I'm having a great night!

[WJenness]

That sounds like a boot sector virus. My wife just mentioned to me last week about a new virus going around that destroys HD's by erasing or corrupting the first few boot sectors on HD's. Coincidence? Maybe.

Not sure if you mean my 'overclocking failed' message or my HDD failure... neither were virus issues.

The overclocking failed I can get to happen without any drives plugged in... and the HDD failure was a head crash... when I took the drive out and put it in a usb enclosure to copy some data off to my desktop I could hear the telltale clicking, and a disk scan turned up bad sectors.

Neither were a huge thing as the 'overclocking failed' requires 5 seconds of BIOS settings and it boots fine again, and the laptop HDD was covered under warranty and I got my data off of it anyway.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

-w

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Wow there are alot of computer nerds on here..

 

[Beetlenut]

Wow there are alot of computer nerds on here..

Byte me! Just stick to the intellectual threads you understand, like the Dinner thread, Weekend thread, Key Chain thread,... :wink:

 

[RootDKJ]

Wow there are alot of computer nerds on here..

There are 10 type of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.

 

[Beetlenut]

There are 10 type of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.

Why do nerds confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT31=DEC25

How's that for nerdy?

 

[RootDKJ]

Why do nerds confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT31=DEC25

How's that for nerdy?

not too bad....:-D

 

[billski]

Update- so... ok, false alarm.

Do mobo's with sata and pata control both with the same module? Anyone a hardware guy here?

forget the sata and pata. You nerds make this needlessly complicated. Seems to me the problem was one too many Long Trail Ales....

 

[Marc]

I am on my backup computer too at home .. the Sata drive died last week with the boot message of "Sata Hard Drive Failure" of course no backup ... need to buy a new drive and figure out where the OS software is ...

Good time to switch to Linux

 

[Marc]

Why do nerds confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT31=DEC25

How's that for nerdy?

This.... I like. I'm going to use that.

 

[RootDKJ]

forget the sata and pata. You nerds make this needlessly complicated. Seems to me the problem was one too many Long Trail Ales....

that's why I run scsi at home:lol:

 

[billski]

that's why I run scsi at home:lol:

I used to run SCSI at home, but the price differential was a real killer. Not justifiable given what I use computers for.....

 

[Greg]

Why do nerds confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT31=DEC25

How's that for nerdy?

I'm so glad I don't get it.

 

[Beetlenut]

This.... I like. I'm going to use that.

Sure! That will only require a seat license, usage royalties, and of course a 50 digit key to unlock the witty answer!

 

[bvibert]

Why do nerds confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT31=DEC25

How's that for nerdy?

Good one!

I'm so glad I don't get it.

For real? What kind of nerd are you?

 

[Marc]

Sure! That will only require a seat license, usage royalties, and of course a 50 digit key to unlock the witty answer!

Uh.... I'll go with who is Bill Gates?

No wait! Who is Larry Ellison?

 

[bvibert]

Sure! That will only require a seat license, usage royalties, and of course a 50 digit key to unlock the witty answer!

Do you have site licenses? I want to use it across my company.

 

[Beetlenut]

Do you have site licenses? I want to use it across my company.

I hesitate to answer for real here, for fear of revealing my true nerdiness. No, we actually have seat licenses, as in per computer. The developers actually have two seat licenses per computer. The goverment is switching over to a new network managed by Ross Peroe's old company EDS. It's a complete and total ClusterF@#k!! Now back to your regularly scheduled forum bashing!

Want to Make $$$$ with your Computer? No Risk! Simply press shift-4 four times in a row!!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Byte me! Just stick to the intellectual threads you understand, like the Dinner thread, Weekend thread, Key Chain thread,... :wink:

Some awesome threads..

There are 10 type of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.

what is binary??? I took a QBasic class in high school and Pascal..

Why do nerds confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT31=DEC25

How's that for nerdy?

Huh..I don't get it..

 

[RootDKJ]

Some awesome threads..



what is binary??? I took a QBasic class in high school and Pascal..


Huh..I don't get it..

I took QBasic and Pascal. I loved programming in Pascal

 

[ctenidae]

Why do nerds confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT31=DEC25

How's that for nerdy?

I laughed. That's fairly clever.

The rest of this stuff, I think you guys are making up.