I got the internet in at home last month, and since then it's been a downhill spiral into chaos!

First of all, the internet ran fine for about 2 weeks, then I noticed a sudden drop in the speed. Servers that I play Call of Duty 2 on for those 2 weeks began giving me bad ping rates.

Then while playing Call of Duty on line, I would get an alarm buzz whenever the game started. I didn't know what it was so I ignored it. Hmmm...note to self, stop ignoring alarms!!

Then the computer shut off, the dvd writer tray jumped out of the case, and I could smell burning. Not good!!

After a check that everything was 'ok' (if you can all it that) I tried it again. Computer seemed to be ok, but dvd writer was fried.

3 weeks into having the internet, it slowed down more. To the point where it was stopping every couple of seconds, downloading a bit of a web page, then stopping again.

The provider told me that everything was fine on their end, and it was probably my firewall. I removed the firewall and it made no difference.

I have 2 network cards in the PC so I tried the other one. I got down to swap the cable. After getting back up off the floor, the monitor stopped working. It was on, but no picture or signal.

After unsuccessfully disconnecting and reconnecting I had to open the case and see what was going on. Looked like the graphics card had an unwelcome lodger...a spider had made its home between it and the motherboard. I couldn't get the monitor to work again, and when turning on the pc, it would keep resetting constantly while trying to boot windows...over heating again I thought.

Had to remove the heatsink from the processer and check it. I put some artic silver coolent on it, replaced all...and nothing...a dead pc.

The End.

Now all I have is my crappy laptop until I blow a crap load of money on a new one...

I had to share my miserable tale...

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