I occasionally pull out my headphone jack. Stupid me! I just so happened to do so about 10 minutes ago. Whatever, I get down under my desk and press myself up against the PC so I can reach behind it and plug it back in. (The space down there is cramped, even for me.)

My case has a clear side panel that hinges at the top which I keep unscrewed so I can easily open it whenever I have to make an upgrade or do stuff. I've also got a sexy red LED that lights the entire inside of the case.

So, I'm monkeying around back behind the case in the near dark when I notice something moving out of the corner of my eye pressed against the glass. Glowing cathode red, and menacing as hell it came from behind the power supply, and directly onto the glass pressed over my left eye; the biggest spider I've ever seen in person here in Northern Minnesota. I jumped and hit my head on the underside of my desk.

Her thorax was probably about an inch and a half long. Yes, I realize that's tiny for some parts of the US, but for northern Minnesota? The only thing that gets bigger is wolf spiders, and I've only heard of them in cabins up here. This one wasn't hairy, and looked a lot like those little black and yellow jumping spiders. I'm actually pretty sure that's what it was.

So I grab a pencil and take off the side panel [I leave it unscrewed for quick repairs/adjustments] and skewered her with my pencil. After doing so, I screamed like a little girl and dropped her squirming carcass on the floor and began stomping violently until she disintegrated to a fine row of legs lying on the ground next to my PC.

After further investigation, I find an entire web concocted on the inside of my case, behind the power supply. Sure enough, up in the far corner is a SACK OF EGGS. Needless to say, I ripped it out and smashed it to pieces.

I don't hate spiders AT ALL. In fact, we used to own a black widow we found in our shoe after going to Arkansas. She hatched a ****load of babies, so we had to freeze her and them and she now sits above my PC in her jar along with her inanimate children. I am completely unafraid of bugs and spidery-things.

This, however? Scared the living **** out of me. It was totally movie-esque in every way shape and form. I'm going to be cleaning out my case REGULARLY now.

Post your horrific PC maintenance stories, preferably NON-technical nightmares.

One time, at computer camp . . . .


I actually don't have any.

Can't say my computer has ever been home to any manner of insects (it's probably waaaaay too warm for them in there), but I have had a spider crawl across the screen whilst watching a movie before. Never found the little ******* again either.

*shudder* Thank God I didn't have to see that. Teh lame...

It needs to warm up so I can come hang out. I'm not big on coming to Duluth in 12 degree weather...

12 degrees? that's one heckuva warm winter...

Which this year is.

Normally at this time, it wouldn't have gotten above zero for at least a month.

It's crazy-warm.

If I saw that my desk would ahve been in the air on my back. I hate spiders.

Didn't some massassian have some ants or a ****load of spiders in their PC that they had to get rid of?

I wore a t-shirt outside yesterday: Very warm.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Didn't some massassian have some ants or a ****load of spiders in their PC that they had to get rid of?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I recall something like that.

Reminds me of the spider thread.

Darn you kirb, I leave my CPU open. Now I have to check it. Grr.

Whew. Just dust.

Gyah, I hate spiders! Now I'm going to be paranoid for the rest of the evening! Thanks a lot kirbs! >_<

It's been like 40-60 here since early November. Seriously, every day has been like a spring day. In Kansas. Don't ask.

It's supposed to be back down to normal temps by the end of the week though. Ordered a hoodie just in time...

Kansas.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]It's been like 40-60 here since early November. Seriously, every day has been like a spring day. In Kansas. Don't ask.

It's supposed to be back down to normal temps by the end of the week though. Ordered a hoodie just in time...[/QUOTE]Yup. If you don't like the weather in Kansas, just wait a week.

Is usually in negatives for winter. This has been a phenomenonally weird winter.

I guess one time I sneezed on my parts (with the case open) while it was running. Nothing seemed to happen. I was pretty scared then.

One time my old-*** HP hung at the screen where it's shutting down, it went black, and everything, and I was installing another RAM DIMM. Aparrently, it was still running. Got quite the shock, dropped the PC, and was scared ****less it wouldn't work.

/me adds kirby to the list of people to make spider jokes at their expense

I opened my computer case, just for a look around, removed some RAM, put it back it, just messing around with it within limits. I get on mIRC and talk with Matty, and tell him I removed/put back in some RAM, and the ******* tells me RAM is one time use only. I went off on a cussing streak, and then asked him if he was joking, because I didn't think RAM was one time use. He said it was, and I rejoiced.

so..uh...not really horrific, just kinda scary.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Is usually in negatives for winter. This has been a phenomenonally weird winter.[/QUOTE]
KANSAS?

Are we talking about the same Kansas?

Wow.

I've loved this winter, NO -60F **** YEA

It's not a horror story but one time we had an infestation of wood beetles and they were everywhere. And you know how some Apple moniters are transparent? Yeah, the bettles got trapped inside and they are still in there to this day perfectly preserved. They would crawl around and try to get out when they were alive. It was kind of sad. I'm looking at them now. Hello there!

...Yeah. The one I've lived in since I was 5.

Who is Jin?

Yes. In previous years, it was quite common for the temperature to dip below zero here in southeast Kansas, and I believe Yoshi lives much further north.

I'm in Hays. Where are you?

Girard. If you've never heard of it, don't worry. Neither has anyone else. It's a few miles north of Pittsburg, if you know where that is.

Heard of both. I think I've played your Scholar's Bowl team actually.

So I was reading your story and scratching behind my knee and somehow there was a popcorn kernel stuck to my jeans.

But I freaked out because I thought it was a spider.

No more scary stories before bed.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Heard of both. I think I've played your Scholar's Bowl team actually.[/QUOTE]Wow, I'm sure that was a challenge. :p

Actually, if it was in the last couple of years, there's a good chance my sister was on that team.

I guess that spider heard that your computer has access to the world wide web and thought that must be great place to build a nest.

Ashley said she feels for you.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Didn't some massassian have some ants or a ****load of spiders in their PC that they had to get rid of?[/QUOTE]

The Massassian of whom you speak is...

JIN!

Jin is Tripod?

My internet connection wasn't working! Oh, I flipped OUT. Had to call my friend who's a serious computer expert, who came over, gave it a once over, and then...
Tightened the screws on the USB card that connected my computer to the cable modem.
For a long time, my sound card didn't work. No sound, at all, ever. For, like, a year and a half.
My monitor has this habit of flashing yellow. Just, every now and then, independent of any visible outside variables, a yellow tint passes over it. Any ideas?
Once, I downloaded a video. Might be porn. I press play, and the last five videos I had downloaded (three of which I had subsequently deleted) played in the corner for a few seconds. Freaky.

-Never had spiders, though.

ugh! poor kirby *hugs* damn what got me most was that it had laid eggs....blech! eh u are lucky u saw that, if not your room and your pc prob. woulda been crawling with spiders and then more spiders having babies ehh sick.

Reminds me of one time in the dorms when I had to kill the king of all cockaroaches. I sprayed it with air freshner and it like just ate the stuff! (granted it was strawberries and cream) so then I freaked and it ran all covered in foam for the corner so I jumped up on a chair, and then grabbed this big lamp I had next to my comp desk and when it ran that way I crushed it underneath blehhh *gets chills*

Bugs are sickening. And they are why I prob. will never be a nature chick. ehh

Yeah... only story I have is technical. Sorry.

I just found out that my cpu is running literally at less than half speed becasue my power supply isn't powerful enough.

Spend 300+ on a cpu, to spend a hundred or so more on a new psu to power it.

THROW IT IN THE BATH