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Wizard Master
Mar 25, 2008

I am the Wizard Master
I opened up my computer this afternoon to blow some of the dust out of the inside. So I get everything spic'n'span in my case, reconnect the cables, and turn it on. Everything's OK.... until it gets to where Windows begins booting (Win2K, the bar along the bottom). No bar, just a blank screen. Oh poo poo.

Turn it off and reboot, this time trying to get into the BIOS setup. Won't let me into the BIOS, just continues booting. Same thing happens. I for some reason hit the 3-fingered salute, and it starts to load Windows. Great! Get to the splash screen, it blue-screens. drat it! Repeat the cycle, get to the password screen, it appears to lock up. Turn the computer off, open the case, wiggle the IDE cables. Close the case, take a look at the back cables.

I had plugged the keyboard and mouse in the wrong PS/2 ports.

I switch them around, and everything works perfectly. That's what I get for hooking stuff up in low light. So feel free to use the rest of this thread to recall your computer gently caress-ups, or just to call me a moron. I earned it.

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Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
wizard master

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH
lol if you dont just buy a new computer anytime it does something weird

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

ps/2 ports are still a thing huh

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
every computer i've ever built has had some amount of smoke produced within the first 12 hours

small sample size but still

they all worked eventually though

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Hotswapped a PCI graphics card; killed the old one, new one, and motherboard in about three seconds

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
op posting this thread was your most retarded computer gaffe

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
my most retarded gaffe was sticking my dongle in your moms port and the garbage out was you

a dog from hell
Oct 18, 2009

by zen death robot
I don't fool around with black magic... I bought my pornbox already completely manufactured by Dell

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

tried to kill myself by dropping my desktop in the tub but the psu shorted out too quick

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
i clicked on this thread

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money
I typed the word "gently caress" into a program at the computer lab in 4th grade, and I wasn't allowed to touch a computer for the rest of the year

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler
a copy/paste from 2001, impressive

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

Low Desert Punk posted:

I typed the word "gently caress" into a program at the computer lab in 4th grade, and I wasn't allowed to touch a computer for the rest of the year

Zero Cool?

dernwiththesickess
Aug 7, 2014
I think my best fuckup is after rebuilding my computer forgetting to plug the power back into my harddrives, and im not saying just 1 i mean i forgot the power to all 4 of the things, then freaked out when i couldnt figure out why. It took me 1 hour to fix it.

revmoo
May 25, 2006

#basta
One time I broke a cpu pin when installing it. I snipped off the tip of a sewing needle and put it in the ZIF socket before the CPU.

Worked.

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money
i just realized how much and also how little of my life is reflected in 1995's Hackers

yoyodyne
May 7, 2007
im gay

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

Low Desert Punk posted:

i just realized how much and also how little of my life is reflected in 1995's Hackers

this is a common phenomenon. Move along, you are OK.

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
I bought an Athlon and a Radeon once.

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

LINKIN PARK


hosed a computer and didn't call the next day

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Waltzing Along posted:

I bought an Athlon and a Radeon once.

same because i thought pentiums were too mainstream, turns otu they were "better"

oh well i've only gotten mac stuff for years and years now

72o
Dec 14, 2007

i spent 2 hours to figure out why my new build wouldn't POST and found out that the bottom of the motherboard was touching the case.

EnderWiggin
Jan 10, 2015

Low Desert Punk posted:

I typed the word "gently caress" into a program at the computer lab in 4th grade, and I wasn't allowed to touch a computer for the rest of the year

Literal Carehaver
Oct 20, 2014

by Cowcaster
google stop remembering all my heinous searches i beg you

Frank Horrigan
Jul 31, 2013

by Ralp
I took the heatsink off of an AMD athlon chip and stuck my finger to it while booting. It took weeks for my fingerprint to grow back.

open container
Sep 16, 2008
One time I tried to plug in a USB cable but it wasn't going in, so I flipped it around and it still wasn't going in, so I had to flip it around again, at which point it finally went in. It turned out I had it oriented right the first time! :doh:

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH

open container posted:

One time I tried to plug in a USB cable but it wasn't going in, so I flipped it around and it still wasn't going in, so I had to flip it around again, at which point it finally went in. It turned out I had it oriented right the first time! :doh:
pretty sure hitlers gay dad invented those things

Doctor J Off
Dec 28, 2005

There Is
i choose to spend my free time on the computer instead of the great outdoors, or in scholarly pursuits

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
I spent actual dollars on a forums account.

GenderSelectScreen
Mar 7, 2010

I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
College Slice
I once opened up my laptop to see how broken one the hinges was. The top of the laptop wiggled and would cause problems like audio muting, system windows opening up, etc. I examined everything and sure enough, the hinge was completely broken and messing with wires. Unable to do anything about it, I closed it back up, experiencing some resistance near the hinge point. I go to turn the laptop back on and nothing happens. I plug it into the wall and still nothing. I open it back up and find the broken hinge had severed the power wire from the board. :suicide:

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost
yospos is to the south son

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Stuck my dick in the CD tray slot and couldn't get it back out

Murray Mantoinette
Jun 11, 2005

THE  POSTS  MUST  FLOW
Clapping Larry

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

Stuck my dick in the CD tray slot and couldn't get it back out

I'm imagining you posting this from an old Gateway PC from the late 90s, your dick still stuck in the cd tray, long gray hair and beard, unable to move.

Ardemia
Jan 2, 2004

IT IS MY RIGHT TO GET BEHIND THE WHEEL WHEN I'VE PUT BACK SIX SHIRLEY TEMPLES OK

:patriot:
had a molex connector fall apart and switched the wires around rebuilding it and stupidly using it. Killed two hard drives that day, released magic smoke and the apartment stunk of burnt electronics for hours.

Think Thin!
Sep 17, 2006

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

Ardemia posted:

had a molex connector fall apart and switched the wires around rebuilding it and stupidly using it. Killed two hard drives that day, released magic smoke and the apartment stunk of burnt electronics for hours.

Unfortunately magic smoke refill kits have been retired. :( coulda saved those drives.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/10622

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.
Sep 29, 2001

the thought of stupid computer giraffes is making me all happy inside

this thread should be about that instead

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you irl
Jan 22, 2014
once i called technical support and it turned out the thing was turned off :(

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