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Old 07-08-2008, 06:59 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Friends, nowadays it is not new if any PC crashes, with or without a reason. But would you like to share your reason of crashing PC. Was it a virus, hardware failure, or software failure? Lets discuss in detail.
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Old 07-08-2008, 07:00 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Installed XP-SP3..............
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Old 07-08-2008, 07:05 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 07-08-2008, 08:20 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Inserted my finger in CPU fan
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Old 08-08-2008, 10:22 AM   #5 (permalink)
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^wtf??

Mine - BSOD , coz of shitty LAN driver
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Old 08-08-2008, 10:30 AM   #6 (permalink)
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It was in 2003 (yes thats right) and it was due to over-heating and my mobo and its wires fried.
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Old 08-08-2008, 11:21 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Old 08-08-2008, 11:44 AM   #10 (permalink)
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4GB RAM was incompatible in Vista.So,the whole thing went blue!BSOD!MY first ever.SP1 fixed it up though.
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Old 08-08-2008, 12:00 PM   #11 (permalink)
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After I Installed AVG 8.0 in XP SP2; problem solved after installing SP3.

Also My laptop crashed when I tried to install Ubuntu in it. Obsolete hardware? Dunno.
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almost everyday .... reason >> some installation & god knows ....
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I was using windows XP SP2
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My HDD is a critter of crash. Friggin RMA replacement
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Last month due to conflicting HDD's( 80GB & 160 GB IDE drives)...
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BSOD... I loaded my kernel mode driver(for a project) outside VMWare.
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Old 09-08-2008, 02:11 PM   #20 (permalink)
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bcoz i fired up an extraction via WinRar, loaded a HD (720p) clip, connected my PSP, iPod, played 1058 songs in shuffle mode, fired up COD4 and DMC4 ... alTOGETHER and uTorrent was checking my disk for the % of completion of torrents and AVG scan wz also running ........ well all this processes hanged my system and had to re-start
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^OMG.. so much stress on a little processor.. only 800 MHz FSB..

Mine crashed daily, many times, coz Vista couldn't find a better LAN driver..
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^^ur struck by the Visaster too
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my hdd power cables are always loose (blame my psu)
it crashes almost everymonth and so a screwdriver is always beside my monitor
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Old 09-08-2008, 04:16 PM   #24 (permalink)
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OMG.. Cooldudie is back.. welcome back dude.. so how's life..

My Hackintosh got kernel panic when i tried to run Boot Camp partition in VMware..
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Old 09-08-2008, 08:03 PM   #26 (permalink)
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I can't believe you got Horny with your PC
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i install my OS every 6 months .... it crashes for sme reason oe the other!!
last time it crashed whn i dropped the CPU while crossing the river
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mine crashed 10days ago because of a dead hdd
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Old 10-08-2008, 09:21 AM   #29 (permalink)
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I can't believe you got Horny with your PC
Damn.. that was awesome.. this is simply amazing.. ROFL.. LMAO..

mine crashed yesterday while running Vista and XP simultaneously under XEN and Virtualbox along Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit.. actually it froze due to wrong settings in XEN conf file.
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HDD failure, a year and a half back
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