damn good one myarema. I even got scared for a little while! hahaha
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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
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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.