Has anyone ever done anything this stupid?

[Xesh]

Yesterday, a program stopped responding to the '^' key, and I figured that I should reboot (seems to fix most problems). I told it to restart, but it wouldn't boot! It hung, and if I pressed the "del" key, it would start to enter setup, but would freeze. I checked POST codes, opened the case, cleared the CMOS, etc.... After a while, I deduced that the computer was acting as if the keyboard was broken and a key was stuck down....

I then noticed that there was a book resting on the pause/break key.

 

[Viper GTS]

Been there, done that. It's amazing how unresponsive the start button is when desk clutter is weighing down the escape key.



Viper GTS

 

[Beau]

Nope, you're pretty dumb!

 

[gopunk]

well i didn't go quite as far as the cmos but yea, i've had similar experiences. and it is amazing.

 

[reitz]

<< I then noticed that there was a book resting on the pause/break key. >>

LOL!

While building my first system (for my girlfriend, with her money, against her parents' wishes), I assembled everything, turned it on, and it wouldn't post. For a week, I took it apart and put it back together a dozen times, and sweated over the possibility that I was in over my head (with no one else around who knew how to build a system, and before I found AT, and with no way to return any parts since the guy I bought them off of was not returning emails). I was about to give up when I realized that I had the floppy cable plugged in backwards. I flipped it around, turned the machine on, and it worked fine. DOH!!!

 

[Static911]

back with the IBM something 4mb RAM, windows 3.1, 50mhz

I installed this game to the C drive...so I had like 500+ files in my C main drive

So I hit edit: del *.* then rebooted system

Could not figure out why the system wouldn't reboot

That incident scars me to this day (there wasn't anything important inside, just the fact I hit the magical buttons)

static911

 

[brxndxn]

Hahah...

here's mine:

I had a C: drive and a D: drive.. My D: drive had my archive and everything I wanted to save on it. I wanted to format the C: drive but back the stuff I wanted to save onto the D: drive. Being the fast-typing idiot that I was, I typed format c: enter y enter without backing anything up. So then I was going to try unformat - but I didn't know anything at the time so I used fdisk.. I ended up erasing the partition tables on both drives. Took me a while to fix all that...


here's a coworker's from four years ago (network admin):

He had Windows NT 4.0 installed and nothing backed up. He found a utility that supposedly converted new file names to the old MS Dos compatible format... He was like "Wow, I can make my NT 4.0 MS-Dos compatible" and ran the program for his whole hard drive.. You can imagine what happened after that.

 

[LiQiCE]

Funny but true story:

My friend calls me to tell me that his computer is broke ... No sound is coming out of his computer. So being sarcastic I tell him "Are your speakers plugged in?" ... And he tells me "Yes of course, I'm not that dumb!" ... So I go over his house to look at the computer, and everything is setup right in Win95. So I tell him to pull the computer out from underneath the desk for me so I can open it up and make sure the card is seated properly... when he goes to reach behind the computer he realizes "Oh the speakers aren't plugged in!" ... He still gets crap about that from me to this day