The stupidest thing you did

[GeoKill----->]

Would you ever put your computer on an airplane?
Well my bro did and it's not working anymore, go figure

[-=Roland=-]

Originally Posted by Dr.Uudge

i used a kitchen knife as a screw driver to install my cpu and gpu cooler, after applying some arctic silver 5;

i got off lucky and nothing ended up scratched/cut/impaled....except my computer keeps freezing on me now, which causes me to suspect perhaps, something was scratched

How much Arctic Silver did you apply? Too much can cause problems as it gets places that it definately shouldn't be.

[Dr.Uudge]

Originally Posted by -=Roland=-

How much Arctic Silver did you apply? Too much can cause problems as it gets places that it definately shouldn't be.

i only put as much as they suggested in that picture they have on their pdf file; it's like 1/3~1/2 the size of a grain of rice i think;

speaking of rice:
"Rice is good, when you're hungry, and want two thousand of something." - Mitch hedberg

[Innoc]

Originally Posted by Dr.Uudge

i only put as much as they suggested in that picture they have on their pdf file; it's like 1/3~1/2 the size of a grain of rice i think;

speaking of rice:
"Rice is good, when you're hungry, and want two thousand of something." - Mitch hedberg

That sounds like too little to me. I usually put more like a little less than the average size of a pea.

[Mooga]

Originally Posted by Vicious

so I bought a Tamagatchi.... if you can't remember what it is, don't worry

I still have the original Tamagatchi video game for the old Gameboy!

I remember parents used to have to carry around key chains full of those damn thing while there kinds were in school and "baby sit" them all since it was before they added a "sleep/pause" option to the later ones.

[פֿяαιп βαмαgεפ]

Originally Posted by Mooga

I still have the original Tamagatchi video game for the old Gameboy!

I remember parents used to have to carry around key chains full of those damn thing while there kinds were in school and "baby sit" them all since it was before they added a "sleep/pause" option to the later ones.

LOL, yeah that was class!

[Focksbot]

Recent.

Deleted something inside system32 when I was going through my paranoid virus hunt.

Next thing I know, feels like I'm running on 16MB of RAM or less, can't use ANYTHING on the comp. And I hate to say it, but thanks Dell, for putting a backup sector on my hard drive. I reformatted after dragging all the files onto that partition. And here I am.

[Dr.Uudge]

i'm going to assume that by "technological" it also encompass the hand squeezing thing that's supposed to help make your hands stronger, so that you can hang on to things like plates and monkey bars;

i used to carry one of these around because my hand has poor circulation and tends to loose gripping strength if i don't exercise it; i was doing my exercise while i was doing a #2; i got up and was getting ready to clean up, but while i was turning my elbow bumped and i dropped the thing into the bowl, right on top of the pile; i didn't have the guts to go in after it, so i just flushed, cleaned up and left

[Damascus]

Originally Posted by Dr.Uudge

i'm going to assume that by "technological" it also encompass the hand squeezing thing that's supposed to help make your hands stronger, so that you can hang on to things like plates and monkey bars;

i used to carry one of these around because my hand has poor circulation and tends to loose gripping strength if i don't exercise it; i was doing my exercise while i was doing a #2; i got up and was getting ready to clean up, but while i was turning my elbow bumped and i dropped the thing into the bowl, right on top of the pile; i didn't have the guts to go in after it, so i just flushed, cleaned up and left

Win!!

hmm... bought an AGP card for a PCI-e mobo. A classic

[Hammock]

A while back (we're talking a long while), I had purchased a legitmate copy of windows xp pro, back when they were first coming out. Which means it didn't have SP1 on it.

Down the road, I bought a new harddrive, a 200 gig one. Well at some point I got a real nasty virus, we're talking couldn't change desktop display settings, locked me out of everything.

So I reformatted, installed windows with the CD. Now here's where the problems come in. Windows without SP1 do not recognize harddrives greater than 120 gigs. So when the CD went to reformat it would only reformat the first 120 gigs, the other 80 were non existant. As soon as windows was installed, I'd go through all the mandatory updates, which meant SP1 installation. Once SP1 was installed my computer would recognize all 200 gigs. Problem is once SP1 was installed and the extra 80 gigs were released, I'd get the virus again.

Frustrated that my format didn't wipe the virus, I formatted again... and then again... and again. Enough that I actually had to phone microsoft up and get them to give me an activation code cause I used up all my CD's.

Only after 2 weeks of this trying to figure out why my computer would still have a virus did I discover that the Windows CD was not formatting the 80 gigs at all, which meant no matter how often I formatted the virus remained hidden in the hidden disk space.

Once I discovered what the problem was, I got my hands on a newer Windows cd which came with SP1, which did a full format of the 200 gigs and finally after 2 weeks of a virus that kicked my ass things got sorted out.

[Damascus]

aww, I used to have that virus...

The graphics were screwed up and the only resolution for me was like, 640x320 or something X_X

[Focksbot]

Reminds me of when I didn't know what viruses/spyware was.

[פֿяαιп βαмαgεפ]

Ok, I have one I did a few days ago:

I installed an internal card reader on mah baby, but plugged it into the worng usb connector on the MOBO, so it sucked all the power out of my ethernet card and I coudn't surf anymore. I spent two hours checking my UTP cable and modem...

[Damascus]

Rofl

What did you do when you found out the problem?

[Dr.Uudge]

Originally Posted by Focksbot

Reminds me of when I didn't know what viruses/spyware was.

ah yes, same here, the good old "using-aol-dialup-integraged-browser-to-watch-90s-porn-before-internet-porn-was-popularized-and-therefore-the-browsers-were-horrible-against-NOT-automatically-downloading-crap" days

[there's nothing here]

Nothing computer-y so far.. I've more issues with physical things.

[zSilver_Fox]

A better one for me... tried to upgrade a computer from Socket A to 939, different chipset brand too, and then wondered why I was getting a BSOD.

[פֿяαιп βαмαgεפ]

Originally Posted by Damascus

Rofl

What did you do when you found out the problem?

Cursed my ass off and chaged connectors

[Damascus]

Did I post this yet? It's kinda recent:

to get my rear speakers working, I tried everything. I installed 2 realtec sound drivers. Next thing I knew, whenever my comp tried to boot Windows, I immediately went to the BSoD. Nothing on the computer worked (the self fixing thing didn't...). I went to safe mode and deleted all my sound cards. Somehow, new, better ones installed themselves. I exited. I boot Windows. Whadda you know? It worked.


X_X

[פֿяαιп βαмαgεפ]

Originally Posted by Damascus

Did I post this yet? It's kinda recent:

to get my rear speakers working, I tried everything. I installed 2 realtec sound drivers. Next thing I knew, whenever my comp tried to boot Windows, I immediately went to the BSoD. Nothing on the computer worked (the self fixing thing didn't...). I went to safe mode and deleted all my sound cards. Somehow, new, better ones installed themselves. I exited. I boot Windows. Whadda you know? It worked.


X_X

Old drivers can be a bitch.