Me thinks your computer was playing with a loaded deck! https://forums.windrivers.com/
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***the Beast
- Fate drove me here...then told me to get out of the car...
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Me thinks your computer was playing with a loaded deck! https://forums.windrivers.com/
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***the Beast
- Fate drove me here...then told me to get out of the car...
One time I found my computer had reverted from win98 to 3.11, only this macine never had 3.11 on it. another time it started playing the music from hampsterdance.com when it started, I couldn't shut it of and ended up reformating. another time, all my Icons were right where I left them but clicking them all day wouldn't open the program, weird. Then there was the time my cd tray seemed to open of it's own accord and the floppy drive would acces constantly for no reason, drove me nuts for weeks
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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?
Forgot about the time I came home and found my entire screen was upside down, I couldn't figure out what was wrong, so I turned the monitor upside down. Also got a wierd message one time that my hard drive was reformatting, I tried to stop it but it just kept going. when I shut the machine off and rebooted, everything was fine then it did it again, strange.
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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?
Back when my trusty 80286 was still my mothers computer The monitor would turn off then back on (simmilar to a very bref bownout) and other times the computer would just reboot it self. (no scandisk at boot and no BOSD after reboot those were the days) we just thought it was old age after all it was about 7 years old. anyway thay started using Mac's where she worked so she went out and bought one (be hind my back) anyway i unwillingly helped her set it up (so i could have the trusty 80286) we dident have that Mac more than a week before I to started rebooting it self. (during this time the trusty 80286 was in my room and its habbet of rebooting cured) well it dident take long until the Mac's power supply gave up and in a puff of somke (well a very bad smell) it was gone https://forums.windrivers.com/ https://forums.windrivers.com/ https://forums.windrivers.com/ Back to the store we went got a differnet Mac and in about the same time its power supply died. Took this computer back, got a differnt MAC you would think by this time she would have given up and would buy a real computer, but no. This time the tech behind the counter was getting tired of seeing my grin when we brought the dead mac back in. So he forced us to buy an APC surge supressor. (we did have a surge suppressor installed it to was about 7 years old.) Took it home and the little red eye on the device started to glow wiring falt, to this day the falt is still there and we still dont know what causes it, but i comes and goes. I guess the good news to the story is 3 dead macs and my mother no longer has that stupid mac. I will leave that mac story there for now. And yes my trusty 80286 still works to this day (in the 80's they knew how to build a computer to last), minus its hard drive MFM HD only last so long.
While booting up a brand new Windows 98 system I was fortunate enough to receive this error. "______ has caused ______ in ______. ______ will now shut down."
(There were no underscores; just spaces)
On A Side note: Mayhem, Have you thought it might have been NetBus/Back Orifice causing you problems ?
Lovely, eh ?
Eh !?!?! Hmm, I'm not even Canadian !
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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
[This message has been edited by EvilKlown (edited November 21, 2000).]
I used to work for Packard Hell when I first got started techin'and this made be laugh my butt off!! Thanks!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Caddarn:
On an old (5Yrs) Packard Bell Desktop, system restore program exited with the error:
"Sorry, Something wnet wrong"
And yes, it did say wnet.
Hey Ugo, check to see if your bios is set to wake on modem. Maybe there's a glitch that doesn't require it active, only on.
I had a problem similar to Larommi with scandisk: On the first release of Win98, scandisk would get to 94% and then drop back to 60 something and continue like nothing happened. It really tripped me out and I never figured out what the problem was. Probably just that good MS humor. Ha Ha!
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Why won't this protection guy leave me alone? And what idiot made him a General anyway?!?
Computer Shut off, Disconnected from Power source
PSU Switch off
Num Lock Light Still ON...
"CREEPY"
I suffer the same thing with the computer i use at college, out of 40 comps in the room, mine is the only one to do it.Quote:
Originally posted by Gabriel:
Computer Shut off, Disconnected from Power source
PSU Switch off
Num Lock Light Still ON...
"CREEPY"
[email protected]
I've had the gbberish filesizes happen as well. intersting seeing 7 6.5 gig files on a 2 gig hdd, with 4 terrabytes free https://forums.windrivers.com/ Of course, the person who's HDD it was wasn't as amused https://forums.windrivers.com/Quote:
Originally posted by teckie:
Two things
One I had a computer come in the other day that had a virus on it. It would not boot to windows so I used a boot disk. I "dir" C:\ drive and all the characters came back funky. The funny thing was that it showed a couple of 4GB files with dates that said 15-31-99 for the date... there had to be about eight of them. This was on a 4GB Hard drive
Two had an e-machine come in also, the guy was having Internet problems. I was going to check his mail by sending a test message, but when I clicked on "New Message" his computer restarted. I think it was possesed up until the point that the owner did an excorsist/reload on it. He said it's working for now.
I'm in the process of rebuilding my machine, and I have 1700 mp3's that I'm moving back and forth from 2 different HDs. The highest "minutes remaining" in the move has been 43,000,000 min! Obviously, it didn't take that long. ":^)
I'll try to get a screenshot if I get it again!
I once had an old 486 motherboard with an AMI bios that couldn't calculate CHS setting correctly. I stuck a 180 MB hard drive in it, and after I entered the settings manually, the BIOS said that it was a 5 GB drive! I had it auto detect the settings...5GB drive! I tried a 200 MB maxtor, which was detected as a 10 Terrabyte drive! I swapped IDE controller card, data ribbons, memory, and even flashed the BIOS - it still screwed up on the CHS settings. SO I stuck my 180 MB drive back in, and amazingly, EZ-Disk let me format it as 2 2 GB fat 16 partitions, with another 1 GB partition left over. Rebooted, and they all had drive letters assigned, and actually let me install Win 95 on the first partiton. Again, all the drives showed up in Windows, and reported the amount of free space based on what the BIOS was reporting. This rig actually ran for about a week before the hard drive died, until I ran scandisk out of curiosity (in dos), and it reported nearly 100,000 bad sectors. The drive never booted again...
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Clatu...Verata...nnnn...necktie...nectur...nickel. ...it's definately an "N" word...
Sounds to me like you had a Trojan on there and somebody was having some fun with you Mayhem !!!
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WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY?......Not that it matters, because Microsoft will crash on the way there!!!
l once had a computer infected with a Trojan. lf you dont think that sounds too odd, keep in mind, the fact it wasn't a computer program, but a latex one. lt was ribbed, it was in the floppy drive, make your own jokes.
screw it: Much like most women, the ribbs had no effect on the drive! https://forums.windrivers.com/
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Either drop the Windows out of your computers, or drop your computers out of the windows.
BreakWindows
http://www.yaromat.com/macos8/index.htm
This is the funniest thing if you can get a
new user with a little bit of knowledge to check it out!!!!
Lesee...I had a couple wierd experiences:
1. Old IBM 486sx workstation - Dos booted but gave scrambled fax and phone numbers when trying to do a "dir".
2. We used Linux for a router in our office, and one day when the internet went down I went back to see a scream, yes "aaaaaggghhh" or something like that on the screen. Most hilarious crash I've ever seen!
3. Had a workstation at work with a slow network connection. Brand new 3com 3c905b 100mb network card, brand new hard drive, brand new fresh installation of Win98 se with the latest drivers. Barely saw 1mb. Tried everything...changed every network setting, IP addresses, hub ports, cabling. I moved the computer to another office and sure enough it worked fine. Cool...wiring problem. Got an electrician in and ran a new cat 5 run to his office. Still didn't work. To make a long story short...it was the monitor. The monitor worked fine but somehow affected the network card...too noisy I guess. When I moved it to the other office I used a different monitor which is why it worked.
the^0rion
The strangest thing I have ever seen a system do happened a couple of months ago.
I got called for a routine problem, the system was not powering on. Diagnosis : dead power supply.
So I get a new power supply in and install it... on the first test the only thing that happens are blinking lights on the front. Okey-dokey, power supply may not have been the complete problem, these are ATX systems afterall, so I order a motherboard...
Long story short; I eventually ended up having 3 new power supplys and 2 new motherboards in my possesion. For clarity I will call the power supplys 1, 2, and 3, and the motherboards A and B.
Now this was the weird part;
-all parts came directly from Dell and were either new or refurbished by Dell (good as new)
-all parts were the same part number in their group
-power supply 1 would not work with any other motherboard (including the original and a couple others I was able to test) other than motherboard A
-power supply 2 would not work with any other motherboard (including the original and a couple others I was able to test) other than motherboard B
-power supply 3 would not work with any motherboard so it was DOA (ok ok, not so weird)
All I could think of during my struggle to fix this system, was that it was completely illogical and to my knowledge I had not offended the computer Gods recently.
I have never seen anything like this again...anyone else?
The coolest thing I've ever seen a computer do was catch on fire. I'm not kidding, a guy called me up saying that the machine was billowing out black smoke and it smelled like electrical/plastic burning. I told him to unplug it from the wall and spray it with a fire extinguisher. He brought it in and I opened it up wiht a hammer and crowbar (the screws had melted) and I saw that the power supply had caught on fire cooking the video card, modem and processor. It was a 486 (I could barely make it out) that was fused to the mainboard. That was the oddest thing I've ever seen.
The first time I tried Win2000 was on an old system I just loaded to play with. I tried to see if Quicktime 3 would work on it. While installing, I get an error message telling me to check my variable declarations. I called Apple and asked for the source code so I could check it out, but they were less than supportive.
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Two things are infinte: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - A. Einstein
I had this wierd problem once with a lithium battery for a mobo. I probably installed 100 or so back-up battery's for the motherboards and this one decided to burn up and catch on fire!!! Needless to say it took out the mobo but man did it stink. The guy that was with me breathed in the fumes from the battery and thought he needed to call poison control. haha! Anybody else ever have this problem or know what could have caused it? Drop me a line.
Bryan
This same thing has happend to me also, after reading the owners manual (my bad) i found out this has to do with soft-power on using the keybord. (press space bar and see your computer turn on) or at least thats the key on my system to turn it on.Quote:
Originally posted by Gabriel:
Computer Shut off, Disconnected from Power source
PSU Switch off
Num Lock Light Still ON...
"CREEPY"
This little thing had me confuzed one day. I got out of my chair after turning my computer off and i must have pushed the space bar (i knew i hit some key) and the computer started to boot.
(fyi num lock will only be lit if on before turning computer off also worked with caps and scroll locks) also staid lit for about 60sec after having the power disconected.
Dude Things are a foot at the circle K
[This message has been edited by SCI-CO (edited November 21, 2000).]
damn good one myarema. I even got scared for a little while! hahaha
I had just purchased my athlon 600 system, and put it together. loaded up win98se and working perfectly, until i put it on suspend or standby, when the drive kicked off, it would delete the fat table - lovely...
i took the drive back to best buy (still within the 15 days) and got my 30gig.
never had a problem after that. i also checked the 20gb in another system, worked perfectly in the other system.
my hardware:
athlon 600, .18
Asus K7M
western digital expert 20.0gb 7200
256mb ram -cas2 pc100
worked fine with this one:
k6-3/400
gigabyte ga5ax
192mb ram cas3 pc100
oh well, i have a method to my madness with hardware - always upgrade, when the price is right:
just bought a:
t-bird 1000
MSI K7T pro
and 512MB (2x256MB)cas2-pc133
fairly cheap
Quote:
Originally posted by MAYHEM:
One time I found my computer had reverted from win98 to 3.11, only this macine never had 3.11 on it. another time it started playing the music from hampsterdance.com when it started, I couldn't shut it of and ended up reformating. another time, all my Icons were right where I left them but clicking them all day wouldn't open the program, weird. Then there was the time my cd tray seemed to open of it's own accord and the floppy drive would acces constantly for no reason, drove me nuts for weeks
Hey! i think i may be able to explain this one... for teh win3.11 thing i believe you can add a line in startup or somewhere that says load=progman.exe or something and it will load the 3.1 interface....
hampsterdance.com music was probally an extremely long file, or for some reason it looped...
Not being able to click on the icons probally is someone who made the desktop "view as web page" then made a pic of your desktop and checked "Hide icons when desktop is viewed as web page"
cd-rom opening might be netbus, and the floppy probally is findfast for MS Office!
yay... i think i figured them all out =)
i had my windows98 machine crash while i was doing something (cant remember what now)..hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and at the top of the window i had the most accurate error i had ever seen from microsoft..
Windows [Not Responding]
Explorer
Systray
i was a little dismayed when i couldnt get the digital camera to take a picture of this. (weeks later i found out i wasnt pushing the button hard enough..=P)
http://www.yaromat.com/macos8/index.htm
This is the funniest thing if you can get a
new user with a little bit of knowledge to check it out!!!!
LOL!!!!!
That rocked!
"http://www.yaromat.com/macos8/index.htm
This is the funniest thing if you can get a
new user with a little bit of knowledge to check it out!!!!"
LOL!!!
That rocked!
Had a pc that at 5:00pm every night would shut down. Replaced powersupply, motherboard, and cord still shut down. Did this for 2 weeks. Was running late one night saw secretary shut off hallway light and the computer shut off. Come to find out plugin was wired into hallway switch.
Three things:
1. When I downloaded some files from my website, the date was January 4, 1601. Also, on my old 386, I often keep getting file sizes such as 3.95 GB for a 500 MB hard disk.
2. Once I got a message box that read: "_____________________________" and the buttons were "Yes" and "No". What was I supposed to answer ?? BTW, the underscores mean that there was nothing written (blank spaces).
3. I got a GPF in Win2k while running a program and it read : " An error occurred at 0xCAFEDEAD ." I laughed'd my *** off ! And yet it was a perfectly reasonable hexadecimal number meaning 3,405,700,781 .
I have a screenshot of #3. It's in JPG format. http://dacris.com/cafedead.jpg
The one the baffles me the most is number 3, for I still don't know why it's caused.
In our shop one time, NT came up with a missing jello.dll error.
We've got a monitor in our server room that looks like it has water running/dripping down it sometimes.
Mayhem, I think if you change the shell line in system.ini to shell=progman.exe, then it looks like Win 3.11 even though it isn't. Works with Win95 too.
The most odd thing I had happen was once I was working on this pc. I needed to turn it off so I could fiddle with something inside. I hit the power switch, and it would not turn off. I hit the switch a few more times, and then I thought to myself screw this. I then reached around the back and unplugged the power cord. Did the computer turn off at that point? NO! For no more than 2 seconds, the computer stayed on with no power being supplied to it. It promptly turned off after that. Everything seemed fine with it after that, and the computer still is working today. Frickin strange.
Ummm, guys... I think MAYHEM was just trying to be funny... he listed some VERY common techie jokes... and lots of them... his attempt at humor either passed above or below your heads... https://forums.windrivers.com/
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Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of
Our Linux DHCP server in the house here just crashed with this message:
Aiee! Killing interrupt controller
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Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of
I almost forgot the best I've seen yet. I've had a couple of messed up Socket7 ALI boards (Jetway, Elements, etc) that would show a K6-2 as a 'Tillamook'.....
yeah, CPU found: Tillamook 500
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Two things are infinte: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - A. Einstein
Halloween a few years back, first thing in the morning I went to dial-up my ISP and windows came back (pretty sure it was win95 at that point)
ERROR 666, modem not found
the timing of that message was humorous.
Once we had a Mac it actully ran after my daughter dropped it while doing some spring cleaning, Oddest thing was she bought the Mac in the first place. https://forums.windrivers.com/
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If all else fails read the directions !
Does this sound a little off topic to anyone else?Quote:
Originally posted by jkirby01:
“I’d” followed by anything = I'll drink to that
aka
I’d give bill all my money if he asked me to = I'll drink to that
I’d kill you all if I could only get out of the damm pen I am stuck in = I'll drink to that
I’d g;aifdsja;lkvja;s you fj;lasdkgj if you f;kalsfj or even fdfasdfdsafsadfa;lkj = I'll drink to that
I’d = I'll drink to that
How I works depends on if it is followed by a verb
I like = I should say so
I feel aka I then a verb = verb
“I like this program” = I should say so
“I I'd” = I should say so
“I” = I appreciate it
Think of some interesting things to use this with and then post them here please
Unable to feel = Unable to have an erection
Unable to = unable to distinguish sound
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~If you can't walk the walk don't even try to talk the talk~
When working on a customers machine trying to get Jetfighter 3 working, we got some really odd errors. The one that stands out in my mind was whenever you started the game, you got this error: Initialization of the OpenGL subsystem failed, how about a nice friendly game of Chess?
Or this one whent trying to get a CD-R to work:
CD error - No Rhyme, No Reason.
No joke, these are the only two I can remember at this point, but I'll post again if I can think of anymore.
Whydoes everyone take me so seriously???
Read the "tech humor" posts then read my posts here again
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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?
Sometimes my refurb Dell 1025TM on the right hand side the screen wavers like it was a flame, or like there was gas travelling upward
Also once I turned the moniter off, and turned it back on again, and the picture was blurred BADLY...but still seeable
I thought the monitor was shafted, but then I turned it on and left it on, and when I woke up in the morning it was alright again, haven't turned it off since