Have you had a computer nightmare?
Friday, January 30, 2004 by Stupendous Man | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
My one year old, by turning my computer on and off repeatedly, has just managed to TOTALLY destroy it. I think he corrupted some OS files and possibly damaged some memory, 'cause I can't get the thing to even install XP. 
It took me two days to cool off
I wish I could ground him for a week or take the Nintendo away, but, what can ya do? He's a baby.
Anyway, do you have a computer horror story? If so, I'd like to hear it. Maybe it'll make me feel a little better as I try to it up and running again.
It took me two days to cool off
I wish I could ground him for a week or take the Nintendo away, but, what can ya do? He's a baby.
Anyway, do you have a computer horror story? If so, I'd like to hear it. Maybe it'll make me feel a little better as I try to it up and running again.
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kongit
Reply #2 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:44 PM
Reply #2 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:44 PM
Travis has nightmares of ugly computer gremlins chasing him across a field while waving large sharp cd-roms and occasionally throwing them at me. The computer gremlins are small ugly green goblin like things made out of binary code. finally they catch up to me and start doing the matrix thing on me and turning me into 1s and 0s. I finally wake up when I feel like I am a number.
another bad computer nightmare I had was. I was working at my computer writing a paper for school late at night (when else do you write important papers?) and these two eyes appeared on my screen and told me that he was the demon of the internet. then this mouth with sharp fangs appeared along with two claws. the claws came out of the screen and grabbed my hands and started pulling me into the screen.
Another computer nightmare I had occured when I was ignorant and was still mucking around in system files. Somewhere in my mucking I messed something up I shouldn't have. I had to reformat and reinstall windows.
another bad computer nightmare I had was. I was working at my computer writing a paper for school late at night (when else do you write important papers?) and these two eyes appeared on my screen and told me that he was the demon of the internet. then this mouth with sharp fangs appeared along with two claws. the claws came out of the screen and grabbed my hands and started pulling me into the screen.
Another computer nightmare I had occured when I was ignorant and was still mucking around in system files. Somewhere in my mucking I messed something up I shouldn't have. I had to reformat and reinstall windows.
Essencay
Reply #3 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:53 PM
Reply #3 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:53 PM
a little pixel dust for Kong and then a little pixel dust for me....a little more pixel dust for Kong....a little more pixel dust for me....
Rocky Nimda
Reply #4 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:54 PM
I didn't even think of REAL nightmares when I saw the title of this thread.
Reply #4 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:54 PM
| #2 by Sir Travis the Kong |
I didn't even think of REAL nightmares when I saw the title of this thread.
kongit
Reply #5 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:58 PM
Reply #5 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:58 PM
Travis don't do pixel dust anymore. its bad for you. almost as bad as pixie sticks.
Essencay
Reply #6 Friday, January 30, 2004 2:08 PM
Reply #6 Friday, January 30, 2004 2:08 PM
http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=pixel%20dust definition of pixel dust
dune2996
Reply #7 Friday, January 30, 2004 3:19 PM
Reply #7 Friday, January 30, 2004 3:19 PM
If you open the computer up on the mother board there is a small (Dime) shaped battery....Remove this and leave removed for about 20 mins...This will clear the bios...Replace with a new battery (or the same one) and try again....This little trick usually works ! The bios will then set itself back to normal and if the memory is corrupt will give you a "memory currup" message, this way you don`t have to throw it out the window...And your little one won`t spend years in theropy when he`s older ! 
DesignCaddy
Reply #8 Friday, January 30, 2004 4:24 PM
Reply #8 Friday, January 30, 2004 4:24 PM
then promptly put the computer on a power strip, and use that to turn it on and off. havn't seen problems with more modern computers 'cause everyone i know just keeps them on all the time.. but in older computers when that power switch wears out, its a pretty penny to get it switched out. 'course in the old days the switch was right on the power supply. kinda like a tractor verus our modern cars.
digital_trucker
Reply #9 Friday, January 30, 2004 4:36 PM
Reply #9 Friday, January 30, 2004 4:36 PM
My PS has a switch...I've used it, too. The best danged force-shutdown there is, short of kicking the plug out of the wall.
Speaking of which, my old PS developed fan problems without me noticing...I was working happily away and *blink* all gone. 'bout gave me a heart attack. Coused a bit of consternation whhen it wouldn't turn back on. Pays to keep spares around!
Speaking of which, my old PS developed fan problems without me noticing...I was working happily away and *blink* all gone. 'bout gave me a heart attack. Coused a bit of consternation whhen it wouldn't turn back on. Pays to keep spares around!
DesignCaddy
Reply #10 Friday, January 30, 2004 4:45 PM
Reply #10 Friday, January 30, 2004 4:45 PM
i'm headed towards a computer nightmare.. i'm really hoping its not though. lately i've heard a fan giving me scary bad sector harddrive sounds.. and i'm sure its a fan.. at least i'm pretty sure..i dont have a loss in system performance when i hear the sound.
when i opened the thing up and laid it down on its side to run it open for a little bit, the sound stopped. i vacumed the case to be safe, and also checked that my wires werent hitting a fan (i've got 7). my bios hardware monitor would show my processor fan speed drop when i heard the sound, and promptly go back up again. still wondering if there is a wire smacking it. anyway i've been keeping my eye on the fan to make sure it doesnt go out on me 'cause an athlon will over heat in 3 seconds. its run nearly 24/7 for a year and a half.. but it should be rated for about 3 years.
when i opened the thing up and laid it down on its side to run it open for a little bit, the sound stopped. i vacumed the case to be safe, and also checked that my wires werent hitting a fan (i've got 7). my bios hardware monitor would show my processor fan speed drop when i heard the sound, and promptly go back up again. still wondering if there is a wire smacking it. anyway i've been keeping my eye on the fan to make sure it doesnt go out on me 'cause an athlon will over heat in 3 seconds. its run nearly 24/7 for a year and a half.. but it should be rated for about 3 years.
Stupendous Man
Reply #11 Friday, January 30, 2004 5:16 PM
Reply #11 Friday, January 30, 2004 5:16 PM
Thanks Dune. I'll give it a try and let you know.
Jafo
Reply #12 Friday, January 30, 2004 6:02 PM
Reply #12 Friday, January 30, 2004 6:02 PM
papidon....clearing the CMOS as dune suggests may lead to other 'issues' if you are unaware of your BIOS settings, etc and are a novice in that regard.
MBs will have a jumper usually adjacent to the BIOS chip for clearing its memory without battery removal and waiting for capacitors,etc to discharge.
Horror stories about computers are generally compounded by the 'quality' of advice offered for their solution.
I'm sure there really are people out there that have emptied their recycle bin by typing 'format c:\' at a command prompt through following 'assistance'....
GreatSilverWyrm
Reply #13 Friday, January 30, 2004 6:38 PM
Reply #13 Friday, January 30, 2004 6:38 PM
Hmm, I suppose I have 2...neither of which very bad....
One, is after I had installed controlpanel (whatever that stardock sidebar app is...it prompted me to restart, I did...
When windows started up...explorer didn't load or something, took me a while to figure out I could do a ctrl+alt+delete, go to run, start something, and explorer'd kick in...removed that app in a hurry..
The other time was when my idiot brother got some virus of of kazaa...Windows would start up, and then kick out about 10 seconds later..was a PITA...had to stick the HD in another computer to scan it..
One, is after I had installed controlpanel (whatever that stardock sidebar app is...it prompted me to restart, I did...
When windows started up...explorer didn't load or something, took me a while to figure out I could do a ctrl+alt+delete, go to run, start something, and explorer'd kick in...removed that app in a hurry..
The other time was when my idiot brother got some virus of of kazaa...Windows would start up, and then kick out about 10 seconds later..was a PITA...had to stick the HD in another computer to scan it..
BoXXi
Reply #14 Friday, January 30, 2004 8:30 PM
Reply #14 Friday, January 30, 2004 8:30 PM
| and these two eyes appeared on my screen and told me that he was the demon of the internet. then this mouth with sharp fangs appeared along with two claws. the claws came out of the screen and grabbed my hands and started pulling me into the screen. |
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kongit
Reply #15 Friday, January 30, 2004 8:42 PM
Reply #15 Friday, January 30, 2004 8:42 PM
ahhhhh thats them.
kongit runs and hides under bed
kongit runs and hides under bed
The DJ
Reply #20 Saturday, January 31, 2004 5:34 PM
Reply #20 Saturday, January 31, 2004 5:34 PM
I had a power supply blow up. And when I say blow up I mean a loud bang followed with flames coming out the back like a hot rod. The tower was real close to the bed and it happened when I turned the pc on. Had I not been there my room would of caught on fire. Weird thing is there was no other hardware damage. Took a few days to get the smell out. I still have it, you really gotta see the aftermath inside.
Papidon, can you elaborate some with the XP installation? Any error messages? BIOS beep codes? Noises from within your case?
Papidon, can you elaborate some with the XP installation? Any error messages? BIOS beep codes? Noises from within your case?
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Reply #1 Friday, January 30, 2004 1:16 PM