swallow6 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 computer disasters, well, i've had a hell lotta 'em... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muiki Sama Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Buying a computer with Vista on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightraven Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 I had a power supply fail, make a popping sound then burst into flames I am just glad that I was home when it happened. The crazy thing is the computer worked just fine with a new PSU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAM3L3SS Posted June 12, 2013 Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 Continuous Overheating when playing a high graphical game (e.g. Skyrim, ACIII) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowtheman Posted June 13, 2013 Report Share Posted June 13, 2013 A long long time ago in a best buy far far away. I bought a vista, lol. Wait that's the second most............. The first was when that same computer over heated and practically blew up in my bed while I was out grabbing a snack.   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Angel13 Posted June 14, 2013 Report Share Posted June 14, 2013 Ah comp disasters. My biggest disaster was a physical one, my old Acer laptop which still runs perfectly began to crack everytime I opened the screen and i was just like pfft its nothing. About 8 months later and I opened it and practically tore off the screen and half the casing over the keyboard. It was horrible! Then i went and got it repaired and a week later it was doing it again, it had snapped the screws the guy used in it and i was like.... ffs! Now i have new laptop and the other is a paperweight that still works haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pav Posted June 14, 2013 Report Share Posted June 14, 2013 A few months ago one week after i got my new £500 Samsung laptop, I had it on my lap drinking coke from the bottle I went to take a Leak leaving the bottle on the bed next to the laptop when i come back I see my laptop soaked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 14, 2013 Report Share Posted June 14, 2013 (edited) *edited Edited August 6, 2013 by rand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojojimbo Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 I had a house party and knocked a beer over my keyboard and onto my tower, lost my key board and sound card. I won't even drink tea near it now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTJG RIO Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 Ok, so work ends one day and we have evening formation yada yada yada, FALL OUT! Yay! I'm off time to go play some Resident Evil. Nope my platoon sergeant stops and me goes hey Sergeant your pretty smart, right? (A lot of people at work just assume I'm smart because I wear glasses and stuff). So I says "I dunno Gunny you tell me." Yeah I got this JFO course that I want to send you to and I think your perfect for it. Here's a list of courses on Marinenet I need you to do and have the certificates printed off before Monday of next week. "Great there goes my free time." I think to myself. What I say though is "Roger that Gunnery Sergeant, no problem." So I take the paper go up to my room and look up the course's. There's 7 courses and the average time to complete them is 1 month! It's Thursday and he wants them turned in by Monday! I have 4 DAYS AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! So I begin and midway through my first course I have a total meltdown and slam my fist's down on my laptop crushing the keyboard, the hard drive, and pretty much every other important piece of equipment in my computer. So now it's Thursday night, my computer is busted and I'm furious. So I go to Best Buy to buy a new computer and go in search of the dude's and dudet's who work there. I find one named "Allen". I say "Hi Allen, I'm Ryan can you help me get a good computer?" "Sure sir we have a new (blah blah blah) and it has a (blah blah blah) processor with (blah blah blah) and it works great for (blah blah blah)." I substitute the blah's for all the computer lingo I don't understand so I look like this and say "I'm sorry can you pretend I'm someone who barley graduated high school (cause that's actually what happened) and say that in a language that doesn't sound like Klingon." So my new friend Allen goes over to the laptops and points at the one I'm using to talk to you lovely people right now. He says, now with no fire in his eyes (probably cause he thinks I'm just a big idiot)"You like Games?""Yes"You like web surfing?""Yes""You like fast downloads?""Yes""Are you going to be careful with this computer?""I will try.""This is the one for you sir." So I buy it, get insurance just in case I decide to throw this one in a blender. Finish my one month's worth of course's and that's my worst computer problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
†Emotional Outlet Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 Haha, well, at least he thought you were on his level instead of immediately assuming you're an idiot. I've been talked down too much to bother with going to physical stores unless I need something that can't wait. Of course at that point I don't even need the help because I know what I want. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTJG RIO Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 I know the feeling. The biggest one I can't stand is when a sales associate call's me honey or darling. I'm the same age as you are and I'm a customer please call me sir. Or when I call to have my cable or internet fixed and they use all this fancy lingo on the phone then when the tech arrives I need to help him hook up my stuff. Shopping can be frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 Tech shopping goes something like this for me: Know what I want (for example phone, laptop or computer parts etc) -> look up products -> read countless reviews for each product -> pick the one I want -> look up stores that sell them -> if local store then go buy product, don't bother asking questions nor ask for help. Also don't fall for shitty upsells that they do. Or just buy buy online. Though when I have to go with my parents/relatives, they want to ask so many questions and in the end they listen to the store rep and not me. Then at the end when they realised they been ripped off badly due to the extra shit they brought and extra warrantly they surely didn't need -> go blame me.... Yep being a tech head is difficult I tell you. Better to just say you're some nub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosix Posted July 25, 2013 Report Share Posted July 25, 2013 I have learned the hard way not to be cheap with PSUs. The first incident was years back now when my PSU suddenly died caused by a short circuit (my guess is that the high relative humidity i had at that time in my room was the reason for it). It was particullarly bad because it managed to fry my CPU and the motherboard in the process. More recently my old PSU all of a sudden couldn't handle higher load anymore, when playing games with 3d-graphic my computer would randomly just shut of and restart (the low-voltage-protection kicked in). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle_Dimetri Posted July 25, 2013 Report Share Posted July 25, 2013 when my maxed out my 640 gb hard drive till there was only 300kb or so left on it then it just crashed. No worries though as mom bought me a new hard drive (after a month of whining and begging) and i had already backed up all my anime, music and a some of favourite tv shows on my external hard drive so no love lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parata Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 (edited) accidentally spilled coffee into my laptop, taht the worst disaster that I ever had in my life   ..... Edited October 23, 2013 by parata Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangent Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 I've luckily dodged the bullet of anything major. I think twice I've had to do some serious work arounds to retrieve some data that I couldn't get at by normal means on windows. Fingers crossed though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinistra Posted October 25, 2013 Report Share Posted October 25, 2013 I have had a few laptop motherboards go out. and a few power plugs in the computer go out but nothing that would require the fire department lol. I try and keep my computer in full working order. like take them apart clean them out if they get all dusty. and what have you. Seeing as I work with computers on a daily basis. It is great to have a working system in the house plus a backup. With about 4 desktops working as one house server for all the electronics (laptops, smartphones, tabets and my office computer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undertehker Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 I had the weirdest virus. I was updating my microsoft essentials and everything was bogging down and the computer started to shut down. After opening up safe mod, I restored it. Then I began updating microsoft essentials again. This time, I could clearly tell that I had a virus. I couldn't open any applications then all my stuff was slowly getting deleted. I tried to plug in my flash drive to save what I can but it was too late. The virus was deleting stuff off my flash drive now. As it seems that I already lost everything, I had to reformat it. My computer works fine now. I haven't re-installed essentials. I don't know if it triggered the dormant virus or what but I'm not going to risk it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
professa X Posted November 3, 2013 Report Share Posted November 3, 2013 Well one minor problem that caused a majot and one majot period.1) found out the hard way that MBAM anf utorrent shouldn't be ran at the same time due to resource.2) was transfering...you guessed it my anime colection from my computer to my external and the power shut offcaused my external to go corrupt. nearly 300gb of memories gone. so now i'm just coming up with a software solution just for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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