Whats an easy way to crash a computer?

[Byte]

Here is the story. My friends sis has this old compaq pentium computer. Its old and takes about 10 minutes to boot up (no kidding) and like 30 seconds to even open word. But she doesn't care. He wants a new comp and wants to "give" his older one (athlon 1.3GHz) to her. What would be the easiest way to basicaly screw the computer up beyond usage. He doesn't want to do anything internally so maybe something software for Win98 like deleting a file or something? I'm sure you guys will have fun with this one.

 

[NeoPTLD]

Originally posted by: Byte
Here is the story. My friends sis has this old compaq pentium computer. Its old and takes about 10 minutes to boot up (no kidding) and like 30 seconds to even open word. But she doesn't care. He wants a new comp and wants to "give" his older one (athlon 1.3GHz) to her. What would be the easiest way to basicaly screw the computer up beyond usage. He doesn't want to do anything internally so maybe something software for Win98 like deleting a file or something? I'm sure you guys will have fun with this one.

Change something in BIOS.

 

[Corporate Thug]

delete .dll's

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Um, why? Give the computer to someone who will use it, or just put it on FS/T. If he really has to give it away, give it to me!

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Doublepost.

- M4H

 

[BatmanNate]

Install Windows ME.

 

[TallBill]

use a crowbar

 

[Spac3d]

Run a magnet over the hd.

 

[melly]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Install Windows ME.

i resemble that remark!

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Install Windows ME.

Damn it, beat me to it!

 

[LeStEr]

Install some viruses?

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: LeStEr
Install some viruses?

See my previous post.

 

[Byte]

You can have it for all we care!

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Um, why? Give the computer to someone who will use it, or just put it on FS/T. If he really has to give it away, give it to me!

- M4H

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Format C: She should be perplexed by failure to boot to windows enough to accept the upgrade. Besides no way even that old system should take that long to boot as I've had 98 on old p66's that didn't take near that long so there's probably heaps of bloatware and fraged files on that drive and it copuld use a fresh install anyways

 

[RossMAN]

Install Windows ME

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Byte
You can have it for all we care!

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Um, why? Give the computer to someone who will use it, or just put it on FS/T. If he really has to give it away, give it to me!

- M4H

Uh, ok. YGPM.

- M4H

 

[Byte]

we don't wanna destroy all the data in case something important is in there. I think the DLL thing may work. What can you change in the bios that would totally kill it? (its a compaq, not much you can really change)

hey if you live here in hawaii you can have all my junk stuff. I actually just threw out 3 15" monitors that worked ok but didn't have room.

 

[ElFenix]

when you said crash i thought you mean crash in the normal sense as in an unintended shutdown due to a program error. best way to do that is to put a whole bunch of pr0n into one directory and select "view thumbnails"

turn off the page file and it might be so completely slow that she'd get rid of it

 

[Anubis]

run a defrag and in the middle of it unplug the comp

 

[Zrom999]

screw up the registry, rewrite boot.ini, install incompatable drivers

 

[AkumaX]

delete logo.sys

 

[boyRacer]

/methinks you have an old computer and you just want an excuse to buy a new one...

 

pee on it

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Install Windows ME.

 

[Sid59]

spend time and try and drag "My Computer" into the "recycle"