Oddest thing you've seen a computer do

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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.

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I used to work for Packard Hell when I first got started techin'and this made be laugh my butt off!! Thanks!!!

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"

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Originally posted by Gabriel:
Computer Shut off, Disconnected from Power source
PSU Switch off
Num Lock Light Still ON...
"CREEPY"

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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.

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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.

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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/

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

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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

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Originally posted by Gabriel:
Computer Shut off, Disconnected from Power source
PSU Switch off
Num Lock Light Still ON...
"CREEPY"

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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.
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).]