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- Renton, on 10/10/2007, -3/+150One of his capacitors came.
- doople, on 10/10/2007, -5/+99"The magic blue smoke that makes electronics work is escaping from my PC."
Priceless. - ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -1/+73Neither was your mom, but she took it.
- angrypenguin309, on 10/10/2007, -0/+64If computers blow up with Bioshock I don't even want to know what it does to Xbox 360's...
- lacronicus, on 10/10/2007, -6/+63And that, my friends, is why you don't try to toast marshmallows in your computer.
- gamefreekyoshi, on 10/10/2007, -7/+64pics are way too big
- rowlodge, on 10/10/2007, -26/+75or your dell sucks...
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -11/+54How do you know its a Dell? Since he's playing a videogame, we know its not an apple, but how do you know its a Dell?
- nreynolds, on 10/10/2007, -4/+45it was hard for me to read (went to far wide) so i'll copy the text.
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Literally, like ***** blew up
I got the demo downloaded, updated to the latest drivers, and settled down to play the Bioshock demo. I wanted to set the proper mood, so the lights were off, the speakers turned up and the demo begun.
I was about 15 minutes into it, having very much enjoyed what I had seen so far, when I came upon the first Big Daddy encounter. I watch in rapt attention as he charges a splicer when suddenly BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. It sounds as though a string of firecrackers has been detonated in my computer case, as well as each BOOM being punctuated with a bright blue flash coming through the case window.
For about half a second I sit there stunned. The first thought in my mind is "Holy ***** *****, that is the greatest effect I've ever seen. They should have given this game an 11." Immediately following this a sickening realization dawns on me as I look over at my tower. Blue Smoke! The magic blue smoke that makes electronics work is escaping from my PC.
What follows is a 30 second vaudeville act of me simultaneously cursing, falling as I try to leap out of my chair, and finally ripping the power cord from the wall. But the blue smoke was already out, and the smell of ozone in the air told me the bitter truth. Bioshock had fried my computer from the inside and blown the capacitors.
I took the victory into my living room and gave it some cursory revival attempts, but it was clear once the side panel was removed that it was gone. This all happened at about 8:30 CST, since which I've been endeavoring to bootstrap my old Pentium 3 back into working order. This involved a quick run to Walmart, as the damn thing is so old it doesn't have a built in NIC.
On the plus side, this errand allowed me to pick up a case of Fat Tire ale so that I might drink the pain away as I browse New Egg for a new computer.
A word of caution for anyone else planning on playing the Bioshock demo. THE GAME WAS SO FACE MELTINGLY AWESOME IT BLEW UP MY COMPUTER. Hopefully I can prevent further tragedies.
Update: Tuesday, August 21 2007
Acting Coroner Epiphyte
Externally subject appears undamaged, although a slight scent of ozone still lingers.
I'll begin by opening the case.
PIC
On closer inspection, several capacitors (the three on the left) appear to show convex tops, indicating a buildup of pressure inside. However, I am unable to make a definitive diagnosis of failure at this time, further testing required.
As the motherboard has proved inconclusive, I will now move onto the power supply
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etc. - geneticlemon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+40What he needs is a Flux Capacitor ...
- jesstech, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37HOW DO I PLAYED VIDEO GAMES?
- Nick22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30I honestly don't see how your comment is relevant at all
- bcr8u, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31bury me!
- Yoshi39, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28bandwidth exceded on the pictures
http://duggmirror.com/pc_games/BioShock_So_awesome_and_cool_that_it_blows_up_computers_Pics/ - snowrider221, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28Bioshocked!
- diazigy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28and thats why you don't forget to leave notes.
PLEASE SOME ONE GET THIS ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT REFERENCE!!! - nublet, on 10/10/2007, -6/+33bioshock is one smoking game!
- Smeed, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28Its got an athlon XP in it. Its not a dell. He listed his specs.
- r2pro, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23the real question is what kind of power supply did he have? He never gave that info in the specs on a later post.
- chaosdude78, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Get a higher resolution monitor, don't flame.
- mbelleghem, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Delivery is as important as content. Some dude's PS blew up. Do I care? Not really. Hey,here's a funny show-and-tell about a guy's PS blowing up. Bring it on. Difference? I don't want the 3 mins of my life it took to view this back. Many Digg submitters (and the army of wannabe-author blogspammers that seem to make up a sizeable portion of) could learn from this.
- kiesow567, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20We'll need fallout shelters when the Crysis demo comes out
- Tripw0l, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Is that a Soyo Dragon board? I think the problem's been identified ^_^
- schrutefan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20Bioshock didn't blow up his computer. His computer was a piece of ***** to begin with.
- banthis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16"For about half a second I sit there stunned. The first thought in my mind is "Holy ***** *****, that is the greatest effect I've ever seen. They should have given this game an 11."
LOL! - invertedtangent, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18Early reports are it cures WoW addiction.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Biosmoke, don't breathe it.
- goosnargh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Would of helped if you said it right...
"...and that's why you always leave a note" - SirNoobius, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15it's actually something far worse than dell. he says it's a soyo motherboard with VIA chipset.
- nakile, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Somebody better mirror those images of his. His Photobucket account is about to be murdered.
- miztaken, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Then again, now that you think about it, it's not technically a dell anymore.
- miztaken, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15Why do you have to go and diss Dell? My dell has never failed on me and it's a very kick ass machine! I've replaced the graphics card, swapped the hard drives out, added a more powerful PSU, and added the maximum amount of memory.
And now, I'm going to be dugg down jut because I'm proud of my dell. - mkameli, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Thank you, J. Walter Weatherman.
- lacronicus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11whys he being dugg down? dell never sold any computers with an athlon xp, since they only started selling amd processors well into the life of the athlon 64
- fryguy1013, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10the exploded stuff is in his power supply if you didn't notice. Not a lot of power supplies use surface mount components (at least in my experience)
- potterboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Mirror of the pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/computerk2002/sets/72157601592387874/
- Nickbc87, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Then go play Quake.....duh.
- chromie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Just connect the tubes and it will come back to life to fight for us.
- superdigg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7especially since Take 2 did not develop or produce Bioshock.
- InvisibleKid, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12That computer was too old... I mean look at that, most of the components are not surface mount components. It just wasn't designed to handle that kind of load.
- Sedako, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7This is actually a fairly common case of the power supply failing and taking other components with it. It's happened to me before and some other people I know. Can even happen with more expensive, well known brands.
- oilcan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Translation: "I am teh angriest computer nerd in teh galaxy. rararararawwwr."
- chilekillr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8WE NEED A SPAM BUTTON!!
- Otto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Computers with windows in their cases typically have lights in them as well. The "blue" likely came from the blue LEDs in the case.
- smokewater, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6He shouldn't be to disappointed, you don't even get to fight the big daddy in the demo version.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8It got..... BIOSHOCK'D! http://i19.tinypic.com/6d0t7uw.gif
- RpgActioN, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I will never understand why the best show on television was canceled. I hate the Fox broadcasting network so much, especially considering how they dicked around with Firefly too.
- natmaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Dugg for commentary by forum writer.
- cplex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The pics are fine in 1680x1050 :)
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