Ok, I've read all the previous screw ups, and with the exception of the $150K+ server one, I think I've got a winner. [G]
This is more a story of inattention rather than lack of knowledge, though it does lead to a much more simple nooB mistake that is kind of anti-climactic. [LOL]
I had purchased a high dollar "cutting edge" system.... circa 1988-ish... 486DX/2 66 4M ram and a big 1M vid card!
I had been having some stability issues with my *mostly* stock WFW3.11 install, [the groaning may commence] and was busily poking about the system moving back and forth from the command line to the shell, tweaking and testing, and was getting frustrated.
In the middle of my trials, my brother came into the room. It seems that a mutual friend of ours dropped by and wanted to see my new 9mm pistol. /begin foreshadowing
Since I was elbows deep in DOS, I told him to retrieve it from next to my bed and bring it to me... at which time I paused and removed (and pocketed) the clip, checked the chamber and handed the empty firearm to him.
I went back to work. A few minutes later he came back in and handed it back to me. I replaced the clip and told him to place it back by my bed where he got it. I continued to fight with the system for another hour or so, till I got fed up and gave up for the night. \end forshadowing
When I woke up the next morning, I was still frustrated, and in jest, picked up the pistol and pointed it at the computer...
wait for it....
Yes, you guessed it... Unbeknownst to me, my brother had racked the slide before putting it down.
BANG!
I lived every frustrated tech's dream, I had just shot my $1500 PC.
I sat there totally frozen. I know *exactly* what a deer feels like when it sees headlights.
The bullet impacted just left of center on the 5 1/4 drive and continued on a diagonal path to the side of the case... which was a good, heavy steel case... put a grape sized bulge in the side and proceeded to the rear of the case, lodging itself in the 1/8 inch space between the power supply and the case frame.
Astonishingly, the 5 1/4 was the only casualty.
I replaced it with a brand new $140 4x CD-Rom... which I proceeded to hook up backwards, since IDE connectors back then were not tabbed and could easily be put on in reverse.
After 45 minutes and a threat to shoot the thing again, I had it hooked up properly.
The system ran fine, with it's bulged case, for another 4 years before being retired.
--Druid
This is more a story of inattention rather than lack of knowledge, though it does lead to a much more simple nooB mistake that is kind of anti-climactic. [LOL]
I had purchased a high dollar "cutting edge" system.... circa 1988-ish... 486DX/2 66 4M ram and a big 1M vid card!
I had been having some stability issues with my *mostly* stock WFW3.11 install, [the groaning may commence] and was busily poking about the system moving back and forth from the command line to the shell, tweaking and testing, and was getting frustrated.
In the middle of my trials, my brother came into the room. It seems that a mutual friend of ours dropped by and wanted to see my new 9mm pistol. /begin foreshadowing
Since I was elbows deep in DOS, I told him to retrieve it from next to my bed and bring it to me... at which time I paused and removed (and pocketed) the clip, checked the chamber and handed the empty firearm to him.
I went back to work. A few minutes later he came back in and handed it back to me. I replaced the clip and told him to place it back by my bed where he got it. I continued to fight with the system for another hour or so, till I got fed up and gave up for the night. \end forshadowing
When I woke up the next morning, I was still frustrated, and in jest, picked up the pistol and pointed it at the computer...
wait for it....
Yes, you guessed it... Unbeknownst to me, my brother had racked the slide before putting it down.
BANG!
I lived every frustrated tech's dream, I had just shot my $1500 PC.
I sat there totally frozen. I know *exactly* what a deer feels like when it sees headlights.
The bullet impacted just left of center on the 5 1/4 drive and continued on a diagonal path to the side of the case... which was a good, heavy steel case... put a grape sized bulge in the side and proceeded to the rear of the case, lodging itself in the 1/8 inch space between the power supply and the case frame.
Astonishingly, the 5 1/4 was the only casualty.
I replaced it with a brand new $140 4x CD-Rom... which I proceeded to hook up backwards, since IDE connectors back then were not tabbed and could easily be put on in reverse.
After 45 minutes and a threat to shoot the thing again, I had it hooked up properly.
The system ran fine, with it's bulged case, for another 4 years before being retired.
--Druid
. I was trying to route some wire around and I wasn't paying attention then BAM! My finger bled for hours.
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