Paul
Apr 19 2004, 12:11 PM
QUOTE
Tech Support: "Sir, something has burned within your power supply."
Customer: "I bet that there is some command that I can put into the AUTOEXEC.BAT that will take care of this."
Tech Support: "There is nothing that software can do to help you with this problem."
Customer: "I know that there is something that I can put in...some command...maybe it should go into the CONFIG.SYS."
Minutes later:
Tech Support: "Ok, I am not supposed to tell anyone this but there is a hidden command in some versions of DOS that you can use. I want you to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the last line as C:DOSNOSMOKE and reboot your computer."
Pause.
Customer: "It is still smoking."
Tech Support: "I guess you'll need to call Microsoft and ask them for a patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE."
Four hours later, he calls back.
Tech Support: "Hello sir, how is your computer?"
Customer: "I called Microsoft and they said that my power supply is incompatible with their NOSMOKE.EXE and that I need to get a new one. I was wondering when I can have that done?"
Matt Brown
Apr 19 2004, 12:17 PM
I've never had a computer smoke before, I wonder what it's like
sightz
Apr 19 2004, 01:19 PM
You're lucky.
Computer chips run on smoke. I find that if the smoke manages to leak out the chips don't work anymore!
FarCry
Apr 19 2004, 07:30 PM
heh, it stinks whole houses out - ive had a PSU blow and take a few square cm's of chipset out with it, LOTS of smoke, big bang, flashing light etc.
Also had a HDD die - smoke just started comming out from under it then lots more smoke - it was kinda cool to watch until i realised my HDD had just died.
eddy2099
Apr 19 2004, 08:48 PM
Ouch! That indeed sounds scary. The only thing I've burnt so far was a AMD 386 CPU which I fitted into the CPU Slot wrongly, turn the PS on and Poof! All the pins were gone from the CPU. My precious gold down the drain. I guess because of me, they now have that notch on the CPU as a safeguard.
No smoke and no nothing.. one second and it was all over.
FinleyAve
Apr 19 2004, 09:06 PM
I plugged my 110 computer into 220, blew a fuse in the ps, opened the ps, wrapped foil on the fuse, closed the ps, plugged it back into 220 again. The second time there was pretty lights and smoke. Thing is, I knew the box was 110 and I knew the outlet was 220, just forgot for a minute. I blame it on the sockets in Jeddah, my house had half 110 and half 220 and they all looked the same, except somebody wrote 110 or 220 on them with a marker so you'd know.
Escaped
Apr 19 2004, 10:41 PM
OMG, I set the power supply cables on fire once. I had this 3 1/2 floppy and I plugged the power into, however, I missed one of the prongs and powered it on.. it started glowing and smoking.. flames traveling towards the power supply. Had it gotten to the power supply, who knows what would have happened.
GoltharNL
Apr 20 2004, 01:35 AM
My Commodore 64 burned out once, I cried..
And the smell would not leave the room for a week =/
Paul
Apr 20 2004, 03:14 AM
QUOTE (FarCry)
heh, it stinks whole houses out - ive had a PSU blow and take a few square cm's of chipset out with it, LOTS of smoke, big bang, flashing light etc.
I've had that happen aswell
I've had capacitors on motherboards explode, cd-rw catch fire, and a cpu core explode which blew the heatsink off it onto the gfx card below smashing it and ripping the agp slot half off the motherboard.
talkster5
Apr 20 2004, 08:03 AM
The other day i pulled a fan out without turning the machine off. Sparks all over the place then the comp shut off as a saftey measure lol.
Escaped
Apr 20 2004, 11:57 AM
Remember folks, good lighting is a MUST when working on PCs.
talkster5
Apr 20 2004, 12:19 PM
QUOTE (Escaped)
Remember folks, good lighting is a MUST when working on PCs.
Well i have a few cold cathodes in my system does that count?
sightz
Apr 22 2004, 11:01 PM
Did you say lighting or lightning?
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