once tweaked a apple 2e disk drive eject spring to the max. the motor to pull it back and threw the disk about 40 ft into the side of a monitor fixn the error
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once tweaked a apple 2e disk drive eject spring to the max. the motor to pull it back and threw the disk about 40 ft into the side of a monitor fixn the error
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.
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Um...I really didn't need your help........ I was just testing you!
I had about 100 files on our network that were created in the fifties... whether or not that is 1950 or 2050, I couldn't tell you. When I was burning old project data to CD, EasyCDwriter picked up the bad dates and refused to go on. I had to change them, so I did to... you guessed it: January 1, 1980. Anyone remember that before the days of battery backedup clocks?
I have a computer that reboots itself at odd intervals. Sometimes I can go days without a spontaneous reboot, sometimes only minutes. Replaced the PS & Mobo, and it still happens. It's connected to a UPS, so it can't be a surge problem. Gremlins?
P.S. Type "I would like a BJ" into Word, do the Thesaurus thing, and get "It's no trouble"....hehehehe
I have one right now. A 5 year old FoxPro 2.5 app suddenly dropped the "0" key on the number pad. All other keys work it just happened monday. It still does it after a restore from backup. I have no clue how to fix it.
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--The Internet -- It's not just for porn anymore!!!
No, computer possession.Quote:
Originally posted by Blackhawk:
I have a computer that reboots itself at odd intervals. Sometimes I can go days without a spontaneous reboot, sometimes only minutes. Replaced the PS & Mobo, and it still happens. It's connected to a UPS, so it can't be a surge problem. Gremlins?
I had the same thing at work. Suddenly, without warning, my computer began spontaneously rebooting, with no plausible explanation. It also started taking 20 minutes to reboot.
Calls to the technical department were fruitless and condescending: "Oh, you're probably doing something to it", or "Did you try cold rebooting?" Hello??? I'm in TECH SUPPORT. Something's wrong with my hardware! I'd fix it myself if it wasn't a fireable offense! (We're not supposed to open up our own computers.)
By the time I *finally* convinced them to come out and look at it (about two weeks worth of nonsense), it had launched itself into a continuous cycle of rebooting.
Once they opened it up, they discovered that not only did I have the oldest computer in the Tech Support department, but it was a 486 SX with 8 MB of RAM. In addition, there was a black shorted-out area on the mobo that was SO old the soot was caked in dust!
So I guess trying to run Win95SE and needing to have several memory-intensive programs open at once was just insane, right?
They basically just junkheaped it; there was not much they could do.
I now have a nice Ipaq that I am relatively happy with. I also keep a screwdriver and a can of compressed air stashed in my desk drawer (with my mgr's blessing) so I can keep the mofo clean.
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Required Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employer.
I have had a few odd ones in my shop in my day. I have seen most of what everyone here has listed: spontaneous rebooting, rapid-ejecting external devices, and the occasional machine-screw induced short-out.
Perhaps the strangest (in a humorous way) was a computer a customer returned to me about 3 or 4 months after he bought it. Apparently, he let the system sit nearly the entire time he owned it, and had only just the day before turned it on for the first time. He explained that the system was performing very slowly, and had a problem with the CD player. I said bring it in, with the warning that I will not repair it for free.
After I get the system (plus he brought a Digital printer for me to configure for him, since he can't locate a driver for it--go Windrivers!!), I turned it on. Not only does it take an inordinate amount of time to boot up, but it has the other creepy glitch that, every 20 seconds, the cd-rom player slowly opens, out pops a 'Kenny Rogers' greatest Hits' CD; and then it slowly shuts after another 20 seconds. It does this *while* the system is booting. All I am seeing on the computer is a blank, hot pink screen. (After three years doing this, I still have never seen a system do this.)
I am stumped as to what this guy has done to this poor machine. While I am wondering what to do as I am standing over his machine, I noticed a little dark colored spot *move* quickly away from the computer; then another, and then another. Realizing that his computer has been "infested," and that the vermin are quickly fleeing away on my repair table(!), I quickly spirited the machine AND printer outside.
Feeling entirely freaked, I call the guy, and explain that his system has been infested with roaches. He explains that it is probably due to the fact that the building he stored it in was once a restaurant's food storage area. To top it off, he calls me once every six months or so to ask about getting his computer back, even though I have explained to him that the machine is cashed. As if!!
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And what I say to you, I say to all. Watch! Mk 13:37
wackiest i've ever had happen to me...i was playing around with my beloved 8088, doing sector hacking as i wuz wont to do in those days. well, i ended up screwing up ye eolde FAT. wouldn't boot. so in goes the system disk, depressed get ctrl-alt-del, and up she comes. And my machine spake to me from it's depths...."A:\>". to which i replied, "c:<enter>". ok, said the great beast, "C:\>". right arm! what do you think about, "dir<enter>"? "Oh, that's easy, you have one directory here called c:m.". My good friend, you must be mistaken! lemme repeat..."dir<enter>". "No, i swear to God, c:m. As far as i know...". ok, are you able to "cd c:m<enter>"? sure am..."C:\C:M\>". omg, you're a completely different person now! do you still believe in "dir<enter>" when you're in this wierd realm? "yep, here's the contents of your old dir structure." and then proceeded to display what used to be what used to be in c:\. it seems that it pleased the computer gods to endow me with the magical ability to emulate the "merge partition" in partition magic. whence i made haste to sacrifice a 14.4 modem in their honor the next day. https://forums.windrivers.com/
-drew
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I just don't understand stop signs...aren't vehicles made to, well...GO???
regarding above post - the oddest part i found was that it actually let me type ":" as part of the "folder" name...isn't that a special char, even in dos3.3????
-drew
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I just don't understand stop signs...aren't vehicles made to, well...GO???
Got a little Compaq Aero 2160 few weeks back. Playing Solitaire on it, and realised I had 6 aces on the screen. 4 at the top (like normal) and then two turn over from the pack.
No chance of ever winning. Couldn't even do a print screen.,,,,, damn
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).]