Dumb stuff people do on their computers

I pluged in my second harddrive when the computer was on. Why doesn't it work anymore?

unless your computer has the coffee-maker mod....

http://articles.pimprig.com/featured_pimprig/the_caffeine_machine.php?page=3

I tried to overclock my computer. I heard you can just put everything to max in BIOS, and if it doesn't work, change it back. Whats this Vcore?

(Hypothetical situation)

I realised we've got a good one here in our own forums:

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic48591.html

"I need more heat, my comp is freezing"

that was a first.

Re: Caffiene Machine

Tedster , now that was a way cool link . Thx for the share. That dude either got to much time on his hands , Or he just maybe on to something lol. (Like a million Dollar Idea??) But I think I would of Called it the Internet Java Junkie Machine if it were Me. (Jmo is all) :haha:
Thanks for the share
:bounce: Denim :bounce:

"I had AOL awhile ago, now I’m using Comcast and yet for some reason, AOL won’t work anymore."
“I tried to put my Geforce 7800GT into my Dimension E310 but it didn’t fit!”
- Both something my friend said to me, I felt like hitting him.

By the way, nice SOcRatEs! So simple and short it was hilarious, hahaha.

Putting an HDD in an other computer works, as long as it's not an NT OS. It will just detect the other hardware and work. I've done this a couple of times with WinNT.

That works BTW.

I've already pulled off ISA cards with the computer on if I remember correctly. I think it didn't even freeze.

BUT I'VE NEVER USED MY SOLDERING IRON INTO A POWERED ON TUBE AMPLIFIER (I know someone that did on an other forum, just some 350-450V in there)

Here are hours of reading for all of you that don't know this page, which is almost impossible, I found it before the existance of Google.

Sigh! I'm 16 minus 8 days and I feel old. When I was young, there were no reality shows, no digital TV, no DVD, no one knew what the Internet was, we still had turntables in our sound system, we ran Windows 3.1 on 256 colors and DOS, people had black and white printers, I was playing Super Mario Bros, SB16 was a good sound card, no one had discmans, gas was cheap... Where is this world going!

What I ment was that the computer was on then I plug in my hdd and the computer turns off and no go for the hdd.

lmfao

Names that my customers have used to describe their PC to me. Meaning the primary "box" or "tower":

my cpu

my modem

my drive

my pcu

the brains

the square part

the big piece

the operating system



Can't think of any more at this time.
One time I found a ring jammed in a floppy drive. I found a floppy jammed in a CD-ROM, I found a CD jammed in between the cracks of the front face plates.

I recently had a lady with a near brand new HP, was going to bring it in the store, but she didn't realize the video cable screwed into the back of the tower, she yanked and yanked until the video port ripped out of the motherboard! Come to think of it, that's the third customer to rip their video port out. lol

The problem is to be sure your IDE plug is perfectly aligned and that you're not too slow in plugging the IDE plug.

The guy who gave me the P3 800MHz(That would've went in the trashcan) called it like this.

I already heard "... that noisy thing ... there!"
'cause a computer is a monitor as everyone knows!

:unch:

Great! They should be removable and you should keep replacements in stock...

Today every average Joe has a computer, so imagine if it would have happened back in the 5¼ drives and serial/parallel port era : CD-ROMs in floppy drives and ever ports ripped out!

how 'bout the refrigerator mod?

I put a book on top of the vent because it was making too much noise.

Open both covers, empty the freezer and put the computer in it. Now cut a bit of insulation to get the wires out and seal all this. External optical drives are preferable to make it easier to change CDs. They're less cold also.

But seriously, I think that some people already connected water blocks to their air conditioner.

Perhaps the guys at http://www.benchtest.com/ already did. I *think* that he talked about this. The guy already done peltier cooling on some Celerons... (Getting the processor at -2 C.)

Which one? The PSU?

Hahaha! To add onto this discussion, once upon a time I seriously found a Sandwich shoved into a Floppy Drive :haha:. Someone must've thought it was a toaster? :rolleyes:

May be it was getting quite warm in there

I'll try frying eggs on my overclocked CPU next time.

A CPU's a bit small, no? Getting juice on the motherboard... ;-)
Maybe with a water-block connected to a plate?

Now thats an idea worth exploring.... Not that it'll be called a waterblock... an eggblock maybe

And once your eggs are cooked you put a stove-top coffee machine to cool it down.

Maybe some peltier cooling would be useful not to overheat the CPU + eggs get ready faster.

Gotta try to overclock the Athlon XP 2000+ Palomino with that! (Same core as the 2100+ / The last 0.18µm CPU -> Too much heat! -> The reason for the 8" fan I talk about in the other topic)

Bonus : You save energy! Instead of heating the house in summer, you cook food with it!

Maybe we can do soemthing less radical, having oil around the PC makes it stink.

A coffee warmer will be nice. And obviously much more doable Just "forget" to put a radiator on your watercooling setup, and plunge your coffee mug into the reservoir