Hey guys, what is the most bizarre computer problem you've ever had?


I just had one this morning where a fellow employee reported her computer gave her a disk boot error. I went and had a look, I figured there might be a floppy in the drive but there wasn't. The only hard drive and cd drive was plugged into the secondary IDE channel, to my knowledge this should never have worked. I simply plugged them into the primary one and it is now running fine, both my collegues said they hadn't touched it.

Weird huh?

Clearly aliens took a break from crop circles and maliciously rearranged their wires. That's the only possible answer!

Hee hee.

I'll say! :-| My website will be up soon !

The most bezar thing thats ever happened to me on a computer is the computer active as if it had some kind of AI. The computer would often do its own thing when you told it to or not do anything at all, it often failed to boot up, start programs, active the mouse or keyboard on start up and loads of other things that I have no idea what happened. This happened for months and I sent it away to the manufactures and they had no idea what was wrong with it ether, they had replaced several fans, upgraded the processer (free of charge ), upgraded the hard drive and a number of other things. They also gave me a free virus scanner for a year. (loads of free stuff that was of little use)

It turned out to be GTA3 that I had installed on my computer strait away after I got my computer back again. I only relised this after I got my new computer and I had it running find for a few days before I wanted to play GTA3 when I installed it the same problems started to occure. If anyone wants a free upgrade for your computer and your PC is still on warnatty, I have a brillian game for $60 for anyone who is interested. (not really, Im not that stuppid)

most bizarre comp problem....cant say i have found one because computers seem to be able to supprize me every day.

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Most bizarre eh?

Well of course we've all seen some marvellous things, but one of the better ones I've encountered was a bloke who managed to get his PC so trojan infected and software corrupted that whenever he tried to open a browser link, Word would open up and start typing out a love letter to him on screen!

Be buggered to trying to sort that one out. That called for a format for sure!


(I meant that literally, by the way. It was a bloody love letter!)

Probably when my computer just reboots for no reason lol.

Mine used to do that, it tured out that one of my fans wasn't working correctly and the computer was turning itself off and restarted. I would have thought it should cut out, not restart

This isn't really a computer problem, just something strange that happened. A while back, when the power went out for a few days on the northern east coast, the power went out at the same exact time I unplugged my computer, which I do on very rare occassions.