<Update!> ---- Dam! A spider killed my hard drive (i think).

[Wedesdo]

Update:

I finally got the replacement drive from Maxtor. It was the only good thing to come out of this. My old drive was a 13.6 GB 5400 UDMA/33 drive, the one I got back was a brandnew 13.6 GB 7200RPM UDMA/66 drive.

After the incident, my parents had the whole house sprayed and pest-controlled. they even redid the termite treatment. what a hectic week!

I haven't used my old comp in a while, but it is full of stuff, so I used it today, wanting to set up a DOD server for my friends. Any ways, I was installing W2k on it (this is a 450 CeleryA with 128 MB of RAM), and it even passed the surface disk check. Now I'm installing other stuff on it, and suddenly, the installation program stops and the comp freezes.

I then restarted my comp, and it said no boot record found on HDD. I am now thinking a virus, but I already installed Norton, so I ruled that possibility out. I open up my comp; there were a bunch of spider webs inside. There was also a dead spider directly below my borken harddrive. It probably short-circuited the HDD.

Stupid spiders!

 

[Jugernot]

Just be glad you didn't have one in your underwear!

 

[Missus]

Do you think you cooked the spider??

... Layman question...

 

[mztykal]

Dude, almost the same thing happened to me. I was getting really slow connections through my modem. After tweaking and everything it just got slower. So I open my case and there's a cochroach fried onto the modem. It's just like toasted there. It shorted out the main power trace. Insects is SUCK!

 

[Azraele]

Ick, that sucks.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

LOL.

Did you know where the computer world came up with the name 'computer bug' ?

It actually came from a moth who got jammed in a mainframe in Japan that shorted out the computer for hours. :Q

No joking.

 

[yakko]

<< Just be glad you didn't have one in your underwear! >>


Why would he have a hard drive in his underwear?

 

[Valhalla1]

I know I get a hard drive in my underwear when I look at pr0n! :Q

 

[convex]

you people have filthy homes =(

 

[Wedesdo]

not really, the spider was by a window; the windows was probably open and it just crawled inside

 

[NakaNaka]

Is that true about Japan and the bug?

HA! We (humans) do the weirdest things liek that,

Cuban Missle Crisis stupid ass defense department code names it ORTSAC (CASTRO backward)

Tips of the press.

Genius.

 

[Croton]

neotechman.

that fact was actually on &quot;Who Wants To Be A Millionare?&quot;

It was the million dollar question -- no joking!

and the guy won, btw.

nerd!

 

[Talon]

The moth story is true but the location was the U.S.

http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm

 

[erikiksaz]

maybe you should install some fans in your case. heh heh, those couple-thousand rpm fans will shore chop up any little critter that tries to step foot in your case.

 

[shiznut123]

I found a freakin Fly in my computer once but it didn't short circuit my computer

 

[Wedesdo]

updated

 

[Passions]

where did u get japan from, it was in the us.