AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!...AHHHHHHHHHHH!!

[Goosemaster]

Crap.

1. Comp wasn't working. Internet was absolute CRAP.

2. Tried all the usual stuff.

3.Thought it was a virus because Norton had recently caught one but gave me an error once.

4. Decided to format..then thought I'd put Linux on it...I have two machines(700mhz PIII and this one which is an Athlon 1800XP with SCSI etc) and wanted to have both running gentoo.

5. THe scsi drive is refered to as /dev/sda.

6. I was making the boot partition /dev/sda1 an ext3 file system with 'mke2fs -j /dev/sda1'

7. I accidently wrote 'hda' instead of sda.

8.My 120GB WD was still plugged in and humming.

9.104GB of Movies, programs, music(15GB) and my documents for the past five years were on there. Luckily I caught the error mid-format and stopped it at 50%..it was a qucik format only replace the FAT.

10. I reinstalled the only OS I had with me. (win2003 Server) and attempted recovering my files with a sleuth of utilities.

11. I recovered my documents at least and 2GB of music.

12.Finally got my disc of WinXP.

13. Installed it.

14 Worked for a day.

15. Next day it would not boot. Would just go black after the marquee.

17. random*Clicking noise*

18.Continuous *Clicking noise* that would not stop.

19. Sh*t


20. My WD HD died.



THese days have sucked.

 

[Electrode]

Ouch.

 

[Goosemaster]

Oh yeah, it was the network card THE ENTIRE TIME THAT HAD BEEN THE PROBLEM.


IT WAS EVEN A DAMN 3com!!!

 

[melly]

Originally posted by: Electrode
Ouch.

 

[ElFenix]

someday you will learn to unplug drives you don't want formatted


though the drive would have likely died anyway

 

[spanky]

that must've sucked.

 

[deftron]

Glad to see your H key is working correctly...

 

[DaWhim]

darn, I feel sorry for u. But at the end, I was laughing because it is more like a joke :disgust:

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: deftron
Glad to see your H key is working correctly...

heh

 

[Lithium381]

yeah, it was gonna die soon anyways, but unplugging it probably didn't help

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: deftron
Glad to see your H key is working correctly...

From where I'm sitting it appears his 'h' key is sticking, actually. I'm not even going to venture a guess why, though

 

[brxndxn]

Oh yeah, it was the network card THE ENTIRE TIME THAT HAD BEEN THE PROBLEM.


IT WAS EVEN A DAMN 3com!!!

My 3Com network card is the only thing that craps out on me if I raise my bus speed to 165mhz (PCI 40mhz)..

So, I have to stay at a lame 150mhz so the card works fine. I'm too lazy to change it out.

 

[dabuddha]

i've been through stuff like that
You start thinking "If I had only left well enough alone......"

 

[hdeck]

suxors

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: brxndxn

Oh yeah, it was the network card THE ENTIRE TIME THAT HAD BEEN THE PROBLEM.


IT WAS EVEN A DAMN 3com!!!

My 3Com network card is the only thing that craps out on me if I raise my bus speed to 165mhz (PCI 40mhz)..

So, I have to stay at a lame 150mhz so the card works fine. I'm too lazy to change it out.

That's why you buy an NFORCE2 motherboard; the PCI and AGP speeds are LOCKED IN SPEC and you don't worry aout those little minor annoyances anymore.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: brxndxn

Oh yeah, it was the network card THE ENTIRE TIME THAT HAD BEEN THE PROBLEM.


IT WAS EVEN A DAMN 3com!!!

My 3Com network card is the only thing that craps out on me if I raise my bus speed to 165mhz (PCI 40mhz)..

So, I have to stay at a lame 150mhz so the card works fine. I'm too lazy to change it out.

You need a mobo with 1/5 PCI divider! Don't blame it on your network card.

 

[SSP]

OUCH indeed. I've dont that once, and I recovered in time.