I remember even worse: Installing Windows 95 on a 486 computer using the floppy drive. 24 3.5" disks that had to be fed into the machine one at a time. It took hours, and finally, when it said “Please insert disk 24”, I did, and it said “Disk read error”
I was once installing a software package from many floppy disks that actually made it to 100%, then failed.But one of my favorite true computer stories is about the computer that said “No” to me. I was installing a new hard drive in a user’s computer and had partitioned and formatted it and was attempting to boot on it for the first time. My attention was diverted for a moment and when I looked back up at the screen, in the upper left-hand corner of the otherwise blank screen was the word “No”. It kind of spooked me out! I am supposed to be the master here, not you, computer! As I recall, I think it turned out to be something screwy in the BIOS about boot devices, and the message was supposed to be something like “No Boot Device” or something. I still don’t know why the whole message didn’t display, though…
Starman1948 almost 10 years ago
Good morning everyone. He has a good set of lungs. Don’t you just hate it when that message appears on your monitor? Have a great Sunday my friends.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member almost 10 years ago
You too says Starman1948
davesoup1972 almost 10 years ago
Ahh the good old days of 56k dial up. I would spend all night trying to download 1 album only to have the download fail or the files were corrupted.
foe1120 almost 10 years ago
Really tired of the computer crap!!!!!
Lyons Group, Inc. almost 10 years ago
How do you un-corrupt a corrupt file?
up2trixx almost 10 years ago
I remember even worse: Installing Windows 95 on a 486 computer using the floppy drive. 24 3.5" disks that had to be fed into the machine one at a time. It took hours, and finally, when it said “Please insert disk 24”, I did, and it said “Disk read error”
johovey almost 10 years ago
I can relate even now. There are days… even a torrent.
bryan42 almost 10 years ago
The sound of ultimate suffering.
ChessPirate almost 10 years ago
I was once installing a software package from many floppy disks that actually made it to 100%, then failed.But one of my favorite true computer stories is about the computer that said “No” to me. I was installing a new hard drive in a user’s computer and had partitioned and formatted it and was attempting to boot on it for the first time. My attention was diverted for a moment and when I looked back up at the screen, in the upper left-hand corner of the otherwise blank screen was the word “No”. It kind of spooked me out! I am supposed to be the master here, not you, computer! As I recall, I think it turned out to be something screwy in the BIOS about boot devices, and the message was supposed to be something like “No Boot Device” or something. I still don’t know why the whole message didn’t display, though…
damifid0 almost 10 years ago
Good morning friend of DOCK,Have a great day,everyone. :)
rgcviper almost 10 years ago
Snerk!
Unfortunately, I can relate to this one all too well. Made me laugh.
me_the_polish_gull almost 4 years ago
Reminds me one of Garfield
Odie's best friend about 3 years ago
i hate it when that happens