happens rarely. When i had some wrong settings for my CPU/RAM OC, i had some, but they werent anything to remember.


Most awesome crash i think was back in february last year. I was playing ARK on Linux, suddenly framerate started to jump and then boom, like electricity went out, tried to turn PC on again, nothing. opened it up and saw my VRM was smoking for a split second. That was it with this FX [email protected] and cheap gigabutt motherboard whos poor VRMs had to keep up with my OC for several years.

I think the most interesting recent one was because of a dying hard drive. General confusing instability. Then one day we were greeted with a message about the hard drive not functioning properly :D

That was a confusing one to figure out...

It was a dark and stormy night. Was playing Morrowind. Suddenly, BOOM FLASH! The screen distorted and then went black. And this is what a near lightning strike will do to a computer. Mobo, CPU, psu; all fried.

Is this a bot that takes text and replaces words with synonyms? Certainly looks like it.

I had some really nasty lock-ups some time ago where the entire system would freeze after a few minutes gaming with a static screen and no working keyboard or mouse input; not even REISUB!

Turned out I had a very furry heatsink on my GPU... oops :-)

Quoting: damarrinIs this a bot that takes text and replaces words with synonyms? Certainly looks like it.

Yup, it looks like it's a smarter-than-standard bot that is trying to figure out the mod queue. I brought it up with Liam and we are looking into combating those a bit more effectively. If you happen to see posts like that get through, however, just report them as spam and we'll get the posts cleaned up and accounts locked.

For me the most epic happened back when i was younger still playing on Windows.
I was playing a bootleg copy of C&C Tiberian Sun.
Suddenly the disk spun up to load a movie. Then.... CRACK. I pulled out the drive and i saw shards.
To this day i swear a shard flew out when the tray was closed (though might be my imagination as a kid)
Few people believe me this can happen.