ARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Daniel · 03-26-2002, 09:32 PM

A couple of days ago I bought a brand spanking new Memorex CD drive. After installing it I thought I would install Baldurs Gate once again, and have another bash at it. Earlier today whilst I was really engrossed in the game I heard an almighty bang come from my computer, which made me nearly jump out of my skin and fall on the floor. Turning around I realised that the front had been blown clean off the front of my new CD Drive(All the screen went blue and said It cannot find the disk prehaps it needs cleaning!!!!!) I pressed escape to get the blue screen off and then shut my PC down thankful that It still seemed to work. I then disconnected my drive and then tipped it upside down and mournfully watched my pride and joy poor out of it in little, tiny pieces, My Tales of the Sword Coast Disk (It was literally a thousand of pieces)

Now I had a problem I realised that I couldn't find my recipt for the Drive. In the end after a long search I decided to take the defective drive back anyway and try my luck. And for the only time today luck was with me. Staples the shop I bought it from replaced the faulty drive without a recipt and even offered me a copy of tales of the sword coast at half price even though they didn't have too, which was nice.

Now upon returning home and feeling slightly more jolly. I decided to fit my new drive, at which point I realised My PC wasn't OK as I had first thought, the thing had shut down ok but it wouldn't bloody start up again.

At this point I am feeling really annoyed, so I start flicking though my user guide to find an address that I could sent a really angry letter too. But instead I found the disclaimer which simply put boils down to this: Memorex will not be held responsible for any damage too Cds, computers etc unless the drive was fitted by someone qualified to do so. which I am not although I have fitted hundreds of the things in the past with no problems plus memorex provides a big installation guide with the drive with easy simple instructions, a book that was obviously aimed at people who dont know the first thing about computers, its almost as if memorex had made it for unqualified people to install.

But it gets better, I am now a quarter of the way into the easter break. I decided to get all my college course work done before the holidays so that I would have plenty of time to my self. Work I normaly leave till the last minute but for once I did it early..... On a computer that was doomed to blow up

So in the space of one day I have:

1. Lost my computer(I am on my dads if you are
wondering)
2. Had to fork out for a new copy of Totsc
3. Lost about an entire weeks worth of work
that I am going to do again (Why did i break
my routine and do it early?!?)
4. Nearly suffered a heart attack from the stress

Its just been one of those days.
Looking on the bright side though I am kind of Intrigued to see what tommorow brings, lol

Sazerac · 03-26-2002, 09:42 PM

Poor Daniel!

Man, that's a bummer. It's what I've said all along, computers are perverse.

I do hope tomorrow goes better for you...and that you don't have to work too hard.

P.S. Check the power supply. That may be the problem...if so, it's easily fixable.

Cheers,

Daniel · 03-26-2002, 09:43 PM

I never thought of it being a power problem, thanx

SSJ4Sephiroth · 03-26-2002, 09:48 PM

ach, tough luck Daniel! that happened with one of my old computers, so i feel your pain. cept for that losing work thing, that's just painful...

Epona · 03-26-2002, 09:51 PM

When I changed my PSU recently I put the FDD connector in the wrong way and... boom!
It was quite good fun actually, fortunately a new FDD only costs £15

Sorry Daniel, that's probably not what you wanted to hear...

Neb · 03-27-2002, 09:26 AM

I once had a 3.2 GB HD go suicidal on me(I started up my comp and it made the strangest clicking noises and wouldn't load Windows, when I finally managed to get it started the drive was DEAD.), lost me a couple of years worth of essays and a lot of lost savegames.

Bloody annoying, no warning or anything, just suddenly clicks from "living" to "dead".

Daniel · 03-27-2002, 08:57 PM

Yippee I got it all fixed up today. When the bloody thing exploaded it had somehow cleared all my bios settings, once I found that out it was easy enough to amend

Black Knight · 03-27-2002, 09:21 PM

I can really feel for you (looks over shoulder and see GF engrossed in a book) My GF was reading email and then all of a sudden asked me why there was a big skull and cross bones on my PC and laughter coming out of my speakers. Not happy. Safe mode - MS DOS - C:format.

And smiled the entire time through it at her while explaining that it was from her email and that she had just lost all the safed info on my hard drive...oh the hours wasted on BGII, TOB, IWD and had just bought HoW to continue - sigh. Smiled the entire FREAKING TIME at her...not that I'm bitter... [img]smile.gif[/img]

But hey, that was two months ago and everything is better...*twitch* [img]smile.gif[/img]

BK

Blade · 03-27-2002, 10:35 PM

well if we are telling comp. horrer stories i have one for you wail installing more ram onto my old comp. power was unpluged, i was grounded ect. i turned on my comp after putting in the new ram, same bit rate and Mhz's and it fried all three of my ram slots got fried

it was still under warenty though so it got fixed for free but wail I was waiting i got a new motherbord so i have spare one now

Redblueflare · 03-28-2002, 08:48 PM

These remind me of Shane's horror story. His uncle *purchased* an E-Machine, which happens to be a rather unreliable brand of cpu's. Well it was working fine for a while, then it just died. That's right no explanation whatsoever, the cpu just died on him. Wouldn't even turn on!

So he exchanged it for another. It was much better than the last one he'd bought. Of course it was also an E-Machine and died as well. After all that they finally gave him a computer that was about 3 times better than one he started with. Not a bad ending at all!

RedBlueFlare
The dragon tamer lives on...

03-26-2002, 09:42 PM	#2
Sazerac Ironworks Moderator Join Date: January 7, 2001 Location: Monroe, LA Age: 60 Posts: 7,387	Poor Daniel! Man, that's a bummer. It's what I've said all along, computers are perverse. I do hope tomorrow goes better for you...and that you don't have to work too hard. P.S. Check the power supply. That may be the problem...if so, it's easily fixable. Cheers, __________________ "And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams, Are where thy grey eye glances, and where thy footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams..."

03-26-2002, 09:51 PM	#5
Epona Zartan Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: London, England Age: 53 Posts: 5,164	When I changed my PSU recently I put the FDD connector in the wrong way and... boom! It was quite good fun actually, fortunately a new FDD only costs £15 Sorry Daniel, that's probably not what you wanted to hear... __________________ [img]\"http://www.wizardrealm.com/images/epona.gif\" alt=\" - \" />

03-27-2002, 09:21 PM	#8
Black Knight Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Delaware OH USA Age: 47 Posts: 3,168	I can really feel for you (looks over shoulder and see GF engrossed in a book) My GF was reading email and then all of a sudden asked me why there was a big skull and cross bones on my PC and laughter coming out of my speakers. Not happy. Safe mode - MS DOS - C:format. And smiled the entire time through it at her while explaining that it was from her email and that she had just lost all the safed info on my hard drive...oh the hours wasted on BGII, TOB, IWD and had just bought HoW to continue - sigh. Smiled the entire FREAKING TIME at her...not that I'm bitter... [img]smile.gif[/img] But hey, that was two months ago and everything is better...twitch [img]smile.gif[/img] BK __________________ The Black Storm Cloud of the Night - Consort to a Queen- Champion of Truth, Justice and Cloudy's Way - Captain of the Knights of the Golden Dragons - Heart, Mind, and Soul- Newbie at Heart - ()xxxxxxxxxxxxx{}:::::::::::::::::::::>

03-27-2002, 10:35 PM	#9
Blade Emerald Dragon Join Date: March 12, 2001 Location: spokane wa usa Age: 40 Posts: 926	well if we are telling comp. horrer stories i have one for you wail installing more ram onto my old comp. power was unpluged, i was grounded ect. i turned on my comp after putting in the new ram, same bit rate and Mhz's and it fried all three of my ram slots got fried it was still under warenty though so it got fixed for free but wail I was waiting i got a new motherbord so i have spare one now __________________ <br /><br />All blades cut, be they made from metal or wood, but the sharpest and deadliest blade is the one of knowledge, and that is the least used.<br />An Archmage of the HADB

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03-26-2002, 09:32 PM	#1
Daniel Symbol of Cyric Join Date: January 24, 2002 Location: England Age: 41 Posts: 1,203	A couple of days ago I bought a brand spanking new Memorex CD drive. After installing it I thought I would install Baldurs Gate once again, and have another bash at it. Earlier today whilst I was really engrossed in the game I heard an almighty bang come from my computer, which made me nearly jump out of my skin and fall on the floor. Turning around I realised that the front had been blown clean off the front of my new CD Drive(All the screen went blue and said It cannot find the disk prehaps it needs cleaning!!!!!) I pressed escape to get the blue screen off and then shut my PC down thankful that It still seemed to work. I then disconnected my drive and then tipped it upside down and mournfully watched my pride and joy poor out of it in little, tiny pieces, My Tales of the Sword Coast Disk (It was literally a thousand of pieces) Now I had a problem I realised that I couldn't find my recipt for the Drive. In the end after a long search I decided to take the defective drive back anyway and try my luck. And for the only time today luck was with me. Staples the shop I bought it from replaced the faulty drive without a recipt and even offered me a copy of tales of the sword coast at half price even though they didn't have too, which was nice. Now upon returning home and feeling slightly more jolly. I decided to fit my new drive, at which point I realised My PC wasn't OK as I had first thought, the thing had shut down ok but it wouldn't bloody start up again. At this point I am feeling really annoyed, so I start flicking though my user guide to find an address that I could sent a really angry letter too. But instead I found the disclaimer which simply put boils down to this: Memorex will not be held responsible for any damage too Cds, computers etc unless the drive was fitted by someone qualified to do so. which I am not although I have fitted hundreds of the things in the past with no problems plus memorex provides a big installation guide with the drive with easy simple instructions, a book that was obviously aimed at people who dont know the first thing about computers, its almost as if memorex had made it for unqualified people to install. But it gets better, I am now a quarter of the way into the easter break. I decided to get all my college course work done before the holidays so that I would have plenty of time to my self. Work I normaly leave till the last minute but for once I did it early..... On a computer that was doomed to blow up So in the space of one day I have: 1. Lost my computer(I am on my dads if you are wondering) 2. Had to fork out for a new copy of Totsc 3. Lost about an entire weeks worth of work that I am going to do again (Why did i break my routine and do it early?!?) 4. Nearly suffered a heart attack from the stress Its just been one of those days. Looking on the bright side though I am kind of Intrigued to see what tommorow brings, lol

03-26-2002, 09:43 PM	#3
Daniel Symbol of Cyric Join Date: January 24, 2002 Location: England Age: 41 Posts: 1,203	I never thought of it being a power problem, thanx

03-26-2002, 09:48 PM	#4
SSJ4Sephiroth Beholder Join Date: May 4, 2001 Location: The Outside Looking In Age: 37 Posts: 4,361	ach, tough luck Daniel! that happened with one of my old computers, so i feel your pain. cept for that losing work thing, that's just painful...

03-27-2002, 09:26 AM	#6
Neb Account deleted by Request Join Date: May 17, 2001 Location: . Age: 38 Posts: 8,802	I once had a 3.2 GB HD go suicidal on me(I started up my comp and it made the strangest clicking noises and wouldn't load Windows, when I finally managed to get it started the drive was DEAD.), lost me a couple of years worth of essays and a lot of lost savegames. Bloody annoying, no warning or anything, just suddenly clicks from "living" to "dead".

03-27-2002, 08:57 PM	#7
Daniel Symbol of Cyric Join Date: January 24, 2002 Location: England Age: 41 Posts: 1,203	Yippee I got it all fixed up today. When the bloody thing exploaded it had somehow cleared all my bios settings, once I found that out it was easy enough to amend

03-28-2002, 08:48 PM	#10
Redblueflare Galvatron Join Date: May 9, 2001 Location: The backwoods in Georgia sigh Age: 39 Posts: 2,151	These remind me of Shane's horror story. His uncle purchased an E-Machine, which happens to be a rather unreliable brand of cpu's. Well it was working fine for a while, then it just died. That's right no explanation whatsoever, the cpu just died on him. Wouldn't even turn on! So he exchanged it for another. It was much better than the last one he'd bought. Of course it was also an E-Machine and died as well. After all that they finally gave him a computer that was about 3 times better than one he started with. Not a bad ending at all! RedBlueFlare The dragon tamer lives on...

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