whats the longest you have gone with out a computer problem

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Had my last computer problem about a month ago. Was swapping a AMD 64 MB from one case to another...worked fine originally, moved it, and was blown. I think I realize what I did, something really stupid.

Got pissed at the board because one of the screws was stripped and woudln't come out of the riser, so tugged on the board to use it as a base for the screw to catch on Grin

LOL Didn't think about it until about a week after I bought a new board. That board went in for warranty repair, and will be back in my hands tomorrow Smile

brand new!

MSI said they don't know what caused the baord to malfunction. hhehehhe

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

Dud3! · Posted: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:55:01 Post Subject:

Umm, I think the last time I had a "problem" was when I my cousin's kid killed a HDD I had hooked up and sitting in the bay on top of my DVD-RW (just long enough for me to transfer stuff to it and then remove it).

Otherwise, I've had problems with some apps not compiling (always resolved of course), and my monitor fried when I moved my computer to my room thanks to outlets with the wires reversed and missing a ground.

My computer is about to the point of a kitchen appliance, it's there, I use it everyday, but it's pretty much transparent.

PoisonedPawn45 · Rated PG Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 10

Back in the day, my Windows 95/98 system would crash DAILY, at least! When I moved on to Win2000, crashes were once a week or so. WinXP has it up to once every other month or so.

Dud3! · Posted: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:43:51 Post Subject:

Now that's PROGRESS! Laughing

Actually, one month without a crash on a home system is pretty damn good for any version of windows.

dude@localhost ~ $ uptime
09:43:21 up 27 days, 16:17, 3 users, load average: 3.79, 4.11, 3.18

The reason that's not two months is because I had to move the computer. I'm going to update my kernel in the next week or two, but I'm going to try doing it withough restarting the system.

For the record, I've only had Linux crash once, and that was my fault for messing up a kernel I made in slackware. Otherwise it's just been dinky apps that crash, never the OS itself.

dadx2mj · Posted: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:15:53 Post Subject:

LOL so Dud3 are you saying that Linux makes your apps crash? Only crash I can recall on my present system has been caused by me trying to over clock it more than it likes and yes I am running Win XP

Dud3! · Posted: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:21:47 Post Subject:

What? No.. I'm saying that some applications crash sometimes because someone forgot a ; in the code somewhere. Laughing

For the record, my entire system is comprised of developement stuff, even so, it's still rock solid. If I was running older, stable versions of everything I wouldn't even be in this thread.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:11:55 Post Subject:

ahh jsut had to reformat again...all my stuff gone sept for my music. i installed servicepack2 and it started artifacting games and laggin ym pc. so i uninstalled it and it worked fine but the next morning my hdd was corrupt and i couldnt repair it case windows was so fubared...so here i am rebuilding my collection of software... Wave

pjarvi · Posted: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:38:00 Post Subject:

The last computer I built lasted for 4 years without a single hardware problem, and only 1 software problem. I had to re-install WinXP once after a DVD backup program hosed the partition table.

The worst damage i've done to a system was installing an AMD 486/133mhx CPU the wrong way. The AMD CPUs at that time had fewer pins than the socket they were used in, which led to quite a few fried chips back then(1995 IIRC). Had to get a new mobo and CPU($200+), but the ram and other components survived.

Other than that I damaged the memory slots on a motherboard before, trying to force RAM in at a bad angle, and fried a video card that had upgrade sockets for memory(put 10ns memory in when it needed 8ns, this was back around '93-'94). I've also pounded a few dial-up external modems on my desk, but they just wouldn't die.

vulcan · Posted: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:23:06 Post Subject:

Lets see... would be aroubd the time i fried my hdd