Your WORST computer disasters?

NamesSolidSnake · February 14th, 2008

What is the worst thing that happened to your PC?

Fortunatley, I haven't had one... yet :P

Hard core Rikki · February 14th, 2008

bl0wn PSU, i suppose... slightly scary when the central unit is sitting next to you...

Squall-Leonhart · February 14th, 2008

Blown PSU's
4K Alignment of my HDD stuffed the FAT32 boot record, nearly lost all my files, if i didn't have PC Inspector File Recovery i probably would have.

Rockfire · February 14th, 2008

HDD blowing up.

V1ncent · February 14th, 2008

I double clicked on Key-logger , it was all over !
It was an antivirus disabler(winitems.exe in process)
I had to format my xp to do anything.

viperver1 · February 14th, 2008

There was a problem I had once on my computer. I had malicous problems on the computer with malicous files so we contacted the virus software company who detected it and would you belive that they wanted $100+ to deal with the problem itself. So we had to eliminate the malicous files myself.

Phil · February 14th, 2008

Virus wiped my hdd

**mudlord** · February 14th, 2008

Blown up video card.

Memulator91k · February 14th, 2008

When i was a Computer Noob, I had 30gig of spyware on my PC.
Than Explorer.exe disappeared, than every time I logged in , it logged out automaticly. But going on forums for information and a reformat with anti virus + spyware helped alot

Phil · February 14th, 2008

30 gigs? whoa did you have any firewalls??

Titus03 · February 14th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Memulator91k

...I had 30gig of spyware on my PC...

Really?

The worst thing that happened to me was something like this: I installed Intel Pentium Northwood 3,4GHz to my computer and after that picture went crazy. I shutted down and after 30 minutes restarted. Now picture was normal and I was able to do everything normally, but when I played Max Payne 2 and Half-Life 2, I noticed that textures looked blurry. I checked options and they were on the highest level. I removed that Pentium and changed back to Celeron. Textures were still blurry. So, that new Pentium processor killed my Radeon 9800 PRO and warranty was over. I learned something and now I have Geforce 7600 GT. Things are now fine.

V1ncent · February 14th, 2008

This is not the worst thing, but once I started my laptop , and saw the settings in
desktop properties , it strangely showed over 2000 pixels ,mine is only 1024x768.
Strange?

Phil · February 14th, 2008

no it depends on your resolution

V1ncent · February 14th, 2008

That was what I meant,but for some reason it changed automatically.
(I should not discuss it here ,its purely offtopic.)

mark1221 · February 14th, 2008

My computer once collapsed upon itself creating a huge black hole which devoured planet earth.

True story.

Phil · February 14th, 2008

then why is earth still here?? OMG!! Am i real? save me!!

SCHUMI-4-EVA · February 14th, 2008

Hmm I have had a bunch of problems...pretty much all equally bad...

2 x HDD crash. (One 20GB Seagate and one 250GB Western Digital)

Getting hit by BugBear...twice....(thanks a lot Norton). First time I had my, My Documents folder set to private and locked with a password (to keep my parents out...they comdemn pretty much any game/game demo as evil...)...which caused a huge issues in trying to recoover my files. Actually this was probably the worst thing that I had happen to me.

Then two less severe problems were some crappy graphics card dieing and the PSU dieing.

Clements · February 14th, 2008

Almost bricked a motherboard through an unnecessary BIOS flash.

**FLaRe85** · February 14th, 2008

Wiped out my entire hard drive through an odd ass bug in an early RC of Windows XP. I deleted an account in the Administrator's group through the GUI, it asked if I wanted to delete all of the user's files and I said yes. It proceeded to wipe out everything that had Administrators group ownership.

**refraction** · February 14th, 2008

nearly fried my entire pc. My ex (well gf at the time) decided to spill tea in the machine. instead of heading for the power button she ran downstairs to get me.

had some nice electrical mould left over

February 14th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
NamesSolidSnake nullDC Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: California Posts: 645	Your WORST computer disasters? What is the worst thing that happened to your PC? Fortunatley, I haven't had one... yet :P __________________ PC/Laptop:Compaq Presario v5000 Notebook CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ at 1.8 GHz with PowerNow! technology. Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress Mobility 200 Series. RAM: 512 MB. HDD: 60 GB. OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

February 14th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
Hard core Rikki Let's go! Come on! Join Date: May 2004 Location: Perpetual Hawaii Posts: 5,215	bl0wn PSU, i suppose... slightly scary when the central unit is sitting next to you... __________________ < My deviantART \|\| GENERALEMU \|\| Webcomics VBA-M \|\| @ES <(^_^)> <(^_^)> *Best BAN reasons ever*

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Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 5,785	Blown PSU's 4K Alignment of my HDD stuffed the FAT32 boot record, nearly lost all my files, if i didn't have PC Inspector File Recovery i probably would have. __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

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Rockfire ディフェンダー Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: uk Posts: 1,037	HDD blowing up. __________________ The Mobile Suit Project \| Bootfighter Resources \| Deviant Art Profile

February 14th, 2008	#5 (permalink)
V1ncent Plank is serious Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In a better internet Country: India Posts: 865	I double clicked on Key-logger , it was all over ! It was an antivirus disabler(winitems.exe in process) I had to format my xp to do anything. __________________ Desktop: Q6600, 2 x 1 GB DDR2, Power Supply: 450W, nForce 630i, XP sp2, Graphic Card: N/A Laptop: Pentium M 1.6 ghz, RAM: 504 MB , XP sp3, GPU: Intel(R)915 (128 MB) Don't be a n00b, or expect and accept their fate. My Blog in 'click here' My DBZ-GT Sigs and avatars. Running PCSX2 Guide for Noobs \| Error Opening CDVD plugin.\| No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0

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viperver1 Banned Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Martini, Shaken not stirred Posts: 171	There was a problem I had once on my computer. I had malicous problems on the computer with malicous files so we contacted the virus software company who detected it and would you belive that they wanted $100+ to deal with the problem itself. So we had to eliminate the malicous files myself.

February 14th, 2008	#7 (permalink)
Phil Mod Master Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States of Money Posts: 3,645	Virus wiped my hdd __________________ Antec P182 Special Edition (Chrome Finish) : Intel e8400 (C0 Stepping @ 4.2Ghz : Thermaltake ToughPower 650 watt PSU : 4 GB Corsair Dominater DHX 1066 DDR2 Ram : Asus P5Q-E : 500 Gb Seagate : 74 GB Raptor : Samsung 20x DVD optical Drive : Samsung Syncmaster T220 22" LCD : Windows 95 : XFX 8800gt Cooling: Swiftech Apogee GTX Special Edition (Copper Finish) : Feser X-Changer Dual 120mm Radiator : XSPC Bay Resevoir : Danger den Chrome Barbs : Masterkleer 7/16 5/8 tubing : Danger Den D5 : D-Tek Fuzion VGA Block

February 14th, 2008	#8 (permalink)
mudlord .... Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: not that you need to know.... Posts: 1,580	Blown up video card.

February 14th, 2008	#10 (permalink)
Phil Mod Master Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States of Money Posts: 3,645	30 gigs? whoa did you have any firewalls?? __________________ Antec P182 Special Edition (Chrome Finish) : Intel e8400 (C0 Stepping @ 4.2Ghz : Thermaltake ToughPower 650 watt PSU : 4 GB Corsair Dominater DHX 1066 DDR2 Ram : Asus P5Q-E : 500 Gb Seagate : 74 GB Raptor : Samsung 20x DVD optical Drive : Samsung Syncmaster T220 22" LCD : Windows 95 : XFX 8800gt Cooling: Swiftech Apogee GTX Special Edition (Copper Finish) : Feser X-Changer Dual 120mm Radiator : XSPC Bay Resevoir : Danger den Chrome Barbs : Masterkleer 7/16 5/8 tubing : Danger Den D5 : D-Tek Fuzion VGA Block

February 14th, 2008	#12 (permalink)
V1ncent Plank is serious Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In a better internet Country: India Posts: 865	This is not the worst thing, but once I started my laptop , and saw the settings in desktop properties , it strangely showed over 2000 pixels ,mine is only 1024x768. Strange? __________________ Desktop: Q6600, 2 x 1 GB DDR2, Power Supply: 450W, nForce 630i, XP sp2, Graphic Card: N/A Laptop: Pentium M 1.6 ghz, RAM: 504 MB , XP sp3, GPU: Intel(R)915 (128 MB) Don't be a n00b, or expect and accept their fate. My Blog in 'click here' My DBZ-GT Sigs and avatars. Running PCSX2 Guide for Noobs \| Error Opening CDVD plugin.\| No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0

February 14th, 2008	#13 (permalink)
Phil Mod Master Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States of Money Posts: 3,645	no it depends on your resolution __________________ Antec P182 Special Edition (Chrome Finish) : Intel e8400 (C0 Stepping @ 4.2Ghz : Thermaltake ToughPower 650 watt PSU : 4 GB Corsair Dominater DHX 1066 DDR2 Ram : Asus P5Q-E : 500 Gb Seagate : 74 GB Raptor : Samsung 20x DVD optical Drive : Samsung Syncmaster T220 22" LCD : Windows 95 : XFX 8800gt Cooling: Swiftech Apogee GTX Special Edition (Copper Finish) : Feser X-Changer Dual 120mm Radiator : XSPC Bay Resevoir : Danger den Chrome Barbs : Masterkleer 7/16 5/8 tubing : Danger Den D5 : D-Tek Fuzion VGA Block

February 14th, 2008	#14 (permalink)
V1ncent Plank is serious Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In a better internet Country: India Posts: 865	That was what I meant,but for some reason it changed automatically. (I should not discuss it here ,its purely offtopic.) __________________ Desktop: Q6600, 2 x 1 GB DDR2, Power Supply: 450W, nForce 630i, XP sp2, Graphic Card: N/A Laptop: Pentium M 1.6 ghz, RAM: 504 MB , XP sp3, GPU: Intel(R)915 (128 MB) Don't be a n00b, or expect and accept their fate. My Blog in 'click here' My DBZ-GT Sigs and avatars. Running PCSX2 Guide for Noobs \| Error Opening CDVD plugin.\| No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0

February 14th, 2008	#15 (permalink)
mark1221 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Unknown Posts: 161	My computer once collapsed upon itself creating a huge black hole which devoured planet earth. True story. __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon X2 3800+ Dual-Core (2 Ghz) RAM: 2 x 1024 MB (2 GB) DDR2 Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 7900GT

February 14th, 2008	#16 (permalink)
Phil Mod Master Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States of Money Posts: 3,645	then why is earth still here?? OMG!! Am i real? save me!! __________________ Antec P182 Special Edition (Chrome Finish) : Intel e8400 (C0 Stepping @ 4.2Ghz : Thermaltake ToughPower 650 watt PSU : 4 GB Corsair Dominater DHX 1066 DDR2 Ram : Asus P5Q-E : 500 Gb Seagate : 74 GB Raptor : Samsung 20x DVD optical Drive : Samsung Syncmaster T220 22" LCD : Windows 95 : XFX 8800gt Cooling: Swiftech Apogee GTX Special Edition (Copper Finish) : Feser X-Changer Dual 120mm Radiator : XSPC Bay Resevoir : Danger den Chrome Barbs : Masterkleer 7/16 5/8 tubing : Danger Den D5 : D-Tek Fuzion VGA Block

February 14th, 2008	#17 (permalink)
SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Governmentless South Africa Posts: 5,787	Hmm I have had a bunch of problems...pretty much all equally bad... 2 x HDD crash. (One 20GB Seagate and one 250GB Western Digital) Getting hit by BugBear...twice....(thanks a lot Norton). First time I had my, My Documents folder set to private and locked with a password (to keep my parents out...they comdemn pretty much any game/game demo as evil...)...which caused a huge issues in trying to recoover my files. Actually this was probably the worst thing that I had happen to me. Then two less severe problems were some crappy graphics card dieing and the PSU dieing. __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM, 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT, 320GB HDD, Windows XPSP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!!

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Clements MMP-2 Dude Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: UK Posts: 1,633	Almost bricked a motherboard through an unnecessary BIOS flash. __________________ PJ64 Homepage \| ZSNES Documentation Project \| bsnes Supporter

February 14th, 2008	#19 (permalink)
FLaRe85 I Need a Weapon Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Omaha, NE Posts: 4,321	Wiped out my entire hard drive through an odd ass bug in an early RC of Windows XP. I deleted an account in the Administrator's group through the GUI, it asked if I wanted to delete all of the user's files and I said yes. It proceeded to wipe out everything that had Administrators group ownership. __________________ .: Flaretech.Net :: Flaretech.Biz Web Hosting :: H3 Stats :: My Blog :. .: Mac Pro :: Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400s :: 6 GB 800MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMMs :: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB GDDR3 :. .: Macbook Pro 17" :: 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo :: 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 :: ATI Radeon X1600 :. .: Home Server :: 2.41 GHz AMD Opteron 180 :: 4 GB DDR400 :: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 :.

February 14th, 2008	#20 (permalink)
refraction PCSX2 Coder $refraction's Avatar$ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Plymouth, UK Posts: 9,819	nearly fried my entire pc. My ex (well gf at the time) decided to spill tea in the machine. instead of heading for the power button she ran downstairs to get me. had some nice electrical mould left over __________________ http://www.generalemu.net/ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz (425x8), Leadtek GTX 280 1Gb, 1.8Tb HDs, 2Gb Corsair DDR2-800 @ DDR2-1020 5-5-5-18 Dual Channel Dont PM me for help, use the forums, thats what its for!
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