When Mice Attack!
<div class="IPBDescription">A "Geek tragedy" by Nil IQ</div> Be warned all ye who enter here. This is a ramble. It was composed by an individual who had had an otherwise entirely uninteresting day spent attending the day's lone lecture, followed by lots and lots of battlefield 2 demo. As such, it's contents may be considered unsuitable to individuals sensitive to exposure to boring and/or nerd. It is a Geek tragedy, which is a very clever play on words of "Greek tragedy", which I made up because i'm so clever (and most certainly didn't steal from an old Dilbert cartoon).
A somewhat interesting story I thought i'd share with you... because I know you find my everyday life facinating and sit in anticipation of my every post whilst wearing your "We love Nil IQ" hats and t-shirts.
So today I decided to see how far my headphone's cable would stretch.... I was trying to see if I could feasibly lie in bed and listen to a CD being played through my computer. For some bizarre reason I never once considered simply plugging in my perfectly serviceable speakers... but nevermind that. The point is, I found that I COULD do it, but only if I turned my computer sideways.
But then, disaster struck, in the form of a rather loud and annoying beeping noise coming from somewhere in the depths of my machine. I knew the beeping couldn't be a good thing, and so I do what any rational person would do in the situation; I begin randomly pulling peripherals out of the back of my puter. Why I thought that would help I still don't know... I just wanted to make the godawful beeping stop.
So I give up and hit the power button. I plug everything back in and restart. I am greeted with three beeps, followed by a continuous stream of beeps. The computer also freezes whilst trying to load the bios.
This cannot be a good thing.
I try again, same result. I call a friend of mine in a nearby hall (i'm at university) who knows, or at least pretends to know a little more about computers than me, and he says he'll be right down. Meanwhile I open up my rig to see if there's anything blatantly obvious wrong. Aside from the metric ton of dust, I can't see anything wrong inside. Removing the dust has no effect.
So my friend (who I will for no reason refer to as Bilbo), arrives, and we begin his standard diagnostic procedure:
1. Turn on the computer
2. Get confused when computer doesn't start first time and call his dad who fixes computers for a living
We then start the classic "strip down" approach of removing each component one at a time and seeing if the computer will start. Several times the machine gets as far as "keyboard error detected" before freezing.
So its some time later and we've tried everything. We took the graphics card out and it got as far as the login screen, but then the beeping started again, and when we restarted we were back to square one. We cannot for the life of us figure out what the hell is wrong, other than we always get "keyboard error detected" every time we start it up, whether or not the keyboard is plugged in or not. So in desperation we unplug EVERYTHING, keyboard, monitor, mouse, headphones, the lot.
And it works.
I plug in the monitor, no problems. I plug in the keyboard and press 1 to continue. It loads as far as the login screen, I plug in the mouse to click on the log-in button and BEEEEEEEP! Interesting. I unplug it and the beeping stops.
A short cycle later and we're at Bilbo's hall with the offending mouse. We plug it in to his computer and press the power button... it doesn't even start. We unplug the mouse and it immediatly turns on.
I'm now using my own computer, using Bilbo's emergency mouse which he had previously lent to a fellow I shall call "Scary Bob" (names changed to protect the innocent). I'm not sure how I ever got by with a trackball mouse, but I know i'm bloody well getting a proper optical mouse as soon as I possibly can. It's one of the bog standard microsoft dealies, and it doesn't like scrolling to the left.
What i'm now trying to fathom is how the hell can a mouse wreck a whole computer like that? My electronics-studying friend suggested that it might be a short circuit, causing the mouse to draw and excessive amount of power, thus drawing power away from other components, thus causing the freezings.
I have a slightly different theory, that the mouse was infected with tiny little deamons spawned by satan himself, who were trying to kill me by starving my brain of vital internet, which I need to survive. Thankfully I thwarted thier evil plot and burned the offending item.... or rather gave it to said electronics studying friend who seems to think he can fix it... I just hope the little deamons don't jump out and murder him in his sleep.
So, has anyone else ever heard of anything like this? It's certainly the first time i've ever heard of a MOUSE ruining a whole puter like it did.
P.S, yes, I am aware that I have the same avatar as Condizzle. This was an attempted retaliation for his theft of my individuality sparked by the big red text trend, which almost disasterously backfired yesterday when for a full 30 seconds my sig proudly proclaimed my love of men in large pink letters before I spotted Condizzle's evil scheme. I'll get you Condizzle, if it's the last thing I do! *twiddles moustache and laughs evily*
A somewhat interesting story I thought i'd share with you... because I know you find my everyday life facinating and sit in anticipation of my every post whilst wearing your "We love Nil IQ" hats and t-shirts.
So today I decided to see how far my headphone's cable would stretch.... I was trying to see if I could feasibly lie in bed and listen to a CD being played through my computer. For some bizarre reason I never once considered simply plugging in my perfectly serviceable speakers... but nevermind that. The point is, I found that I COULD do it, but only if I turned my computer sideways.
But then, disaster struck, in the form of a rather loud and annoying beeping noise coming from somewhere in the depths of my machine. I knew the beeping couldn't be a good thing, and so I do what any rational person would do in the situation; I begin randomly pulling peripherals out of the back of my puter. Why I thought that would help I still don't know... I just wanted to make the godawful beeping stop.
So I give up and hit the power button. I plug everything back in and restart. I am greeted with three beeps, followed by a continuous stream of beeps. The computer also freezes whilst trying to load the bios.
This cannot be a good thing.
I try again, same result. I call a friend of mine in a nearby hall (i'm at university) who knows, or at least pretends to know a little more about computers than me, and he says he'll be right down. Meanwhile I open up my rig to see if there's anything blatantly obvious wrong. Aside from the metric ton of dust, I can't see anything wrong inside. Removing the dust has no effect.
So my friend (who I will for no reason refer to as Bilbo), arrives, and we begin his standard diagnostic procedure:
1. Turn on the computer
2. Get confused when computer doesn't start first time and call his dad who fixes computers for a living
We then start the classic "strip down" approach of removing each component one at a time and seeing if the computer will start. Several times the machine gets as far as "keyboard error detected" before freezing.
So its some time later and we've tried everything. We took the graphics card out and it got as far as the login screen, but then the beeping started again, and when we restarted we were back to square one. We cannot for the life of us figure out what the hell is wrong, other than we always get "keyboard error detected" every time we start it up, whether or not the keyboard is plugged in or not. So in desperation we unplug EVERYTHING, keyboard, monitor, mouse, headphones, the lot.
And it works.
I plug in the monitor, no problems. I plug in the keyboard and press 1 to continue. It loads as far as the login screen, I plug in the mouse to click on the log-in button and BEEEEEEEP! Interesting. I unplug it and the beeping stops.
A short cycle later and we're at Bilbo's hall with the offending mouse. We plug it in to his computer and press the power button... it doesn't even start. We unplug the mouse and it immediatly turns on.
I'm now using my own computer, using Bilbo's emergency mouse which he had previously lent to a fellow I shall call "Scary Bob" (names changed to protect the innocent). I'm not sure how I ever got by with a trackball mouse, but I know i'm bloody well getting a proper optical mouse as soon as I possibly can. It's one of the bog standard microsoft dealies, and it doesn't like scrolling to the left.
What i'm now trying to fathom is how the hell can a mouse wreck a whole computer like that? My electronics-studying friend suggested that it might be a short circuit, causing the mouse to draw and excessive amount of power, thus drawing power away from other components, thus causing the freezings.
I have a slightly different theory, that the mouse was infected with tiny little deamons spawned by satan himself, who were trying to kill me by starving my brain of vital internet, which I need to survive. Thankfully I thwarted thier evil plot and burned the offending item.... or rather gave it to said electronics studying friend who seems to think he can fix it... I just hope the little deamons don't jump out and murder him in his sleep.
So, has anyone else ever heard of anything like this? It's certainly the first time i've ever heard of a MOUSE ruining a whole puter like it did.
P.S, yes, I am aware that I have the same avatar as Condizzle. This was an attempted retaliation for his theft of my individuality sparked by the big red text trend, which almost disasterously backfired yesterday when for a full 30 seconds my sig proudly proclaimed my love of men in large pink letters before I spotted Condizzle's evil scheme. I'll get you Condizzle, if it's the last thing I do! *twiddles moustache and laughs evily*
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Possibly it tugged at the mouse cable a bit and jarred something loose, possibly it was just a co-incidence. Possibly I was right all along and it was the little deamons.
It seems, the only thing you ever want for something is dinner.
The best way, to get rid of deamons inside a computer, is playing some good old <a href='http://www.jamster.com/jiw/slp.do?XY=QrDQhrY1QS|180493177434533335/182969415/6/4301/4301/4302/4302/4301/-1&co=US&la=en&doc=1841808&contentType=9&title=Crazy%20Frog%20-%20Crazy%20DJ' target='_blank'>Quaelgeist.</a>
how dare you?!
food is always good.
mmmm food.
^^
i havent had more then 2 meals a day for around 4 months now. and god i miss food..
(the story is complex. in short, i used to be a regular buff daddy, then i moved away from my area, so didnt go to local gym, cos im skittish around new people, and my weights were at my old house. christmas arrived. and i was 17 stone.so **** that, i started on the diets etc, my life atm, isnt right to exercise too much, so yeah dieting sucks... but works.. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> 2 stone lost already...)
huzzah.
Similiar things happen in windows as well, like spinning me around 180 in HL and spamming any command I have bound to a mousebutton.
... And knowing me I'll never get around to fixing it either.