Having no luck

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After having things fail like the chassis on my monitor in my Jamma cab, Then the computer in my MAME system dies and the replacement computer I built for it wouldn't run stable. A good friend gave me a computer from his work since they are upgrading theirs and and just going to chuck them out, but since it sat in the back of his car for 3 weeks it got damaged and wont boot due to a memory fault.

I thought things had turned a corner when I sent the chassis of to Gunblade for fixing, but parcel force managed to break it.

The Wizard that is Gunblade built me a working chassis out of the parts that still worked and stuff from his scrap pile.

I also picked up a HP computer from ebay for £16 delivered. That I am now installing Hyperspin and all the gubbins that goes with it.

So today when I got a nice CRT TV from a local charity shop for £5 I thought things were looking good, I could finally get playing some light gun games on the PS2.

I pull up at home go to the boot to let the dog out and to pick up the TV.

As soon as I open the boot I'm pushed back as the TV rolls out hitting my knee and landing screen first on the road!
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The screen that WAS scratch free now has large scratches across it, and is not showing a picture.
 
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Nightmare ,I've had a few days like that .
Probably most of us have in some shape or form .
Stick with it ,things will get better .
Hope you wernt betting in Cheltenham with that luck though
 
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It's not nice when things run bad for what seems like an eternity, today I cracked the corner on a nice Sega driver side panel whilst carrying it into the house. Luckily the panel is still intact, ah well it's unfortunate but it could have been much worse.

I had so many things go wrong in such a short space of time that I was ready to pack it all in. Then shortly after I had a period of amazing luck which helped cancel out the losses I'd endured previously.

Hope things get better soon dude.
 
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this might make you feel better

my hyperspin PC died on me a few days ago and it was also my Steam machine

the HDDs went

the f ing both of them

4TB of over 150 systems and videos and art work for hyperspin and the year long time it took me to perfect every tiny setting on it
and
2TB of over 450 steam games

all lost to the f**ktard that is called seagate click of death
 
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I've seen someone 'fix' a HDD with that.

He opened it up and moved the read write head wile turning the platter.

All done on a kitchen table not in a clean room but got most of the data back.

I remember back when I worked in a repair shop putting the fujitsu siemens HDD's in the freezer for an hour before we could get the data off them.

Do you have any backups of your artwork?

Been looking for artwork for my Hyperspin setup when I get round to installing everything.

Nick
 
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