Worst Computer Problem Ever
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Oh, yay. Where do I start? *eye roll*
"This program has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down. If this problem persists, contact the program vendor."
My last computer did that to LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Even the bleeping screen saver.
Not to mention the blue screen of death. I lost count of the number of times I got that.
"This program has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down. If this problem persists, contact the program vendor."
My last computer did that to LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Even the bleeping screen saver.
Not to mention the blue screen of death. I lost count of the number of times I got that.
My worse problem is when my motherboard started to die piece by piece. It eventually necessitated a new motherboard, processor and RAM, the re-installation of Windows and all the games I had installed.
Yeah, but you just roll it back to your previous operating system. That's what I did after 10 minutes of ME.TheMightyAtrox said:
When I was about 4 years old my parents gave me a magnet and told me to find what was magnetic in the house. The computer was magnetic.
One of my PC's doesn't like SATA drives very much, so once in a while it randomly decides one (or even both) of the SATA drives doesn't exist. It's a lot of fun to be working for a few hours and suddenly a balloon pops up saying "Cannot write to drive (C
. Any unsaved data may have been lost".
. Any unsaved data may have been lost".
lol I can go on for hours here. I tend to be a walking computer crash.
My worst one would either be how I blew out the power supply of my new computer as soon as I set it up at college, or the time when I corrupted Windows XP. Yes, somehow I corrupted WINDOWS!
My worst one would either be how I blew out the power supply of my new computer as soon as I set it up at college, or the time when I corrupted Windows XP. Yes, somehow I corrupted WINDOWS!
I have a history of cracking laptop screens, and instant laptop hard drive failures, but the worst thing that ever happened to a computer I saw, my freind wanted to play Sims 2 so badly that he deleted Vista off his computer, downloaded XP from a torrent and tried to install it. his computer was down for like a month because he wouldn't let anyone who knew what they were doing near it
Well, at least you didn't stick it on the TV leaving two pretty red and green dots on there like I did.Pseudonym2 said:
Worse computer problem I've ever had is having my tower PC's network card fry because of an electrical storm.
That same electrical also screwed up a TV so bad that you can't do anything with it without holding down the TV's buttons and commanding it with the remote.
I haven't had any terrible computer problems myself because I take good care of my computers. I used to work at CompUSA before they went under. As you can imagine, I've seen some terrible ones. The worst I've seen was a customer who brought in a hard drive and asked if we could get any data off of it. He said it had all his important work stuff was on it. When I took the drive from him, I noticed a curious rattling noise. I asked our lead tech if hard drives should rattle like a bunch of ball bearings in a can like that. He said the platters and drive arms were hitting each other and the drive was totally worthless. How would you like to have to tell someone that? His data was totally gone.
I have great luck with all computers. My friend, however, doesn't. One time me, him and another one of his friends were clean dust out of his computer when the power supply (we assume, never really found the cause) pulled some craziness and made pretty sparks come out of the fan. Everything stopped working at that point.
The only "good" thing about it (besides the awesomeness) was that it was one of his older computers he didn't need.
The only "good" thing about it (besides the awesomeness) was that it was one of his older computers he didn't need.
Most of the computer problems I have are minor and boil down mostly to my ISP being run by narcoleptic gorillas. I've never had a good relationship with monitors, though, and they always seem to die in terrible and interesting ways. First one would get images 'stuck' - I could move stuff around and run my computer, but certain parts of the picture would just freeze and stay that way. I gave up on that monitor after turning it off and on again stopped fixing it. My second monitor had a black hole in the center of the screen that would suck up the entire display, flicker and vomit it back out again every five minutes. The next one just flat out exploded - blue smoke started pouring out the back and a few seconds later it cracked right down the side and started spitting sparks. Now this one occasionally fades to black and back again. It does not have long left.