I F**kin Hate Computers

[Snow]

This is not a cry for help, nor is it a begging mission... I really hate computers at the moment.

I went away for five weeks and was only coming home on weekends, usually getting home late friday night and leaving early Sunday. I would check my emails, reply to important things and let the others rot . I would check the status of my downloads from Metfuk and set up the next ones to come down.

As no-one else was going to be using the PC for the internet I thought that I would help out my ratio at metfuk by seeding to 150% per download, that way I wouldn't be getting time delays and could jump on newer torrents straight away.

So I get back on Friday to find that the PC wouldn't boot up, when it tried it stuck on the first screen (mine has the pentium logo) so I made sure that everything was as it should be and that no-one had moved the case, I went through and checked all the leads were in place and they were, I rebooted and it loaded normally.... well nearly normally, now when I restarted ABC (my torrent client) all of my downloads now had the error message "IO Error, cannot access D:/TORRENTS ONLY" Only thing is now I cannot access everything on D drive and if I try to access it in any way I get told that the disk isn't formatted and would I like to format it now.

Those of you who know me from old know that I have suffered more than my fair share of PC Problems regarding hard drives. It has now got to the stage that I am contemplaiting changing over to a Mac. I have "lost" 4 120GB hard drives now and this will make a 5th. I cannot use my external 250GB for long as it has delayed write errors on it and contains all my Live Metallica shows from 2003 as well as backups of various things I would like to keep.

I have had enough of having problems and now am wondering if it can swim in my neighbours pond, or it could join my old IBM thinkpad laptop that was thrown down my garden and then beaten to death (I would like to point out that the mobo on the think pad was blown and was cheaper to buy another than it was to fix)

Thank you for reading my rant, I don't feel any better yet and still think that launching it in with the Koi carp next door is a good solution!

[wolfway]

stop downloading porn man

nah j/k. i know computers can be a bitch... my firewall here just gave an error, why i don't know, and suddenly it didn't work no more, blocking everything, which made me unable to get on internet, ...

luckely i heard my friend had the same problem and pretty quick knew how to fix it...

i've had 2 errors aswel that when i boot my pc an error screen popped up and i thought i lost my files, after much trying i got them back though... guess i'm lucky

i still get those unknown error popups every time now but myea... don't know what to do about em

[MetDream]

I paid $100s for this computer I have. I have had 1/2 of it nearly rebuilt because the parts were bad. And now I get tcp and applciaion hang errors that supposedly are not because of the system but the guy who built it can't figure out what is wrong that makes the eorros happen. It f-ing pisses me off to no end. So yeah, for as much as I am on this damn thing, I hate computers too!!!!!!!

[Fadingtoblack]

Mate you have the worst luck with computers of anyone I know. I remember when you lost all that stuff, sucks it seems to be happening again.

I've never had one, but maybe just go a Mac, obviously something's gotta change

[Speed Damage]

On the flip side of things, I built my own computer with all custom choice parts piece and piece, and the thing hasn't had a single problem.

Maybe thats why I am studying for a degree in Computer Engineering!

[MetDream]

On the flip side of things, I built my own computer with all custom choice parts piece and piece, and the thing hasn't had a single problem.

Maybe thats why I am studying for a degree in Computer Engineering!

Wanna come fix mine?

[King_Nothing]

I just got a pretty sweet new CPU a few days ago as well.
Almost identical to the specs I posted earlier on.
Dual Cores are nice

[Kat]

Those damn things drive me up the wall most of the time too... I highly recommend a Mac if you are that unlucky with computers, they are so much more reliable. I am working on Macs for 6 years now at the office, never the slightest hardware problem and the software is much more stable too.

As I already said via PM, I might be able to help somehow

[Metallifold]

Yeah I hate them too at times. Was downloading a crack, and I got a virus. Just because some fucking nerdy kid COULD, he thinks he's got the right to actually destroy others belongings.

Viruses, grrrr

[sorrowman]

Yeah I hate them too at times. Was downloading a crack, and I got a virus. Just because some fucking nerdy kid COULD, he thinks he's got the right to actually destroy others belongings.

Viruses, grrrr

Mind u, but downloading illegal software and cracks and fucking your PC up in the process because you also pulled in a virus has nothing to do with the PC itself, that has rather to do with you visiting the wrong/risky places on I-net. All those cracks are not exactly in the list of Windows XP auto-updates ya know .

As for myself, I've build my own PC as well, of selected A-brand components only and never ever had the slightest problem with it.