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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5441/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Something that just happened to me now... I came home from the Canada Day celebrations with some glow sticks, and I thought they'd look pretty sweet stuck in my computer. As I started to jiggle the case off (it's not screwed on) it shut itself off, like it does if anything gets shorted or misconnected or whatever. Ignoring that for the moment I stick them in, closed it up, and turned it back on... STOP: UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME Yep. Apparently due to the high disk activity from running BitTorrent, my Windows partition got corrupted.  (Even though I was saving it on a different partition.  ) No big deal, though. Booting up the Windows on the other HD and letting the disk check run fixed that. So then I turned it back off and moved the glow sticks a bit, and closed the case. Turn it back on... nothing happens. It won't turn on. I fixed this in the usual manner, by disconnecting everything for a minute, and then turning it on again... it started up and the speaker just started wailing.  I shut it off, jiggled the IDE cables a bit and turned it on again, and after some messages about boot fKitten Yiffers, it started up alright.I'm still not sure why it shut off, or what made it scream, but I have to say it really freaked me out... No apparent damage though. (And the glow sticks look cool, but I popped my power/HDD LEDs out of place installing them and can't get them back in. )Another interesting, semi-related, and much shorter story was when I tried to burn a CD a while ago. It failed because somehow adding files to a CD is no longer possible (I know I did it once  ), which triggered the always-fun bug that causes Windows to lock up the drive so I can't open it. Well I figured I'd open it up and just unplug the drive for a second. It ended up being a huge pain to plug it back in at such an akward angle, and about 2 minutes after I'd unplugged it, still trying to plug it back in, the whole computer just shut off. Not sure why it took so long...Any other interesting stories of how your computer spooked you? |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 9047/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Any time it went off during a power fKitten Yiffer would be a good start. XD Um... The FAT32 corruption on a bad defrag... random BSOD's which occurred out of the blue... having my first graphics card on the new PC display random garbage after running for a few minutes... Yeah. I've had my share of spooks but nothing super-serious aside from the defrag thing. Me lucky.  |
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BMF98567 BLACK HAS BUILT A SILLY DICE-MAZE! GO! Current list of BURNING FURY >8( recipients: - Yiffy Kitten (x2) - Xkeeper Level: 53  Posts: 958/1261 EXP: 1094149 For next: 62970 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blobaria Special Move: Rising Meatloaf Backhand Combo Since last post: 21 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Any time the computer locks up and has trouble restarting, or does anything out of the ordinary. If it so much as vibrates differently, or hums louder than usual, it's a sign of impending hard drive fKitten Yiffer. Yes, I'm paranoid.  However, I think being a little paranoid is actually a good thing in the long run, as I've caught several problems before they developed into something serious. Vibrating/noisy fans and hard drives that are suddenly noticeably louder than usual or start clicking during activity are promptly replaced. I value my data too much to take any chances. And I totally agree with Colleen re: the dreaded power fKitten Yiffer. It's especially bad when it quickly pulses on and off several times in a row. The power never dies cleanly around here...  |
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Lenophis Super Koopa Level: 44  Posts: 526/830 EXP: 584360 For next: 26925 Since: 03-15-04 From: Duluth, MN Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 3 hours |
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| *sniff*........One time.....*sniff*....Internet Explorer......*sniff*.......opened when it shouldn't have. I was afraid that the boogeyman might come and get me! *sniff* Although, on very rare occurances the whole machine will lock up for no reason. Afterwards, it's a total bitch to get it to turn on again. It hasn't failed in not powering on again, but it just seems to take forever. The 'on' button isn't the off button. I'm usually flipping the power switch on the back of the power supply. Then I wait......and wait.....and wait. (Although, if I hold the 'on' button long enough, that does kill the power. But it has always added to the problem.) *sigh* Other than that, I take care of my baby pretty well.  |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 10411/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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Originally posted by BMF54123Woah, at least I know i'm not the only one. Especially since I got a smart warning, for a few months ago. It said that the HD could crash at any time and that I should backup everything. I did backup everything to the second HD and uhm... It hadn't crashed yet, and the warnings stopped. But it scared me to hell. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 3452/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| i think i'm one of the few people outthere who has never had an HD die on them...considering the amount of processing work I use my HD for (video processing, downloading, recording to CD/DVD, verifying the burn, etc). But I think another factor is probably that when I do these HD instensive things, I don't use the computer at all...which probably is why my HD lasts but anyways, as for scary computer experiences--the only run in I had was frying a good stick of DDR ram in a computer that used PC100  I thought I messed up my system for good when I did that because it wouldn't turn on. then I waited a few days and turned it on and it worked  . then I also had run in with my power supply a few days ago. It made the fan loud sound one day. I didn't use the computer for 24+ hours. next time I turned it on was as if nothing happened... |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5548/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yeah, I leave and go read a book or something when I'm doing intensive stuff like defragging or burning CDs, mainly because they slow everything way down. Any hard drive that clicks, though, is backed up and thrown in the junk pile. A clicking hard drive is a nearly dead hard drive. BTW, I heard of (and tested) an interesting trick regarding failing hard drives. Put them in the freezer (in a zip-loc or something so they don't get wet). Once they're nice and cold they often work again long enough to back them up. Originally posted by Lenophis I had it try to open MSN Messenger when I mis-typed a pathname in explorer (the shell, not IE). I'd deleted it, though, so I only got a 'msmsgr.exe was not found' message out of nowhere. I've been hoping it would happen again, sometime, because this time I replaced it with a program that will report what parameters it was started with. Maybe I could tell why it started if I could tell what commands it was given...
You might want to look at a new power supply. If it won't turn on again right away, it's usually that. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 3455/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by HyperHackerAnd use the warranty of your CPU as well (edited by neotransotaku on 07-06-05 04:21 PM) |
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DarkSlaya POOOOOOOOOOOORN! Level: 88 Posts: 3778/4249 EXP: 6409254 For next: 241410 Since: 05-16-04 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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| Power supply going "BOOM" is pretty scary. Seriously, it is. I'm dead serious. ... And I've heard of someone's CD exploding in the computer. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5556/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I had a power supply go ZAP once, but it wasn't in a computer. (I used it for electronic projects.) And I had one that did die in a computer, but it didn't blow up or anything, it just gave out less and less power until I replaced it (and finally knew why that damn computer wasn't working). |
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mrmenz Slime Level: 30 Posts: 291/347 EXP: 157982 For next: 7887 Since: 03-15-04 From: USA/PA Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 39 days |
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| I once was moving my old gateway machine into a newer case....I wanted to install the thermal sensor under the processor, so I took the clip off the heatsink....and pulled a bit too hard, ripping the heat sink out and the processor with it. The pins were fucked, it was a celeron though so 20 bucks got me a new one xD. | |||
Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 10448/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Me and my brother played Rollercoaster Tycoon on this computer once and we didn | |||
Karadur Fire Snake  Level: 48  Posts: 960/1192 EXP: 786444 For next: 37099 Since: 11-02-04 From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 15 hours |
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| For myself, pretty much anytime a program stops working, when nothing was wrong with it before. Especially when whatever program has been closed for only a couple minutes before I try to open it again. That could also be applied to booting the computer up, and having it fail to do so, when it worked fine the most recent time I used it. The most recent example of that would be when my computer froze up while Winamp was running, so I restarted, and tried to open it again, and it popped up an error message about not being able to find some files, in a directory that didn't even exist I had to completely reinstall it for it to work again  Next would be thunderstorms when I'm doing something on the computer that have a potential to be damaging if they're interrupted. Thankfully, that hasn't happened too often (the only instance I remember was when I was burning a CD and the power went out for a minute or so). I've never run into problems defragmenting either of our computers, even though I left the old one defragmenting one day, and came back from school and such about 8 hours later, to find it only at 84% or somewhere near there. The scariest thing that I can think of right now would have to be during the most recent time we had the internet. I was talking to some people in IRC (well, more like idling with), when a window popped up that I hadn't seen since Windows 98. It said something about how certain files couldn't be found. Clicking "Skip" and the other buttons didn't do anything visible, and upon restarting the computer, I wasn't able to log in I had to use System Restore to get it working again. I doubt it was anything wrong with what I was doing in mIRC, as I was able to use it fine after I could log on again. In general, though, pretty much any time anything on the computer functions differently than what's normal is enough to make me worried. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5623/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Well it's not exactly computer related, but I dropped my DS yesterday and it froze. No apparent damage, though, but I never quite understood why a sudden impact like that can screw up electronics with no moving parts. |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 10459/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| SMART warning. Imminent fKitten Yiffer. Backup immediatly! That's what I saw when I restarted earliertoday. But my SMART utilities said that the HD was fine. What to trust, my BIOS or my utilities? It have randomly shown that warning when the HD had alot of work. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5632/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| What warning? If it's just something like temperature you can probably ignore it. I would think if there were a real problem, it would say that every time you start up. Making backups often is never a bad idea, though.  |
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drjayphd Beamos What's that spell? pimp! Level: 56  Posts: 1152/1477 EXP: 1387410 For next: 10766 Since: 03-15-04 From: CT Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Install Sygate Personal Firewall, reboot. BSOD. Oh. Fuck me. Reboot? BSOD. Reboot again? Bee ess oh dee. Now, I haven't backed anything up yet, soooo... Went into safe mode, uninstalled ZoneAlarm. Reboot? BS...oh, wait, it works fine.  Let this be a lesson to ye: only one third-party software firewall installed at a time, kids. |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 10512/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker I dropped my new cellphone on the floor in a bus a while ago and it turned itself off. It worked fine afterwards. When you change battery or such things there (edited by Trapster on 07-10-05 12:31 PM) |
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Sukasa Boomboom Error 349857348734534: The system experienced an error. Level: 57  Posts: 1191/1981 EXP: 1446921 For next: 39007 Since: 02-06-05 From: *Shrug* Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Eh, probably when I was building this computer at a university summer course. My mobo had been in use by someone else the day before, and had been miswired (No idea why he put the power connecter in wrong, or how for that matter). Plugged it in and BANG! Sparks everywhere, dead mobo. Next day, I had another bad mobo that didn't boot. What did I do? went to a guy with 3 mobos and asked for one. he gave me *surprise*, the mobo that had sparked. I took it back, hooked it up and it booted perfectly. Guy came over and bugged out. He told me what happened and I bugged out too. Kinda funny and surreal, but that's what happened. BTW, I'm typing this post on that same mobo. |
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Snika Boo Level: 44  Posts: 162/916 EXP: 600678 For next: 10607 Since: 07-21-04 From: Freezing Cold Alaska! Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| "Wake up, Neo!" flashed on my screen in green letters. It woke me up, and I wondered who Neo was... Seriously, one of the most scary, or annoying, experiences was when I had my dot painting half finished in ArtRage, then the program froze and I had to restart it from scratch! =P Snika |
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