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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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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:
Just wonder what dumb thing will happen next. |
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Shiryu Gungun Since: 02-24-06 Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6430 days |
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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 lololol. Opening the start menu blocks itself, the taskbar and almost every other thing... This is not fun... (edited by Shiryu on 10-05-06 02:14 PM) (edited by Shiryu on 10-05-06 02:15 PM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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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. |
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Kailieann Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6430 days Last view: 6430 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker This is the only one I've ever experienced personally. Except for me it only happens about 0.5% of the time. |
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Xkeeper Took the board down in a blaze of glory, only to reveal how truly moronical ||bass is. Since: 11-17-05 From: Henderson, Nevada Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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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 |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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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. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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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.
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. |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6430 days Last view: 6430 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker 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. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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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. (edited by HyperHacker on 11-19-06 12:47 AM) |
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Xkeeper Took the board down in a blaze of glory, only to reveal how truly moronical ||bass is. Since: 11-17-05 From: Henderson, Nevada Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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You were removing PC equpiment with the PC still plugged in?
... Holy jesus on a stick, you are dumb. |
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Metal Man88 Gold axe It appears we have been transported to a time in which everything is on fire! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6430 days Last view: 6430 days |
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Yeah, the way to go is to plug an IDE cable into a floppy drive. Instant fire! | |||
FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6430 days Last view: 6430 days |
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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. | |||
HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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Originally posted by Xkeeper 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. (edited by HyperHacker on 11-20-06 01:32 AM) |
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Sukasa Birdo Not quite as active as before. Xkeeper supporter Xk > ||bass I IP Banned myself! Twice! Since: 11-17-05 From: Somewhere over there Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6430 days |
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You don't get it. Dude, you don't unplug stuff like that hot from a computer | |||
HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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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. |
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Sukasa Birdo Not quite as active as before. Xkeeper supporter Xk > ||bass I IP Banned myself! Twice! Since: 11-17-05 From: Somewhere over there Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6430 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHackerOriginally posted by Xkeeper Dude, according to that you said you pulled the card out of an operating computer. that's wha tI was commenting on |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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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. (edited by HyperHacker on 11-25-06 08:02 PM) |
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