Oddest thing you've seen a computer do

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 !

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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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Does this sound a little off topic to anyone else?

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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

A couple years ago customer brings computer in. "I've tried loading Windows 98 and it's just not loading" (he was upgrading from 95). Started loading 98 in the morning and by 1:00 pm it had barely moved. Alrighty then, let's just let it load overnight and see what happens. Made sure all power saving shutdown sleep garbage was off and even made sure that it was plugged into a UPS. Arrived the next morning 9:00 AM and still running setup. By 11:00 AM it had actually finished loading all the setup files. The next thing that pops up on the screen is Windows telling me that the drive is badly fragmented. Two hour Defrag finishes loading Windows and you know what? The SUCKER RAN LIKE A TOP! 25 hour installation of Windows 98. Too bad I wasn't getting hourly for that one : )

Funniest one I saw was in a friends bios,
it was
IRQ for VGA = Yesabled

I fell on the floor laughin.

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If we "re-member" things, does that mean we "member" them in the first place?

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Originally posted by MAYHEM:
Whydoes everyone take me so seriously???

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Rule number one, we don't talk about Project Mayhem.



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R. Bret Walker, CNE

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"Now that's a damn shame, folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that!"

Try this one on for size.
A customer brought a system in complaining about not being able to boot. I didn't have any other work at the time, so I told him to wait while I checked it out. This was about 10AM. My first guess was power supply dead. I replaced the power supply, didn't fix the problem. So my next guess was motherboard or some loose cards. Tried resetting all cards/cables/mem/etc. same results. No boot, no beeps nothing. I decide to replace motherboard. After changing everything, the system boots, the motherboard is temporarily outside the case and just basics (I/O, video, CPU and mem) (it was an old 486 as I recall). At this point, it is about noon. I explained to the customer, that the motherboard is bad and needed to be replaced, we agree on prices and I installed the motherboard in the case. Just before closing up the system I give it one more power on. The system refuses to boot again (arrrrgh!). The customer decides to leave for lunch at this point leaving me to do more work without questions (YES!!!). After removing the motherboard again and putting it outside the case everything works again, weird. So i did an old trick and used the cardboard washers on the brass standoffs and covered them with scotch tape to hold them in place between the stand and the board, figuring some kind of ground/short problem. Reinstall motherboard. No boot. At this point getting really mad at the situation. finally just out of pure curiousity I looked at the difference between inside and outside installation, what I finally figured out was that the PC speaker cord was too short to hook up while external but good for internal. So I figured what the heck I have tried everything else. I mounted the motherboard one more time and left the PC speaker off the motherboard. It boots everything is cool. Go figure. I replaced the speaker and the system worked fine from then on. Never seen that before or since. And just to make sure, yes I checked polarity on the speaker.

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Has anybody seen my Cable Stretcher?

I just remembered another one.

The first and only bad CPU I ever saw caused a really weird problem. Anytime a floppy disk was inserted into the system it would say that the disk was not formatted. I replaced about 4 floppies and cables, 2 motherboards, 1 power supply, 1 case, 2 sets of memory, 1 video card, 3 I/O cards, and 1 hard drive before figuring this one out.

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Has anybody seen my Cable Stretcher?

Actually Vanguard, I've seen that one many times. Way back in the day of the AMD k6-2 300, FIC made a motherboard that did not have a punch out for one of the screwholes for standard AT boards. Which was ok, if you were a semi-intelligent organism who actually checked the board and screw lineup. We just so happened to get an order for several hundred of these systems from a major military contractor. The man upstairs hired a bunch of highschool wannabe techs to build these systems and they would just put in all the metal standoffs that would fit and throw the motherboard in. The systems would error out with various messages from: "the disk is not formatted" to "error reading from drive a:" and this would last until the system just died. This is the story I got from the contractors in house support. So I go out. And sure enough, the floppy controller was in the spot occupied by screw holes on every other board in the industry, and sure enough, the wannabes had installed standoffs right underneath that controller, which fried the controller and the chip. Fun with newbie techs. grrrr....

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Do one thing everyday that scares you.
Do two things everyday that scare the bejesus out of someone else.

A few years back when I was an Ada programmer, I put an error message in some code for general (non-specific) exceptions that displayed the message "Error ###: You probably did something really stupid - didn't you"
I only got one user call on it, and she was laughing really hard.

I've got a couple of em.

First, an old cheat program for some game I used one time had a great error message. If you pressed a button that was not supposed to do anything in the program, it said "Invalid user, replace user and press any key."

Next, similar to the Numlock light. At school, the keyboard lights stay on for about 15 secs after you shut it off. Even weirder though, was that the buttons (num lock, caps lock...) still functioned in turning the lights on and off, but if you did this then the lights only lasted for about 6 seconds before fading away.

The last one happened last week. My grandfather's HP froze, then died, then refused to POST or even turn the lights on. I wrote tech support, and they provided me with this fix:
1) Unplug the Pavilion from the power outlet
2) Hold in the power button on the machine for about 30 seconds
3) Plug the system back in and turn it on.
4) The system should now boot properly.
It actually worked! I then brought it back to his house, and it doesn't work anymore. I am going to write them again soon, but it's crazy.

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A mind really is like a parachute: It's a million-to-one you'll need one in this lifetime.

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Once at work I was doing work on 2 PCs at once. I returned to PC one after working on PC two and it appeared to be switched off. The power saving had switched the monitor off but the PC was still on. I proceeded to pull out the power and ide cable from the HDD and remove it from the machine. After using it in another machine to transfer data i plugged it back into the still powered on PC. At this stage I happened to bump the mouse which brought the monitor back on. I realized what had happened and tried browsing the drive. Worked fine, the new folders were there and all. Accidental hotswapping!

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