Don't trust your non-computer literate friends......

[bball4life]

You can hot swap SATA drives.

Thats what I said and then people decided to tell me I was wrong

Lol you better be careful about swapping those ide drives though, after enough times it could really crap it up.

 

[Bobo]

Thats what I said and then people decided to tell me I was wrong

I didn't say you were wrong, I just said that it never worked for me

Lol you better be careful about swapping those ide drives though, after enough times it could really crap it up.

Blah. Whatever.

 

[gamerman4]

Very odd....
Just now my friend came over and gave me the computer that I just posted about. Anyways, I figured it was a hard drive problem.
When I turned the computer on it did what he said it did but I ntoiced the light on the floppy drive never went off. I turned the comp off unplugged the floppy and it boot right to Windows without a problem. Anyone ever have anything like this happen to them?

 

[StrangleHold]

Floppy cable could be backward or should I say upside down

 

[Bobo]

Or it could just be a dead floppy drive. Maybe it is telling the system that there is a floppy in it, and the system keeps trying to boot from the nonexistant floppy first, hence no boot.

 

[Calibretto]

Wow, that was about the dumbest move I've ever seen a person make with a computer part.

 

[ChickenWing]

why doesn't he just set the boot option to not have floppy 1st or 2nd?It'd fix his problem without having to actually remove the floppy until he got a new one

 

[holyjunk]

Thanks for that link.

ahh, yes I always love a good computer illiterate story. In case you guys haven't seen this before, take a look at this webpage:
http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

Ya, no kidden. Thank you! haha

 

[Impr3ssiv3]

no all SATA drives in a computer are plug and play


you can take them out whilist the computer is on

 

[dark_legacy2006]

lol can you even hook the floppy drive in the wrong way, i thought there was a plastic tiny pin so it could only go in one way

 

[diduknowthat]

Ok get this...

My friend was installing his XP onto his computer. He thought it was "slow" and yanked the plug to restart the computer in the middle of the installation. Now his computer is very much not working

 

[Impr3ssiv3]

lol can you even hook the floppy drive in the wrong way, i thought there was a plastic tiny pin so it could only go in one way

yup i had mine installed the wrong way but just switch the cable and its perfect

 

[kof2000]

"Just get the Q6600. 2.4 GHz x 4 = 9.6 Ghz, far exceeding your 3.0 GHz needs."

 

[K3rupt]

lol! Dude i know what its like when you have a friend that knows "Lots" About computers when you tell them about the basics such as

Bios
Jumpers
Cables

And they jump straight into building a computer

Generally doing stupid stuff . . .

I got a friend that once tried too take the CPU out of the Motherboard too see if it was still working. . .

Idiot. lol

 

[vroom_skies]

Normally, threads that are at the bottom of the ocean... stay at the bottom of the ocean.

 

[jutnm]

Lmfao

 

[patrickv]

Normally, threads that are at the bottom of the ocean... stay at the bottom of the ocean.

agreed, i mean someone to dig something this old is just too much

 

[K3rupt]

agreed, i mean someone to dig something this old is just too much

haha! Whoa! This thread is OLD