Computer Horror Stories

United States
June 27, 2007 3:06am CST
Have you ever had a computer horror story? A few days ago I turned on my computer to see an error message: disk boot failure. Spent hours trying to fix it and it fixed itself... weird. What kind of problems have you had and how did you fix them?
5 responses
@el_jeffo (750)
• Philippines
27 Jun 07
Well, it's a horror story everytime I get the infamous Blue Screen. It comes unexpectedly, and has no known causes or fixes..and just disappears by itself (or after rebooting). But seeing the words "Fatal Exception" is enough to keep me up at night.
@ebenjie (440)
• Philippines
28 Jun 07
the "fatal exception" as i observed its in memory. theres something wrong with the cached memory, reboot to clean the cached.
@ebenjie (440)
• Philippines
28 Jun 07
"disk boot failure" its appear when your computer cant detect the operating system installed in your pc.
@cuddleme01 (2725)
• Philippines
27 Jun 07
computer - my computer
i just get some hang ups and some automatic restarting experience of my pc. No weird things so far.
@nsangno (63)
• Thailand
27 Jun 07
Long time ago, when data recovery was not technically good as it is todays, one guy composed a technical e-book called 200-ways to recover your harddisk. There are many weird solutions in the book, for example have your HDD frozen. This is the only thing I can remember. I think you can try.
• Philippines
27 Jun 07
I had this experience when I was about 12y/o. My brother has a pc that runs in DOS mode. I have no idea what a computer virus was. One time when I was using the pc the monitor turned off & when it turned back on I saw a face of the devil and it was laughing. I run outside and told my brother the pc was possessed. -LOL- That was a long time ago. What I experience now in my pc regularly is when I boot it the 1st time my 2nd hard drive is sometimes not detected. I have to restart it a few times before it get back to normal.