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What's the worst accident you had with your computer or software?

post #1 of 19
11/12/04 at 4:30pm
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I had to embarrassingly had to repost my object in the For Sale section, seems this stupid jerk not only threw out all the garbage and all the boxes that accumulated!

I also forgot I switched the big box with DVD+R/RW drive to the smaller box. What it comes down to is I threw my new never used Dell DVD+R/RW & CD-R/RW down in the garbage chute I live on the 3rd floor to land in smithereens never to be used at all!

Edit: I found it I didn't throw the DVD+R/RW but the CD-R down the chute, so rp3 you will get it Priority Mail with reinstallation disc.
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post #2 of 19
11/12/04 at 4:45pm
"back in the day" of tiny card switches, I threw caution to the wind and was taking a modem card in/out of the PC with the power on. To my credit, that was after 30 minutes of off/modify card/on/off/mod card, etc. and a lot of foul language.

There was a pop and a small waft of blue smoke rose from the chip on my scanner card. Seems while placing the modem card back in, I came a bit to close to another card and arc'd the suckers.

Loss: one scanner card and my pride.
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post #3 of 19
11/12/04 at 6:08pm
Two:

1) I somehow lost all my data on my Dell XPS-T. My folder was created on the desktop and when I restarted after aborting a program install. Luckily, this was over the summer and I did not have anything that was absolutely necessary on the computer. Of course I did lost all documents of value to me...

2) Dropping my notebook (the 8600) because the bag it was in had a strap snap on me. Luckily no internal damage; only a few cracks. (At least, that's all I can see.)
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post #4 of 19
11/12/04 at 6:26pm
My 5 year old daughter spilled a diet Dr Pepper in the key board of my Compaq Laptop. I quickly turned it off wiped the keyboard with a very moist cloth and kept blowing compressed air around the keyboard. The computer had to dry for a couple of days, but has worked flawlessly since. So far no incidents with my Dell.

John
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post #5 of 19
11/13/04 at 12:37am
when i was an undergrad, we used a program called minitab which brought on many frustrations, and many computers being thrown out the windows in frustration.
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post #6 of 19
11/13/04 at 2:12am
A misused command in Linux that cleared my hard drive (120GB of "stuff" )
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post #7 of 19
11/13/04 at 2:36am
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Originally Posted by Fett101
A misused command in Linux that cleared my hard drive (120GB of "stuff" )

fdisk /dev/hda? :P
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post #8 of 19
11/13/04 at 8:02am
I spilled a full glass of lemonade all over my Thinkpad, and it died within seconds, never to wake up again. I froze for a couple of seconds, never pulled the power-cord but insted put it into hibernate mode which probably killed it

Opened it up and the lemonade was all over the MB, graphic card etc.

The good thing is that i had to buy a new computer, and thats why i got my inspiron 8600 i have today.

I would probably still be on my thinkpad, and never have found this forum if it wasn't for the lemonade accident!

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post #9 of 19
11/13/04 at 9:30am
when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

when you get lemonade, fry your computer.

and buy a new one.
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post #10 of 19
11/13/04 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by DimGR
fdisk /dev/hda? :P
rm -rf in the wrong directory as the wrong user.
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post #11 of 19
11/13/04 at 12:59pm
^^^

I was logged into both my production web server and my test server through ssh from my laptop. I typed rm -rf ....... then realized I was on the wrong window. Lost my entire web site, webmail, and shared files. Took a whole weekend to restore (most of it) from old backups.

Martian
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post #12 of 19
11/13/04 at 1:03pm
Someone on the forums had there laptop (apple i think) in the back of their pt crusier when it got totalled, and even though it was bent and the screen was broken they tried hooking it up to another monitor and it worked. Im sure the pictures are around somewhere, but i have no time to look
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post #13 of 19
11/13/04 at 4:09pm
Yes, I remember that one. This thing that looked like road kill hooked up to a monitor and working flawlessly!!! Crazy!!!

Whenever I see this kind of talkit does 2 things to me...........

#1.) Totally intrigues me......(Other people's demise is just totally entertaining.....like watching somebody take a shot to the gnads on AFV........it's funny later, but not funny then!!!!)

#2.) Makes me seriously consider the "Complete Care" from Dell!!!!
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post #14 of 19
11/13/04 at 4:32pm
diet dr pepper...all time favorite soda of mine. about to order the dominos monster combo
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post #15 of 19
11/13/04 at 4:37pm
I was ripping a cd with Musicmatch while playing it from WMP... It took a couple minutes before I figured wth was making the weird sounds... The cd had all these funky lines on it, but still worked.
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post #16 of 19
11/13/04 at 4:57pm


Need I say more?
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post #17 of 19
11/14/04 at 5:13pm
1. wanted to apply arctic silver to my desktop, took out cpu, and burned it!

2. wanted to remove linux from my laptop partition magic was giving me error, tried disk management, accidently deleted one of my partitions, no that was not enough! I like a dumbass continued to work, and ended up with a whole drive cleaned but it was a good lesson! - back up back up BAAAACK UUUP!
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post #18 of 19
11/15/04 at 9:45pm
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OMG I threw the CD-R ROM drive down the chute *not* the DVD+R/RW & CD-R/RW. rp3 all is well I will send it to you with the installation disc, best of luck with your Sonic Controlled NEC DVD Writer. I just received your postal money order I'll cash it after I have sent your DVD writer Priority mail!
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post #19 of 19
11/16/04 at 5:14pm
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rp3 your DVD+R/RW & CD-R/RW recorder and re-installation disc as been mailed at 9:30 AM this morning. Man am I ever glad that my CD-R-DVD ROM drive went down the chute instead of the DVD+ recorder.


Priority Mail and well packed with foam I included a insert with both sides printed and cut for DVD *Chicago* it looks like a 'retail'.
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