Worst nightmare ever

You're keeping us in suspense.
What was the fix.

Cheers..

 

Well, I hope that you got everything sorted out, Laura.
I've had a lot of folks come to me with 'Rogue-ware', where it has virtually taken over the whole computer, pretending to be a mal-ware killer, demanding money to get rid of so-called viruses, which of course, it doesn't.rolleyes

 

Ouch Laura!:eek I guess she's going through the R@R ATM. Good luck.

 

That was an awful hoax! Near as bad the War of the Worlds episode years back... The story really had me going... Glad your machine is fine... Are moderator folks allowed to cry wolf?

I shoulda known being in the "lounge"

 

I had 67 Win 7 updates after reinstall of a failed drive.

After that reboot gave a blank screen

SafeMode to the rescue for me as well.....

Glad to hear your alive LauraR- after the end of the world title....

 

Sounds like Laura could use some rum-soaked fruitcake (without the fruitcake) after that "scary" experience.
Would be scary if it really happens to you, though.
Can anybody say "Pull the plug." Quickly.

 

I also had a terrible nightmare last night.

I dreamed I was a muffler, like on a car!!!!



















I woke up exhausted.

 

That one should wheely, wheely be re-tired.

 

It was the Win7 update to my wife's laptop that never was done as she had too many documents and would not part with it long enough to wipe and reinstall. HP Tech was nice enough to wipe it when sent in for service (funny I was able to pull all the files off the "faulty drive" though...:confused). All is well now until the real nightmare begins- her complaints about not liking Win7....

My wife is legally blind and insists that her magnification software is ALL she can use. I set large fonts and icons and that created a conflict that confused Win7. I showed her zoom in Compiz, but she screams when I get within 2 feet of her system with a Linux disk.:-D

 

Bah! I thought it sounded a bit too weird, but ya just never know, ya know?LOL Why can't you just ave normal dreams like falling out of high-rise buildings and stuff, like me. rolleyes

 

Why, certainly. Here you go. :wine

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Place is getting too mushy.

 

...Maybe it's not mushy ENOUGH! .LOL

 

Worst nightmare recently: I was at the airport, ten minutes until the flight leaves, and for some reason I couldn't get my currency exchanged.
Then I opened my passport and it didn't have a photo in it.

 

Good thing it was only a dream, huh Laura? LOL

I think I am the queen of weird dreams though.. I've had end of the world dreams, city flooding dreams, flying (in tubes) dreams..

My oddest so far (aside from the one where I got off the bus and didn't pay and the cops were after me LOL) I was driving a small sports car down a dirt road and it started to rain.. I made this u-turn to go back on the abnormally WIDE street because the rain was turning the dirt into mud.. so I'm driving and all of a sudden this large (lake?) pond appeared in the middle of the road and I drove right into it. The car submerged and disappeared into the water and I emerged pulling a white horse..and a man in a wheelchair. There were two men waiting when I came out of the water and were asking me questions.. That's all I remember. and no, I didn't have anything weird to eat that night either! :-D

 

Did the 2 men that were waiting for you have a jacket for you?
A jacket with abnormally long sleeves?

 

no

They kinda looked like Amish.. with the clothes and beards LOL

 

Sorry about that.
Just couldn't resist.

 

Dymond simply fell asleep while watching the Old Spice commercials...

 

Ha!, Ha! ~ I suddenly feel normal now when I have weird dreams.:-D

 

I told ya, I'm the queen of weird dreams. I just remembered the one I had where a friend was chasing me around a store trying to smash a pie in my face :-D

I've never had any of those "test" dreams.. I guess they would be too normal for me LOL

:-D I don't even have a TV..so there

Leave the ice cream out of this.. it's never hurt anyone!! LOL

Glad I was able to make you feel "normal"

 

My worst nightmare just became a reality.

I started the PC up this morning and while it got up to speed i went for some coffee, came back and promptly knocked the coffee off my desk and the whole mug went into the PC via the extractor fan holes in the top.

There was a lot of hissing and cracking then the power in the house went off, i pulled the power to the PC and reset the fuses in the house.

After i stopped kicking myself i opened the case and found i have fried a lot of components in there so i am now using my wife's laptop (with her kind permission)

It is going to take a while to get the PC back up and running as i do not have the spares to re-build it so i will have to hope Santa is kind to me this year.

 

OMG Bill!!! My condolences.:cry Hmm, may as well go with 580's now. Seriously, this has to be the worst case scenario ever! Don't write anything off until you actually test the cards elsewhere, see if you can find a local tech with a proper solvent tank, your rig is worth it!

 

This is a dream thread right?

 

ERRGH!...That aint good, Bill!! One reason why I have my drinks on a separate coffee table than the computer gear. Otherwise I would had shorted gear out a few times, I admit.
Yeah, like Augie said, as long as you let the circuitry,etc. dry out completely and maybe use a solvent to get rid of any dried coffee, you may be able to resurrect most of it. A not uncommon task that goes through the workshop, here. Got a laptop that's had a dousing in Cool-Aid in there, a.t.m.rolleyes

Good luck with all that, man. Not a great time of the year to have 'puter expenses, either.
(Yeah Laura, I thought of your little saga when I first read the O.P.)

 

@Phantom What is used today as a solvent? It used to be Freon in a refrigerator back in the early 80's. I still love that smell, besides the smell of rosin in the morning!:-o:-D

 

I have got Isopropyl alcohol to do the job.

 

That'll do the trick as long as it's over %80 pure. I've had issues with lesser concentrates. Yes, I've poured beer over my machine!:-o:cry:-D

 

Wishing you the best of luck in your cleanup, Bill.

 

Freon's still a good solvent as is Isopropanol. Sometimes I use Tetrachloroethylene , (carefully) for stubborn foreign substances.