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Luke122
07-17-2007, 01:06 AM
Would anyone like to submit their favorite error screens? Actual screenshots only please.. nothing shopped up. :D


Here's one I just got..

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p176/lukifer122/funnyerror.jpg
Spawn-Inc
07-17-2007, 01:17 AM
wtf... what did you do to get that?
Omega
07-17-2007, 01:19 AM
The perpetrator? Windows VISTAIDS.
Luke122
07-17-2007, 01:21 AM
Haha.. I've seen another one like this too.. I'll try to make it happen again. :D

This is a bootdisk image making program, for FreeDOS. It's open source, and was translated to English apparently. :D

Spybot S&D (http://security.kolla.de) has some weird ones too.. because it's translated from German. :D
xRyokenx
07-17-2007, 01:30 PM
Heh, thought of one that I fortunately haven't gotten:

User error, format memory and try again.
AJ@PR
07-17-2007, 01:56 PM
Ha!

I like to visit three or four times per week The Daily WTF (http://worsethanfailure.com/Default.aspx).
Well, now it's called "Worse Than Failure",... but we all know what 'WTF' stands for.

Coincidentally, right now, if you go to their homepage, they have up various screenshots of WTFs.

Mostly programmers' humor.
rendermandan
07-17-2007, 02:08 PM
well, this one is not necessarily an error, but:

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h205/rendermandan/closeenough.jpg



actually it is a program I wrote for taking a measurement in Autocad, and instead of making the button say ok.....
xRyokenx
07-17-2007, 02:11 PM
One year in a computer class of some sort, I put folders on the desktop with the icons for the log off and shut down features and labeled them accordingly, the one teacher never did realize that they were folders, even when I had folders inside of them that said something along the terms of "This is a folder you moron! Not the button the log off your account." Amazing who they let teach, lol.
xRyokenx
07-17-2007, 10:45 PM
The All Time IT Job from Hell (http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/It%e2%80%99s-Just-a-Wiring-Problem.aspx)
Bucko
08-21-2007, 06:45 AM
I just got this error when trying to install a game on the work computer:

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/3115/huhpe7.png (http://imageshack.us)

real helpful that one....
Scotty
08-21-2007, 08:14 AM
Lol, real helpful i agree.
Luke122
08-21-2007, 11:06 AM
Bucko.. I've seen that one also. Mine was caused by a dirty CDR! :D
progbuddy
08-21-2007, 11:29 AM
I hate those noises that play when there's an error on XP. I'll have the speakers turned all the way up, and the next thing i know...

[insert evil annoying windows error noise here]

O.o
Luke122
08-21-2007, 11:39 AM
..so why not just disable error sounds? Go into the control panel to sounds, and turn it off. :D
xRyokenx
08-21-2007, 01:32 PM
Heh heh, I don't have that problem... haven't had a problem with my PC in a while *knock on wood*.
p0Pe
08-21-2007, 03:37 PM
here is one i though of as odd:P
"ændret den" means "last edited"

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2403/fremtidsfejlne2.jpg

i knew my computer was cool but thats just weird:p
xRyokenx
08-21-2007, 03:56 PM
Wow^^... that is odd, lol.
crenn
08-21-2007, 04:06 PM
That's fairly easy to produce xD

Best check your date and time in your computer.
Helix666
08-21-2007, 05:28 PM
I've had that kind of thing before. Two of my files (both coursework) told me that they had been created on: 01-Jan-1900 at 00:00H

Funny thing is, they were both horribly corrupt when I tried to open them. I mean, WTF? I only typed them out the night before. (No I didn't write them on 31-Dec-1999 23:59H. :D)

So I turned in a freshly-typed-that-morning piece of coursework. All one page of it. Double spaced. In size 28point font. :p
Drew
08-23-2007, 10:00 AM
When I was in my Linux phase, I got a message box that made me chuckle.

<Terminal>

Unable to resolve dependencies in alloted time. Try harder? Y/N

</Terminal>

Try harder?

LMAO, well, it made me laugh.....
Helix666
08-23-2007, 10:31 AM
When I was in my Linux phase, I got a message box that made me chuckle.

<Terminal>

Unable to resolve dependencies in alloted time. Try harder? Y/N

</Terminal>

Try harder?

LMAO, well, it made me laugh.....

ROFL. OSS FTW. WTF? TLAF? LOL.


Sorry... just, sorry...
/me goes and hides in the LART shelter.
Omega
08-23-2007, 10:58 AM
haha, try harder was actually an option, that's great

it probably moves more resources to the terminal or something

but still, I would laugh once I saw that
p0Pe
08-24-2007, 06:24 AM
That's fairly easy to produce xD

Best check your date and time in your computer.

the date was right, and nothing wrong there:P

but the single file had replaced all of my music lol... 20 gigs suddenly compresed to a file on 1 kb xD... to hell with winrar, want that program:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
Helix666
08-24-2007, 06:38 AM
but the single file had replaced all of my music lol... 20 gigs suddenly compresed to a file on 1 kb xD... to hell with winrar, want that program:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Meh, I once compressed a 4 gig file to 1 very very informative bit. And that was the end of that file archive. :p
XcOM
08-24-2007, 07:08 AM
me and my mate ere working on a rar type application for college, we got a 10 gig folder compressed to about 800MB, took an AMD Athlon X2 4000 about 4 hours to compress it, and about 6 to decompress it, we lost it though
Helix666
08-24-2007, 09:30 AM
Back to the drawing board, XcOM?
Cannibal23
08-24-2007, 12:51 PM
i cant get a screenie of this one cause it happens at post. but its pretty famous. if you have a bad keyboard or its not plugged in when the pc starts you will some times get this one

"keyboard unpluged or keyboard error press F1 to continue"

i wonder how many hours some computer newbie spend pressing F1 and then waiting for the tech support guy to answer the phone with that one.
Killdrath
08-24-2007, 01:40 PM
me and my mate ere working on a rar type application for college, we got a 10 gig folder compressed to about 800MB, took an AMD Athlon X2 4000 about 4 hours to compress it, and about 6 to decompress it, we lost it though

del *.* /s /q /f

100% file compression...



On a side note, when I worked for microsoft, we tried a theory to practice on a "break it" computer (each pair of desks had a third system between them to try and reproduce a customer's problem).

Launch Win 95
open command prompt
run fdisk
delete the c: partition
close command prompt

see how long it takes for the system to notice that it no longer has a hard drive.

The answer: depends on how long until it tries to do a read/write. In our case, about 30 seconds. The scary thing though, was that it LET us do it.
Quakken
08-24-2007, 03:34 PM
What exactly... happened when the computer realized it no longer had a hard drive? that's like a human suddenly not having any feet or hands. It's just really hard to function without a hard drive.
XcOM
08-24-2007, 08:33 PM
Back to the drawing board, XcOM?

not really, my mate that did the main code went afk, i just did the gui and help files.
crenn
08-25-2007, 12:14 AM
If you find that program XcOM, make sure to share!
D1337
08-25-2007, 12:19 PM
A few reformats ago Windows read my HD as having 20 TB's of space.. I had a picture but it was lost in the reformats =/
DaJe
08-26-2007, 01:36 AM
i cant get a screenie of this one cause it happens at post. but its pretty famous. if you have a bad keyboard or its not plugged in when the pc starts you will some times get this one

"keyboard unpluged or keyboard error press F1 to continue"

i wonder how many hours some computer newbie spend pressing F1 and then waiting for the tech support guy to answer the phone with that one.I got that error on my server about a week ago. It's understandable though. It'll wait until you plug in a keyboard, and then press f1 to confirm you have it and it's ready, and then continue.
DaJe
08-27-2007, 10:50 PM
http://codeinsurrection.com/pics/4806_image.jpg
xRyokenx
08-27-2007, 11:25 PM
^^sounds familiar... what's that from?
Luke122
08-27-2007, 11:27 PM
2001. That's what Hal says...

Side note, HAL was derived from IBM; each letter is one letter off. :)
Drew
08-28-2007, 04:32 AM
2001. That's what Hal says...

Side note, HAL was derived from IBM; each letter is one letter off. :)

So it is....

Very clever.
calumc
08-28-2007, 09:25 AM
http://img.worsethanfailure.com/Images/200708/error'd/juror.jpg
Helix666
08-28-2007, 09:39 AM
calumc: Ah, another Daily WTF reader, I presume?
Brillant.
XcOM
08-28-2007, 07:01 PM
i like that one,

and yes indeed HALis IBM, IBM wouldn't let them use there name IBM, so they had it changed to HAL
Airbozo
08-28-2007, 07:44 PM
i cant get a screenie of this one cause it happens at post. but its pretty famous. if you have a bad keyboard or its not plugged in when the pc starts you will some times get this one

"keyboard unpluged or keyboard error press F1 to continue"

i wonder how many hours some computer newbie spend pressing F1 and then waiting for the tech support guy to answer the phone with that one.

I have had this error before, only there was a keyboard and it was working. Turns out it was an older bios and the default entry was "legacy usb keyboard support = DISABLED" I had to track down a ps2 keyboard to set the bios properly...