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GICO
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Kilo = 1,024 Bytes
Mega = 1,048,576 Bytes
Giga = 1,073,741,824 Bytes
Tera = 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes
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There was one time when my computer completely broke down, and I lost everything that wasn't backed-up. However, other than that, the worst error I've gotten...

One day I was browsing wincustomize.com, to see if I could find anything else to go along with my ThunderStorm theme. I was looking through the BootSkin library, and found a ThunderStorm theme. I dedcided to install BootSkin, along with the theme. I then restarted my computer to see how it would work.

When it started up, I saw the default Win XP loading screen replaced with the ThunderStorm one, but after a few seconds, a blue screen flashed on my screen, and my computer rebooted. Shocked, I went into Safe Mode. I then used System Restore, and after that, everything was fine.

So I guess the lesson is... never use ANY program that tampers with the way your computer boots up, even if it just changes the look of the loading screen.

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Hmmmm I've gotten the blue screen of death a couple of times.

The best was when I had my Pentium II, that was a nice computer for its time, but soon I tried to install something like Warcraft III on it, and it just locked up, and the power button didn't even work (not even the hold for 5 secs thing). Had to unplug it. Figures that like a week later it was running slower than ever before and somehow a virus gets in it that just totally destroys it. You turn it on, and the blue screen of death flashes for half a second then the WindowsME logo shows up...then it shuts down. When we were driving it to the computer shop to fix it up we hit a pothole and the computer, sitting in the trunk, it slammed against the side of the car then when we tried turning it on it worked(???).

A smaller story, my friend was trying to get this ancient computer to work. Some idiot had tried to fix it before, and everything was hooked up wrong. So he fixed it all, turned it on. The computer made a low buzzing sound which slowly got louder and more high pitched then the inside exploded, not fire or anything just BOOM. We looked at the back of the computer and dark smoke was coming out.

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The worst error I've ever had was when I had the my doom virus, and the annoying 15 seconds shutdown alert.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 07:09 Edited at: 9th Aug 2004 07:36
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oooooooo a virus i had once was one I made i was playing round in dos on m friends PC and created a file, i randomly wrote crap and saved it as dodgy.com. it corruted his hd and any floppies he put in

[edit] u forgot 4 bits to a nybble and 8 bits to a byte

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my worst "error" is when i spilt drink into my laptop keyboard and it instantly turned off and it wouldnt start up until later that night it worked fine exept for the keyboard not working .

Good thing everyone here is a figment of my imagination.

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We did that to a BBC mirco once. Got totally ratted and we all ended up playing poker and drinking Vodka in somebody's large caravan in the mountains. Next morning we woke up, and because the caravan was on a slope, all the spilt vodka and beer and flowed down and collected in a corner. Where the BBC was. Was about 3 or 4 inches of alcohol collected around it in a puddle. Amazingly still worked after a bit of drying out. Fantastically sturdy machines those. Smelt a bit for a while though.

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Worst ever I had was when I installed Sygate. Installed it, it wanted me to rebooti said okay, it rebooted then when Windows was starting up, it crashed and restarted again, kept on and on doing that... Fixed that by taking out my wireless card (still dont know hwat the HELL that did) but then it stopped .
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Error? There was no error....next thing I knew it was gone like Bonanza.

Worst actual error I got was a black screen and there were just white letters in the middle of the screen saying "A Massive Error has Occured". And then, just like someone else had said, when I turned it off (which you could do back then. this was a 486x50) and turned back on, it said "Warning, no prossecor detected", and would not advance!

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Worst error was when i was around 7 years old. Im 99% sure i had no AV or firewall. I log on one day and try to connect to the internet and i get "Content Advisor does not allow this page to be displayed". So i turned Content Advisor off and it turns its self back on! LOL!

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The worst error I had was once when Iwas about 8. I inserted a cd into my cdrom drive and all of a suddn pieces of the disk went everywhere! Luckly I didnt get hit by a shard but the cdrom drive was busted, and damaged some surrounding things.

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Um, i just got one of the worst errors. Compiler Files Missing! EEk... Um, its weird. My files are just dissapearing. Maybe cause of the hacker?

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one of my worst error was when i started my pc it just sayed ntldr missing bvack then i didn't know what that file was but anyway i booted from a cd made from hp (hp recovery tools cd) cause some one stole my copy of win xp and from recovery console i typed fixboot then fix mbr on the fix boot it said can't detect any windows installations so i had to edit it my self when it finally started 1 week later it just said in green letters like the matrix it said stupid and then some wierd writing like the matrix after this happend my sound card could not be auto detected anymore and had to manually install it complete with configuring irq's ect
also since some one stole my copy of win xp i had to get a new $250 copy god man i hated that i think the person who stole my copy of win xp and put the virus in it was my brother
the virus was named connect.exe and norton anti virus could not detect it no matter what and it still can't detect it niether can any other virus scanner i tried

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"PC Load Letter"

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Leon J
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I've had weird erros

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Is your brother a programmer? If he is, ask him if he did that. If no VS can detect it, he may have made it him self. If he didn't, it might be some kinda boot sector virus if it won't let u load windows. I had one of those once if i remember correctly. I dont remember what it was, i just hardly remember something happening like this when i was little or something like it.

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I'm not sure of the exact error, but here's what happened:

My brother and I love the Command and Conquer games, and we just happened to get a copy of the original from someone one day. So we installed it and played it but eventually it refused to run saying there wasn't enough memory on our hard drive even though we had several gigs more then required. Anyway, we left it and it was up to our dad to clean up the files (as we were like 7/6 at the time and not exceptioanlly computer literate). The problem was, neither was my dad. So he uninstalled C&C and saw the message that some fiels would have to be removed manually. So he opened up C:\ saw Command.com and deleted it. Ooops.

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One of the worst errors i had? O, u all dont even wana know! It was so bad, so terrible, i almost had a heart attack! It all started late one friday night. I had a reaalllyyy long day and was so tired. But i had to check my e-mail. I turn my computer on. Everything was so normal, it didnt feel right. I was usin the old Win 50 or 60 and it was ALL dos. I riged it so it could have e-mail (yah, it was possable!). After waiting 7 hours (which was waaayyyy quick for my computer, usually takes half a day to load up) i see a list of my e-mails. Im browsing though them when i come to one that says "Click here to get free money!", so i click it. "how can u click? u said u have dos,stupid!", your probably thinking. Well, i also rigged it to have a mouse. Actually, i was the creator of the mouse and internet, so it was legal to rig it. I had a licence to do so. Anyway, back to the stupid story. So i click it out of pure studpity and all of a sudden, a picture comes up! a REAL picture! I am not kidding, i mean full color 32 bit picture of a duck!!! Now i was freaking out... I was thinking "dos computers dont support pictures! Only those stupid text pictures that everyone loves". So im amazemed. But then i wake up. Just a dream i think to my self. But then i check my e-mail and the emails there! I click it and i say "ok... Now im gona sell the idea of color pictures to microsoft. But i need to see the source of the e-mail to see how this guy did this". I click to open to email but i get an error and i get the blue screen + a sworm of error messages + my computer shuts down. And your probably thinking im making this up... *hmph!*.

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The worst recent error I've had was when I accidently deleted SVCHOST.exe on both my computers when I ran a script to get rid of spyware that I'd written. The program svchosts.exe is a common smalware file but I left off the 's' so it shutdown svchost.exe and deleted it from \system. Luckly, I'd just backed up my windows directory so I was able to just restore it to its original place and everything would be alright. Except svchost is needed to run system restore. I had to wait all day for my dad to bring a copy of it home to restore both our computers.
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lol @Killswitch


Well i blew away loads of partitions on my HD (cant remember what)... meaning i couldnt boot any OS



So i had to remove the HD and my neighbour did sum stuff...


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I got an error 10. Then I looked it up in the VB6 API browser...

Public Const ERROR_BAD_ENVIRONMENT = 10&

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mine was 8 years ago when i was 5 on my first pc (packard bell 486dx - 75mhz upgraded to 8mb of ram )

my dad read somewhere that windows 95 did not requrire himem.sys and it wasted load of hard disk space and it should be deleted

so we turned it on, started into dos and typed the fatal command...

DEL HIMEM.SYS

and then... all hell broke loose

for those who are not technically 1337. himem.sys is the system file that allows the computer to acsess more than 640kb of memory. without it the computer is not much use


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one of my frinds got this error:
"windows error: mouse has moved, windows must restart"
:S

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Thats Awesome The Big Screen Thing Blue Screen Of Death Great Site
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Leon J
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Today, my mouse wouldn't work (I fixed it!)

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how the hell could you revive that thread ?
Doesn't the auto-lock work anymore ?

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He's a tardbutt, that's how.


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my worst error was "could not find NTLDR" in those days i didnt know the idfference between quick partition and normal, so i did a normal and lost everything, though i really now that quick woulda done the job


now i got this new pc- built myself, not in a factory, and the worst error i got was a 404: page not found.

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Seeing as they supposedly ripped away the Blue-Screen-of-Death from XP, then I guess mine would have to be the daily BSOD I get whenever I do hard-core programming.

Then again, back in the wonderful days of DOS, I've done some very interresting things: How bout the wonderful SVGA Green-Screen-Of-Death where there are these little green lines at the top of your screen, everything else looks like crap, and the computer is totally hung. Then there's the wonderful, "OOPS! I fried my CPU" error message. The frequently re-accuring flashing ASCII code all over the screen while the computer makes a siren noise, and the best for last - going along with the fried CPU, that wonderful burnt plastic smell and sizzle sound that goes along with it! On the plus side! I've only fried one CPU! Oh yeah, and I get a system hang everytime I run my CPU as an AMD 3200 (which it is). It will only run as a 2500. Otherwise, it says it tried to write into read-only memory, and the comp crashes.

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i get that with my 3200 too

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@paxton

Get BadCopy Pro - http://www.tucows.com/preview/253096.html

Quote: "This is an automatic repair and data recovery tool for corrupted floppy disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, digital media and ZIP disk. It can rescue both damaged and lost files using disk fix and data recovery arithmetic."


I've used this a few times recently, it works really good.
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Lol, when I tried to install Sygate Personal firewall, it asked me to reboot the computer. I went to go get some stuff to eat, came back like, 15 mins later, and it was on the windows loading screen. Im like 'wtf, i started this like 15 mins ago'. Then, lo and behold, it comes to the desktop, and bam, the computer reboots, without me doing anything. So now I'm getting really worried. I completely turned off my computer, then turned it on again. Same thing happened. I didn't tell my dad cuz he'd get super pissed at me. So I was like really screwed over I was panicking like hell I had a school project that was due the next day which i hadnt printed out. So then randomly, it occured to me, to take out my WIRELESS internet card. I have no idea why, but it worked!

Thats really odd.

Oh and Batvink, thats hilarious "Error, no keyboard present, press any key to continue"

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"there is not enough memory to display this error message. please close a few progams and free some resources"

"there was an error displaying the previous error message"

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Quote: ""there is not enough memory to display this error message. please close a few progams and free some resources"

"there was an error displaying the previous error message""


LOL

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The worst error I ever had was when I went on holiday for a week, I was racing at Le Mans in '99 (in a support race) and came back and really wanted to catch up on everything. I powered my PC on and ...

INVALID BOOT DISK

Somewhat perplexed after a few attempts I booted off a CD and looked, there was no partition on my HDD. I recreated the partition and checked again - i've been lucky like that before when I was an engineer - nope, nothing. The disk was blank.

Whilst this fault wasn't terminal and the hard disk went on to give me years of loyal service and to this day is still in my PC I did loose all of my projects, latest dev work - everything from after my last backup, which I dont do as often as I should...

The most annoying fault i've had was my processor dying whilst I was laid up off work, the really hard pill to swallow was not having the money to fix it whilst off work - so I had to use a computer which constantly kept crashing. I hate television. I no longer buy parts from Custom Computers Huntingdon in the hope they wont die after a year, instead i'll pay more to Total Computing because of their better static handling procedures...

EDIT:
I think the strangest error i've ever had is the old Amiga "Guru Mediation Error". Strange when it happens on the PC at least...

Gotta love emulators.


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I've gotten annoying errors, but nothing I haven't been able to fix.
But I think the worst I ever saw was:
"Windows ME now loading..."

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lol phaelax i just IM'd you

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One of the worst errors I experienced was with LILO. I was installing a linux on to a partition, and instead of the boot loader going to the floppy disk like I wanted it wrote to the hard disk. When it restarted and tried to load windows it always said "media access error." Or a error message similar to that wording. I had lost 2-3 years worth of programming and work. There was no choice but to reformat. From that point on I have always kept a backup of my work.
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lol, no one knows that you can get BSOD in XP it would say somin like:
INT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO_ERROR
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
pleas contact ya technical support group.
***STOP: 123456789***
Also there's this program called "BSoD Properties" that will let you change the color of your 95/98/ME bsod. I MISS YOU 95! I HATE 3.1

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hmm, worst? Well, my error couldn't be seen, nor heard. But you could SMELL it! If you only saw the look on my face when I smelled that silicon... I yanked that cord outa the wall so fast!

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Cheese, my computer is crashing all the time. I even get BSODs when I boot my computer, I never ever use safe mode. But this is a position you could find me: I am CTRL-ALT-DLTing and the task maneger is all over the screen, and I could be at Amazon.com, but the address bar is at Flashplayer.com (or was it Flashplayer.net?) and the monitor is shooting fire out of the back (just kidding) and my desktop is running around it IE, the task manager froze and so, grab the power cord and pull, pc turns off, and that's why I call Windows CrashOS sometimes

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lol
i got one no one would believe it crashed rigth after it happend(it wss from a virtual pc and cropped wiht photoshop)



it is pretty self explanitory

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Quote: "no one knows that you can get BSOD in XP"

er yes...its when you run out of memory (well the one i get is ) or the hdd has died etc etc...generally worse errors but the bsod saves the running mem (contents) to hdd and restarts (well on mine)

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The worst error I get is "starting windows XP"

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Posted: 18th Nov 2004 03:49
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heh, you can get bsod's in xp.. but if you do it's usually not xp's fault I love the fact that I can leave my xp machine running for weeks and weeks

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Posted: 19th Nov 2004 10:02
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lol does windows 2000 have a bsod or is it that my server never crashes

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Start > Run then type in ntsd.exe -p 752.
BSOD.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2004 11:18 Edited at: 19th Nov 2004 11:20
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My mate had a nice virus once.. On the 28th of everymonth it deletes the FAT

Course it took 2-3 months for him to realise it was a virus. For some reason his check only noticed if you specifically told it to scan a file and, of course, his backups had backed up the virus too.

Worst error for me.. Would be the FAMOUS IBM Deathstar.. Sorry.. Deskstar. I'm always making that mistake
I was watching a film and it finished so I clicked close on Mediaplayer.. It seems the hard disk took it personally. IT started doing "Dink Dink Dink Dink".. Nothing would save it then. It never ever booted up, the BIOS just told me there was a problem with it and wouln't boot while plugged in

The other worst error isn't really an error.. Was me being stupid.

I was assembling a PC and installing linux on it. The BIOS needed updating to recognised a new 80Gb HD (was an OLD 300Mhz AMD K6-2 on an ancient Mobo). I basically ran out of options and HAD to plug a floppy drive in. I didn't want to make it permanent as it was a crappy floppy drive and I just lay it on top of the chassis. I pressed the power button and BANG, sparks flew out the PSU and everything. Seems it had shorted out on the earthed chassis Suffice to say I was millimeters away from shatting myself! Also suffice to say it spiked the Mobo, CPU, RAM but fortnately, not the HD which is now running in a nice 1Ghz Duron (my parents old PC)

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Posted: 19th Nov 2004 16:22
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one time when I was playing serious sam first encounter the game suddenly stopped and then it closed by itself. windows logged of and then the pc switched itself off. I was just sitting in my chair watching my computer living its own life. it was awesome. until I remembered that I had to start that level over again.

man, what do you think happened?
the pc started to live! and turned itself off just as a human would have done it! (except the pc didnt use the mouse )


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