My mother destroyed my comp, selling the working parts.

Smurph · Post by **Smurph** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:34 pm

2 years after she replaces hard drives and the vidcard after throwing my comp at a wall, she wastes a good computer by throwing it at the floor twice, and kicking it. both HD's are dead. Both of them were 120GB WD's. The case is in about 6 pieces, and is mangled. Thus, I'm going to invoke my little "you break it, you buy it" policy.

In other news, I have various WORKING parts for sale. I have tested them, and ALL are working flawlessly. I have never overclocked anything. (crappy dell BIOS)

1 Dell Dimension 8100 Power Supply
1 Dell Dimension 8100 Motherboard with 1.4GHz Pentium 4 processor (Socket 423) and heatsink
2 Simpletech 256MB RDRAM modules with heatspreaders
2 (can't remember the manufacturer) 64MB RDRAM modules, also with heatspreaders
MAYBE selling ATi Radeon 9200 128MB

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:37 pm

So what's the backstory here? What made her mad enough to destroy a computer twice?

Smurph · Post by **Smurph** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:40 pm

Butters wrote:So what's the backstory here? What made her mad enough to destroy a computer twice?

Not getting off when asked, giving her the birdie when she started getting really sarcastic and disrespectful.

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:44 pm

And you think you have some kind of right to get it replaced after acting like a jerk to the person who carried you for 9 months and took care of you your whole life? You, sir, are an asshole.

mikozero · Post by **mikozero** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:48 pm

not every mother is a saint.

Vchat20 · Post by **Vchat20** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:59 pm

Butters wrote:And you think you have some kind of right to get it replaced after acting like a jerk to the person who carried you for 9 months and took care of you your whole life? You, sir, are an asshole.

AgentGreen · Post by **AgentGreen** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:08 pm

I'm interested in the motherboard, cpu, and RAM provided that either:
A) The motherboard doesn't require the use of dell's stupid special proprietary power switch that resembles a ribbon cable
B) If it does use it, the power switch can be salvaged

And also probably the power supply if you can give me a power rating.

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:13 pm

mikozero wrote:not every mother is a saint.

Especially one that would destroy your machine because "you were on it too much".

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:36 pm

What speed is the Memory stick, and how much would it be shipped to zipcode 45619?

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:04 pm

Egotistical EvilN wrote:
mikozero wrote:not every mother is a saint.
Especially one that would destroy your machine because "you were on it too much".

In this situation, I'd say Smiley is in the wrong. Infact, if I were here I'd probably do the same (or close to. maybe take it away for a few months or something).

Why the hell would you flip your mother off just for asking you to get off the computer?

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:14 pm

Two wrongs do not make a right.

Tall Israeli · Post by **Tall Israeli** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:29 pm

az_bont wrote:Two wrongs do not make a right.

Agreed, but his mom is a friggin wackjob. Why the hell would you do something like that? Just boggles the mind really.

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:25 pm

Kenichi wrote:
Egotistical EvilN wrote:
mikozero wrote:not every mother is a saint.
Especially one that would destroy your machine because "you were on it too much".
In this situation, I'd say Smiley is in the wrong. Infact, if I were here I'd probably do the same (or close to. maybe take it away for a few months or something).

Why the hell would you flip your mother off just for asking you to get off the computer?

Smiley didn't even post.

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:31 pm

Tall Israeli wrote:
az_bont wrote:Two wrongs do not make a right.
Agreed, but his mom is a friggin wackjob. Why the hell would you do something like that? Just boggles the mind really.

One could argue that the computer was in fact the property of the mother to start with (assuming Smurph didn't buy it himself).

Post by **Specially Cork** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:46 pm

Butters wrote:
Tall Israeli wrote:
az_bont wrote:Two wrongs do not make a right.
Agreed, but his mom is a friggin wackjob. Why the hell would you do something like that? Just boggles the mind really.
One could argue that the computer was in fact the property of the mother to start with (assuming Smurph didn't buy it himself).

But normal people dont do that. If your son is being a bit annoying you dont just start throwing expensive electronics at the floor and kicking stuff. Thats sign of a serious anger management problem.

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:56 pm

She didn't respect him. He tried to be nice about it. Now, a grounding is one thing, but DESTROYING? That's another. Psychiatric help time.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:03 pm

Egotistical EvilN wrote:She didn't respect him. He tried to be nice about it. Now, a grounding is one thing, but DESTROYING? That's another. Psychiatric help time.

giving someone the birdie is not respecting them. I know you must think that everyone loves you but sometime soon you're going to have to admit that everyone really just hates you.

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:08 pm

giving someone the birdie is not respecting them.

Don't you think he tried to be nice first? If someone was bitching at me, I'd try being nice till I couldn't take it anymore. Yeah, the bird wasn't respectful, but neither was destroying two hard drives.

jaredfogle · Post by **jaredfogle** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:09 pm

BoneyCork wrote:
Butters wrote:
Tall Israeli wrote:
az_bont wrote:Two wrongs do not make a right.
Agreed, but his mom is a friggin wackjob. Why the hell would you do something like that? Just boggles the mind really.
One could argue that the computer was in fact the property of the mother to start with (assuming Smurph didn't buy it himself).
But normal people dont do that. If your son is being a bit annoying you dont just start throwing expensive electronics at the floor and kicking stuff. Thats sign of a serious anger management problem.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... news_rss20

Yeah, I know man. My friends mom once went crazy and flushed a ton of expensive Dilaudid down the toilet and broke all my buddy's rigs.

[now before anyone goes off on me, I'm just trying to get you to understand why a mother might do this. Something she doesn't understand is distancing her from her child, much like drug addiction.]

ETR · Post by **ETR** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:49 pm

If she really does buy you a new one, buy a PC that's built right, or at least better than Dell.

The build quality on the new Emachines is suprisingly good, and you can get an Athlon 64 3500+, 200GB HD, a gig of ram, a dual layer DVD burner, and Media Center 2005 for around $600.

That's right, new eMachines are built better than new Dells in the same price range. Let the flamewar begin.

EDIT: And 99% of RDRAM has heatspreaders.