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[CoreTechs]

The mother board in my main computer is dead due to a short from a broken USB port.
Just curious if anyone has any decent motherboards of decent age (2005-2006ish) they would be kind enough to donate to on such as myself.
A replacement motherboard is going to be costing me about $300. Lotsa money.
Also, I am going to be paying more monies to get a new mp3 player... My precious 30g Creative Zen Vision: M was fried too (Don't say it, Kinewa). The USB sparked when I plugged it in and fried both computer and mp3 player.

It is a sad thing when one loses Zen.

I'm probably going to send it into Creative (again) and pay another $125 US to get a new one (due to it being out of warrenty). I am so forking frustrated also because I lost all my music. But I still have a nice E Nomine CD in my stereo .

[Drackir]

I don't know what kinda motherboard you are looking at that's going to cost you $300. Don't buy any computer parts up there, you could probably get the same kind down here for like $100. What kinda motherboard do you need? Socket? AMD/Intel? Processor? RAM type you're using? What was your old mobo? I need more info to be helpful.

[Kinewa]

...Mmmph!

*Attempts not to say anything about how crappy Zens are because they explode and stuff.*

[CoreTechs]

Just so everyone knows... (*Cough* Kinewa *Cough*)
My Zen came back to life and fully recovered from whatever electrical damage I thought it had suffered.

I think it's safe to say that I have returned to my state of Zen.

Drack, I'm gonna talk to the guy repairing my computer, find out what the motherboard costs, and perhaps challenge him on the cost.

[Kinewa]

...Darn.

Well, at least my Sansa is dependable. I've had it for a day without breaking!

[CoreTechs]

I went to the Alliston Hock Shop this morning and found that there was a 4gig one for about $150. Was considering getting it... But thankfully I didn't.

*Pets Zen* So durable... Especially with it's ZenTank

[Kinewa]

A 4gig Sansa?

[CoreTechs]

Yep. Came with the same stuff and condition was pretty good, too.

[Kinewa]

You you you... Copycat!

You're just jealous because I have a working mp3 player. >_>

[CoreTechs]

I didn't get it though... Didn't feel like shelling out the money for a non-Creative product.

[Caseyweederman]

Get the LG Chocolate phone. It's an mp3 player.

And phone.

[Jacaloogawooga]

Hmm...talking about Zens, eh? I had a MicroPhoto. Once Coretechs Dropped it and chipped the paint. Another time it broke because it felt like it. It was a whole five months old and then another time it died because it got a little wet. I gave it to keisad.

[Keisad]

I had a zen nano and it worked perfectly.

Sucks to you all!

[Megell]

I once played hockey with coretexts zen... then it began to short out... soo I didn't tell him. (shhhh.)

[Kinewa]

Hehe

I wonder if there's a Zen abuse society?

[Megell]

Nope... ther just a support group at the moment for people orn away from their addictions...