IT/Computer Nightmares

[KingGeno]

I've been involved with the IT and Computer industry for about 10 years now. I've been involved with situations that were complete nightmares, completely baffling, or outright flabbergasting before. Could be about the people involved, the geography where this happened, or the situation that popped up.

Anyone have some nutso stories to share? Just curious. I'll post a bunch as it goes along.

[biggestmexi]

I've been involved with the IT and Computer industry for about 10 years now. I've been involved with situations that were complete nightmares, completely baffling, or outright flabbergasting before. Could be about the people involved, the geography where this happened, or the situation that popped up.

Anyone have some nutso stories to share? Just curious. I'll post a bunch as it goes along.

MOBO.-- Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
RAM.---- G.SKILL DDR2 1066
PRO.-----Q6600

This seems like a good place for problem solving as well.

>.> Why haven't you replaced your mobo or that bad stick of RAM yet? Why are you waiting?

What error code for SP1 install?

Make a new thread. Let's talk about your feelings, sport.


It gives me a web address to go to for microsoft. It says something interuppted it or something else. Ill have to look at it at home.

I dont think its a bad stick either. I have had it to boot once with both of them. Then shortly after it BSOD.

IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_THAN

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGE_AREA

MEMORY_MANAGMENT

SYSTEM_SERVICE_(something)

I need to up date the board as well. But last night a was playing Fallout 3 and got some error about somthing.

Not to mention i cant even install the driver for my VC for some reason. I dl'it last night and tried to install and it said that it cant autodetect device(ATI) and then the intall just lockes up.

Yesterday i started prime95 fro about 20min and had to shut it down because I needed to use the pc. Later that night i started it again and got an error in a few seconds and then it BSOD to fast to see.

edit the ram says on the sticker 2.0 v as well. The bios is set to 1.8v. I changed that and it did nothing really to help either.

[JPMNICK]

I was developing customer software for the State Department. We had ordered a server to be shipped directly there and told them to install it.

I get down there to deliver the software, and I was going to do a training. We were on time and on budget amazingly. I go to start the training, 9am monday morning. Everyone logs in, and it crashes. I was panicked, thinking my stress testing was not enough or I fucked something up.

anyway we had to go restart the server, I walk into the data center, and it is the old ass server. I asked where the new server was, and it was unboxed, just sitting on the floor. no one ever installed it.

[KingGeno]

Blue screens with those errors mean hardware failure. You can receive those errors from anything in your computer, but since you are receiving so many different ones I believe it is your motherboard. You should look into having it rma'ed.

[ANC]

Running a Cisco Aironet Wireless network here here by the port. A very important office goes offline and the wireless goes down. Turns out seagulls were eating through the wires. first we started trowing pebbles to get the away to no avail, then got up in a cherry-picker into a flock of seagulls to replace the cable and install a protective housing..

[ANC]

Mexi, is this your new PC?

[biggestmexi]

Mexi, is this your new PC?

yeah :glurps:

[KingGeno]

One flabbergasting moment:

I was dispatched to a residential house. The problem described to me was that this person purchased a new Dell laptop, and the USB ports were not working. No devices would be detected or powered on.

I arrive at this house, and I sit at the computer, and the first thing I check is that the USB drivers and such are installed on the operating system. I then go, and attempt to plug the USB Intellimouse nearby into the USB port on the back, and the plug goes an inch into the system with no feedback at all. I am like "WTF?". Turn the computer around, and then look at the USB ports, and all that is there are mangles pieces of metal.

I grab the owner, and ask her "WTF?". She says her ten year old son was "looking at it earlier". I asked the ten year old kid what he did, and he said he saw "a metal and plastic clips inside the port that needed to be removed", so he "grabbed pliers and removed them, but the ports still don't work". This dumb bastard kid grabbed pliers and physically ripped the ports out thinking they were not supposed to be there.

I informed the owner that the whole laptop needs to be sent back to be fixed/replaced, and suggested that she not allow her child to touch expensive hardware that she purchases.

[ANC]

yeah :glurps:

Definitely seems like a MB issue, I'd call up the manufacturer and have them send a tech to replace it. No sense in driving yourself nuts.

[KingGeno]

Unfortunately with those types of blue screens you may have to just go down the chain, and replace things until stuff works. Could be the hard drive or the mem sticks also. :/ Better not to wait, and just get it done. You wanna make sure that you stress to the seller that this crap shipped defective.

[ANC]

Unfortunately with those types of blue screens you may have to just go down the chain, and replace things until stuff works. Could be the hard drive or the mem sticks also. :/ Better not to wait, and just get it done. You wanna make sure that you stress to the seller that this crap shipped defective.

Exactly!

[JPMNICK]

MOBO.-- Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
RAM.---- G.SKILL DDR2 1066
PRO.-----Q6600

This seems like a good place for problem solving as well.




It gives me a web address to go to for microsoft. It says something interuppted it or something else. Ill have to look at it at home.

I dont think its a bad stick either. I have had it to boot once with both of them. Then shortly after it BSOD.

IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_THAN

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGE_AREA

MEMORY_MANAGMENT

SYSTEM_SERVICE_(something)

I need to up date the board as well. But last night a was playing Fallout 3 and got some error about somthing.

Not to mention i cant even install the driver for my VC for some reason. I dl'it last night and tried to install and it said that it cant autodetect device(ATI) and then the intall just lockes up.

Yesterday i started prime95 fro about 20min and had to shut it down because I needed to use the pc. Later that night i started it again and got an error in a few seconds and then it BSOD to fast to see.

edit the ram says on the sticker 2.0 v as well. The bios is set to 1.8v. I changed that and it did nothing really to help either.


it is your RAM. take out all but 1 stick and try again

[biggestmexi]

it is your RAM. take out all but 1 stick and try again

yeah it runs with one stick. sometimes it will bsod after playing left 4 dead after a little bit.

Also when the hard drive starts to spin up the compy freezes for a sec and then it does it again when the HDD stop spinning.

Would that be it as well?

Then sometimes during boot after a BSOD it will say some files are missing and cant start windows.

Usually that happens with two sticks. But sometimes its a different file is "corrupt or missing" But i have only seen a total of three different ones. (they were all drivers.)

[JPMNICK]

yeah it runs with one stick. sometimes it will bsod after playing left 4 dead after a little bit.

Also when the hard drive starts to spin up the compy freezes for a sec and then it does it again when the HDD stop spinning.

Would that be it as well?

Then sometimes during boot after a BSOD it will say some files are missing and cant start windows.

Usually that happens with two sticks. But sometimes its a different file is "corrupt or missing" But i have only seen a total of three different ones. (they were all drivers.)

if you installed the OS with the bad stick of RAM in there, you prolly have a corrupt OS. you need to find the good stick of RAM, and then reformat the computer

[biggestmexi]

if you installed the OS with the bad stick of RAM in there, you prolly have a corrupt OS. you need to find the good stick of RAM, and then reformat the computer

But it still boots and run normal most of the time.

If there is one stick in it and it doesnt go under severe load it runs fine.

Could it be Vista x64 as well?

I need XPwSP3. anyone?

[KingGeno]

I run Vista 64bit, and it works fine all the time. If you have a 64bit processor, and more than 3.5GB of RAM, I would suggest you stickin' with it.

As far as if the memory is bad, have you tried using one stick, seeing if the errors pop up, swapping the other stick in, seeing if there are errors? You need to verify if you are receiving errors when both sticks are plugged in.

Because you said that your hard drive is also acting up at times, I think that the mobo is having electrical/power issues, and your SATA transfer is being interrupted by something.

You are having hard drive issues, your mem sticks aren't working, tons of blue screens. Either it is your mobo, or every component is complete broken.

Have you tried clearing your CMOS Memory/clear RT Clock? There should be a section in the Mobo book about this. Could help.

[biggestmexi]

I run Vista 64bit, and it works fine all the time. If you have a 64bit processor, and more than 3.5GB of RAM, I would suggest you stickin' with it.

As far as if the memory is bad, have you tried using one stick, seeing if the errors pop up, swapping the other stick in, seeing if there are errors? You need to verify if you are receiving errors when both sticks are plugged in.

Because you said that your hard drive is also acting up at times, I think that the mobo is having electrical/power issues, and your SATA transfer is being interrupted by something.

You are having hard drive issues, your mem sticks aren't working, tons of blue screens. Either it is your mobo, or every component is complete broken.

Have you tried clearing your CMOS Memory/clear RT Clock? There should be a section in the Mobo book about this. Could help.

Yeha ive cleared the cmos a few times now.

Also when installing Vista i had a bitch of a time. 6-7 times to get it right with out bsodiing then too.