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Nebetsu Shmee Level: 55 Posts: 1388/1574 EXP: 1291130 For next: 23059 Since: 09-01-04 From: Nebland Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| When fans stop and you realise what happened... >> | |||
Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 10554/11162 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 HyperHackerIt's saying it every time I startup now.  Anyway, getting a new HD. And it dosen't have to do anything with the tempratures. Apparently the HD have some problems to... write stuff.  Might be broken sectors, but broken sectors could be a sign of a dying harddrive... |
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fabio Chuck Level: 45  Posts: 127/1479 EXP: 629903 For next: 30261 Since: 07-02-05 From: Somewhere in Texas Since last post: 7 hours Last activity: 7 hours |
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| I had a scary computer experience too. It happened right after my so called friend deleted almost everything on my computer except roms and some music. Yeah, my computer has been very slow lately and my "friend" thinks deleting all the useless files would solve it. Boy was he wrong. After just about deleting almost everything on my computer, I went A LOT slower than usual. After that, my computer caught a virus from using thanks to all the ads in Kazaa. It made my computer even slower, so slow that it freezes my computer almost everytime it loaded up. Thankfully, my dad knows a computer expert that can fix just about anything on the computer. After the computer was fixed, my dad told my sister about what happened to the files because the computer I have used to belong to and she change the password so that I can't get on and blame the entire incident on me. Luckily, the computer had poor security so I can get in anytime I want. Hopefully, this experience will never happen to me ever again. | |||
MetalMan88 Ninji Level: 23  Posts: 181/232 EXP: 63815 For next: 3908 Since: 12-11-04 From: 1970s Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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| Well, I must take the cake for some of them. First experience: I'm fixing a friend's computer for pay. I've been trying to make a new power supply work so that it'll be able to use a super-fast nex-gen video card. The computer has an AT power supply, though, so I had to get a power switch to actually activate the computer. After a whole lot of cable fun, I plug it in, and turn it on. It works! I go down stairs to tell everyone, leaving it on. Then I come back... AHHHHH!!!! FIRE!!! The floppy drive cable was melting. I unplugged the computer, and the flames stopped... but it wound up needing a lot more than a new power supply ;p Then there was the time the power supply exploded. One morning, I'm waking up... BAM BAM BAM BAM! Sounds like gunshots. I go downstairs... and hear that the power supply on the computer has exploded. It SHOT LIGHTNING into the wall, burning some nice big spots. We thought the computer was dead, but it was just a case of needing a new power supply. We were astonished when it booted up like normal. |
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Xeon Goomba Level: 7  Posts: 7/25 EXP: 1288 For next: 160 Since: 07-19-05 Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| I've had a few computers do some scary stuff, my most scariest would have to be last month. It was a horrible thunderstorm out and I figured i'd better shut my computer off, as im waiting for XP to shutdown....It takes forever! A huge bolt of lightning struck very near to my house, it caused the monitor to buzz. Finally XP decided OHHHH i'm going to shut down now! Later as the storm went away, I go to turn on my computer and what do I see on the screen when it reboots...'Error loading OS...Press any key to reboot.'. Now I have never seen this error before, and frankly I didnt think it would ever happen to me. Luckily I had an XP recovery CD and used fixmbr and fixboot and also ran scandisk. Which seemed to fix the problem because everything booted up fine. I did notice though, all the changes I made to my desktop the day before did not save. Another time I was scared I broke my monitor. Well I was drinking Code Red Mountain Dew next to my computer, and since I only have two hands, I needed to make use of them at the keyboard. Well my desk was cluttered and I had no where else to put it, but hold it in my mouth with my teath. After a few minutes I forgot it was in my mouth and let out of laugh and the pop fell on my lap, bounced up a few inches and sprayed soda all over the monitor, all over the keyboard, all over the inside of the monitor and then im like ! OHH CRAP!. So I shut my computer down. And when I tried to load it back up, the monitor wouldnt turn on. Nothing on the screen. I was so frustrated i just went to sleep. Next morning I turned it on and it worked fine. And then there was this other time, I thought it would be a good time to get an anti-virus software with all the crap I had been visiting on Internet. So I figured why not get Macafee. Everything seemed to install fine. But when I rebooted, all I saw was a little blinking cursor in the top left corner of my screen after the windows logo appeared. Apparently an option to scan the ENTIRE harddrive before bootup was set by DEFAULT! Go figure! So finally after going nuts, I remembered safemode, and loaded windows with safemode, before it could execute AUTOEXEC.BAT. Uninstalled Macafee. I tell you, any anti-virus software with that option set by default is nuts! Drives are not 512 MB anymore! They are 20,40,80,100,120 GIGABYTES. This other time with my first computer, it was only a month old, and I had got it for christmas, it was built by this place called DIT computers. Little did I know they put the wrong motherboard in it and it fried itself. Well one day the computer wouldnt bootup. You would press the button, and you could hear fans, and then sometimes. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. Anyway we took it back to DIT and they replaced the motherboard and the videocard which was a peice of shit. Thats about it for my scary computer stories. Peace. |
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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: 5909/8210 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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Yep, Mcafee is a piece of crap.  And that's why you generally leave room for your drink or put the cap on. A lot of things have those protection circuits, though, which is good. I've had several things (computer, N64, etc) just refuse to turn on, only to start working again later, when I did something bad to them.Ah yes, and let's not forget the time I replaced the floppy drive in my old 486. It was the first time I did any hardware work, so I didn't really know what to do. Easy enough to figure out, but I wound up plugging the hard disk in backward. This computer didn't have anything to protect it from that, so when I turned it on it just beeped like hell, garbage on the screen, all sorts of crap. It worked fine when I reconnected it, but since it was way old the HD eventually just died anyway.  (It kept asking me to insert a disk in drive C.  ) |
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interdpth Rex Level: 36 Posts: 494/527 EXP: 294398 For next: 13712 Since: 03-20-04 Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 31 days |
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| Well my first weird experience was after I had formmated this drive and put it in and installed XP on it I couldn't see my C drive after a while I finally figured E was my home drive. Now then this one freaks out my whole family and friends. Ok in XP I have about 50 programs in my taskbar running everyday. My computer runs fine. But when someone else gets on it it slows down or freezes. I usually come back hit Windows Key + L to go to the login screen or I hit crtl+alt+ delete and kill explorer that usually solves the problem but like if some one is using it and it slows down I come over and a few minutes later it runs fine for me then they get on and it slows down. |
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