Bill Gates' Birthday

[Von Pookie]

The best error message I have *personally* seen in the time I've been using computers (PCs, that is)?

That would have to be the time I started up my computer and was greeted with "Cannot read drive C:"

And then it was never heard from again.

 

[Tazguy37]

Or:

"Keyboard error or keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."

 

[al_b_cnu]

The best error message I have *personally* seen in the time I've been using computers (PCs, that is)?

That would have to be the time I started up my computer and was greeted with "Cannot read drive C:"

And then it was never heard from again.

how about a mainframe error message I once saw:

'Hardware or Software error'

 

[caringsharingbristolbilly]

Getting off topic here, but my favourite was when my computer was being it's usual buggy irritating self, crashing every five minutes, freezing, blue screening, randomly forgetting it had a keyboard, then it suddenly came up with the following error message:

" Error: Catastrophic Failure".


:x

Needless to say, my computer took quite a beating that day. :wink:

 

[Mark O'Brien]

I was gonna say something about my Blue Screens of Death, but if I say it out loud, it will happen.

I haven't had a BSOD since I stopped using NT4. All is well in the world and I fear no loss of data. Microsoft is great.

 

[Von Pookie]

Who are you, and what have you done with Mark?

 

[NateO]

I think the trick is to use Windows XP; which has been a lot more stable for me (or dare I suggest Windows ME? )…

 

[Mark O'Brien]

Or Win2k. Which is what I was on until earlier this year.

 

[Cbrine]

I'm with Nate on the windows platform now. I'm using XP Pro, and the only time I've seen BSOD involved following an IM link, and downloading a viirus(ie. USER STUPIDITY). Nasty rebuild after that.

Cal

PS-I haven't lost a spreadsheet since I upgraded from XL97 to XL2003. The recovery services are awesome.

 

[Joe4]

Here's a good Catch-22 I experienced a few weeks back.

I had a problem with my computer where it would not boot-up at all (not even in Safe Mode). As I am sitting on Dell's support line, sitting on hold for what seemed an eternity, a helpful recorded voice tells me to try to go to Dell's web site for support. Gee, thanks!