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| Thread ID: 25750 | 2002-10-11 04:16:00 | Stupid Things You've Done | madmusician66 (1030) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 88035 | 2002-10-11 08:14:00 | The hard drive should be master on primary. :-0 CDRom can be slave on primary, Master on secondary or slave on secondary. Have I won?? :-) |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 88036 | 2002-10-11 08:59:00 | OK heres the stupidest thing I have done apart from buying an HP :-( I had my 15gb hd partitioned as c:\ for windows & D:\ for data & I also installed GoBack,A few months later I installed a 10gb hdd & had it setup as an extended dos partition so it took the drive letter E:\ for more data. Few months later I put my boot disk into the floppy & typed "format C:" the format went ok & I proceeded to do a fresh install of Win ME :-( Everything went ok & windows told me to remove all discs from their drives & press enter to do final restart. I couldnt believe it when windows started up & it still had my programs & even my internet connection already installed. It wasnt till I looked for a file on E:\ that I saw all these windows files & folders,Huh? Duh! It was then that I found out that whilst GoBack was enabled that it protected the drives C: & D: & as E:\ was added later & I hadnt reconfigured GoBack ,it wasnt protected :-( Boot disk thought that E:\ was C:\ LOL goodbye data . I must say that sometimes it pays to read the manual 1st instead of last. Cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 88037 | 2002-10-11 09:00:00 | Now lets think most of my strange things I have done have been outside the computer industry, When I was a small boy I saw one fly on top of a other fly, I thought they were fighting so I whacked them hard with a fly swat, Back in the days on the 8 inch floppy they used to run all the time in the drive, so after I spent half an hour typing in a BASIC program, then I went to save it while the floppy was in the eject position and lost my half work. Now let's think have I done anything worse ........ | E.ric (351) | ||
| 88038 | 2002-10-11 11:30:00 | you know when you upgrade dos6.22 to win95, how it replaces the dos defrag with a windows one, and if you try to run the dos one it tells you to go into windows and run it.... well I hunted down the original defrag.exe what had been called defrag.bak or something by then, renamed it back to defrag.exe and ran it... TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. No, the dos defrag DOESN'T like long filenames does it? Goodbye everything, hello hours installing win95 on a 486 with something stupid like 4 meg of ram... How was THAT for stupid? |
loser (538) | ||
| 88039 | 2002-10-11 11:56:00 | The humble cash register is really a computer, just a specialised one that does a small number of functions well. [Justification for posting]:^O This day a register came in for service, the printer was printing gobbledgook. So, out comes the printer, the gears retimed, all is well.... Except now there was total no go. Ahhh the power supply has sucked the kumera. [This model was known for this problem]. OK change these 2 transisters and all will be well.....:D No? well how about the drivers for said transisters?...... No? Ok it's gotta be the DC-DC converter transformer?..... NOooo. Getting desperate now, 3 hours of no joy and the customer isn't going to buy a bill that big. I start swapping Zener diodes. About now I start to think rather than make assumptions. Grabbing the 'scope I start taking measurements. No voltage at all here, or here, or here, or here.... getting close to where the mains voltage comes into the case..... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Plugging the machine in 'BINGO' You know what the best thing about banging your head against a wall is? I feels better when you stop. 4 hours down the gurgler because of a few assumptions. |
~42~ (2034) | ||
| 88040 | 2002-10-11 12:11:00 | Sheesh - 4 or so years ago when I was a newbie - must be something that everybody's done at least once - I had a VITAL programme and it's contents that I could never EVER afford to lose, but I needed to reformat coz I been mucking with the registry too much... - so, this genius copies the .exe onto a floppy, re-formats, and after the re-installation of Windows, copy back the .exe and expects everything to work juuuuuusssst fine. DOH ! |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 88041 | 2002-10-11 19:56:00 | Signed up for one of those HP lessons that Susan B alerted us to and it all looked real good so on the first lesson I went to log in and holy smoke what was my user name? I forgot what username I used! You get all sorts of tips for remembering a password eh but for the username. Big Drat. | mark c (247) | ||
| 88042 | 2002-10-11 22:47:00 | I don't know if my mistake can be called stupid or not, but the worst thing I've ever done was a couple of years ago when I installed a scanner on our work's PC before installing the software. Can't really call it my fault because the boss just dumped in on the desk and said "Can you rig this up please?" without any manual, instructions or anything. It wouldn't work, of course, because when I finally did get the manual it said to install the software BEFORE connecting the scanner up. It turned into a right sorry mess before I gave up and waited for the boss to bring in the manual. Why was that so bad? Well by strange coincidence the hard drive started playing up not long after that, with bad shutdowns, lost clusters, BSODs, all that kind of thing. After a while the hard drive died completely and we had to get another one. That wasn't the end of our problems as the new drive played up as well, right up until earlier this year when the drive finally got reformatted. These days I refuse to install things without reading a manual first, at work at least (wimp that I am! :D) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 88043 | 2002-10-11 23:09:00 | A couple of weeks ago I was reinstalling Win XP. I deleted the c: partition so I could redo it... unfortunately I deleted the d: partition as well. So not only did I have no c: but I also lost 20gb on d: I then spent the next 12 hours searching for data recovery apps that would allow me to recover 20gb of data of an NTFS dynamic disk. once I finally found one (at 2:30am) it took all of 15 minutes to completely recover all the data off d: :D Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 88044 | 2002-10-12 05:57:00 | I make lots of mistakes - it's the best way to learn. (An Expert is, of course, the person who has made the most errors and learnt from them). The stupidist would have been when we connected the second telephone line. Telecom came out, installed it and it didn't work - there was an error somewhere down the road. Knowing there was originally a telecom error helps explain the later problem. Telecom fixed it and I still couldn't connect. Line checks, grizzles to Telecom... finally an alert help desk person spotted the obvious (pity the formatting options don't include a very small font).... our first line had call waiting on it, the second didn't so I needed to remove the call waiting code.... |
Heather P (163) | ||
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