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Post your n3wbish computer mistakes.
2006-09-19, 1:12 AM #1
Went to buy new ram yesterday cause Circuit City was running an ad for a 1gb stick for 74.99 after rebate. Pretty good price. Get it home, it doesn't fit. Didn't bother to notice that it was DDR2. Had to take it back. Now I am sad. :(
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2006-09-19, 1:26 AM #2
Had to take my computer to the shop because I couldn't open the case.

-:(
2006-09-19, 1:43 AM #3
If you can't open your case, you're probably better off not poking around your computer's insides anyway. :|
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Lassev: I guess there was something captivating in savagery, because I liked it.
2006-09-19, 3:43 AM #4
I could use that $74.99 stick of 1gb RAM.
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2006-09-19, 4:18 AM #5
Fending off a bear using a video card

But seriously, I once thought you could gain or lose RAM from adding/deleting programs

I was such a n00b
"Oh my god. That just made me want to start cutting" - Aglar
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2006-09-19, 5:01 AM #6
You can gain memory from removing programs... if they are running as background processes.
2006-09-19, 5:03 AM #7
Originally posted by Jarl:
Had to take my computer to the shop because I couldn't open the case.


Originally posted by Sarn_Cadrill:
If you can't open your case, you're probably better off not poking around your computer's insides anyway.


I have personally witnessed one of those no-screws-easy-to-open cases that was so bloody hard to figure out that it took two men and fifteen minutes to get open. Of course second time through it was easier and faster, but certainly not the first. I don't know what kind of lunatic hates good old screws so much that designed that devilish thing...
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2006-09-19, 5:13 AM #8
Originally posted by Slayder:
You can gain memory from removing programs... if they are running as background processes.

Not in Linux. I just uninstalled mp3blaster, while it was running.
Sorry for the lousy German
2006-09-19, 5:24 AM #9
i just washed my jump drive (in the washingmachine), again.
Laughing at my spelling herts my feelings. Well laughing is fine actully, but posting about it is not.
2006-09-19, 6:37 AM #10
The first computer case I had without any screws in the back confused the heck out of me. I had to search online for a very long time to find some sort of instructions on how to open it.

I once put a floppy disc in a ZIP drive, which destroyed it. That was a long time ago, though. Before CD-RWs....
2006-09-19, 6:49 AM #11
Yesterday I did the stupidest thing ever. Although stupid McAffee (I like Norton over McAffee anyday) scanned it and said it was ok, I should have never opened blank icon "keygen.exe." Took me an hour and a half to wipe the trojen crap off of this machine. I'm still wiping grime out of Windows. I'm on my work PC.

I miss my Linux PC. :(

[edit] As soon as I posted, some crappy ad came up. Looks like I'm off to work again.[/edit]
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2006-09-19, 8:08 AM #12
I once couldn't get a Dell case open. Kept trying to slide it off rather than pressing those buttons on it and pulling it open sideways.
2006-09-19, 8:13 AM #13
I built a computer, turned it on, and kept on wondering why nothing was booting and the motherboard was beeping at me. "Aw, ****, a lemon?" I thought.

Then I realized I forgot to install the RAM.
the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot - LC Tusken
2006-09-19, 8:20 AM #14
I once accidently put two disks at one in the cd-rom drive.
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Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-09-19, 8:22 AM #15
Originally posted by Wolfy:
I built a computer, turned it on, and kept on wondering why nothing was booting and the motherboard was beeping at me. "Aw, ****, a lemon?" I thought.

Then I realized I forgot to install the RAM.


Done that a few times.

I've also had a few power packs with switchs on them and not relised it was set to off, took me ages to figure that one out.
2006-09-19, 8:26 AM #16
Originally posted by lassev:
I have personally witnessed one of those no-screws-easy-to-open cases that was so bloody hard to figure out that it took two men and fifteen minutes to get open.

Haha, so true. My dad and I spent about 20 minutes taking apart a Dell case the other day just to get to an internal ZIP 100 drive.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2006-09-19, 9:16 AM #17
I shipped a full tower computer in my checked luggage. I'm using it right now, so it works, but the side panel doesn't stay on and other bits are slowing falling off.
Ban Jin!
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2006-09-19, 10:11 AM #18
once, years ago, i had installed windows on a differnt drive than c:/ and used partition magic to make that drive c:/

THAT was stupid.
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2006-09-19, 11:43 AM #19
i cracked one of my ram slots about 2 years ago.... so i hot-glued the mem-stick in place. it actually worked fine for a few months until the glue melted and finally gave way.
I'm not wearing any pants...
2006-09-19, 11:44 AM #20
I messed around with SCSI and IDE hard drives and it all resulted in a mess :/
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2006-09-19, 11:45 AM #21
Originally posted by Sarn_Cadrill:
Went to buy new ram yesterday cause Circuit City was running an ad for a 1gb stick for 74.99 after rebate. Pretty good price. Get it home, it doesn't fit. Didn't bother to notice that it was DDR2. Had to take it back. Now I am sad. :(



Damnit. I need DDR2 ram!
2006-09-19, 1:11 PM #22
I once used a = instead of a ==. BOY WAS MY FACE RED.
2006-09-19, 1:15 PM #23
What an idiot!
the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot - LC Tusken
2006-09-19, 1:17 PM #24
I deleted game directories instead of using the unistall function. This was solved with a quick and good format.

More than 7 years ago.
Nothing to see here, move along.
2006-09-19, 1:24 PM #25
One time I made a MMORPG. But then people found out that I stole it, so I deleted it.
2006-09-19, 1:26 PM #26
Making a habit of not using the Recycle Bin. Then I delete the wrong file by accident.

2006-09-19, 1:32 PM #27
Originally posted by SF_GoldG_01:
I deleted game directories instead of using the unistall function. This was solved with a quick and good format.

More than 7 years ago.


Why would you do something like that? That's like cutting your arm off for having a bug bite...

Clean the registry entries and delete the short cuts... problem solved.
2006-09-19, 1:34 PM #28
The Mexican version of Windows 98 would stab you in the throat if you touched it's registry.

Then it'd get really drunk.
2006-09-19, 1:37 PM #29
Yeah, mexicans can't regedit.

True story
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2006-09-19, 1:59 PM #30
I once had cyber sex with a dude that said he was a girl. I'm such a noob. :(
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Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-09-19, 2:40 PM #31
For no reason running UNPATCHED windows 3.1 on december 31st 1999..
It was awesome
[It was an old soon to be recycled comp my one of my dads coworkers had.]
2006-09-19, 3:33 PM #32
One time, when I was in early middle school, while trying to play Tie Fighter on my 386, I ran the mem command and noticed that dblspace.sys was taking up precious memory that Tie Fighter was complaining about not having. So I deleted it. :o
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2006-09-19, 3:35 PM #33
I downloaded a 600 megabyte movie on a 56k connection, burned it on a CD, and deleted the file to recover precious hard drive space.

I then proceeded to lose the CD.
Stuff
2006-09-19, 4:50 PM #34
Hmm...

Didn't buy Arctic Silver, almost put on the heatsink without it (would have been bad, most likely)

Bought refurb parts (I don't care if they were from newegg, they were unusable. Never doing that again)

Downloaded a 3kb Doom3 demo (when I was stupider)

Opened said doom3 demo. Even after a reformat, I accidentally burned it to CD, opened it again on new computer.

Left old computer running with crappy cooling running. For 30 days. It died and was HOTTTTTTTTTTTT to the touch, needed a new PSU I believe. I was like 9.
I had a blog. It sucked.
2006-09-19, 6:15 PM #35
Originally posted by Elana14:
i just washed my jump drive (in the washingmachine), again.


I did that once. And the thing survived!
SnailIracing:n(500tpostshpereline)pants
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2006-09-19, 6:18 PM #36
I downloaded pr0n =(
A dream is beautiful because it remains a dream.
2006-09-19, 6:26 PM #37
Wait downloading porn is a bad thing to do? :psyduck:
2006-09-19, 6:29 PM #38
I once went on a useless-program-deleting binge and ended up uninstalling my sound card drivers. Took me awhile to figure out what happened.
Why do the heathens rage behind the firehouse?
2006-09-19, 6:30 PM #39
Originally posted by Slayder:
Wait downloading porn is a bad thing to do? :psyduck:


Only if the movie ends in .exe.
Why do the heathens rage behind the firehouse?
2006-09-19, 6:57 PM #40
Originally posted by Echoman:
I did that once. And the thing survived!

in my experence, the'll live through the washingmachine, with some drying time, pretty well. however, it's the dryer that kills.
Laughing at my spelling herts my feelings. Well laughing is fine actully, but posting about it is not.
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