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I'm sure this has been a thread somewhere, but if it has, i haven't found it.
What are the strangest errors (any OS) that you have ever seen?
I have 2. One involves Windows 98, the other involves Windows 2000 Pro.
W98: I had just purchased norton system utilities 99. After an update of it, and running a full system scan, i decided just for the heck of it, to run a virus scan. Within 2 minutes, it came back, and told me something along the lines of "Win.exe has been found to be a virus. Deleting now." Of course i panicked! But luckily, it deleted it to Norton's virus vault, and i managed to restore it.
W2k: I was working for a local university (official position: Information Technology Assistant), and my boss asked me to go run a defrag on all the machines in a lab that is hardly ever used. So i went to do it. On the first machine i went to, as soon as i click on the defrag.exe in the accessories menu, an error pops up. "Windows has performed an illegal operation: Divide by 0 error". I went and got my boss to show him, so he wouldn't think I was cracked. He laughed strangely, grabbed the machine, picked it up, slammed it down (while it was running!), started up the defrag again, and the error never appeared again. Also amazing, there were NO head crashes on that!
What are the strangest errors (any OS) that you have ever seen?
I have 2. One involves Windows 98, the other involves Windows 2000 Pro.
W98: I had just purchased norton system utilities 99. After an update of it, and running a full system scan, i decided just for the heck of it, to run a virus scan. Within 2 minutes, it came back, and told me something along the lines of "Win.exe has been found to be a virus. Deleting now." Of course i panicked! But luckily, it deleted it to Norton's virus vault, and i managed to restore it.
W2k: I was working for a local university (official position: Information Technology Assistant), and my boss asked me to go run a defrag on all the machines in a lab that is hardly ever used. So i went to do it. On the first machine i went to, as soon as i click on the defrag.exe in the accessories menu, an error pops up. "Windows has performed an illegal operation: Divide by 0 error". I went and got my boss to show him, so he wouldn't think I was cracked. He laughed strangely, grabbed the machine, picked it up, slammed it down (while it was running!), started up the defrag again, and the error never appeared again. Also amazing, there were NO head crashes on that!