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colw
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1. May 2005 @ 02:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Trust you were not advising/emulating our hacker friend from Germany who wiped out his own hard drives - that would put you in the dumbass category.
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1. May 2005 @ 03:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
im only posting to find out the answer
dumbass
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1. May 2005 @ 05:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Okay baabaa. Since I think that you are an okay guy, I will help you out, you dumb ass. :)

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1. May 2005 @ 07:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Quote:
Your a sheep not a donkey although that is really open to interpretation then isnt it baabaa
we can call him a dumbaaaaaaaaaass...

BTW, awesome pic thugs121!

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1. May 2005 @ 08:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok you got my curiosity aroused dumbass......



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1. May 2005 @ 08:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Dumbass!

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1. May 2005 @ 10:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
LMAO..................suspense over, here we go................

I was actually trying to see if anyone could guess the reason why, and only one person came close to it.

First colw, was the closest and therefore receives the 'dumbass detective award'.....Congratulations.....

Right here goes, I had just been on Afterdawn and helped someone regarding hard disk space (GrandpaBW will remember this one), and how I purge my machine to keep it clean, tidy and backed up.
Well, several things occured.

My mate brought his hard drive round for me to have a look at, it was just a storage drive no O/S installed as he was experiencing some issues regarding some of his files seemed to have vanished.

I opened up my PC (I have a 'gash pc that I use specifically for this type of thing AMD 1Ghz)to hook it up to a spare IDE channel.

Well the PC was ON (1st Dumbass bit), I had a cup of coffe near it (2nd Dumbass bit) and there was a small 'flash', this scared the shit out of me, and inadvertently knocked over the coffee, splashes went everywhere the PC motherboard 'flashed like a bastard' and my house was plunged into darkness....................

After stumbling downdstairs to find a torch (nearly broke my neck on the way down), found a torch, went to the fuse box and reset the RCD..(3rd Dumbass bit), well there was another crack, and the RCD went again, my mate shouted that there was another flash in there......(man I have to be really dumb).
So I shout to him, pull the plug out of the PC, he shouted 'I can only see it when you make it flash.....(I laughed my ass off when I heard that).
Went up stairs and unplugged it, went downstairs and reset the RCD......bingo we have light...............

Removed his hard drive (which was just hanging by the PSU cable) and looked at the motherboard, well it looked like a rats nest, half of the print had peeled up, some of the onboard chips had holes where the OEM markings used to be and some of the capacitors had holes straight through them.
Well we can safely say I fried that motherboard.....LOL.

Now I then turned to my mate and said.......hmm do you think we just zapped your hardive.........good possibility, but I hadn't connected the IDE cable at that point of dumbassness.

So I said to him, I will try it in my main machine.
I turned it off COMPLETELY AND UNPLUGGED IT THIS TIME.....LOL, and removed my storage hard drive and placed it on my window sill, and plugged his in.
Plugged the lead in and powered it up, everything came up and sure enough his hard drive was there, and I could see all his files etc.
He told me what files had vanished etc, so I did a quick search and they all appeared.

What he had done was a:not bothered searching for them, and b:placed them in different folders all over the place....jesus christ (lots of language culminated from behind my lips as you can imagine).
His face was an absolute picture (what a turkey).

He then asked me to move, and let him have a look, so I did (major dumbass bit) and then leaned against the window sill, hey presto, the window was open and out of the fuckin window flies my hard drive as though it had wings on it...................20 ft down and bang, splat, tinkle, tinkle tinkle tinkle.
Me and my mate just looked at each other with blank expressions, I then peered curiously out of the window to find my hard drive smashed to oblivion, and my cat sitting there next to the carcass looking somewhat dumbfounded.........LMAO, if only I had a cmaera............

Well, I said, ooops fuckin shit bastard twat (everything came out).......

Anyway, after the obsenities, I composed myself, went and made a coffee and me and my mate laughed for about half an hour.................jesus I must be the biggest dumbass outthere........................

This will make a great story on afterdawn...................LOL

The AMD cpu actually survived.....................That thing must have huge nuts and a shell like titanium........

Luckily (as I said earlier, about 10000 words back) I do regularly purge my PC and backup stuff, and thankfully I had backed up my storage drive (spanned across 8 dvd's) and this REALLY saved my ass.........................

So there you have it folks, a complete dumbass with ALL the trimmings, and the funny thing is, I am in the process of setting up a small business regarding PC Maintenance.............LMFAO.....................

So next time you come across me helping someone out here, just remember that my advice may have serious consequences...........

Feel free to continue to call me a dumbass or any other term you seem fit to label me with, I know I deserve it.................Catch you later......................................God this is killing me.............I keep laughing...........LOLLOLLOLLOLLOL......



...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
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1. May 2005 @ 10:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I admire your honesty!
I wouldnt have ever told that story....so I admire your guts, and ability to laugh at yourself, and let us laugh at you too LMAO
You should've stood in bed that day. he he he he









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1. May 2005 @ 10:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
LMAO baabaa, Man I'm glad I don't drink coffee!!!!!!!

Major bummer.




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1. May 2005 @ 10:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ROFLMAO, baabaa! I would have been drinking something other than coffee, though, after that happened. :)

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1. May 2005 @ 10:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
baabaa, bad hair day or is it bad wool day??
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1. May 2005 @ 10:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just had to share that with everyone.............I could never imagine anything like that ever happening..................I am dam sure it won't happen again................

Bad wool day for sure, in the middle of a nice cold one at the moment here in the UK in the back garden......
Wait, hahahaha, I just found the slave jumper on the patio......I was sure I found everything.............LOL

Good thing is, even though pc hardware got destroyed, the actual data that could have been lost wasn't...............I can think of easier ways to try and destroy data....................

Still as ddp always states.....teach and learn........

I shall not teach, and therefore others shall learn..............

...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
Beware of the Pixies - they move in over night and turn your life upside down


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1. May 2005 @ 10:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hahaha, note to self: If you upgrade your PC don't drink ANYTHING in the process!

Peace

Pop Smith

P.S. @baabaa, at least your CPU is ok.

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1. May 2005 @ 10:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
baabaa, teach & learn
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1. May 2005 @ 11:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
had that happened to me, i would have shot my friend and burned my neighbor's house down (that raging lunatic)! you handled it well, woolboy...i'm impressed! :) at least you know one thing that your good friends on AD will always do for you in a situation like this: we'll never let you live it down. ;-)


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1. May 2005 @ 11:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That is the best got damn story I have ever read.....

Sorry to hear about your HD but happy to hear your mother board survived.

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1. May 2005 @ 11:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ship them up to ddp, He'll fix them!




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1. May 2005 @ 11:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
geestar, he blew the motherboard but maybe not the cpu tho don't count on it when you consider the amount of damage to the motherboard
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1. May 2005 @ 11:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i think he has done to much damage to repair besdes the shipping cost would not be worth it
colw
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1. May 2005 @ 15:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi Baabaa

Very unfortunate, but very funny - you have to laugh or else you would be crying.

LOL
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1. May 2005 @ 15:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I feel for u bro. I have done something like that b4.....but it was to a friend's pc.

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1. May 2005 @ 18:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
baabaa I will continue to call you a dumbass, only if you manage to do it again. Everyone has those bad days.

Seriously, I would have killed my friend who had me on that wild goose chase that led to unnecessary tragedy. But I guess this could be a good time to upgrade, huh?

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1. May 2005 @ 20:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
that was one of the funnies things I've read in a long time.

You need one of these:


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1. May 2005 @ 23:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow, flip that would do the trick cool, I want one of those.....
Is it customised or another DELL's excuse to sell PC's......LOL.....

The following may upset people

I have to apologise for my recent thread.
My mates never take me seriously as I always wind them up, and one of them challenged me over the weekend to see how many people I could lead up the garden path.
And it appeared to work well......LOL
I thought it would make a slightly different topic for a couple of days and provide a little entertainment aswell.
As the weekend has ended, I thought I would come clean.

Now you may think that I am trying to exonerate myself, but I can assure you I am not.
I am an electronics engineer, and such basic errors would have been avoided..........................

Did you think it made a good story anyway?

The truth is I did not know how I was going to do, I just posted 'call me a dumbass bit' without anything specific in mind, and when I discovered lots of people were doing it, I had to think up a plausible story.....................
jim_dandy, gave me the clue, about setting up...........LOL

Did you like it?

I don't know whether people will trust me from now on, but I just wanted to post something a little different...............

Does anyone else want their reputation to be damaged, as I know of another story that'll work well...........LMAO............

Sorry if this caused any offense to anyone....................Not.........LOL

Will anyone every trust what I say again.........

I now think everyone will be calling me a bastard rather than a dumbass................LOL

...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
Beware of the Pixies - they move in over night and turn your life upside down


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1. May 2005 @ 23:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well it was quite enjoyable , but really baabaa i thought this was just gonna be another of your inane postings within the safety value.It was very funny and yes please if flip sends you one put me also down ,got ta luv those wheels

keep them coming sheepboy

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