came to mind.

	24-08-2004 22:31									#13
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I thought it was something more along the lines of the hard disk sitting there, very cold and lonely, looking at frozen hamburger and chicken breasts, and realizing that if if does NOT get its act together, it could be next on the barbeque.

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	25-08-2004 09:18									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Beta I thought it was something more along the lines of the hard disk sitting there, very cold and lonely, looking at frozen hamburger and chicken breasts, and realizing that if if does NOT get its act together, it could be next on the barbeque.

In that case substitute the slice of bread in my last suggestion for a hamburger bun.

	30-08-2004 07:14									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Vince278 In that case substitute the slice of bread in my last suggestion for a hamburger bun.

With a little ketchup and mustard, and maybe a dill pickle ....

So how many calories in a GigB anyway??

	31-08-2004 09:44									#16
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I guess the point is to intimidate the hell out of the faulty drive. Set out some sliced onions.

	31-08-2004 12:43									#17
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So has anyone actually tried it?

	31-08-2004 21:49									#18
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quote: Originally posted by alva So has anyone actually tried it?

You mean with the sliced onions?

	31-08-2004 21:51									#19
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This has become slightly spammy...

	31-08-2004 22:01									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker This has become slightly spammy...

Good job on the +1, in that case.

	01-09-2004 08:24									#21
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Yeah. Lets hold the onions and close the thread.