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 over 9 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 over 9 years ago
You too says Starman1948
davesoup1972 over 9 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 over 9 years ago
Really tired of the computer crap!!!!!
Lyons Group, Inc. over 9 years ago
How do you un-corrupt a corrupt file?
up2trixx over 9 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 over 9 years ago
I can relate even now. There are days… even a torrent.
bryan42 over 9 years ago
The sound of ultimate suffering.
ChessPirate over 9 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 over 9 years ago
Good morning friend of DOCK,Have a great day,everyone. :)
rgcviper over 9 years ago
Snerk!
Unfortunately, I can relate to this one all too well. Made me laugh.
me_the_polish_gull over 3 years ago
Reminds me one of Garfield
Odie's best friend almost 3 years ago
i hate it when that happens