AAAGGGHHH - Why oh Why...

Amp34

Amp34

Amp34

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I've just got back from a month long trip to the middle of nowhere, where the closest thing to technology (other than checking emails once a week) was using wire ropes and pullys. Get home and turn on my computer and I get a disk error... After a while I eventually narrow it down to a SATA cable issue*, which I replace and get it working (still takes a couple of hours).

Slightly later and I help my sister with her Antivirus on her desktop. Uninstall it to replace it with another and restart. Fans start up but nothing else happens and so it's broken... Great... I leave it til today as I had no sleep for at least 24 hours and a long journey that day,

Today I try and get it working, adjust things and swap components with a working system to see what the issue is. Don't succeed in mending the computer but succeed in causing the same problem with the computer I was swapping components with...

So 3 desktops in our house, all three broken within 24 hours of me getting home... One fixed and two looking like they need new components. What a nice thing to be doing after getting back...

I wish I was back in the middle of nowhere...:(

* This seems to be a recurring theme. First sata cable failure on my PC but two on my Sisters computer in the last year or so, different manufacturers of leads. Is this a common thing?

Oh and my phone broke just before I got to the middle of nowhere... So really the only remotely high tech thing I had (other than half an hour on a computer once a week) was a digital watch... Ahh, pure bliss...:p
 
Your computers are suffering from an abandonment disorder and are acting out as a result of this. Reassure them that they are loved and with time you can win back their trust.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
Your computers are suffering from an abandonment disorder and are acting out as a result of this. Reassure them that they are loved and with time you can win back their trust.
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I laugh.....only beacuse i have talked to my computer when it was acting up...../shame :(



It did work though :p
 
i actually just kick my pc when things go wrong :D . pc was humming rather loudly other day missus said why is the pc buzzing a quick boot to the front sorted it :p
 
When my computer acts up I usually just shout at it, "Stop being so ******* **** you ******* **** ******* **** bag! I'll ******* kill you, you motherless ****!" More often than not it starts working again.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
Your family probably feel the same way. Start packing ;)
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Probably. Don't mind either way!:p

jp_bl_68 said:
Your computers are suffering from an abandonment disorder and are acting out as a result of this. Reassure them that they are loved and with time you can win back their trust.
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I seriously believe this to be true, at least for mine. Whenever I go away for a longish period and it is actually turned off (normally on sleep) it always seems to develop a problem. :(
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Where did you go?
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;)*

Blackhawk47 said:
This:

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sour...=o&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=fc6df0d4bd66cbfb

:p :D ;)
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Not going to help hardware issues is it... ;)

Skyfall said:
Poor baby, there there.
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Yeah, was just ranting away. Rather ****** off that the first day back all I was/am doing is mending computers!

*Not too difficult to see if you search my previous posts.:p

Or I'll just tell you now... Spent a month working on trail maintenence in New England. If you're youngish, like the outdoors and aren't averse to hard work I would highly recommend you go some time. Had a great time and made some great friends, really didn't want to come back!
 
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this is what i tell my wife.if i don't sit in front of my pc at least 5 hours a day i will lose the ability to use it and what a waste of money it would have been
 
Amp34 said:
Or I'll just tell you now... Spent a month working on trail maintenence in New England. If you're youngish, like the outdoors and aren't averse to hard work I would highly recommend you go some time. Had a great time and made some great friends, really didn't want to come back!
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I'm interested. Any links you can throw my way?
 
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