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We all know a mechanic who ought to fix his car, or a hairdresser who needs a new haircut, or a decorator who needs new wallpaper, whatever ... so like many of you, I quite often use my own beast to 'fix stuff' this however has the usual 'unexpected consequence' of breaking it :D
So in percentage terms 'roughly' how often is your machine suffering from 'self-inflict-ed deadness' ? I killed mine 'good' at least twice, this week, and its only Monday afternoon ! :knife: :D
I think the percentage is fairly small. I can remember a few things though.Quote:
Originally Posted by confus-ed
I can remember a bios flash gone bad . . . . . a dead athlon T-bird thanks to "then pencil trick" and an overly snug fitting heatsink. I remember a dead abit board thanks to a proprietary compaq power supply that I didn't know was proprietary (like the dell controversy)
surprisingly though most time I do things and immediately yell "oh no" thinking I had just officially killed a machine (like plugging a NIC into a machine I was sure was powered off, but wasn't) end up causing no ill effects . . . . weird.
I've had very little downtime over the past year. Occasionaly i'll reload the os due to bloating, but for me, that's once or twice a year, rarely more. I've had down time due to 23 hour power outage (my biggest single downtime for the year), i've had down time to hard disks going bad, I've had downtime cause i've used my system in a way that it was not designed for (a reboot usualy fixed these). All other downtime i experience is from hardware upgrades/modifications to the system. Like most Techs' I succumb to upgrades and the all popular "Mods".
Additionaly, I currently run public servers that NEED a constant connection ALL the time (see chat here) and as such a disconnection from the internet affects many more people then just I
I voted 1-20% cause i count my "uptime" in weeks, not days or hours
My worst was when I was losing time as the OS really needed to be reloaded(Win98 and 2 years) got pissed off when something wasn't loading(actually ended up being something with the network) punched the machine really hard and crashed the HD. Lost lots and lots of stuff, that was dumb. But forthe most part, my machines work fairly well, they just get real slow cause I never defrag and wait forever to do much and constatly expirement withdifferent programs on my own machine.
Apart from the occasional goof and the expected Windows reloads I've been fairly lucky.
The one thing that gets to me is that I install / uninstall lots of applications (allright, games too - but they're for the kids!) which gradually slows down the PC to the point where an OS re-install starts to look like a better idea than actually waiting up for the OS to load.
That, and the constant tweaking and optimizing makes whatever image I had originally mande to become completely useless. :eek2:
Not too often occasionally a virus gets loose scanning customer drive in my machine but not often
But I do remeber testing a GForce TI200 in this system when it was running a radeon. Of course I just switched cards DOH. MAJOR EWPS. I nearly lost the whole dam thing. Saw some of the strangest things I ever seen. Lost my sound completely off the cmedia 8738 till I pulled out a usb plug then it came back. Scared the crap outta me cause I had it turned way up trying to sort it out.
never. only down time is when i get a new PC. i don;t do nothing to my pc's to screw them up. standard factory/network crap here. Plus, I'm more greaterlyist!
:D
You guys need to quit accusing others of being incompetent and jumping up others' asses, and look inward to root out your own incompetence...........I am shocked how many people screw stuff up....I thought I was bad....but geeez.......what's wrong with you 'professionals'.
Quite a bit of my downtime is self-inflicted, but I don't have much downtime. The time the metal braket around a 3com NIC's port touched the back of sound card I had a good bit.....but that was a long time ago. The closest to self-inflicted downtime I've had recently was reloading my laptop with Win2k to find out if the new driver for my wireless NIC would actually make it work. It didn't, so I put XP on it. That whole thing took about 2 hours. Ghost is loverly, ain't it?
Woah......think ya need to cut back on the vodka when you're in a bad mood, mister RCVC. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ScorpioIlya
Stow your **** or add a smiley.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScorpioIlya
Not really a screw up but, my P/S went out on Saturday night... :sad:
I gave my only spare to a friend who also had one die on him, so I'm PC-less till I get home tonight and bung in the new spare I just acquired
However, this is the excuse I need to get a new case, with flashy light fans and windows and furry dice and racing stripes and.. and.. well you get the picture.
One mans f-up is another mans opportunity to upgrade
Cheers
Just who are you talking to?Quote:
Originally Posted by ScorpioIlya
I learnt a long time ago what NOT to fix!
If it aint broken, walk away. (and no I didn't click 0%) ;)
Geesh Scorpio...what was that all about?
I said 1-20, but the only thing about it being self-induced is upgrading hardware or adding new hardware, so it would be more like 1%. Now, outside related events or MS caused? Well that is an entirely different matter.
PS
Hey Titchski, all you had to do was call me mate.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif
Who you calling a professional?Quote:
Originally Posted by ScorpioIlya
;)
Rarely have downtime. Besides downtime messing with my workstation, took everyone off a WAN once noodling with a router access-list. Quick recovery, but scary for a minute.
Err dudes ... the whole thread is a JOKE ! ...you know as in funny ha-ha, bit of 'self-effacement' (that's taking the p out of yourself !)is good for the soul ... lighten up & have another beer/'smoke'/other relaxation :)
Yeah, well you aren't the absolute brain donor that thought, hey, lets finaly defrag my machine after I didn't even rebuild it after it had been in production for about 2 years and I have had it for 9 months. After 6 hours it was time for me to leave work and it was at 50%, luckily it was done this morning.
So I get brain donor award for yesterday!!!! :thumbs2:
Come on -ed, we all knew you didn't break your own PC twice in one week! You're too good for that! I think you were being modest! I say three of four times, at the least...I know I have broken my own at least that many times in the last week. Eh...who needs Uncled Bill's help...we are our own worst enemies...or is that enema's?????https://forums.windrivers.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by confus-ed
[QUOTE=ScorpioIlya]You guys need to quit accusing others of being incompetent and jumping up others' asses,
Man do you need a vaction or what?
Through 3 motherboard swaps and ~20 months I've managed to keep the same XP install on my machine. I'm just too lazy to install all the apps again and it still runs like a new install :thumbs:
Does downtime include the time I eletricuted myself by sticking a screwdriver in between two pci slots with the machine off but the ps still on count? I was down for a bit after that. Luckily I remember the event so it sticks in my mind so I dont do it again.
Usually my downtime is usually caused by an upgrade. Like my current upgrade of a mouse killing my PS/2 ports on my XP machine. See here if you want to help. http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=44003
-eedmond
I usually break my machine about once a week :p
My really bad one was when I wasn't f'ing thinking about what I was doing and ended up losing the entire contents of one of my laptop's hard drives.
That's the worst. I have been much more patient since then.