Worst thing(s) you ever done to your comp...

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 10:53 pm

Lone_Monkey wrote:My last computer was a piece-o-shit 286 Mhz with about 15 gigs of hard drive and less than 15 mb of ram.

You sure about that? Most 286 computers have trouble using hard drives over 500 megabytes.

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:17 am

15megs, maybe? Or he had EzBIOS installed.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:39 am

I am going to guess that he had a 266Mhz celeron, with a 15GB hard drive, 15MB of system memory and 1MB shared out to a crappy video controller.

~klinky

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:53 am

I kicked my case, and broke the front power switch.
I pushed my monitor into the wall and broke it because I was frustrated that my cable modem wouldn't go online (Long story short, the wires under my house are around 40 years old, so my modem used to go off and on every day or two. I fixed that problem by taking a 50 ft. cable and routing it directly to the cable system, bypassing the wires under my house.)

edowardo2 · Post by **edowardo2** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 1:26 am

Back when I was stuck using my crappy HP, the cord to fan that cools the CPU had a strange habit of disconnecting itself. Now the fan power cord didn't fall out due to what I ritualistically did to it, because it did it long before I started my rituals. After putting the cord back in several times I would get frustrated and then I'd just kick the whole damn tower repeatedly until something beeped or the CD in the tray would get lodged in where it wasn't supposed to go. Then I'd take the thing apart and put it back together. I find dis/reassembling things to be very soothing, and kicking the crap out of it gives you the perfect reason too

edowardo2 · Post by **edowardo2** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 1:43 am

kthulhu wrote:
Lone_Monkey wrote:My last computer was a piece-o-shit 286 Mhz with about 15 gigs of hard drive and less than 15 mb of ram.
You sure about that? Most 286 computers have trouble using hard drives over 500 megabytes.

Are you kidding me? your giving a 286 500 Megs of credit. I'd say no more than 50 but probably around 10. DOS could only handle 2048Meg(2 Gig) until the P1 came out with the 64-bit file system. I believe a 286 only had an 32bit file system which means only 536MB(which you were correct about). Also the bios and AVAILABLE OS would limit it to a very low low low amount[/u]

Rini210 · Post by **Rini210** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 1:13 pm

ek1 wrote:
Another friend had 'overclocked' a monitor at Internet cafe (he upped the refresh rate.) It caused the screen to go red, and then implode. Luckily we got away before the technicians came.

Yes, this is VERY offtopic, but what the heck is the Internet Cafe?? I saw one in Wisconsin Dells... and.. yeah, what is it? A place to go on the computers or something??? ................. lost.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 1:25 pm

An internet cafe is a place you can go to browse the internet, play multiplayer games over a LAN, and get food. Kind of pointless here in North America, but they're big in Asia and other places where computers are out of the financial reach of most people and internet service is sketchy.

Lucia · Post by **Lucia** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 1:35 pm

well my oldest computer da one that was a packer bell or soemthing i remeber like in 96 or soemthin and i mean this was out of style it had some type of bootleg windows 3. soemthing... my dad threw it out the window >.< it was horrible but that is what happens when it gets my dad frusturated...

but i think thats the worst anyone has done to a computer in my house
i luv mah pc *kisses it*

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 2:21 pm

So far I haven't done anything bad to "Never Obsolete" but my roommate packed his crappy Powerspec in a box for the movers to take and they decided it would be funny to drop it and not tell him about it. He'll be tryin to get ahold of moveforfree.com for a reimbursement pretty quickly.