So, seeing that you would need a computer of some sort to access this page, what
sorts of accidents, mishaps, failures, and/or disaster have happened to you
since you've started using compters?
I myself have had to replace 6 or so hard drives, 2 melted power supplies, put
out a few case fires, unjam 2 disk drive trays, rewire my monitor that was
spewing out sparks, and more hard drive failures/data loss than you could
count.
I had put Slackware Linux on a pc104 board that was to control a robot. ....i
had everything up, including Enlightenment. ...Which was just sexy-cool.
Anyhow... I was low on space in the pathetic drive. ...So I went to delete
/usr/docs/*
Now... ...This is not the hardest thing to do. The command "rm -Rf
/usr/docs" would have done it. However, I typed....
cd /usr
ls docs
rm -Rf .
Which was wrong, and really jacked up the system. I ended up just reinstalling
the whole mess. I was really disappointed. ..And the team captain, who saw me
do it, just couldn't believe his eyes...
i didnt have any proplem..well there was this time where i installed adope
photoshop...but when i un-installed it it dameged bye computer....in the
begening(when i open my computer and i'm in windows) i get a note..saying
something..if i close it i cant do anything....and i need to let it stay like
that..first it just took 10 minuts to work again...but it growd uptill 30
minuts+..and in the end i found out how to re-program my computer and did
so..and i didnt have proplems anymore...it happend long ago
I never had a quote on quote disaster
besides one time, got my motherboard fried, have to install a new cpu
hard drive failed on me couple of tiems,
accidentally deleted drive partition once.
besides that i would say my computing experiences have been delightful
Ah, that does remind me, I went through 1 videocard and 2 mother boards.
On a side note, when buolding my friends computer I completely fried every part.
I sadly forgot to ground the components, but inthe end, the electronics store
didn't notice. Another time, me and some friends were build another machine and
for some reason the computer wouldn't load (powered up but nothing on screen).
Turns out, one of us put in the CPU incorrectly and bent nearly all the pins.
^^;;
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never had a quote on quote disaster
besides one time, got my motherboard fried, have to install a new cpu
hard drive failed on me couple of tiems,
accidentally deleted drive partition once.
besides that i would say my computing experiences have been
delightful
Bah. And the HDD failures too. I actually had one just DIE without warning.
...Man... ...I'm still bummed from that one. ...That was my gaming/performance
system that dropped out too. ...And I don't have a good backup anything....
Quote by hiddensnakehands I
never had a quote on quote disaster besides
one time, got my motherboard fried, have to install a new cpu hard
drive failed on me couple of tiems, accidentally deleted drive
partition once. besides that i would say my computing experiences have
been delightful
Bah. And the HDD failures too. I actually had one just DIE without
warning. ...Man... ...I'm still bummed from that one. ...That was my
gaming/performance system that dropped out too. ...And I don't have a
good backup anything....
which my last harddrive failure really taught me a lot. I have a 200 gb, failed,
tried to recover it by installing in as a slave drive. Still couldnt retrieve
any data.
That really blows!
and the thing is most HD failures will come without a warning, it is as random
as it gets. Most others, at least you would find a cause for it, but HDD
failures is just sighhhh
One fine day, I was listen to music and looking though for torrents. I was
supposed to build one of the aforementioned PC, so I though might as well bring
the stuff upstairs. I walk down the stairs and walk back up with the monitor.
There was my computer, loged out, and upon further inspection, one of the hard
drives (a 200gb drive used for mainly downloading anime/manga/ect) was missing
its file system info and thus, declared RAW.
Never understood what happened, I wasn't away from the desk for longer than 2
minutes...
apart from your system crashes i havent had too many
recently a floppy disc got stuck in the drive, so i undid the computer to take
out the drive to pull out the disc, now the drive wont work, it opens the disc
cause u can hear it doing it but it says please insert disc into drive
A
On our old computer windows wouldnt load O_o and we couldnt reinstall windows 98
as we had lost the disc, we had Xp put on there as we borrowed a friends disc
but they recently moved house so we couldnt install it cause they couldnt find
the disc ^_^;;
oh and in that same computer the DVD drive wouldnt open, there wasnt any discs
in there thankfully
Ohhh...so many disasters to choose from! It's a much shorter list if you take
out the ones that are work related. Oh, if you were trying to make a
reservation at any Holiday Inn online a few months ago, and it was really
sluggish...that may have been me. *cough* I will speak no more on
that.
Top two disasters. First, self inflicted. All the fansubs and etc I DL off
Usenet are thrown into one folder until I decide I actually want to keep it. To
understand this disaster you have to know about "tab completion". Say
I have some file:
ThisIsAReallyLongFilename.avi
I want to delete that file. Instead of typing the whole thing out, I can
type:
rm This(TAB-KEY)
...which completes the filename (...IsAReallyLongFilename.avi) and is much
easier to type. My error was that I didn't expect tab completion to go all the
way since I was deleting a group of files. But there was only one file that
could be completed with the tab, so it completed it...added a space at the
end...and I put an asterisk which means "everything". I meant to say
"delete this small group of files" but I said "delete this single
file, and everything else in the directory".
Oops. By the time I noticed it was taking a long time, about 25% of my files in
there were toast :-) I've also done this to my home directory. Twice.
Second disaster. Three HDs in a raid-5 (can lose a single drive without losing
data). Cheap-ass power supply finally blows up, and it *really* blows up.
Toasts the motherboard and...two HDs. So, I used raid, and nearly lost all my
data anyway. By a stroke of luck, only the circuitry on the removable PCB was
damaged (WD drives) so I swapped the ones from the replacement drives onto them
and was able to recover most of my data.
I no longer buy cheap power supplies. UL listed, at a minimum. Interesting
note, Western Digital accepts HDs that have *scorched PCBs* for RMA without
questions O_o
The hard drive on my laptop fried. Had to buy a new one. But I think the worst
disaster is when my computer froze up when a had hentai on the screen, right
when my mom walked in. She didn't say any thing, she just looked at the screen,
paused, then walked out. I was afraid to look at her in the eyes for the rest of
the day.
read all of your posts...i never knew so many things could happen to a
computer!!!
how did you get the moniter to start spewing sparks?! LOL
ive crashed mine once, ruined a disk drive by ripping it open cause a disk was
stuck in it, and pulled the mouse cord out and the mouse wouldnt work for a week
til we got someone to come over and open up the computer to fix the problem,
nothing as seriouse as the things that have happened to you
Oh... I've totally deleted files that were hard to find/make millions of times.
I've also fryed tons of hardware... I' do alot of bad crap that evens out the
good crap I've done.
I don't know how many problems I've had. It's hard being the only computer wiz
in an extended family....
Anyway I've had multiple motherboards fried ( being unable to retrieve important
data and files sucks ) and I've had to replace countless modems. I think I've
had to deal with 20 some jammed disc drives, and just recently I had to
carefully extract an external hard drive that fried during a storm..... and my
wonderful Aunt demanded I do it in the dark (stupid power failure ). She had no
back up power or anything for this stuff so I ended up replacing a dead modem,
an external hard drive, and a disc drive ( she had pulled it out forcefully and
broke the damn tray! ) the next day.
Despite my tinkering adventures with computers (and friends treating me as their
'free' technical support guy), I have had very little computer-related problems.
The worst I have ever had were one harddisk failing on me (and which happens to
come from a failure batch anyway) and a power supply fan that needed to be
replaced. It's probably a good thing to have troubles escape me though.
There's alot of stories to tell. In recent years, the number of disasters has
slowed due to caution, experience, and running out of money for computer stuff.
I "accidentally" installed an Athlon XP processor incorrectly about 2
years ago. I was in a rush and didn't bother to look at the indicator step on
the proc's heatsink. Guess what? Pop goes the Athlon. That's life. That bit
of haste cost me another $114. My wife allowed me to spend the dough, but she
commented on it for a few weeks following. She got her money's worth.
let see... I had a lot of problems with my computer.
one I broke my motherboard >right in half< O_o ( I was really stupid, I
won't tell you how)
and another time, I was playing with a baseball and I thow it at my brother and
it hit the computer screen and broke it. O_O
or I lot of problems about the internet not working
*runs away* before my mom finds out.
in the end my mom got really mad and we bought another one...^^;
So, seeing that you would need a computer of some sort to access this page, what sorts of accidents, mishaps, failures, and/or disaster have happened to you since you've started using compters?
I myself have had to replace 6 or so hard drives, 2 melted power supplies, put out a few case fires, unjam 2 disk drive trays, rewire my monitor that was spewing out sparks, and more hard drive failures/data loss than you could count.
What about "you"?
Worst one:
I had put Slackware Linux on a pc104 board that was to control a robot. ....i had everything up, including Enlightenment. ...Which was just sexy-cool. Anyhow... I was low on space in the pathetic drive. ...So I went to delete /usr/docs/*
Now... ...This is not the hardest thing to do. The command "rm -Rf /usr/docs" would have done it. However, I typed....
cd /usr
ls docs
rm -Rf .
Which was wrong, and really jacked up the system. I ended up just reinstalling the whole mess. I was really disappointed. ..And the team captain, who saw me do it, just couldn't believe his eyes...
Ooops!
i didnt have any proplem..well there was this time where i installed adope photoshop...but when i un-installed it it dameged bye computer....in the begening(when i open my computer and i'm in windows) i get a note..saying something..if i close it i cant do anything....and i need to let it stay like that..first it just took 10 minuts to work again...but it growd uptill 30 minuts+..and in the end i found out how to re-program my computer and did so..and i didnt have proplems anymore...it happend long ago
I never had a quote on quote disaster
besides one time, got my motherboard fried, have to install a new cpu
hard drive failed on me couple of tiems,
accidentally deleted drive partition once.
besides that i would say my computing experiences have been delightful
Ah, that does remind me, I went through 1 videocard and 2 mother boards.
On a side note, when buolding my friends computer I completely fried every part. I sadly forgot to ground the components, but inthe end, the electronics store didn't notice. Another time, me and some friends were build another machine and for some reason the computer wouldn't load (powered up but nothing on screen). Turns out, one of us put in the CPU incorrectly and bent nearly all the pins. ^^;;
Bah. And the HDD failures too. I actually had one just DIE without warning. ...Man... ...I'm still bummed from that one. ...That was my gaming/performance system that dropped out too. ...And I don't have a good backup anything....
which my last harddrive failure really taught me a lot. I have a 200 gb, failed, tried to recover it by installing in as a slave drive. Still couldnt retrieve any data.
That really blows!
Yeah, hard drive failure does bring must dispair.
Especially, if you are downloading/just finished downloading a good sized amout of files.
and the thing is most HD failures will come without a warning, it is as random as it gets. Most others, at least you would find a cause for it, but HDD failures is just sighhhh
Random doesn't even begin to describe it.
One fine day, I was listen to music and looking though for torrents. I was supposed to build one of the aforementioned PC, so I though might as well bring the stuff upstairs. I walk down the stairs and walk back up with the monitor. There was my computer, loged out, and upon further inspection, one of the hard drives (a 200gb drive used for mainly downloading anime/manga/ect) was missing its file system info and thus, declared RAW.
Never understood what happened, I wasn't away from the desk for longer than 2 minutes...
apart from your system crashes i havent had too many
recently a floppy disc got stuck in the drive, so i undid the computer to take out the drive to pull out the disc, now the drive wont work, it opens the disc cause u can hear it doing it but it says please insert disc into drive A
On our old computer windows wouldnt load O_o and we couldnt reinstall windows 98 as we had lost the disc, we had Xp put on there as we borrowed a friends disc but they recently moved house so we couldnt install it cause they couldnt find the disc ^_^;;
oh and in that same computer the DVD drive wouldnt open, there wasnt any discs in there thankfully
A computer crash. I had a lot of stuff until I lost everything because my dad and his friend were trying to fix it.
Ohhh...so many disasters to choose from! It's a much shorter list if you take out the ones that are work related. Oh, if you were trying to make a reservation at any Holiday Inn online a few months ago, and it was really sluggish...that may have been me. *cough* I will speak no more on that.
Top two disasters. First, self inflicted. All the fansubs and etc I DL off Usenet are thrown into one folder until I decide I actually want to keep it. To understand this disaster you have to know about "tab completion". Say I have some file:
ThisIsAReallyLongFilename.avi
I want to delete that file. Instead of typing the whole thing out, I can type:
rm This(TAB-KEY)
...which completes the filename (...IsAReallyLongFilename.avi) and is much easier to type. My error was that I didn't expect tab completion to go all the way since I was deleting a group of files. But there was only one file that could be completed with the tab, so it completed it...added a space at the end...and I put an asterisk which means "everything". I meant to say "delete this small group of files" but I said "delete this single file, and everything else in the directory".
Oops. By the time I noticed it was taking a long time, about 25% of my files in there were toast :-) I've also done this to my home directory. Twice.
Second disaster. Three HDs in a raid-5 (can lose a single drive without losing data). Cheap-ass power supply finally blows up, and it *really* blows up. Toasts the motherboard and...two HDs. So, I used raid, and nearly lost all my data anyway. By a stroke of luck, only the circuitry on the removable PCB was damaged (WD drives) so I swapped the ones from the replacement drives onto them and was able to recover most of my data.
I no longer buy cheap power supplies. UL listed, at a minimum. Interesting note, Western Digital accepts HDs that have *scorched PCBs* for RMA without questions O_o
As of right now I am having a problem with my laptop not being able to connect to the access point
replaced.. a power supply for this AMD Sempron...
the mother always overheat same as the power supply...
but now is ok.. onli problem is.. sometime when playing multimedia such as games, music or even video... the pc will.. hang at there...
any opinion to share help me solve this problem?
The hard drive on my laptop fried. Had to buy a new one. But I think the worst disaster is when my computer froze up when a had hentai on the screen, right when my mom walked in. She didn't say any thing, she just looked at the screen, paused, then walked out. I was afraid to look at her in the eyes for the rest of the day.
read all of your posts...i never knew so many things could happen to a computer!!!
how did you get the moniter to start spewing sparks?! LOL
ive crashed mine once, ruined a disk drive by ripping it open cause a disk was stuck in it, and pulled the mouse cord out and the mouse wouldnt work for a week til we got someone to come over and open up the computer to fix the problem, nothing as seriouse as the things that have happened to you
Oh... I've totally deleted files that were hard to find/make millions of times. I've also fryed tons of hardware... I' do alot of bad crap that evens out the good crap I've done.
I don't know how many problems I've had. It's hard being the only computer wiz in an extended family....
Anyway I've had multiple motherboards fried ( being unable to retrieve important
data and files sucks ) and I've had to replace countless modems. I think I've
had to deal with 20 some jammed disc drives, and just recently I had to
carefully extract an external hard drive that fried during a storm..... and my
wonderful Aunt demanded I do it in the dark (stupid power failure ). She had no
back up power or anything for this stuff so I ended up replacing a dead modem,
an external hard drive, and a disc drive ( she had pulled it out forcefully and
broke the damn tray! ) the next day. 
Despite my tinkering adventures with computers (and friends treating me as their 'free' technical support guy), I have had very little computer-related problems. The worst I have ever had were one harddisk failing on me (and which happens to come from a failure batch anyway) and a power supply fan that needed to be replaced. It's probably a good thing to have troubles escape me though.
Regards.
Like.. My HD crashed.. plenty of times. :S Also, it had a lot of spywares and all that before I started to use ADware and programs like that.
Luckily, it's good now. ^_^
Yeah,
There's alot of stories to tell. In recent years, the number of disasters has slowed due to caution, experience, and running out of money for computer stuff. I "accidentally" installed an Athlon XP processor incorrectly about 2 years ago. I was in a rush and didn't bother to look at the indicator step on the proc's heatsink. Guess what? Pop goes the Athlon. That's life. That bit of haste cost me another $114. My wife allowed me to spend the dough, but she commented on it for a few weeks following. She got her money's worth.
let see... I had a lot of problems with my computer.
one I broke my motherboard >right in half< O_o ( I was really stupid, I won't tell you how)
and another time, I was playing with a baseball and I thow it at my brother and it hit the computer screen and broke it. O_O
or I lot of problems about the internet not working
*runs away* before my mom finds out.
in the end my mom got really mad and we bought another one...^^;
My power source has exploded. Green sparks all over the place.