One day using my old DEC Pentium 133 system, I saw the mouse drivers were generic rather than the ones supposedly for my MS mouse. Not leaving well enough alone, I changed them. When I rebooted, I got a black screen. Trying safe mode, I couldn't get the original drivers from the Win95 CD, because I couldn't access the optical drives in safe mode! I lost all my data and applications in the now-mandatory reformat and reinstall from scratch. That day taught me to put accessible drivers on the hard drive.
Tom
Currently over charging my PSU. I was playing very nicely a game which was not saved and suddenly I saw a 'lightning' from under my desk and my comp shut off. It smelled like burning rubber and burning everything. I found out my PSU had gone BOOM!
I took it to CompUsa. (I didnt know anything about comps. back then, probably like 11 or 12 years old. We had to pay about $100 dollars
so my friend and I get together at my house to find out what is wrong with his computer. We both have a farirly good amount of knowledge and know how to put a computer together. Since his comp wasn't booting ,we completley take the thing apart and put it back together. Still doesnt boot....
Now my dad used to put together computer in the old i386 days and when windows DOS was the OS of choice. He came in and took one look at the computer and told us that the BIOS chip was broken.. Us being kids, just blew him off and didnt beleive him. 5 hours and 3 bottles of S. pellegrino later, we found out that the BIOS chip was indeed broken. My friend ended up buying a new mobo
I lost all my data and applications in the now-mandatory reformat and reinstall from scratch. That day taught me to put accessible drivers on the hard drive.
