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HyperHacker
Posts: 4208/5072		 Plugged in, but not turned on. I did have an ISA card (not screwed in) literally fall out of its socket while the computer was on once, but nothing bad happened. It was the bottom socket so it just fell to the bottom of the case. Of course I'm still not going to do that intentionally, but it was interesting to see.
Sukasa
Posts: 1913/2068
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Originally posted by Xkeeper
You were removing PC equpiment with the PC still plugged in?

...

Holy jesus on a stick, you are dumb.

What, I grab the card and pull it. The tower is in a vertical position. The laws of physics, and the fact that I'm not holding anything metal except the card itself, make it approximately impossible for anything to fall onto the motherboard during this brief period. It's actually safer in this scenario to leave it plugged in to give static a way out then to unplug it for two seconds.


Dude, according to that you said you pulled the card out of an operating computer. that's wha tI was commenting on
HyperHacker
Posts: 4179/5072		 Well, why not? There's no power to the PCI bus when the power is off.

Hm, PHP was dying for no apparent reason after reinstall, but magically fixed itself.
Sukasa
Posts: 1908/2068		 You don't get it. Dude, you don't unplug stuff like that hot from a computer
HyperHacker
Posts: 4112/5072
Originally posted by Xkeeper
You were removing PC equpiment with the PC still plugged in?

...

Holy jesus on a stick, you are dumb.

What, I grab the card and pull it. The tower is in a vertical position. The laws of physics, and the fact that I'm not holding anything metal except the card itself, make it approximately impossible for anything to fall onto the motherboard during this brief period. It's actually safer in this scenario to leave it plugged in to give static a way out then to unplug it for two seconds.

Also, the BSODs stopped when I removed that crappy TV card. Which I still don't quite get because it works just fine in the other computer.
FreeDOS +
Posts: 1042/1312		 Some PCI buses and cards support hotplugging. Though finding proper hardware support is like how hard it was to find an ISA PnP bus and the ISA PnP cards.
Metal Man88
Posts: 476/701		 Yeah, the way to go is to plug an IDE cable into a floppy drive. Instant fire!
Xkeeper
Posts: 4671/5653		 You were removing PC equpiment with the PC still plugged in?

...

Holy jesus on a stick, you are dumb.
HyperHacker
Posts: 4101/5072		 I just find it funny that companies spend millions on these measures and I defeat them by installing a firmware hack and a program or pressing buttons on the remote, taking a maximum of 5 minutes.

Anyway I guess when I plugged the CD-ROM's power back in I knocked the IDE cable out. Fixed that, started reinstalling. Getting a BSOD after the CD portion of the setup. Wheeeeeee. Also, my computer turned itself on while I was removing a PCI card.
FreeDOS +
Posts: 1027/1312
Originally posted by HyperHacker
DVD Region Killer

I still find it funny that Microsoft is so uptight about DRM, that they simulate it where they don't deem enough of it on a piece of hardware.
HyperHacker
Posts: 4086/5072		 I just had my computer apart for a week or so using its CD-ROM and NIC to install Windoze on another computer which had neither. I shuffled some PCI cards and added an old TV tuner I found. Whoo boy.

  • DVD Region Killer reports a corrupt registry entry relating to CD filters that wasn't there before. Possibly because I forgot to reconnect the &^%&^$R% power cable to the CD-ROM.
  • AVG demands I install V7.5 before next year. I download it but don't install it yet.
  • Windows finds the TV tuner but no drivers for it.
  • I download the drivers from the company's website. BSOD as soon as they're installed, even though they worked on the other computer I was putting together which also runs XP.
  • After rebooting, my sound drivers are toast. Still can't install the TV tuner.


It's also been spewing errors about dbghelp.dll or something at each boot for a while now. Fuck it, reinstalling now and upgrading all this junk when I can. Case is falling apart, hard drive is full, motherboard is cheap and never did work quite right (floppy drive, helloooooo), video card sucks, etc. $400 may get you a computer, but I don't recommend it. (And WTF @ Tomguy recommending an MSI board way back when... he must work for them or something. Or my memory is farting again.)

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee.
HyperHacker
Posts: 3614/5072		 Yeah, sometimes even the menus go under the taskbar.

And a while ago both a console window and an Explorer window crashed within a minute of eachother for no apparent reason.
Xkeeper
Posts: 4069/5653		 I've had the same old "tooltips under the menu", but it happens sometimes on my Win2000 machine, and almost never on my laptop...

Everything else is just
Kailieann
Posts: 447/808
Originally posted by HyperHacker
There's also the "taskbar's context menu appears above system tray icons' menus 75% of the time" bug, which is really annoying, but I suspect it's an actual bug and not just my specific install acting up.

This is the only one I've ever experienced personally. Except for me it only happens about 0.5% of the time.
HyperHacker
Posts: 3583/5072		 Messed up web pages: Happened often in WinME.
Black start menu: See first item.
Glitched fonts: Happens when there's very little VRAM left. (Shortly followed by a BSOD in most cases. )

The blank pages thing is less common after restarting Proxomitron which for some reason was eating up all my CPU power, but it still happens. At one point it was happening literally every time I loaded a page for about half an hour. (Hitting F5 would show the page, but it was still annoying.)

There's also the "taskbar's context menu appears above system tray icons' menus 75% of the time" bug, which is really annoying, but I suspect it's an actual bug and not just my specific install acting up.
Shiryu
Posts: 217/275		 your windows is working similat to mine when it was "ok" XD

Maybe next you'll start to see how the webpages get messed up without reason (ex: everything inside a button, smilies everywhere and other weird things), the whole start menu in black with new icons, black taskbar, no clock, weird desktop, glitched windows, glitched fonts... I had that, it was fun XD

Now explorer can only be opened when internet is not connected, there aren't some process, and sometimes one window blocks another. IE and MSN can't be opened. The only online thing that works is firefox. Opening the start menu blocks itself, the taskbar and almost every other thing... This is not fun...
HyperHacker
Posts: 3563/5072		 My Windows needs to be reinstalled, but I'm holding off until I get a few other things done first. It's amusing watching the dumb things it starts to do.

In chronological order:
  • Fails to draw the Start menu correctly (usually a black bar at the bottom - this bug appeared out of nowhere ages ago and has survived a reinstall on a completely different computer not that annoying except when the menu or taskbar is translucent which makes it really bad)
  • Forgets my screen resolution and desktop icon positions at bootup (annoying)
  • Forgets a few other things, such as colour settings in Hex Workshop (fairly annoying)
  • Occasionally gives two separate windows focus at the same time (just dumb)
  • Freezes when a monitor cable gets knocked out of place (I suspect this is just a dumb video driver)
  • Sometimes doesn't update the Last Modified date of a file (quite annoying since I use xcopy to copy the newest versions of files to my laptop and back, which relies on that)
  • Randomly gives translucent windows a width and height of zero when restored, leaving only a small title bar (annoying, but easily fixed by changing translucency)
  • Once just tossed a file out the window - completely disappeared - when I tried to move it (really annoying, but I got it back by hitting Undo)
  • Returns a blank page instantly in Firefox about half the time I load a page (quite annoying, and I suspect other apps have the same problem; Gmail Notifier keeps whining about bad data, it did just now in fact, but this could be because Azureus is constantly chewing up 65K of my bandwidth)


Just wonder what dumb thing will happen next.
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