LOL i = pwn3d

[AkumaX]

so i was looking at my dad's comp, he has a mobile barton 2500-m and m7ncg-400, and when i booted it up, it ran @ 1000mhz (i set it to 2.2ghz last time i looked at it)

so i figured, oh, cmos must be dead, switched the 2032 battery, and tried to set the clock back

everytime i changed the fsb or mult, comp kept freezing (as in not booting), im like wtf?!?

1/2 hour later, i realized i actually took out his mobile barton a long time ago and gave him an old skool t-bird 1ghz

PWn3D

 

[Lord Evermore]

Why would you do that to your poor father?!

 

[Ken90630]

Yeah, maybe what happened to you was karma comin' around & kickin' you in the butt for having done that to your dad. Evil son, I tell you, evil. :evil: :laugh:

 

[Chris1986]

Wow thats harsh, heh.

 

[ddviper]

For shame

-Got literacy?

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Why would you do that to your poor father?!

I'm not trying to defend the OP, but my mother wouldn't notice in the least bit if I swapped her 3200+ Barton @ 2.4GHz with a 1.4GHz Tbird (MB & RAM being equal).

 

[thescreensavers]

lol my mom notices 1 sec diffrances in everything she uses my rig and then she goes to her cely then goes its to slow. :]

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Amaroque
I'm not trying to defend the OP, but my mother wouldn't notice in the least bit if I swapped her 3200+ Barton @ 2.4GHz with a 1.4GHz Tbird (MB & RAM being equal).

Indeed. As long as the parents were informed and consented to the downgrade, there's nothing wrong. My parents didn't notice a thing when I put in my old 1.4GHz Athlon XP in place of their older 800MHz Duron. Of course, dad didn't notice either when the Internet Explorer icon disappeared and was replaced by a Firefox icon (conveniently renamed "Internet" to avoid confusion).

 

[stncttr908]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan

Originally posted by: Amaroque
I'm not trying to defend the OP, but my mother wouldn't notice in the least bit if I swapped her 3200+ Barton @ 2.4GHz with a 1.4GHz Tbird (MB & RAM being equal).

Indeed. As long as the parents were informed and consented to the downgrade, there's nothing wrong. My parents didn't notice a thing when I put in my old 1.4GHz Athlon XP in place of their older 800MHz Duron. Of course, dad didn't notice either when the Internet Explorer icon disappeared and was replaced by a Firefox icon (conveniently renamed "Internet" to avoid confusion).

I'm sure that Firefox trickery avoided you many a spyware fiasco as result. If only I'd had been so shrewd.

 

[igowerf]

My dad's computer is amazingly stable and clean. He just uses it to read email (Thunderbird), browse the web (Firefox), and edit office documents. Since he never installs anything, I haven't had to reformat it in a long time now. It still runs as smoothly as the day that I first installed Windows on it.

 

[thegimp03]

Heh, my parents hate letting me go near their computer. They're always afraid I'm going to "break" it. My response: "Hey, you have a Dell. They have great customer support."

 

[Lord Evermore]

Originally posted by: thegimp03
Heh, my parents hate letting me go near their computer. They're always afraid I'm going to "break" it. My response: "Hey, you have a Dell. They have great customer support."

My stepfather blames me for the modem dying last year in his Dimension R400 from 1998. It happened some weeks or months after the last time I visited, during which I think the most I did was remove some adware. He went out and let a Staples salesperson sell him a USR PCI modem, and when that didn't work after he installed it, he still blamed me. He ended up buying a new HP because the experience made him think Dell's were unreliable, and I'm not allowed to make any changes on the system.