Posts by kleinluka

I was able to boot windows SOMETIMES, only my screen resolution would be 640x480 and it wouldnt recognize most of my drivers like video card etc. Some other times it even loaded my Windows installation on my D drive which was my really old windows that I used on my old computer. LOL. It had the old desktop background and icons and all that... but mouse and keyboard didnt work.

When it ran chkdsk it would get to stage 2 and then reboot itself before it finished.

Now it doesnt start windows at all anymore. Sometimes when I boot I simply get a message in white text on black background "Disk Read Failure. Press ctrl, alt del to reboot machine".

I can go into the boot menu but I brought the PC back to the store already for repair. I think it seems like my mobo is damaged because a format of the drive didn't fix it. This kind of thing really shouldn't happen when you unplug a USB cable. It's ridicolous. Good thing i've only had this computer for 3 months and I have a 3 year store warranty on it. I think this kind of incident should be covered by store warranty. It's not normal for your hardware to get corrupted like this.

I used the USB port in the back.

I can't even get into Windows anymore so I cant check device manager

So....I unplugged a digital camera from my computer at home on the weekend (normal usb cable, nothing fancy). I didn’t see the little icon for “remove hardware safely” so I just unplugged it. Well, an hour later I got a blue screen and my computer restarted itself. Then it kept restarting itself every 10 minutes and now I get a blue screen whenever I boot and it re-starts itself before I even get into Windows. Sometimes I get a message “Disk read failure. Press Alt+Ctrl+Del to reboot computer”.

I formatted my C drive yesterday and re-installed Windows and it’s still happening. Wtf? Is it possible that a simple USB device could corrupt my entire computer like that?

I’ll bring it back to the store today for repair but I wanted to see if you guys had any idea if it could have really been caused by unplugging the camera.

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nice, i bought an 850is is last year and i love the thing. my dad and i have had probably 4 or 5 different evolutions of the didital elph series and they're all fantastic cameras.

Yeah I was using the Powershot A620 and A630 up until my my A620 was stolen in Spain and my A630 stopped working after I accidently stepped on it.

Those cameras were kind of big and heavy though. The image quality was great (except when it wasn't completely sunny, you'd get blurry pictures real fast even when changing ISO settings) and it recorded great videos and had a fold out LCD screen... but it was too heavy to carry around places conveniently.

The SD750 is very thin and light and has a giant LCD which is nice and the image quality seems to be quite good so far.

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doing a road trip to ottawa tomorrow!

you worked for EA? nearly everybody I know who worked there said it was the worst time of their life

- a greyhound bus ticket

- a hotel reservation

Burger King gave me diarrhea once. True story.

Experience is not always a must have. You can get a junior position with no experience. Of course the pay won't be as great at first but you shouldn't worry about that on your first project. Once you've finished one it's easier to move up.

I'm UVing stuff and eating Quizzno's pizza.

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How do you go around with a huge hole in your back without like dying or something.

i swear i could almost see the spine

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why does nobody do cool shit like that for my birthdays

So this morning on my way to work I saw this hobo woman sitting in her group of hobo friends that I always see every morning when walking to the office. They are meth addicts.. Which means their faces are all red and swollen up puffy. Today "she" tied her shirt to a knot around her belly which exposed a giant gaping hole the size of a big fist on her lower back. I don't have a weak stomach but I swear I almost barfed.

FUCK. Soooo grosss!!!

That's how my day has been so far. yes yes

did you get his plate nr?

btw i totally forgot about this thread

my day's alright so far. i got up, went to work. went home for lunch, now back at work

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Well looks like THQ's strategy totally worked because now we have a 3 page thread on a game we would have otherwise never talked about

thrik is god

I like the valve logo

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it's simple but effective