sapiens74 0 Posted December 20, 2001 Just want to hear some of the things you've done this year to your computer that you think qualifies you to make the list. Here's mine After having trouble with Qwest's DSL service being turned on and hearing them say it be another day or so, I was too impatient to wait, so I tried installing Windows 2000 to see if it was the INtel Modem they sent me that has no XP drivers, after I had had been running Windows XP for the last month or so, totally screwing up the boot files where I could not get into my system under XP. Needless to say it was a format and lost a lot of important data, including Christmas lists and such. Share this post Link to post
felix 0 Posted December 21, 2001 Moved from Uni and a free T1 back to home and a 33.6k modem. Now that's stupid!!!! Share this post Link to post
sapiens74 0 Posted December 21, 2001 yeah I just canceled my DSL from Qwest, they take the cake on poor customer services, and me for being dumb enough to sign up with them Share this post Link to post
Brian Frank 0 Posted December 21, 2001 I may have RMA'd drives that weren't bad, but I didn't know my mobo was going bad. Share this post Link to post
woz_mann 0 Posted December 26, 2001 took my gaming computer bvack home with me to Australia and when i got there turned it on without cheching the heatsink.....bye bye cpu. then when bringing it back hard drive went currupt......so in one trip had to buy a cpu and a hard drive Share this post Link to post
sapiens74 0 Posted December 26, 2001 I actually forgot about this one, I was building a computer for my friend , the first one I built since going to Korea and forgot about the 220/110 voltage difference. That was one motherboard down. Then when I got the RMA back my friend did the same thing while I was busy with something else. 1 month to complete his system. Not my finest hour Share this post Link to post
JP- 0 Posted December 27, 2001 Stupid things this year include..... 1.) Buying a via based motherboard. 2.) Getting ASII all over the carpet (and it doesnt come out ) 3.) Breaking the Geforce 2 Ultra 4.) RMA-ing a mobo that wasnt broken hehe And they are just the computer related ones, as you can see i am a walking disaster area. "rock" Share this post Link to post
Dulorn 0 Posted December 28, 2001 Try naptha or denatured alcohol on that ASII mess. I think the dumbest thing I do occasionally is pull a card out of a slot forgetting to turn off the PSU switch to remove voltage from the motherboard. No casualties thus far. Share this post Link to post
JP- 0 Posted December 28, 2001 Thanks ill give that a go and see if i can get it out. Havent tried much up to this point because it looks pretty well stuck to the carpet, it is silver after all. Share this post Link to post