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Sharkonabicycle
Bipedal Sea Dog
Got home and was all excited to put in my 1080 video card and another 500 gb 850 EVO.
Crack open my case, video card goes in no problem. Couldn't remember which bay my SSD went into so pulled it out, found it. Pushed the bay back in, little tight but it went in fine. Undo the back of my case and noticed the cable from the SSD to the mobo came loose. No big deal. Go to plug it back in and the plastic broke off... the cable wont hold.
UGHHHHHHHH!!!! It's the only and primary OS drive. Call Samsung, "Yes we can fix it, warranty will cover it, BUT we have to wipe everything on the drive for liability purposes." "Can I super glue it on for now?" "Well you can but that violates the warranty."
FUCKBEANS.
3 hours later I'm now running everything primary on the 850 EVO. God DAMN I can clean a computer (was dusty), backup data, format a new OS/install a new HD and be back and running in no time Sad thing is all those 70 gb games have to re-download NOOOOO!!!!
I was lucky enough that none of the prongs broke off the HD so I was able to hold the fucker with a rubber band onto the cable to the mobo while my case was wide open lol. JUST enough to back up my data. I had most things backed up but I was concerned because NONE of my email was backed up and there's a lot of financial/banking/condo info. there. Fortunately it all worked out.
Now to send my SSD back to Samsung so they can fix it. It was a Samsung EVO 840 so it's probably better suited for storage anyway. Fuckin' plastic man... $180 for that shit, you'd think they'd use something a little stronger.
Anyway, all in all probably worked out better. OS is now running off the faster/newer hard drive, ALL new drivers, and probably all the crap on my machine from my massive p0rn sprees is gone forever, at least for another week.
Crack open my case, video card goes in no problem. Couldn't remember which bay my SSD went into so pulled it out, found it. Pushed the bay back in, little tight but it went in fine. Undo the back of my case and noticed the cable from the SSD to the mobo came loose. No big deal. Go to plug it back in and the plastic broke off... the cable wont hold.
UGHHHHHHHH!!!! It's the only and primary OS drive. Call Samsung, "Yes we can fix it, warranty will cover it, BUT we have to wipe everything on the drive for liability purposes." "Can I super glue it on for now?" "Well you can but that violates the warranty."
FUCKBEANS.
3 hours later I'm now running everything primary on the 850 EVO. God DAMN I can clean a computer (was dusty), backup data, format a new OS/install a new HD and be back and running in no time Sad thing is all those 70 gb games have to re-download NOOOOO!!!!
I was lucky enough that none of the prongs broke off the HD so I was able to hold the fucker with a rubber band onto the cable to the mobo while my case was wide open lol. JUST enough to back up my data. I had most things backed up but I was concerned because NONE of my email was backed up and there's a lot of financial/banking/condo info. there. Fortunately it all worked out.
Now to send my SSD back to Samsung so they can fix it. It was a Samsung EVO 840 so it's probably better suited for storage anyway. Fuckin' plastic man... $180 for that shit, you'd think they'd use something a little stronger.
Anyway, all in all probably worked out better. OS is now running off the faster/newer hard drive, ALL new drivers, and probably all the crap on my machine from my massive p0rn sprees is gone forever, at least for another week.