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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?
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C3 shouldn't be too much of a strain on your video card...
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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.Comment
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I have several
Heck, I still have a windows 3.1 computer that can run sim city
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sure, go aheadComment
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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.
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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.
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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.Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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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.
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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
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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?Comment
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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.Solomwi is very wise. - Imran SiddiquiComment
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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.Last edited by Beta; August 24, 2004, 19:00.Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war .... aw, forget that nonsense. Beer, please.Comment
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In that case substitute the slice of bread in my last suggestion for a hamburger bun.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.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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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??Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war .... aw, forget that nonsense. Beer, please.Comment
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