Weirdest faults you've found on PC?

Over the years I've found some bizarrre faults on PCs that cause alot of head scratching. Recently I installed a computer after Windows XP blue screened at startup even in safe mode. After installing all updates/drivers etc using my own usb keyboard and mouse (plus switching off many times etc) I drove a 40 mile round trip to their house. I told them evrything was back to normal and you'll have no further problems. When I plugged in their own USB keyboard and booted the USB ports froze. All USB ports wouldn't work, they powered any device but wouldn't actually do anything. After doing a quick windows repair they still wouldnt work. I've reformatted and reinstalled and now they work.. but should I risk plugging in their keyboard again?

Anyone else have bizzarre embarrassing faults crop up like this?

Over the years I've found some bizarrre faults on PCs that cause alot of head scratching. Recently I installed a computer after Windows XP blue screened at startup even in safe mode. After installing all updates/drivers etc using my own usb keyboard and mouse (plus switching off many times etc) I drove a 40 mile round trip to their house. I told them evrything was back to normal and you'll have no further problems. When I plugged in their own USB keyboard and booted the USB ports froze. All USB ports wouldn't work, they powered any device but wouldn't actually do anything. After doing a quick windows repair they still wouldnt work. I've reformatted and reinstalled and now they work.. but should I risk plugging in their keyboard again?

Anyone else have bizzarre embarrassing faults crop up like this?

wurd

The strangest thing that I have ever come across was on my own rig with Vista. If the computer froze for any reason and a hard power off was needed the computer on the next boot would hang at the Vista load screen, The only way that I found to get around this was to unplug both of my 1tb hdd drives and switch their SATA ports. After that was done the computer would always successfully post.

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Over the years I've found some bizarrre faults on PCs that cause alot of head scratching. Recently I installed a computer after Windows XP blue screened at startup even in safe mode. After installing all updates/drivers etc using my own usb keyboard and mouse (plus switching off many times etc) I drove a 40 mile round trip to their house. I told them evrything was back to normal and you'll have no further problems. When I plugged in their own USB keyboard and booted the USB ports froze. All USB ports wouldn't work, they powered any device but wouldn't actually do anything. After doing a quick windows repair they still wouldnt work. I've reformatted and reinstalled and now they work.. but should I risk plugging in their keyboard again?

Anyone else have bizzarre embarrassing faults crop up like this?

UltimateGamer95

The strangest thing that I have ever come across was on my own rig with Vista. If the computer froze for any reason and a hard power off was needed the computer on the next boot would hang at the Vista load screen, The only way that I found to get around this was to unplug both of my 1tb hdd drives and switch their SATA ports. After that was done the computer would always successfully post.

C2C_Moltar

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Over the years I've found some bizarrre faults on PCs that cause alot of head scratching. Recently I installed a computer after Windows XP blue screened at startup even in safe mode. After installing all updates/drivers etc using my own usb keyboard and mouse (plus switching off many times etc) I drove a 40 mile round trip to their house. I told them evrything was back to normal and you'll have no further problems. When I plugged in their own USB keyboard and booted the USB ports froze. All USB ports wouldn't work, they powered any device but wouldn't actually do anything. After doing a quick windows repair they still wouldnt work. I've reformatted and reinstalled and now they work.. but should I risk plugging in their keyboard again?

Anyone else have bizzarre embarrassing faults crop up like this?

wurd

Hmm alright if you say so :). Say my onboard Sideport memory doesn't work when I try to use it with my integrated video. Basically my PC will crash before booting into windows and it just keeps on rebooting itself. However If I disable the Sideport memory and just use Shared RAM then it works fine. I have a Gigabyte 790GX AMD based motherboard so there's a puzzle for you if you are looking for a challenge ;)

Hmm alright if you say so :). Say my onboard Sideport memory doesn't work when I try to use it with my integrated video. Basically my PC will crash before booting into windows and it just keeps on rebooting itself. However If I disable the Sideport memory and just use Shared RAM then it works fine. I have a Gigabyte 790GX AMD based motherboard so there's a puzzle for you if you are looking for a challenge ;)

UltimateGamer95

Can you reconfigure the sideport to different setting? Theres a difference in bit rate between 128 and 64mb. maybe that causing the problem?

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Hmm alright if you say so :). Say my onboard Sideport memory doesn't work when I try to use it with my integrated video. Basically my PC will crash before booting into windows and it just keeps on rebooting itself. However If I disable the Sideport memory and just use Shared RAM then it works fine. I have a Gigabyte 790GX AMD based motherboard so there's a puzzle for you if you are looking for a challenge ;)

wurd

Can you reconfigure the sideport to different setting? Theres a difference in bit rate between 128 and 64mb. maybe that causing the problem?

**sory i meant did bios run ok without any hdd or dvd drives attached nvr mnd

Can you reconfigure the sideport to different setting? Theres a difference in bit rate between 128 and 64mb. maybe that causing the problem?

**sory i meant did bios run ok without any hdd or dvd drives attached nvr mnd

wurd