How long does PC's work
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[toj.cc]phantom
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Good question. My dad got his first PC when he was 20 (He's 37 right now). Well thsi thing ran on dos and had almost every version of windows installed on it at one time. We dug it out of our basement after having been down there for over 5 years. (this thing had also been moved at least 6 times). Well any way we cleaned it off and...IT WORKED!) it even still had a bunch of old games still on it! But I think we just got lucky. So what I'm thinking is that as long as you keep it in good condition and upgrade it when it is needed then it should work fine. Now if your not going to put a new vid card etc. etc. then remember it won't work with new games, but its always good to have an old PC that runs old games, a la my dads old PC which we now use to play dos games and games that won't work on XP. However I only use it for DOS if DOS Box won't play it.
P.S. That PC was 17 tears old in the basement covered in cob webs and other creepy crawly things.
P.S. That PC was 17 tears old in the basement covered in cob webs and other creepy crawly things.
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l33tben
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heh i remember my 1st comp..pentium 1 processor...somehow it stoped workin when we put aol into it rofl
[toj.cc]phantom
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l33tben said:
Anything will stop working when you put AOL any where near it.
SLNT_FIR
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caleb, it's like a car except more complicated... I barely know anything that is hardware related about lifespan and how to fix things like capacitors on mo-bo etc...
but i'm good in software related things. I notice that your computer WILL pileup a surprising amount of broken "short-cut" links from program to program and I find that happens a lot on my old P350. Also your programs are missing files tat they need 2 run.
Norton SysWorks fixes those. THey are minor and usually give u bluescreen errors... otherwise, I have no idea. ask hcs. 
but i'm good in software related things. I notice that your computer WILL pileup a surprising amount of broken "short-cut" links from program to program and I find that happens a lot on my old P350. Also your programs are missing files tat they need 2 run.
Norton SysWorks fixes those. THey are minor and usually give u bluescreen errors... otherwise, I have no idea. ask hcs.
l33tben
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lol i think this was teks or someones quote "AOL has the reverse midas touch, anything it touches turns to poo"
SirThom
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Tek repeats it, but I think it was originally MaxX who started it.l33tben said:
l33tben
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oh lol hats off to maxx then
Corpfox
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I think its how your treat your PC. You kick it, shout it, no doubt, it will die a few years.
You treat it good, give it updates, give it virus and error checks, it will last alot long than your think.
Treat your PC as it was your Car, your House Pet, and most items/living things that have a short lifespan than humans.
Our household has 4 PC's and a Laptop(2 laptops if you could the roommate).
"The Pentium 1" lasted for about 3 years, die due to a "Corrupted Hard Drive".
(133 Mhz, Windows 95)
"The Celeron" (Pentium 2) been running for about 6 years now, still is, just very slow. (633 Mhz, Windows XP)
The "Other Pentium 2" officially been running since bank/bankers were using them.
(??? Mhz, Windows 98)
"The Athlon XP", My PC, has been running for over a year, only complain is the hacker that opened/closed my cd-rom.
(2.08 GHz, Windows XP)The Laptop, (Authorized Personal Only) been running almost a year. (?.?? Ghz, ??? Operating System)
My advice, take good care of your PC!
URACorpse
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I think a better question would be "How long before a PC is outdated?"
Two years is what I have always considered the standard of outmoding for a PC-- it should still work fine but it's at about the two year mark, in my experience, that a computer stops meeting the minimum requirements for the newest games at the time.
Three years is considered the industry's standard lifetime for a laptop. Most warranties on laptops last two years, and most optional extended warranties last for three years.
Most hard disks wear out from use in about six years, but I recently repaired a friend's computer and his mother is very much into "magnet therapy," (an entirely different subject) and thus his computer is always around strong magnets. This means that I suspect that his hard drive is failing a full two years ahead of schedule, and then his collection of mp3s and TV shows will be lost forever.
However, the other components of most PCs, like CD drives, RAM, floppy drives, motherboards, and power supplies, I am not sure of how long they would last.
I do have an old 386 IBM with two 5.25" floppy drives, and a hard disk that, though I cannot remember exactly what it's capacity was, is certainly laughably small. I checked to see if it would still run last summer and it worked just fine. I don't remember how old it is but I do remember navigating MS-DOS menus on it when I was just a wee lad and had to sit on my knees to reach the desk. So, there are always exceptions. It really depends on so many variables that it's often impossible to tell how old a computer will be before it quits.
Three years is considered the industry's standard lifetime for a laptop. Most warranties on laptops last two years, and most optional extended warranties last for three years.
Most hard disks wear out from use in about six years, but I recently repaired a friend's computer and his mother is very much into "magnet therapy," (an entirely different subject) and thus his computer is always around strong magnets. This means that I suspect that his hard drive is failing a full two years ahead of schedule, and then his collection of mp3s and TV shows will be lost forever.
However, the other components of most PCs, like CD drives, RAM, floppy drives, motherboards, and power supplies, I am not sure of how long they would last.
I do have an old 386 IBM with two 5.25" floppy drives, and a hard disk that, though I cannot remember exactly what it's capacity was, is certainly laughably small. I checked to see if it would still run last summer and it worked just fine. I don't remember how old it is but I do remember navigating MS-DOS menus on it when I was just a wee lad and had to sit on my knees to reach the desk. So, there are always exceptions. It really depends on so many variables that it's often impossible to tell how old a computer will be before it quits.