Moron Moments!

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So 2 months ago I formatted my computer. And all my videogames have been acting real bad. Like 1024x in high detail for doom3 and quake4 are bad. Nothing was running well. And I had no idea why. AMD 64 3000+, 1 gig ram, 6800 videocard. So I was stumped. Then I realized something must be wrong with the videocard for some odd reason. So I open Rivatuner..and it says AGP DISABLED. Im like WTF! ARG! Then I remembered that when I built this computer, I had to install a GART driver for my Neo2 board since Windows XP didnt install it for me. So needless to say, my 6800 was acting like a PCI card (aka crap) and now it is AGP 8x and everything is silky smooth.

Yeah..

That is my moron moment...anyone else have stupid moron moments?
 
When you work in a computer shop... many moron moments come out. Like not lpugging stuff in, saying "this heap of shit doesn't work", and then becoming red faced as its pointed out to you that the power switch on the Power Supply isn't set to "ON". Duh...

I guess we all have moron moments, some funny, some bad (like not plugging the CPU fan back in... I have done that twice now :eek: ). Life's like that.
 
It may not seem funny to you. But it was sure funny when I found out what it was.

Waking up, having a shower, etc. Came downstairs to go on the computer, I heard this clicking noise as I came down the stairs. My mom was on the computer. Something was making an odd noise, first though that came to my head was my brother =/. She got off in a bit. I turned off the speakers, and unplugged them. Turned off the monitor and unplugged it. Whatever it was I couldn't figure it out. After half hour of confusion I gave up and went to find my cordless phone. Couldn't find it so I hit 'page'. The clicking from the monitor stopped. I picked up the phone and stopped the paging. The noise that had left me confused was my phone =/.
 
the phone by the speakers, hahaha, happend to me too, I was about to take them back to the store because they were new and then i found it was because of the phone :rolleyes:

 
Krayzie135 said:
the phone by the speakers, hahaha, happend to me too, I was about to take them back to the store because they were new and then i found it was because of the phone :rolleyes:
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xD so true. The nuissance(sp?) phones cause. Just sit down to play a game, or do something, and the phone rings. It's half way across the room!.

Playing a game and answer the phone, just as you get back, get shot.
 
my friend skip once forgot to install drivers for his vid card before...



my recent one.. after a crash, I had no sound from my speakers. Thought I blew a fuse or something, since my headphones still worked. A few days later, I found out my speaker settings werent set to 4.1 :(
 
2nd year of college, i got a cheap ass notebook to hold me over till i got money for a real one.
The summer before i worked my ass off and got some really nice speakers and sub set up. I was so amped to try them out, so when i go to plug them into this old ibm lappie it doesnt work. I tried everything on that computer, from turnin up the volume, to changing drivers, to adding a new sound card. I annoyed the hell out of 3 pple, a friend, a comp usa employee and the seller. For 3 months i couldnt figure out this for the life of me.

Then one morning, my friend is looking at my speakers, and asks me whats does this button do when you press it. I was on my bed and just said try it. She did, and then a second later I got IMed and this booming sound came from all around the room. We both jumped scared, and I was like wtf how come i heard that from all over the place, am I goin crazy. Then I looked at my sub and I see a blue light on...meaning the speakers are on...

So after 3months of being bummed about my laptop and countless of hours bitchin at the screen, it turned out that I forgot to turn the suckers on :eek:
 
For hours I tried to get on board speakers to work on this very old laptop I have. Nothing worked, not the speakers, headphone jack or output jack. I figured it had some sort of fn button for volume up/down/mute, but volume control showed everything was just fine. I tried everything to get the sound to work, finally I grabbed the stupid thing to slam it down when I noticed this lil dial on the far left side. Stupid thing had a volume dial on it.
 
hennessy1 said:
So after 3months of being bummed about my laptop and countless of hours bitchin at the screen, it turned out that I forgot to turn the suckers on :eek:
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When something doesn't work, simply press more buttons.

Or something :D
 
The speakers one made me laugh. My duh moment would be not grounding the mobo and wondering why the pc would startup for a second and power off. I ruined two of my hard drives during thisinstall for a friend. Never again.
 
Quake 3 was the only OpenGL game I had been playing, so I set the AA/AF in OpenGL games to high in the driver profile. Forgot to set it back, but didn't notice it since most of my games are D3D. Months later, I install Quake 4, and wonder why it is running so slow.....
 
I had rather embarrasing moron moment with my father-in-law. I had only been married to his daughter for a few months at the time but he knew I was supposed to be fairly knowledgeable when it came to computers.

He told me one day that he wanted a new computer and asked what I would recommend for him. So I told him what I'd get if I were him and if he wanted I'd order the parts and put it together. Well, evidently he didn't want wait for parts to be ordered so the next day he went down to a store and bought a compaq system (I don't remember which model at the moment). He then called me up and asked if I'd come over and set it up for him as well as switch some things from his old computer over to it.

So I go over there and I set the thing up but there was no sound. I checked and rechecked everything with the speakers, the drivers, the sound card, everything. Everything seemed to be ok. WIndows (XP Home at the time) didn't even report a problem. As far as it was concerned everything was fine and sound was playing even though we couldn't hear a thing. Now I have to note that the speakers that came with this system appeared to be identical to a pair I had on a slightly older computer. They were a compaq brand with a push button to turn them on. The problem was that the pair I had didn't have their own external volume control. Since the new ones looked exactly like the ones I had I just thought they were the same.

Anyway, I messed around with the thing for two days before giving up and telling him he should take it back to the store where he got it and get new speakers since these obviously didn't work. I left after that and not even 30 minutes later I get a call from my father-in-law. He says he got the sound to work. It turns out the power button was also the volume control as well. I felt extremely dumb and he has never asked me to come over again and help him out with his computer.
 
One of my early builds I put support struts in all the available places on the motherboard tray, not just where I would be screwing it on (thought it would be good to have more support back there). When I went to turn it on, it would power up for like half a second then go dead. Drove me crazy for a week when a friend pointed out that those struts were shorting the mobo to the case :( Another good one: when I was younger and we had a 386 my dad brought home a new mouse for some reason or other. Windows (3.11) would show the cursor but when you moved the mouse the cursor wouldn't move. We fiddled with it for an hour or two and made no progress. Then we noticed there was a protective film holding the trackball in place...
 
I tend to tell everyone 'be careful of what you click on' and 'don't open files if you're not sure about them"/


Wanna guess what I just did and is making me use colourful language at the computer?
 
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