24816 Numeric road,
Numberville AX, 32641
May 09, 2012
Hard Drives inc.
Numberville AX, 32641
May 09, 2012
Hard Drives inc.
28256 Alpha road,
Silicon City AX, 51210
To whom it may concern:
The hard drive I bought from your company has ruined my entire computer. It was a very good computer too, its only faults were that it had a small case and your hard drive! My computer used to work fine, but it was running out of hard drive space, so naturally I bought a new one. As I said, my computer case is rather small, and so, being rather tight on space I installed it right next to my graphics card, being sure to mount it on the side with the fan, not the other side with the exposed circuit board. After all, I wanted to be sure that if it touched anything it wouldn't short anything out. Anyway, only a week later, I was playing BF3 on maximum settings, and my graphics card burned out. It literally blew a cloud of smoke out the back and stopped working! At that point, I didn't think to attribute it to the hard drive. If I had, I could have saved a lot of trouble. So, naturally, if my graphics card broke, I needed to update it, after all, it was somewhat outdated anyway, being already six months old. The new card, however, was much larger, requiring me to move the hard drive to install the graphics card. Since the hard drive didn't fit in its old location, I moved it to right next to the northbridge part of my motherboard, you know, the section (not the CPU) with the fan. Well, as I was running out of space and mounting options in my case, I strapped it to this heatsink/fan, figuring it could double as a standoff, so the hard drive wouldn't touch the motherboard and short anything out. (As you can see, I'm very conscious of safety precautions.) Well, only three days later, I was re-encoding a blu-ray video, and the motherboard died! I sent it back, and that company told me that the entire northbridge had melted, and that it would be cheaper to replace the whole motherboard. O.K., new motherboard. This one however, doesn't have a good place to strap a hard drive to though, so I started looking around for another place to mount it. Then it hit me. Of course! the CPU cooler! It strapped on very nicely, and fit perfectly over the air intake side, just as if it had been made to fit there. There was a problem though. Two days later, I was playing Skyrim on ultra settings, and the computer blew the circuit breaker. I opened it up to see what was the matter, and was greeted by a horrific sight! The CPU cooler had melted into a puddle of molten metal that poured over the CPU, motherboard, and memory, shorting out and ruining them. I was starting to get suspicious, but the new hard drive had all my data, so what was I to do? Well, I bought a new motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler, and memory. (By the way, the CPU was only overclocked to 4.8 GHz.) After installing the new components, I realized that the new hard drive wouldn't fit on the new CPU cooler. I took me a while to find a place for it, but I finally found the perfect spot. I was looking inside my case, wondering what could possibly be removed to make space for the hard drive (I have a small case, remember?) Then I spotted it. The perfect place! Right where the case exhaust fan was. After all, everything that gets hot has its own fan, so why would I need another, right? I removed the fan, and mounted the hard drive in its place. That same day, I was playing Portal 2 on max settings, and I noticed that my screen was going dim. I unplugged and re-plugged the monitor, but I was starting to notice that other things were going dark too. Suddenly my fire alarm went off, and it was the kind that calls the fire department. I calmly waited for them to arrive so I could tell them it was a mistake. It was starting to get dark too, night must have been falling--it must have been much later than I had realized. When the fire department arrived, I went outside to meet them, and suddenly realized that it wasn't night; there was so much smoke billowing from the windows of my house that I had thought it was night, The firemen went into the house. When they came out, they reported that there was no fire, only smoke, seemingly caused by an overheating computer. Ahem. However, they had thoroughly soaked it, and it was not a threat anymore. So now I'm stuck with a hard drive that has all my personal data on it, that I don't dare to plug in. My next hard drive will not be from your company!
Signed, Joe Dumbo, PhD in breaking computers.
To whom it may concern:
The hard drive I bought from your company has ruined my entire computer. It was a very good computer too, its only faults were that it had a small case and your hard drive! My computer used to work fine, but it was running out of hard drive space, so naturally I bought a new one. As I said, my computer case is rather small, and so, being rather tight on space I installed it right next to my graphics card, being sure to mount it on the side with the fan, not the other side with the exposed circuit board. After all, I wanted to be sure that if it touched anything it wouldn't short anything out. Anyway, only a week later, I was playing BF3 on maximum settings, and my graphics card burned out. It literally blew a cloud of smoke out the back and stopped working! At that point, I didn't think to attribute it to the hard drive. If I had, I could have saved a lot of trouble. So, naturally, if my graphics card broke, I needed to update it, after all, it was somewhat outdated anyway, being already six months old. The new card, however, was much larger, requiring me to move the hard drive to install the graphics card. Since the hard drive didn't fit in its old location, I moved it to right next to the northbridge part of my motherboard, you know, the section (not the CPU) with the fan. Well, as I was running out of space and mounting options in my case, I strapped it to this heatsink/fan, figuring it could double as a standoff, so the hard drive wouldn't touch the motherboard and short anything out. (As you can see, I'm very conscious of safety precautions.) Well, only three days later, I was re-encoding a blu-ray video, and the motherboard died! I sent it back, and that company told me that the entire northbridge had melted, and that it would be cheaper to replace the whole motherboard. O.K., new motherboard. This one however, doesn't have a good place to strap a hard drive to though, so I started looking around for another place to mount it. Then it hit me. Of course! the CPU cooler! It strapped on very nicely, and fit perfectly over the air intake side, just as if it had been made to fit there. There was a problem though. Two days later, I was playing Skyrim on ultra settings, and the computer blew the circuit breaker. I opened it up to see what was the matter, and was greeted by a horrific sight! The CPU cooler had melted into a puddle of molten metal that poured over the CPU, motherboard, and memory, shorting out and ruining them. I was starting to get suspicious, but the new hard drive had all my data, so what was I to do? Well, I bought a new motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler, and memory. (By the way, the CPU was only overclocked to 4.8 GHz.) After installing the new components, I realized that the new hard drive wouldn't fit on the new CPU cooler. I took me a while to find a place for it, but I finally found the perfect spot. I was looking inside my case, wondering what could possibly be removed to make space for the hard drive (I have a small case, remember?) Then I spotted it. The perfect place! Right where the case exhaust fan was. After all, everything that gets hot has its own fan, so why would I need another, right? I removed the fan, and mounted the hard drive in its place. That same day, I was playing Portal 2 on max settings, and I noticed that my screen was going dim. I unplugged and re-plugged the monitor, but I was starting to notice that other things were going dark too. Suddenly my fire alarm went off, and it was the kind that calls the fire department. I calmly waited for them to arrive so I could tell them it was a mistake. It was starting to get dark too, night must have been falling--it must have been much later than I had realized. When the fire department arrived, I went outside to meet them, and suddenly realized that it wasn't night; there was so much smoke billowing from the windows of my house that I had thought it was night, The firemen went into the house. When they came out, they reported that there was no fire, only smoke, seemingly caused by an overheating computer. Ahem. However, they had thoroughly soaked it, and it was not a threat anymore. So now I'm stuck with a hard drive that has all my personal data on it, that I don't dare to plug in. My next hard drive will not be from your company!
Signed, Joe Dumbo, PhD in breaking computers.
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