Discussion What’s your most confusing, funny, or absolutely impossible PC issues? Boot, power, etc. just share it!

[mxnty]

What’s your funniest or most frustrating PC issue ever, pre, post, or during build. Let’s hear it!

 

[boju]

Back in the day lanning with friends during Win 2000/XP days, without fail someone or myself would have to be that someone needing to reinstall Windows. Pita, rarely smooth sailing, wasted hrs setting up rather than playing lol.

 

[Karadjgne]

Got the pc all put together, loop all arranged, everything done, only to realize the 28mm tall rotating 90° fittings on the gpu block will not fit under a radiator that has only 24mm of clearance. And those were the lower profile fittings. 3 weeks later finally got ahold of a couple of 20mm rotating 90's in the right i/o diameter. I love my mITX, but ACK! Can't believe I missed that particular measurement.

 

[Fiorezy]

In my entire 18 years PC career I faced 2 strange and very irretating Windows issues that I was not able to resolve.

The first one was the number 6 key being pressed every few seconds, every text I tried to type had a bunch of 6s between the letters, while in desktop I always hear that bip when you press a letter key with, and no it is not a keyboard issue and not a virus, and at the end of the day it forced me to reinstall Windows in order to get rid of it.

The 2nd issue actually started to happen a month ago when Rockstar Launcher out of nowhere decided to stop working display this error message "Failed To Connect To The Rockstar Games Library Service" and to this day I was not able to find a fix.

 

[JunkSniperJoe]

So on my first "unofficial" build, I didn't exactly know how much thermal paste was "enough". About a day later, the pc would occasionally not boot. Turns out thermal paste leaked everywhere around the socket. I tried to fix this by removing the cpu and cleaning the socket with isopropyl alcohol, but when I removed the cooler, the cpu went with it. Some pins did not...