Post your funny/n00b computer stories!

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Thread title says it all. I'll start off. When I first started out in computers I didn't know much to say the least. Well this one time, my family's computer needed the network card replaced. Being the computer whiz I thought I was at the time, I wanted to get it done quick. So while the computer was ON, I popped open the case and pulled the network card out. Needless to say after lots of sparks and smoke, the motherboard was basically fried. So, post your funny/n00b stories here!



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I have been building and using computers for for over 25 years so I'm not a N00b...but one day I started the livingroom computer ( I have four networked computers shared by six people at home) and it reported "no system disk found" error.

I opened up the case and checked all IDE cables and power cables which were connected properly. I decided to try a hard drive from another known good PC. Only I received the same error. After about an hour of this, I discovered that one of my kids had left a beige colored floppy disk in the beige colored floppy drive that I did not see before.
 
dont really have a story, just getting in before thread lock! HI!
 
um, let's see. i blew up two 6600GTs, one started on fire. 20-24 pin adapters are important if you OC!!
 
Asian Dub Foundation said:
i bought a MX440 thinking it was the shit
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haha. I didn't actually do that myself, but I convinced a buddy of mine to buy one. I don't really have any noob stories, though. I was BORN to work with computers. :p
 
Other than the two Netgear routers that were DOA that I recieved and the magically failing keyboard, not much. Niether are too interesting.
 
I decided to go dual-boot and emptied out a partition on my WinXP machine, then proceeded to format and retype the Windows partition.
 
TheJackal said:
um, let's see. i blew up two 6600GTs, one started on fire. 20-24 pin adapters are important if you OC!!
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Fire. Wow, lol. Just to clarify, by n00b stories, I mean when you first started out with computers or didn't know very much. Funny stories are what the name implies.
 
B. W. said:
I bought an eMachines.. :(
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ultimate n00b!!! :D They've gotten better, though. But my statement still stands.
 
Invader_sk00dge said:
Fire. Wow, lol. Just to clarify, by n00b stories, I mean when you first started out with computers or didn't know very much. Funny stories are what the name implies.
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lol, alright, i'll go back further :)

i remember when my family just got a new ibm windows 98 desktop back when the OS first came out. we came up from one of those dos pcs, fucking kick ass! doom and wolfenstein, jesus, those were the days. anywho, i had lego land installed on the ibm, and one day, it froze. so, i start pressing all the keys on the keyboard and it says the program is not responding end task or go back to windows and i think there was one more in those days. i click end task and it closes the program and says that data might have been lost and i was like oh my fucking god i broke the computer! then, i found out my brother had an important school paper on there and i just freaked out. i didn't even know what to do lol so i left the cmputer screen at that and waited until my dad came home and i was like scared shit my bro lost his paper. he came home, i told him what happened, and he said nothing was lost, so i was like woo! fucking noob lol

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same ibm, same fucking game lol, the cd wouldn't ocme out when i was done. i was like oh god, i think i really broke it this time. and then i told my dad, he called one of his computer smart people, and he got the paper clip, put it into that hole, and popped the drive open. well, let's just say you learn from your mistakes. ;)

i also killed that computer when i got my sony 1.8ghz p4, shit, i cut all the wires, opened the floppy drive apart, the cd drive apart, took out the cpu and heat sink, and i cut all the cables off the psu. i also thought i should take the psu apart, not knowing the dangers then, but decided not to.
 
Back then, the first computer I really owned was a Compaq Presario with a P1 133. I thought it was the greatest computer ever. However, I could NEVER figure out the whole Presario Center system. It was a button on the chassis that would bring you out of Windows 95 and into some kind of login type screen, but it was compaq specific.

I even did a restore from the restore disc and somehow got the system to not use that stupid login.

I was a real lamer back when I was 12.
 
For awhile I was using Windows 98, then I read about this modification for making a Win98/WinME hybrid on Axcel. I start at it and then I made a mistake, which left me with a defunct computer. When I tried to go into DOS it wouldn't let me because of Windows ME, and it would let me reinstall Windows 98 becaues a newer versions of Windows was already installed (Windows ME). Hilarity ensues.
 
Second day at a large investment bank doing trader support i did a hard power down on a trader pc while it was saving his profile settings. When he logged in again his windows profile was pretty much fudged. Luckily for me there was a large network outage for the back in midtown about the same time. So i blamed the problem on that.
 
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