Personal Silly Tech Stories

[Peregrine]

Another forum I used to hang on had a thread like this. Thought I'd start one here with something that happened to me and my G53.

We are mostly pretty techy folks here. But even we do some dumb things.
Have you ever had a really weird computer problem and figured out it was something YOU did??

Here's mine. I was gaming. Wife's Dell laptop was acting really weird. I said she could use my ROG Lappy to edit her resume and I would look at her Dell.
I hand her the laptop and load her resume off the memory stick.
"Do you want the keyboard?"
"No..."
I toss my BT keyboard in the backpack.
Everything is OK for a few minutes.
Then she yells "OMG WHAT NOW!?!?!"
She was a bit frustrated because the Dell acted up.
I went to see. The ENTER key appeared to be stuck. Her resume kept wanting to close and would stop on SAVE CHANGES?
Hit ESC. It would keep popping up. She's freaking because she doesn't want to lose her changes.
I quickly change focus so nothing happens to her Word doc.
A folder on my desktop keeps opening. OPEN, I press ALT-F4, OPEN, ALT-F4.
I start WAILING on the ENTER key knowing it had to be stuck. Nothing.
WTF!!!!!!
O....
Wait.....
Do you know by what I just typed what the problem was?????



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REMOVE BT KEYBOARD FROM BACKPACK. SHUT IT OFF.
Problem resolved. THe backpack was holding a key down.

DOH!

[Zygomorphic]

MrRyaz wrote:
upgrading your pc like you do, just the standard fiddling with fans etc
when all of a sudden the 2 pins in a Molex to fan connector touch and large volumes of smoke and heat magically appear, i yanked out the molex plug and then the smoke cleared revealing a melted plastic wire melted into my hand 😞

on that day i learned.... turn it off before fiddling

Note to self, +Voltage + -Voltage = bad. 😄

[Skull6]

I know a few of you have made this same mistake I have...get so excited about FINALLY getting all the components connected to be able to fire the new computer up. Fans are all in & set to push air in the proper direction. HDDs are all in & connected properly. GPUs are all in & strapped. Memory's all seated fully, etc...only to find that the power button on the front of the case isn't working. I even went so far as to test the plug in the wall to ensure it was hot. Re-looked at all the wiring connections in the case, only to discover that...

I hadn't hit that little switch on the back of the PS to the "on" position.

C'mon. Fess up. You know you've done it too. 😉

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Skull6 wrote:
C'mon. Fess up. You know you've done it too. 😉

I will not! I will not acknowledge that this may have happened as recently as this weekend!:rolleyes:

[Zygomorphic]

Arne Saknussemm wrote:
I will not! I will not acknowledge that this may have happened as recently as this weekend!:rolleyes:

Never had this happen to me...but I have plugged my laptop into the charger and forgotten to plug the charger into the wall. lol :rolleyes:

[Zka17]

Oh, yeah! It happens all time... 😄 However, on a test bench you can see the mobo lights... it's easier to figure out the "problem"... 🙂