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I...wha...no...OS?
About two or three weeks ago the 'K' key on my keyboard completely broke off of my laptop. It would not snap back on, despite numerous times trying. My dad ended up taking it down to Geek Squad/Best Buy to be fixed. They pretty much tried to snap it back on, failed, and they ended up shipping it out to be fixed. My laptop is covered under warranty.
I got it back today---picked it up. They replaced the keyboard and the DC Jack...which was apparently not working as well. The first thing I do when I get home? I plug my laptop in, and turn it on. I wait for my background to pop up. Nope. Windows has failed to start-up. D=D=D=D=D=D=D Wha? While playing around with the Recovery Center, it pretty much told me that it could not find an OS. I'm used to Geek Squad reformatting the hard drive. Or not doing it. But really. ;-; Any computer horror stories? |
my computer at home that i had all my pictures of my artwork, and lots of other important stuff and memorable pictures, crashed last year and so all that stuff got lost and i was sad.. i save important stuff on my computer and my flash drive now :yes:
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Hey, Shikyo! Since this thread is more appropriate for the Computer subforum, I'm going to move it on over there.
Hmm, computer horror stories... I had a laptop, but it would blue-screen-of-death regularly. Like, every month. And then the port where the charger cable plugs in broke and no one would fix it. *sigh* Not to mention it would shock me (it drew blood once) and just... it didn't like me. :lol: I've had this desktop now for about three years, it still likes me. |
I actually don't have any computer horror stories. I don't know what it is, but I've NEVER had problems with my computer.
It has never crashed, I've never gotten a virus and I've never ONCE gotten the blue screen of death, even though I've been using Windows for as long as I can remember, so nearly 20 years. I've had a laptop for a few years and didn't reformat the harddrive even once. |
I'd have to say my worst horror story was back in High school... I wrote a fanfiction that was about 300 pages long, then the day after that, my hard disk died.
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Oh, I can tell a horror story, a recent one.
Several weeks ago, I'm not even sure when anymore, the CD drive on my computer "disappears". I go through tech support several times, until the only thing I can do is system recovery to tell if it's a software or hardware problem. Only the laptop won't let me do that for some reason. I contact a friend who's better than I am in software and hardware (although I'm close to a degree in IT, I specialize in web and graphic design), and he sends me a bootable disc (XP installation). It doesn't register. So he sends me a used dvd drive. I install it, it works. Now, I decided I'd use the bootable CD anyway and install XP. I had already backed up everything and Vista had always been a behemoth pain! That takes a little over a week, especially in regards to the graphics card and the drivers. Finally, it's fixed, ready, and faster than it's ever been. I am able to play one of my two favorite games with no problems. However, when I put in the CD to play the other of my two favorite games, then exit the game, the drive "disappears" again. On a hunch, I take out the used dvd drive and put the original back in. It works. The best thing I can tell is that there is something wrong with the actual game disc, as I was able to copy the disc's data and burn it onto a blank dvd, and it works fine. Definitely one for the freaky file. |
for 10 years i saved my life on my computer and then about a year ago...it started making this horrible whining noise and it wouldnt shut down and the power button couldnt turn it off...i had to yank the plug out of the wall...needless to say priceless memories gone...pics, songs, stories, amvs, old homework and papers have i kept...every little piece of my life died that day...there was actually two horrors to the story...first losing everything and second the noise...i thought the computer was gonna blow up...my mom actually saw a computer blow up and college...someone else was using it and once she realized what was happening she tried to stop it...shes says if she had had 2 more minutes she could have save the computer and not been burned from the resulting fire...scary stuff...
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I've had more computer problems in my days than I care to recall, but I s'pose one won't hurt. . . In June I decided to buy a netbook because I'd be going off to college in late August. . . Well, the day before I was supposed to leave, the harddrive quit working and had to be replaced. . . This was a problem in and of itself because I had to try to reinstall windows into the late night, and woke up late the day I had to leave. . ." So, sometime in mid-September the new harddrive failed. . . I now have a netbook with no harddrive that I have to boot off of a linux live disk. . . It's an SD card actually, but it's the same idea. . . I have no room for files, every time it shuts down I have to reinstall my wifi card driver, and I'm unable to do the schoolwork that I bought the netbook to do. . . |
And my problems still aren't done. The drive has "disappeared" again.
Apparently I'm looking at a motherboard problem, which on a laptop is a big problem, not to mention expensive. |
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Personally I just changed my OS completely to Linux so now I don't have to worry about bugs or crashing problems. A great computer horror story would be when my friend tried to install Ubuntu Linux. His partitioning process went over smoothly (he used gparted as I suggested). But when he went to install he had neglected to work with the partitions to make sure the OS installed on the proper partition and accidently installed Linux over his Windows Vista partition. The kicker is the install was done wrong therefore leaving him completely without an OS. Poor guy ;p |
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