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Posted: Feb 10 2009 04:18 pm

Mine happened a few months ago. I was playing Guild Wars when I got the blue screen. I went to press the reset button, when suddenly my computer started smoking. I quickly turned it off, and later opened up my computer. My power supply had burned up and I had to get a new one.

So what's your worst computer error ever?

Posted: Feb 10 2009 04:27 pm

I've never had a computer burst into flame, but this one worries me more everyday; it's slow as hell, locks up for a few minutes fairly frequently if I try to have two or more windows open and yesterday, it sounded like waves on the beach. Which is soothing, but surely not good for it...

Posted: Feb 10 2009 04:28 pm

Letting my friend help be clear up some hard drive space so we could install and play the then new Mechwarrior 3. The dumbass deleted AUTOEXEC.BAT. Mad

Posted: Feb 10 2009 04:38 pm

My friend bought a Hewlitt-Packard computer in 2000. That was the biggest computer error ever.

Posted: Feb 10 2009 04:41 pm

Mine was a gateway 2000. I never understood why the box it came in had a cow print pattern on it. Confused

Posted: Feb 10 2009 04:48 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

My friend bought a Hewlitt-Packard computer in 2000. That was the biggest computer error ever.

damn. Beat me to it, but I was going to make a jab at Macs, or Pacard Bell.

I don't recall ever having anything too bad, aside from some drives that poop out.

besides, now my computer is FINALLY FAST. FINALLY FAST DOT COM!

Posted: Feb 10 2009 04:53 pm

Not really a computer error, more of "me error". My laptop used to overheat all the fucking time so I had to lean it over the edge of my bedside table so the fan on the bottom of the laptop could be exposed. For some reason in my sleep I rolled over and my arm flipped right on top of it and I woke up to an unusable laptop...devastating.

Posted: Feb 10 2009 04:57 pm

I had gotten a hold of my aunts old computer that had windows 3.11 on it. I was attempting to upgrade it to at least 95 with a windows upgrade disk I bought at a store that was going out of business at the time. This was before I started understanding the concepts of computers and I deleted EVERYTHING on the computer to instal Windows 95. when I say I deleted everything, I really did delete everything on that computer.

Posted: Feb 10 2009 06:22 pm

The worst I've gotten were a few BSoDs, I'm pretty lucky/good at computers. My grandma got a Windows 2000 ME when it was new, but that technically wasn't my mistake.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

I had been struggling for months to beat Demon's Gate (or whatever that boss in the Temple of the Ancients was) in FF7 on my PC for months, having to restart the game several times from the beginning in order to approach it right. Keep in mind that I'd never really played an RPG up to this point, and only used characters that I thought were cool, and I hated using magic. I finally beat the damn thing about six months after I got the game, and my computer froze up after the level-up screen. I can remember that as the first time I'd ever said a curse word out loud.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Feb 10 2009 08:21 pm

I keep spilling shit on my keyboards to destroy them. I don't know if they're destroyed, they might work if I use the top of the dishwasher technique, but I have ruined two keyboards by spilling shit on them. The first one I spilled spaghetti on and it broke. Then I bought a new one and just recently splilled wine on it, totally fucking up the damn board. Again, maybe I can revive it. I just may throw it on the top rack of the dishwasher to see if a cleaning would help. In the meantime, A new keyboard is on the way. So Deku, fuck you and your spaghetti. Spaghetti kills.

Posted: Feb 10 2009 08:30 pm

docinsano wrote:

I keep spilling shit on my keyboards to destroy them. I don't know if they're destroyed, they might work if I use the top of the dishwasher technique, but I have ruined two keyboards by spilling shit on them. The first one I spilled spaghetti on and it broke. Then I bought a new one and just recently splilled wine on it, totally fucking up the damn board. Again, maybe I can revive it. I just may throw it on the top rack of the dishwasher to see if a cleaning would help. In the meantime, A new keyboard is on the way. So Deku, fuck you and your spaghetti. Spaghetti kills.

I've spilled stuff on my keyboard before. They still worked.

LONG LIVE SPAGHETTI!!!

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Syd Lexia wrote:

My friend bought a Hewlitt-Packard computer in 2000. That was the biggest computer error ever.

Hey my uncle works at hp and all of the ones I've used are better than dell's

Mine was with a secondary hard drive but GP told me how to fix it

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Back in '04, I got the "click of doom". My hard drive would make continuous clicking noises, until it finally just displayed a blue screen whenever it started up, and I couldn't even get it into safe mode. It was still under warranty, so Dell thankfully replaced it. That one died a couple years ago too, so I just bought a cheap, basic one. This one locks up now with certain firewalls (some sort of conflict with other software), so I need a new one soon.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

My mother board died.

Solution: Get a new CPU.

Posted: Feb 10 2009 09:53 pm

My friend accidentally deleted Windows off his old computer so he could play SimCity.

Posted: Feb 10 2009 11:21 pm

Accidentally sending emails to the wrong guy when they were intended for someone else...Opps:) That really sucked! ...I don't know if that counts as a computer error but it was a huge error that had to do with computers;P

Posted: Feb 11 2009 12:22 am

Holy shit Deku, that's pretty epic on the computer error scale.

My worst was a lot more mundane. I got a virus and had to install a new hard drive and reload the OS. Doesn't sound like much I know, but at the time that was a major step in my understanding of computers.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 01:45 am

When the system says that some file is missing that is needed to load Windows. Even though I didn't erase the file. No big deal since I back everything up to an external hard drive and reinstalling Windows is not that big of a problem.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

I got this error a while back.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 12:51 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

I got this error a while back.

Classic.

Posted: Feb 11 2009 02:35 pm

docinsano wrote:

they might work if I use the top of the dishwasher technique

I'm intrigued. Tell me more about this technique. I may have to apply it.

The worst I've gotten isn't on a computer, but I got one of those Screens Of Death on my friend's Xbox 360. I know he mods it but somehow I felt that it was my fault. How the fuck do you kill an Xbox 360 without the red ring?

Other than that, just basic computer problems, i.e. spyware overload from looking at disreputable porn sites. I wouldn't have even visited half these sites had I not had a roommate who enjoyed our wireless connection, my laptop and his Atlas-sized libido.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Undeath wrote:

docinsano wrote:

they might work if I use the top of the dishwasher technique

I'm intrigued. Tell me more about this technique. I may have to apply it.

Some people say that if you take a keyboard, bag the wire and place the device completely face down on the top rack of a dishwasher, you can run the light cycle with no heated dry and no soap to clean your keyboard.

I say, BULL FUCKING SHIT.

Somehow, some way, some day, it will come back to bite you, and badly.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Feb 11 2009 03:03 pm

Hell, I'm getting a new keyboard anyways, and I have 2 that are potentially dead. I'm gonna try it, GP, regardless of what you think...

Posted: Feb 11 2009 04:10 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

Undeath wrote:

docinsano wrote:

they might work if I use the top of the dishwasher technique

I'm intrigued. Tell me more about this technique. I may have to apply it.

Some people say that if you take a keyboard, bag the wire and place the device completely face down on the top rack of a dishwasher, you can run the light cycle with no heated dry and no soap to clean your keyboard.

I say, BULL FUCKING SHIT.

Somehow, some way, some day, it will come back to bite you, and badly.

All computer parts can be fully submerged in water, as long as they are completely dry before you use them again. Alot of user will soak mice and keyboards in alcohol and then let them air dry to clean them. The wetness isn't the issue. It's the conductivity of the water that will cause shorts.

In fact there is a small community of high-end computer users expirementing with fully submurged cooling system using non-conductive liquids. (Mineral Oil and such)

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The worst computer I have ever seen was a message saying, "Welcome to Windows ME!"