Worst Computer Day

UniPrae · 06-17-2007, 01:28 PM

Okay I am going to start a thread called Worst Computer Day...here you will tell us about your bad computer experiences.

I will start I was fortunately doing a regular save to disc of some of my computer files. Half way through I decided it was late and decided to finish off my save run the next day. I shut down my computer and went to bed. The next day I did my normal stuff off computer and went back to my computer and checked my files only to discover to my absolute horror that everything I hadn't saved the day before was gone...I mean gone I had the thumbnails but no data behind any of them.

I was devastated months of computer time had gone and there was nothing I could do. A friend who was computer savvy just did that suck air thing between his teeth and spoke about new hard drives and new computers.

I suppose the moral of this that even on a computer never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. I learnt that if I am doing a file save to start it early and finish no matter what.

Now anbody else who wants can add their tale of computer woes.

vincent_10_27 · 06-17-2007, 09:44 PM

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06-20-2007, 01:18 PM

I was working on an older Alienware computer once. Adding new memory and a more powerful video card. (Poor fools ordered an x300 for a gaming computer.) Dropped everything in. Easy enough. Turned it on...

Lights and fans went for a half second, then nothing... And it smelled like burning metal.
Turns out the power supply wasn't built to handle the load it was listed for. We shook it and heard one of the capacitors rattling inside. Even worse, it took the fancy new $300 video card with it.
Dropped in the old card and a backup power supply. everything worked again. And... According to the computer store, the card was broken when we bought it.

<.< >.>

Tsukae · 06-20-2007, 01:58 PM

I had downloaded Vegas movie maker (can't remember which version) along with a keygen. When I ran the keygen all hell broke loose. My computer attempted to rapidly send thousands of emails with the virus but my email didn't work which was lucky. I had a billion windows poop-up saying "Error message could not send." In the end I managed to mostly recover and even later down the road I formatted my hard drive. THe moral is to be careful about what keygens you download and to always scan excutable files.

nxcmp · 06-22-2007, 01:50 PM

I had a 500Gig HD and one day the partition decided to go bad :/ I managed to retrieve the files i wanted to save by booting a live CD of Knoppix then just formated the drive and started over. SO the lesson for me was to create multiple partitions not just one large :P

06-27-2007, 03:59 PM

finish an 80 page paper save it several times then only to press one stinkin' button and delete it all. Then afterwards finding out there is an "undo" button

galatt · 06-30-2007, 12:57 AM

I discovered the hard way that my apartment had a 220v line that looked just like a regular plug. The $400 power supply gave its life to save the $25 fuse.

Kar31 · 07-01-2007, 03:20 AM

I was having trouble with the drive "saving orphaned files" after I inadvertently stopped a .dll from unloading... whatever that means ...so after its trashing over 100 Gb of mp3's I smacked it upside the head, partitioned, formatted, talked lovingly with force to the drive and went out and bought a Tb NAS. Set it with RAID-5 and -all- I have to do is remember to copy -everything- to the NAS. A daunting task, remembering...

Mushroom · 07-26-2007, 05:48 PM

some years ago i was installing a printer in my first computer,but the HD wasn´t space for the drivers.
I delete the "Windows" folder

aceman67 · 07-26-2007, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mushroom

some years ago i was installing a printer in my first computer,but the HD wasn´t space for the drivers.
I delete the "Windows" folder

Windows won't let you delete its own installation folder. Also, windows wouldn't be able to run (Run well anyways) if you were that low on HD space that you couldn't install 5 to 10mb of drivers.

NEways, my worst computer day was a few weeks ago, my SATA raid failed and I lost alot of data, thank fully I had a back up that was about a month old, so I didn't lose everything.

06-17-2007, 01:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
UniPrae Spammer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: In a House Posts: 166 Points: 2,713.01 Bank: 8,999.60 Total Points: 11,712.61 Donate	Worst Computer Day Okay I am going to start a thread called Worst Computer Day...here you will tell us about your bad computer experiences. I will start I was fortunately doing a regular save to disc of some of my computer files. Half way through I decided it was late and decided to finish off my save run the next day. I shut down my computer and went to bed. The next day I did my normal stuff off computer and went back to my computer and checked my files only to discover to my absolute horror that everything I hadn't saved the day before was gone...I mean gone I had the thumbnails but no data behind any of them. I was devastated months of computer time had gone and there was nothing I could do. A friend who was computer savvy just did that suck air thing between his teeth and spoke about new hard drives and new computers. I suppose the moral of this that even on a computer never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. I learnt that if I am doing a file save to start it early and finish no matter what. Now anbody else who wants can add their tale of computer woes.

06-20-2007, 01:58 PM	#4 (permalink)
Tsukae Oh your god!!! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: United States Posts: 270 Points: 1,334.75 Bank: 12,297.35 Total Points: 13,632.10 Donate	I had downloaded Vegas movie maker (can't remember which version) along with a keygen. When I ran the keygen all hell broke loose. My computer attempted to rapidly send thousands of emails with the virus but my email didn't work which was lucky. I had a billion windows poop-up saying "Error message could not send." In the end I managed to mostly recover and even later down the road I formatted my hard drive. THe moral is to be careful about what keygens you download and to always scan excutable files. __________________ [Tsukae]

06-22-2007, 01:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
nxcmp Experienced Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Bunker. Posts: 54 Images: 1 Points: 457.00 Bank: 575.33 Total Points: 1,032.33 Donate	I had a 500Gig HD and one day the partition decided to go bad :/ I managed to retrieve the files i wanted to save by booting a live CD of Knoppix then just formated the drive and started over. SO the lesson for me was to create multiple partitions not just one large :P __________________ "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."

07-26-2007, 05:48 PM	#9 (permalink)
Mushroom Beginner Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mexico City Posts: 14 Images: 2 Points: 377.80 Bank: 131.21 Total Points: 509.01 Donate	some years ago i was installing a printer in my first computer,but the HD wasn´t space for the drivers. I delete the "Windows" folder __________________ My name Is Mushhroom!!

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06-17-2007, 09:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
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06-20-2007, 01:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
Zagnar Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	I was working on an older Alienware computer once. Adding new memory and a more powerful video card. (Poor fools ordered an x300 for a gaming computer.) Dropped everything in. Easy enough. Turned it on... Lights and fans went for a half second, then nothing... And it smelled like burning metal. Turns out the power supply wasn't built to handle the load it was listed for. We shook it and heard one of the capacitors rattling inside. Even worse, it took the fancy new $300 video card with it. Dropped in the old card and a backup power supply. everything worked again. And... According to the computer store, the card was broken when we bought it. <.< >.>

06-27-2007, 03:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
Stuartah Posts: n/a Points: 0 Bank: 0 Total Points: 0 Donate	finish an 80 page paper save it several times then only to press one stinkin' button and delete it all. Then afterwards finding out there is an "undo" button

06-30-2007, 12:57 AM	#7 (permalink)
galatt Experienced Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 48 Points: 1,135.36 Bank: 406.57 Total Points: 1,541.93 Donate	I discovered the hard way that my apartment had a 220v line that looked just like a regular plug. The $400 power supply gave its life to save the $25 fuse.

07-01-2007, 03:20 AM	#8 (permalink)
Kar31 Beginner Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 5 Points: 273.00 Bank: 105.06 Total Points: 378.06 Donate	I was having trouble with the drive "saving orphaned files" after I inadvertently stopped a .dll from unloading... whatever that means ...so after its trashing over 100 Gb of mp3's I smacked it upside the head, partitioned, formatted, talked lovingly with force to the drive and went out and bought a Tb NAS. Set it with RAID-5 and -all- I have to do is remember to copy -everything- to the NAS. A daunting task, remembering...

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