Help! I think I might have a problem with my computer

[struggle4progress]

[Occulus]

1. Drinktray stuck shut again?

[struggle4progress]

4. No. That flimsy piece of craptastic plastic broke off after it tried to close with my carmug in it

[canetoad]

2. You need to update your hard drive

[struggle4progress]

3. Can't I just run it through the dishwasher?

[Occulus]

5. That would drown the magic pixies living inside it

The place they live in is probably getting bumpy. You can smooth their magnetic terrain with an industrial-grade molybdenum magnet.

[Hutzpa]

11. lol

[wizstars]

12. back up my hard drive? Where's the reverse switch???

[canetoad]

14. Since all the pix were wiped between trials

Here's a reprise of the pic that originally went with that post.

[steve2470]

6. is your mouse trying to bite you again ? :p nt

[struggle4progress]

7. It's frickin tryin to blind me! Just try starin into that red unblinkin cyclopean eye

Owie! owie!

[steve2470]

8. I always wondered if that was like staring into the sun ! :) nt

[HopeHoops]

9. Have you tried defenestration?

[struggle4progress]

20. of myself or of my problem box?

[HopeHoops]

21. Well I think either would probably solve the problem, but I meant the box.

[Rex]

10. Quick alert the Internets!

[wizstars]

13. Unplug the outlet strip from the outlet strip, and plug it into the WALL outlet........

sheeesh--you sure you're not a freeper??!?

[Renew Deal]

15. format c: /s

[struggle4progress]

16. rm -rf /

[SecularMotion]

17. Sounds like a nut loose on the keyboard

[ElboRuum]

18. Paperweights have their uses too.

Try to see the upside.

[Old Codger]

19. PBK&C N/T

[EvolveOrConvolve]

22. This thread is freaking priceless!

Very funny stuff!

[wizstars]

23. Isaac Asimov identified your problem:

"The problem with computers is that once they are perfectly progrmmed, they are 100% honest." --Asimov

[gkhouston]

24. Try a chown.

Maybe it wants to be somebody else's computer.

[struggle4progress]

25. !

[RoccoR5955]

26. I can tell stories to this one.

As I am a tech who has been doing this for over 20 years.
Here's a good one. Someone once called and said that they had a mouse in their computer, and I should come right away.
I told them that they were supposed to have a mouse, but they said that it wasn't that kind of mouse.
Surely enough, there was a little live mouse in the PC!

Another time, long time ago, someone thought that they had a virus on their computer. I had just gotten done with a call at the Health Department, so decided to pull a prank, and asked for a mask, and a pair of rubber gloves. Upon going to the site that had the virus, I put them on, and the woman got out some lysol, thinking that it would help get rid of the virus, and asked if there was a chance that she would catch it.

Those are two. I think some day I'll write a book about them.

[wandy]

29. Don't forget the classic "my P is stuck"

[chrisa]

31. o_0 Lucky mouse

Good thing for the mouse, the PC was probably right-side up. If it touched the right part of the motherboard, it could have created a short circuit, taking both itself out and the motherboard. Then it would become a 'deadmau5.'

[IDemo]

27. Seems to be happening more often to me lately as well..

Coffee can help, but you don't want to overdo it when overclocking.

[wizstars]

28. If that mouse is plugged into a serial port, we have a BIG problem......

[BlueJazz]

30. My beautiful assistant looked at it and said 473 tubes are going bad. sorry

[chrisa]

32. It's fine - the internet has 1000's of other series of tubes.

Take your pick and insert those tubes carefully.