Have you ever fixed something without knowing what you did?

[SPAnDAU]

Today I was having some difficulty getting dual monitors to work correctly in Win2K with an AGP RageIIC and a PCI xpert98. After trying every possible configuration I managed to get it to work with an old S3 Trio PCI video card. As a goof I put the xpert98 back in, (in a configuration I'm 100% sure I had already tried) and it worked!!.

I think I had a similar situation with a floppy drive on a BH6 a couple of years ago as well.

Do any of you have any stories to share??

 

[RockEater]

One time a few months ago somthing got messed up on my boot HDD and because the FAT32 was damaged scandisk couldn't locate the backup FAT32 file so I could boot off a floppy but even after a cold boot it would get hung up on scandisk. That started at like 10 and finally at like 3 am I went to bed and when I got up the next morning I powered up and scandisk ran and it repaired the FAT32 and everything was good to go. Maybe leaving the power off for more than 10-15 seconds cleared somthing, I dunno

 

[slurp]

Most of my stories are the exact opposite. Doing everything right, and it just gets worse.

 

[gygheyzeus]

when i got my t-bird (1000 @ 1333) and abit kt7a-raid last week. got it all hooked up, swapped out my old board and processor, no problem. done this many a time. go to install windows me... it freezes at 100% (the first 100% bar when doing setup)... i figured, thats odd, tried for 4 hours to get it to work, then, finally at around 12am, i let it sit there for 15 minutes, and it finally went past that screen. other than that, this thing kills my old P3 900.

 

[Jeff H]

A couple of Sundays ago I found my daughter, while doing some late night homework, had moved the SBLive drop down menu bar and I could not get it to move back to the top of the screen. To make matters worse, the menu was missing the mixer command, and I couldn't find the executable for it anywhere (I could find the surround mixer .exe, but not the mixer .exe).

So, I blithely went ahead and uninstalled the SBLive install. That resulted in a BSOD everytime Win98 hit the system for a sound. I uninstalled the SB drivers, and same thing. I deleted the SBLive card from Device Mgr., still BSOD's.

It was now time to stop, and assess the situation. I first backed up everything (data, MP3, wallpaper, sounds, etc.) I could think of. FYI I had just backed up everything a few days ago (I'm actually one that does this on a regular basis, to CD-RW). After I backed up I went to work reinstalling the drivers and the Live software, and continually received a BSOD referencing the emu10k1.vxd file.

I finally decided to give up, and call Creative on Monday. A few hours later I figured I'd give it one more shot, and the result was a successful install of both the drivers and the Live software. Since then the system's run fine. Oh, after that episode, I decided to waste seven CD-R's and make a full recovery backup w/ the HP software that came w/ my CD-RW drive.

 

[metallibloke]

I work in PC Support, I fix things by accident everyday!!!

 

[Tates]

<< Have you ever fixed something without knowing what you did? >>




Happens all the time.....

 

[AndyHui]

At work we use IBM PC-300GL systems. Sometimes, the older P2 models won't boot up or give any response when you hit the power button to turn it on. On a whim, I opened up the box, ripped out the Slot 1 processor and put it back in. It worked!! System could turn on after that....:frown::disgust:

 

[BuddyHolly]

I think I fix more things by accident than on purpose..sadly, this also applies to stuff I break..

 

[przero]

Absolutely! People think you are kidding when you say you don't know what you did to fix the problem, but it's true. Weird. happens all the time, Esp. with computers!

 

[4824guy]

<< Have you ever fixed something without knowing what you did? >>



I sometimes even manage to permantly break something I was supposed to fix

 

[lotust]

I stabbed the S HI T out of my Digital DOC once. this did not fix it though. Felt good though

<< Have you ever fixed something without knowing what you did? >>
Hell yes

 

[odog]

all the time....

i love the jiggle everything and reseat the cards, ram and ide connectors. that looks really difficult and complicatd to a user, but half the time it'll fix a prob.... bad thing is, you don't know what that hell was wrong!

 

[breweyez]

UUUUuuuuummmmMMMMM .......NO!!!



Buwhaw ha ha HA HA

I dont think theres a tech alive who hasnt scratched there head when the accidently fixed something.

 

[Deskstar]

Invariably, my system is working just fine and I try to make it work even better. You guessed it; I usually wind up taking a hour to repair the &quot;improvement&quot; that I enacted. It is human nature to tinker with things, however.