Geek Nightmares..........

[TDMVPDPOY]

you guys still remember them platform consoles, where you had to blow the cartridges or beat the console to get the game up and running......

[baseline bum]

Post your favorite..............


I at one time placed the wrong RAM stick on a Board and blew out the sound on a e-Machine 533 Mhz . But the rest of the board functioned.


I have many others (will post them later) do you have any Geek Nightmares?

Ps: they don't have to be PC related.

Don't feel bad. Back in '01 or so I built a system with a retail-box AthlonXP and fried that . It came with an instruction manual with absolutely no written steps; all it had was photos. In every photo there was a picture of the Athlon XP's heatsink with a thin strip of thermal tape where it is supposed to interface to the CPU. I took that to mean the little putty thing on the bottom of the heatsink should be removed and replaced with thermal tape (I figured the putty was there just to keep people from scratching up the bottom of the heatsink in the area it made contact with the CPU's die). So, I did like the instruction manual showed, and put a piece of nice thermal tape on it, attached the heatsink, turned on the power, and never got so much as a POST. As anyone who had a pre-Thoroughbred AthlonXP knows, they get hot as fast, and thermal tape wasn't going to cut it. I called AMD up and complained about their instruction manual showing thermal tape as a viable interface between the die and heatsink, and got a replacement from them 2 days later.

[TDMVPDPOY]

Don't feel bad. Back in '01 or so I built a system with a retail-box AthlonXP and fried that . It came with an instruction manual with absolutely no written steps; all it had was photos. In every photo there was a picture of the Athlon XP's heatsink with a thin strip of thermal tape where it is supposed to interface to the CPU. I took that to mean the little putty thing on the bottom of the heatsink should be removed and replaced with thermal tape (I figured the putty was there just to keep people from scratching up the bottom of the heatsink in the area it made contact with the CPU's die). So, I did like the instruction manual showed, and put a piece of nice thermal tape on it, attached the heatsink, turned on the power, and never got so much as a POST. As anyone who had a pre-Thoroughbred AthlonXP knows, they get hot as fast, and thermal tape wasn't going to cut it. I called AMD up and complained about their instruction manual showing thermal tape as a viable interface between the die and heatsink, and got a replacement from them 2 days later.

Man those throughbed A's are the best overclockers, cause the multipliers were unlocked compared to the later series PALOMIOS...whatever its called,
Yeh they never show the instructions how to setup the correct jumpers for the cpu, which is where you have to read the motherboard manual which has the information you are lookin for compared to the manual that comes with the CPU.

[bobbybob0]

High geekiness:

After installing a fresh Debian at work and trying for one week to hack our IT's protection to update the damn Linux and configure everything I crashed it with one single command line trying to write a boot image to a CF.

The HDD was /dev/sda, the CF was /dev/sdb, now I had a my HDD with the layout of a 128MB CF image :/

I kicked the PC in rage... but the chassis was open so I broke the RAM and its slots...

[Slydragon]

Go to altex and buy a 25.00 dollar USB HD adapter transfer all your stuff to the new drive. After you are done i will but the adapter from you.

I need one of those but only for a night. In my Geek nightmare I had a 250 external hd and it was fats I saw that is you change it to ntfs it would be better, so I did it and then my Xbox and ps3 no longer saw the HD. I was piss and could not change it back to FATS my pc would not do it and I ended up getting piss and for some reason took it apart.

It would not power up after that. I kept the HD it's a 250 gb Sata one I believe. I have a laptop and my daughters pc is a 2 year old E machines that does not use sata hd.

I want to wipe it clean because all my photos and I think music is on it. I had it all back up 3 fold so I did not lose any of it, But don't want to give it up knowing all my photos and stuff are still on there. I would trade it for some ram for my daughters pc because that thing is slow it has like 512 ram.

[mouse]

High geekiness:

After installing a fresh Debian at work and trying for one week to hack our IT's protection to update the damn Linux and configure everything I crashed it with one single command line trying to write a boot image to a CF.

The HDD was /dev/sda, the CF was /dev/sdb, now I had a my HDD with the layout of a 128MB CF image :/

I kicked the PC in rage... but the chassis was open so I broke the RAM and its slots...

That would be cool if you had a video of it.

[mouse]

I need one of those but only for a night. In my Geek nightmare I had a 250 external hd and it was fats I saw that is you change it to ntfs it would be better, so I did it and then my Xbox and ps3 no longer saw the HD. I was piss and could not change it back to FATS my pc would not do it and I ended up getting piss and for some reason took it apart.

It would not power up after that. I kept the HD it's a 250 gb Sata one I believe. I have a laptop and my daughters pc is a 2 year old E machines that does not use sata hd.

I want to wipe it clean because all my photos and I think music is on it. I had it all back up 3 fold so I did not lose any of it, But don't want to give it up knowing all my photos and stuff are still on there. I would trade it for some ram for my daughters pc because that thing is slow it has like 512 ram.

Dude it's only 25.oo dollars, you can get that back recovering someones else's data!

[Banjo Boy]

Don't feel bad. Back in '01 or so I built a system with a retail-box AthlonXP and fried that . It came with an instruction manual with absolutely no written steps; all it had was photos. In every photo there was a picture of the Athlon XP's heatsink with a thin strip of thermal tape where it is supposed to interface to the CPU. I took that to mean the little putty thing on the bottom of the heatsink should be removed and replaced with thermal tape (I figured the putty was there just to keep people from scratching up the bottom of the heatsink in the area it made contact with the CPU's die). So, I did like the instruction manual showed, and put a piece of nice thermal tape on it, attached the heatsink, turned on the power, and never got so much as a POST. As anyone who had a pre-Thoroughbred AthlonXP knows, they get hot as fast, and thermal tape wasn't going to cut it. I called AMD up and complained about their instruction manual showing thermal tape as a viable interface between the die and heatsink, and got a replacement from them 2 days later.

This story made me not want to post mine anymore.

[mouse]

This story starts with the phone ringing Friday.............

A man calls me from a computer tech support company says he had my number from a while back when I was looking for work I guess. It's hard to say how he got it since I would always tell people I would meet on the phone or in person if they have a PC issue to call me.

So the answering machine has him saying he has a Job for me. Since I have a tab with crazyone,DannyT,BigZax and Joe Chalupa? I can't afford to turn down work.

The vato tells me this woman can't get her Netgear to work. So I figure it's a 10 minute job. I didn't want to tell him I only have one car and my girlfriend has it at work, who wants to start off their first day on the job telling the boss they have no transportation?

So I called him back and told him I was having the breaks worked on and the car will be ready by 3 pm (the time Kim gets off work) he said no problem and gave me the directions.

So I went to this lady's house who lives by the Blue Star art galleries. (By the way I wish I knew that 2 hours prior) and she lives in some sort of condominium right across the railroad tracks 50 feet from an open lot and 100 feet from some Mexican Cantina that plays loud music all night. Wow! how did she get such a bargain? I guess some rich white people figure the blue star art gallery area was going to boom into some sort of coconut grove like in south Miami.

Anyway as i make it to her back den past all the art she bought (most of it crap that i could have done in under an hour) and as her small dog who likes to hump my leg I saw her notebook. it was a DELL 9300 have you seen the screens on them?

It's hard to tell from this pic how big the notebook is but if you look at the keyboards you will see how the average notebook can fit inside it.



My boss wanted a wide screen so i got him a 6000 off ebay if he was to see this one he would not want it anymore.

Anyway I saw that her notebook was real slow and it needed to be flushed, so I told her she will be here all day trying to install the netgear software. She had every browser jacker in the book. why do people still use IE? But at the same time this is my first day on the job and if i can't get someones wireless to work I don't think i will get anymore jobs from this vato. I also told her I am not sure what the man who sent me is going to charge her. She said he is charging her 75.00 dollars pus 45.00 dollars an hour.

That is when my dumb ass listened to the that angel that sits on your shoulder "Do the right thing mouse!" And I told her to let me pull off her data and put another version of XP on her laptop. After all I was there an hour listening to her stories about he life and she still didn't have any www access. she was already 120.00 dollars in the hole.

So I told her to let me have her notebook and tell the man who sent me I only took 30 minutes to get her on line.

So I took her notebook home saved her 1,600 photos and installed XP media center since I couldn't find a DELL restore disc with home edition. And then the nightmare began..........brb, I have to go make coffee and take Sophie for a walk........

[duncan228]

And then the nightmare began..........brb, I have to go make coffee and take Sophie for a walk........

That's some long walk.

You left us hanging. Are you going to finish the nightmare?

[Luke Skywalker]

Star wars prequels

oops too late

[mouse]

That's some long walk.

You left us hanging. Are you going to finish the nightmare?

Sorry I got caught up using another screen name.

[TDMVPDPOY]

mouse did you end up giving her the stick for her troubles??

you know them art chicks are crazieeee

[Rack The Trolls!]

This lady is funny and cool I hope she comes to a GTG her husband writes plays and works for the san antonio play house and is a drama coach. These people spend at least 1,200..00 a month on what they think is art. I am going to buy me a welding kit and make some art asap.............

[TDMVPDPOY]

dude i was playin games b4, and bam....comp pulled a runner on me

it turns on and shuts down in 3 secs, without even getting to see anything appear on the screen....

im not sure whether its a psu thing cause it was a loud bang,

didnt smell any smoke coming out of the tower,

might have to get psu replace

[Steve Perry]

dude i was playin games b4, and bam....comp pulled a runner on me

it turns on and shuts down in 3 secs, without even getting to see anything appear on the screen....

im not sure whether its a psu thing cause it was a loud bang,

didnt smell any smoke coming out of the tower,

might have to get psu replace

Any updates?

[TDMVPDPOY]

more like blown mobo i think

[mouse]

I have a Toshiba Satellite I am 5 minutes away from urinating on if this mini PCI card doesn't respond!