My Computer Caught Fire  

Oh my goodness! I have an old one, and I have been lucky(Knock on wood)so far no fires. Enjoy your new computer. Happy myLotting.

Sorry about the fire and thankful it was nothing bad. I am so glad you heard it and noticed the fire or it could have been really bad. But on the other hand you have you a new computer now. I got my new lap top last January and it come with Vista. I am so glad that I can change the looks of mine to look like the classic windows as I like that look much better than the vista look. I have heard good and bad about vista. I have had to call tech a couple of times so far with mine, it is a dell.
I have never had a fire in my comp...knock on wood.

I had the shock of my life last year. I was surfing the net at my brother's house using his computer. I did not know that the power supply to the computer was from an adapter with many connections. As I was surfing suddenly the monitor exploded with spark flying out. The monitor was damaged beyond repair but the cpu is working fine. To this day I am still traumatized by the incident and whenever I smell burnt I will stop surfing immediately and check the computer in and out.

Oh, thats not good for your computer to catch fire, you must of been working it overtime on mylot...lol. We had to buy a new computer also a few months ago, the other one was just too old, and it had been updated a few times, we've had to buy a power cord for it because it got hit by lightening, so we just bought a new one. I have an eMachines one too, I like it pretty good, its a lot faster than the old one was, but ours still has windows xp on it, I only had to buy the tower, our monitor and everything else was still good. I myself don't like windows vistas, because alot of times its not compatible with your hardware, and our computer guy said that if something goes wrong with it, its hard to fix. So we looked for something that had windows xp on it, I like it alot. Hopefully you found a good computer that won't give you any problems, I'm just telling you things that I've heard, it doesn't mean that its all bad...Have a good day

Oh my gosh. I'm glad you noticed it in time. That is awful. I am glad to hear that you got you a new computer though. I used to have a Dell but it quit working after many years of fixing this and that. I now have an Emachine and love it. I love Windows XP. I know Vista is the thing now though.

We've never had a fire in our computers or my laptop. I mostly use my laptop that I bought from my son when it was 3 years old. I've had it going on 3 years and never had a problem. It's a Dell Inspiron and a great laptop. And it has XP Pro on it. I like Vista, but we were waiting until all the bugs were worked out. But perhaps yours will be fine since Vista has been out lots longer.

Ouch dont you just hate when that happens!! My laptop had a fight with a cup of tea a couple months ago... and of course the tea won!!! My laptop fried and motherboard and harddrive fried with it.... It cost me €700 to replace it but fortunately my house insurance will pay for the replacement. Good ol' house insurance.. never know when I might need it lol

Wow! sorry that you old one caught on fire.. but the new one is the one that looks like it is Smoking! Very nice indeed!. I am glad that you were there and it did not turn into a house fire!

Wow, I thought it was because you are so hot here on mylot Grandpa Bob.. I have not had a fire, but our power supply did go out on our old computer, which is why I am now on windows 98, can't afford a new one..Though I wish I knew you were going to get this..As much as many people have been saying how bad vista is, I had a talk with my neighbor who had gotten one and she said that the home one is the problem, if you had gotten pro, that vista is much better...(BTW, I sent you a PM, I hope you can help me)

Mine is two years old...and I want to hang on to it for a while as I love it...it's like one of my best friends! LOL....Mine has never started on fire and God forbid it does. I would freak out! Have fun learning all the new things on Vista and let us know how you like it!