Crazy tech stories

[iamchi001]

I recently went to www.drivesolutions.com and looked up the specs for my laptop. It listed my RAM as PC2100 (several other sites also list this) I went to crucial and it says I need PC2700. I know that is true because I ordered some PC2100 RAM and it didnt work. I called some tech support people and basiclly this is what I figured out: Drivesolutions made oppsy. I asked a kingston support guy if I could make it work and he said, not even a little.

Any other weird, annoying, or just plane crazy tech stories?

 

[featherfoot07]

This needs to be in the Tech forum. Please be careful where you post things, you will start to make members and admins very angry...

But besides that, I still think it's funny that you now have some ram for a random laptop you can't use......

 

[iamchi001]

yeah probably. I put it under this caregory cuz I thought the tech forum was for gaming tech. This thread was just meant for kicks and giggles.

 

[ManBearPig]

yeah probably. I put it under this caregory cuz I thought the tech forum was for gaming tech. This thread was just meant for kicks and giggles.

Yea this could go in either category...no harm

 

[Hoodie]

Funniest tech story I have is about my sisters old laptop, that was deemed completely useless. It wouldn't start up, just went into a continous restart. So she went out and bought a new one because she needed one badly for school.

I manage to reformat her old one, since having her new one already canceled out the fact of losing all her files. Long story short, her old computer works better than ever and is now mine. ^^

It's like 4 years old, but it has one of the best laptop processors made at the time, which is clocked at like 3.0+ GHz.

 

[Maj.Emish]

i had to think about this one for a little bit. i was lanning at a friend's house, then all of the computers started to run like crap. well come to find out one of our friends like to surf around with no virus software to let's say less than reputable sites. come to find out it infected the whole network. all the virus did was replicate a small file until it filled up your hard drive. it was a funny lan to say the least because we networked norton to scan his comp and it had some 1 million files from the virus.

 

[xenophek]

I had a motherboard eat ONLY 1 GB sticks of RAM once. Any other size and it would work, but 1 GB would overheat and fry on the spot. I destroyed two sticks before I figured it out.