School PCs and Beamng....lol

our school PCs are crappy mid-2000s DELL computers, crap monitors,and windows 7 professional,some of the PCs still run windows XP.

i tried to run beamNG demo on one, 2 frames per second.
the beamNG forum is blocked and youtube,facebook (even minecraft homepage site is blocked!!),and every forum on the face of the earth basically.

 

school sucks buddy it will be over before you know it.

 

I would try installing Beam on an old school computer but I'm not sure it would work on 2 GB of RAM and a Pentium 4.

 

Hah, beam isnt blocked here... but my laptop doesnt even have enough space to download it...

 

Absolutely everything not directly related to math(s) or English is blocked in my school. The computers aren't that bad, but there's not much to do on them.

 

So in the workshop at our school (used for woodwork and graphic design) they have an old boxford wood drilling machine. it's very old and only runs on win 95-98-200-XP, which fits perfectly to the windows xp Pentium 3 pc(it actually has a gpu for the design software, I think its some sort of 3dfx voodoo card) so here me casually installing steam though my home server and dodgy firewalls. And then I started gmod. the old crt display flashed and made a weird popping sound blacked out. I went to see if it was the actuall pc that had the problem so opened the side panel aaaannnnnnndddd the motherboard was onfire. I had no lunch break for the rest of the year and I had to pay for a new pc (wasn't expensive though)

 

Pretty impressive. How quickly were you found out?

Also you bumped this thread.

 

its offtopic, bumping is less of a concern.

 

OK.

 

LOL the motherboard was on fire?? HAHA that's hilarious.

 

I dont see how a motherboard could self ignite

 

It can: http://www.cnews.cz/clanky/paleni-c...la-220wattovy-amd-fx-9590-v-desce-bez-podpory

That was a 220W CPU on a board rated for ~130W though, it obviously was not going to work.

 

I wasn't found out that quickly but my project was the last thing in the boxford so they new it was me
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it was at first the mobo but the pc was an old dell so it had one of the green heatsink covers which then started burning (that's what I think at least)

 

Only way I can think of a PC would catch fire under load is, PSU was crap and possibly on its way out, couldn't handle full power draw so it released the magic smoke, with a bang. PC was in a woodworking shop, doubt it was cleaned often so it was probably full of sawdust, small fire + sawdust = big fire. Still extremely unlikely, but not impossible.

 

My high-school doesn't allow gaming except if the game is educational (or if they don't know about it). The computers they have are either out-of-date Dell and HP computers or brand new Macs. They put lots of restrictions on both and blacklisted Steam Community as Adult.

 

What?

 

BeamNG can't even run on our schools pc's as they are from the mid-90's. Good god, windows 95 and windows 98.

 

i remember on my school we could run emulators of gba and so on it was quite funny when we did a tetris mach on a gb emulator even the teachers gave it a try but failed miserably

 

Well that is just ridiculous. I would've been speechless and upset with XP, but I don't even think you can get viruses for Windows 95 and -98 machines anymore...

 

My schools computers have been upgraded to core i5 2400 series (3.1ghz quad core i believe) with amd radeon graphics (pretty beast machine), too bad we have to stick with internet explorer, and not download anything