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[Playbahnosh]

Well if gathering pocket money, winning the lottery or robbing a bank won't help, you can do it the hard way :twisted:

You said that your mother is using the computer too, so she needs it too, not just you. sssssso, old computers, like your medieval metal, are...um...prone to die of old age :whistle:

Well I guess you know where I'm heading...
I don't mean you gotta actually brake the machine, rather make it LOOK LIKE it's broken, and beyong repair. I don't how much do your parents know about the electronics of a computer, but it should be pretty easy to fake a complete meltdown if you know what I mean. One of my friends short-circuited the power supply and it gone up in smoke. It was pretty convincing I have to admit, but I wouldn't go that far if I were you. There are more subtle and more economic ways of doing that :evil:

If your parents no nothing about hardware, just disconnect the power cable on the motherboard. Or if they somehow know the basics, loosen the memory module so it won't fit perfectly into the slot but won't fall out either, or you can cover the base of the module with some paper so it won't contact with the slot at all and it won't look to obvious too. You can simulate a makeshift malfunction in thousands of ways. If they want to take it to repair, just just convince them that the repair would cost more than a new one, which any sane computer repairman would say. If the box doesn't work, it's the best reason to get a new one :twisted: And you don't have to throw the old one away, you can play all your old games on that (of course after a couple of months you'll be able to fix the old one by some miracle :whistle

I know this is not the cleanest way to the goal, but if everything else fails, it's an option to consider. Easy, clean, and effective considering you'll end up with two perfectly working computers. It's just a matter of persuasion.

The goal justifies the means you know

[Grinder]

Good idea, playbahnosh. It may seem a little hard, but it would definitely have worked with my parents. They don't know squat about computers. But what about your parents?

The makeshift malfunctios playbahnosh suggested are all very good. I couldn't think of other ones, especially now that you've said that the drives don't work. But hey, you could tell them they'd need a drive to re-install the BIOS or some technical word that freaks them out, and then after a couple of months you could just tell them you got lucky and a friend of yours gave you this superduper new drive. After they got a new computer, of course.
But there's a lot of ways doing it, just be creative.

[TheChosen]

Now thats a veeeery good idea.

Thanks guys. Im going to try that soon.

[Playbahnosh]

@Grinder

They are not all that hard. How hard is it to unplug the power cable from the motherboard? Or if you have a HDD bigger than 32Gb you can always jumper it to Limit Capacity which limits the HDDs capacity down to 32Gb and the operation system will fail to load considering the indexing of the file system will be fakked up, its just a matter of placing a jumper from one spike to another, not hard at all. Of course you can do this so not even a computer specialist would know it's a faked malfunction but those methods are hard as hell and requires electronical equipment.

And no Grinder I havent done this before. I didn't have to. My computer broke on it's own when the time came, but I think the idea is good k: Besides, my parents know nothing about electronics so I could do this whenever I want to, but I have a pretty decent computer so I'm not not complaining

[Danny252]

LOL, too bad I can't pull that trick on my dad. When it breaks, he fixes it. At least he knows what goes where, LOL.
(Anyway. This thing has a GeForce 7800 and surrounds sound. Im not complaining.)

[Quintopotere]

Originally posted by Playbahnosh@Apr 9 2006, 01:20 AM
Well if gathering pocket money, winning the lottery or robbing a bank won't help, you can do it the hard way :twisted:

Well I guess you know where I'm heading...
I don't mean you gotta actually brake the machine, rather make it LOOK LIKE it's broken, and beyong repair.

So, that's the hard way!?...

But I admit that it's a good trick k:

[Grinder]

Originally posted by Playbahnosh@Apr 9 2006, 09:35 AM
@Grinder

They are not all that hard.

I didn't mean hard to do.

[The Niles]

Well nothing is as easy as breaking a computer. All you need is some freshly made tea and an unsteady hand. The good thing about this technique is that you do not have to break it instantly (thus avoiding accusing stares from your parents). All you need is to spill the tea onto the main board while the computer is off and leave it to dry. In about a month’s time your main board will have fried.

[Playbahnosh]

Well Niles that is certainly the easiest way, other than delivering a well placed devastating kick to the box. But this method sadly makes the old machine unusable, which is not very economic. My idea was only faking a malfunction not actually brake the computer, but I admit it is easier

[TheChosen]

My parents dont know anything about computers, so Im going to make a simple, systematic error, which is easy to fix. I will remove the error in case they wont buy a new computer.