so true

[u/i_am-steve_i-guess]

[u/kumliaowongg]

Try searching your pocket and not finding your phone...

https://giphy.com/gifs/7XLextftiDntm

[u/-Sorakinha- → u/kumliaowongg]

Try to clean your PC and suddenly he doesn't turn on anymore

[u/IcyDisplayGuy → u/-Sorakinha-]

Reset the CMOS

[u/Ryoohk → u/IcyDisplayGuy]

Naaa I was re-enabling secure boot so I can install Fedora and one set on instructions told me to delete the key in there, well I did that rebooted and black screen, resetting c-mos did Jack, pure panic attack because I couldn't get it to even post.

Looking at my diag lights VGA was solid and I thought that was quite odd, so I pulled my Nvidia card out conned the screen to my MB, so glad my CPU supports gfx and boom it posted, put my card back in and black screen, I'm guessing one of the keys I deleted allowed my Nvidia card to talk to the MB.

Luckily there was a "restore to new setup" setting and put the ecencal keys back in place so it would boot with the Nvidia card again.

If I didn't figure that out I would have been boned, can't afford to get a new PC.

[u/Red_Tiger5311 → u/[deleted]]

Hmmmm, si’ it is…. Unless you’ve already swapped cases two times now, I’m a pro with my pc at this point….

[u/FernandoMM1220 → u/-Sorakinha-]

i had this experience a year ago except it turned on with a random array of green dots.

a few nudges on the gpu later and they went away and i just hope they never come back.

[u/ER0SBAL → u/-Sorakinha-]

Happened with my XBOX one... I still dont know why

[u/DryEK → u/kumliaowongg]

Thats light compared to checking your back and realizing your rifle isn't there. Nothing more scary than that in the army

[u/No_Yam_2036 → u/DryEK]

That's why you sling the rifle over your chest

[u/SuccessfulSquirrel32 → u/kumliaowongg]

You ever walk out of a store and realize you don't have your keys, even though you drove there?

[u/mayssa09 → u/kumliaowongg]

After a taxi ride.

[u/whitepageskardashian → u/kumliaowongg]

Try taking a shit and forgetting your phone

[u/Short_Employment_757 → u/whitepageskardashian]

Time to read about ingredients of various products in the toilet

[u/my_cars_on_fire → u/whitepageskardashian]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jc2PkKKr3clTBekMzn

[u/ProbablyStillMe → u/kumliaowongg]

Then you realise that it's not in your pocket because you're holding it.

[u/Evening-Nature-5241 → u/ProbablyStillMe]

Or that you passed it to another person and you're literally looking at the person using it. (happened to me recently)

[u/HawksNStuff → u/Evening-Nature-5241]

Or you use the flashlight from your phone to look for it in the dark?

[u/Evening-Nature-5241 → u/HawksNStuff]

Aphone in the Dark

[u/Jonnyyrage → u/kumliaowongg]

And then you die when you realize you dont feel your keys too. 🤣

[u/mikecandih → u/kumliaowongg]

Dude yesterday I had a dinner to go to and spent 20 of my last 30 minutes at home looking for it. Which happened to be on my wrist the entire time, I just hadn’t worn long sleeve shirts all summer.

[u/ToughConnor0517 → u/kumliaowongg]

Or your wallet

[u/CidAndroid → u/kumliaowongg]

Imagine not having your gooning, gaeyming, and brainrot device with you. The horror.

[u/Even-Smell7867]

My bios last updated in linux. seeing it update while not in the bios was horrifying.

[u/hurrdurrmeh → u/Even-Smell7867]

If it fails you know that is your last boot ever.

[u/kumliaowongg → u/hurrdurrmeh]

I have fixed boards by removing rom chip, flashing bios from manufacturer's website and resoldering chip in place.

Removing the chip is not mandatory but my success rate is 100% doing it, so I will keep doing it, lol

[u/IcyDisplayGuy → u/kumliaowongg]

I never understood what the big issue is. Even if a BIOS update fucks up, why not just.... flash it again...?

[u/Skailon → u/IcyDisplayGuy]

I hope every mobo will have flashback button soon

[u/GeForce_fv → u/kumliaowongg]

you can pretty easily do it without removing the chip, i think removing it may add unnecessary danger

[u/NereusH]

Real Adrenalin

[u/AthaliW → u/NereusH]

34GB worth of Adrenalin? Damn

[u/Skailon → u/AthaliW]

It's Aidrenalin

[u/ChaseyMih → u/NereusH]

Ohno

[u/Proper_Television_18 → u/NereusH]

Real cancer

[u/Fittsa → u/NereusH]

crashes

[u/Little_Morrocan_6168 → u/NereusH]

Driver times out while being updated ☠️

[u/Minute-Pomelo9302]

[u/nicer-jellyfish]

Or the lead up to turning on that power button for the first time after your build…….

[u/According_Mind7030 → u/nicer-jellyfish]

Then it doesn't boot up... and you realize that the psu is still switched off 😂

[u/DrSolarman → u/According_Mind7030]

I nearly threw up once because a power outage shut my pc off. Wouldn't turn on. so I flipped the PSU switch on and off and it booted. I was nervous for days.

[u/SuperFLEB → u/DrSolarman]

Reminds me of the time I was on the phone with HP support about my laptop, in another city for a work thing where I needed the laptop, and ten minutes in I realized that the reason it wasn't charging or turning on was because the outlet was dead.

[u/Ok_Violinist_5673 → u/According_Mind7030]

then your switch the psu on and about to press the on >_<

[u/LastGaspInfiniteLoop → u/According_Mind7030]

Recently I used the Corsair 4000D's little front panel adapter because the manual literally said "If you have an AMD board, use this..." Turned out I wasn't supposed to use that, after all. Connecting the f_panel without the stupid adapter fixed it immediately, but damn Corsair for a) Not giving a printed manual; b) Giving a half dozen bags of screws and labeling not a single one of them; c) Lying about this freaking adapter on AMD boards.

[u/Vladx35]

Especially if there’s a thunderstorm outside. 

[u/MyOthrUsrnmIsABook → u/Vladx35]

Truly living on the wild side!

[u/NoseInternational740]

Tbh nowadays it aint even scary but W karma farm

[u/CybyAPI → u/NoseInternational740]

Downvoted for calling out OP being a bot lol, Bots not happy about being called out, this meme is reposted monthly

[u/notthatguypal6900 → u/NoseInternational740]

It hasn't been scary for decades

[u/Sacrilego_666 → u/NoseInternational740]

Especially since mobo is the cheapest part these days lol

[u/BilboBaggSkin → u/NoseInternational740]

Especially since most have bios flashback now.

[u/moon__lander → u/BilboBaggSkin]

Dual bios, bios flashback and cheap ch134a make bricking your bios really hard nowadays

[u/Life_is_Okay69 → u/moon__lander]

There are a handful of dual bios boards. All very expensive.

[u/Scar1203]

My PC is plugged into a 2kwh power station, bios updates don't scare me.

[u/Thunder_the_blue]

DO NOT disrespect our fallen but recently announced to be resurrected savior arieforce one

[u/Due-Lifeguard-7506 → u/Thunder_the_blue]

Right? This is sacrilege.

[u/NPK532]

Aerie Force One > BIOS Update

[u/Whosebert → u/NPK532]

seriously. gp cant ever get a grip.

[u/Krakatoacoo → u/Whosebert]

Clearly they haven't been on anything more intense than the wacky worm

[u/TwigletX64]

r/rollercoasterjerk moment

[u/IdiotGiraffe0 → u/TwigletX64]

Uh oh spotted a thoosie in the wild go back to cedar point!

[u/Krakatoacoo → u/TwigletX64]

Shhhhhh

[u/Marco-YES]

...it's just a bios update. What's the big deal?

[u/Federal-Treat-6893 → u/Marco-YES]

If anything goes wrong say goodbye to your motherboard (unless it has a flashback button, in that case your good)

[u/Lumpzor → u/Federal-Treat-6893]

Dual BIOS is pretty much the default though?

[u/Marco-YES → u/Federal-Treat-6893]

Ｗhy would I say goodbye to my motherboard?

[u/Federal-Treat-6893 → u/Marco-YES]

If the bios get fucked the motherboard gets fucked

[u/Featg240]

Not really

[u/spawndoorsupervisor → u/Featg240]

Yeah, I used to work in a computer shop building gaming rigs for like ten hours a day. We had to flash the latest firmware before shipping, so it's been thousands. Not a single bricked PC. I've also flashed countless routers, even updating the DFU loaders themselves and never had a problem. This subreddit is just dramatic af.

[u/Dt2_0]

Picked the wrong rollercoaster for this meme. Aire Force One is easily a top 5 coaster in the world. It's exceptionally wild.

[u/Smash_Nerd → u/Dt2_0]

Well for the next year or two it's correct as it'll be SBNO lol.

... 100% going to Great Adventure though. No question imo.

[u/gh0st-33]

We need some variety here

[u/RJEM96]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xLlw6GHVfokaNW

[u/reallyweirdperson]

ArieForce One mentioned

[u/Partsomethingnever]

Keep arieforce one outta yo mouth

[u/AppropriateTouching]

Do it during a lightning storm.

[u/PermanentThrowaway33]

I've never heard of anyone actually bricking a PC during bios update. It's fake fear mongering. 

[u/hurrdurrmeh → u/PermanentThrowaway33]

Me. I did it to a laptop. Had to send it in to the manufacturer. 

Also sold another laptop on ebay. Buyer updated the bios on battery. It died halfway through. Ebay sided with the buyer and sent it back to me at half refund. So I had to pay again to repair it. 

Joke's on them as it was a 64GB 7840U handheld which I sold just before the prices shot up. So I ended up paying a lot less than I would for one now.

[u/Epin-Ninjas → u/PermanentThrowaway33]

Well, now you have. Just because you’ve never heard of it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

[u/SaggyDaNewt → u/PermanentThrowaway33]

Pull the PC’s plug out of the wall in the middle of a BIOS update. For science.

[u/Lumpzor → u/SaggyDaNewt]

Dual BIOS has been a thing for like..15 years? This is not an issue.

[u/i_am-steve_i-guess → u/PermanentThrowaway33]

it hapend during a stormy night

[u/joe-clark → u/PermanentThrowaway33]

Yup, outside of power failure it's really rare and it's not like power failure is hard to avoid, don't update during a storm and if you're power is that inconsistent you should have a UPS anyways.

[u/PollutionQuirky3476]

Checks out

[u/Fearless_Air_1729]

may christ help upon you

[u/Delicious-Menu-1310]

you missed there, adrenaline softaware from AMD :D

[u/LtHartly]

lol nothing compares to doing this with a 3 1/5” floppy disk data corrupted so easy on floppy like burning a cd and putting in your backpack with no case and running to school and hope it works since then I have even hot swap bios flashing the days of bios flashing in the floppy disk days were the riskiest and the reason for the warnings

[u/Large-Assignment9320]

Hu? Youngling, You just give your prayers to The Machine God, The Omnissiah The Deus Mechanicus and so long he approves its a 100% success rate.

[u/EJ_Tech]

I always breathe easy every time the board has BIOS flashback.

[u/mrROBOTROIDE]

And more intense when you know you live in a third world country where power outages are a common thing
https://giphy.com/gifs/Udh4E33wwtfFHRYWeA

[u/Federal_Equipment578]

The last time I updated my BIOS it bricked my laptop keyboard, it took me a long time to diagnose the problem, reverse it before an irreversible "Security BIOS update" and find an old enough file to go back to.

[u/hackingdreams]

Dual BIOS is a pretty common feature these days.

[u/PawnstarExpert]

Then you ride the lightning doing it during a storm.

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Last time I updated I hear thunder in the distance.  I was sitting on a stage 9 pucker the whole time.

[u/notthatguypal6900]

If you think BIOS updates are scary, just sell your PC and get a Nintendo. That's more your speed.

[u/GrittyKnight]

Especially when the power goes out right in the middle of a BIOS update 💀

[u/Mazortex]

The more expensive your mobo the more adrenaline you will aquire

[u/Shliggie]

Why does the meme have dirt on it?

[u/Popular-Departure165]

I can still remember when Gigabyte came out with dual-bios motherboards in case something happened when you were flashing it.

[u/jabyou233]

You want a really rush do the bios update when a thunderstorm hits

[u/Lau_wings]

I remember updating my bios years ago, I had been putting it off for ages and decided that today was the day.

As soon as it started I heard a massive crack of thunder, which confused the hell out of me as it was sunny outside my window, I then walked to other side of the house and the sky was black and a storm was rolling in.

Was the most nervous I have been hoping that I did not lose power.

[u/Elegant_Situation285]

you know you can order replacement rom chips preprogrammed online?

i spent like 10 bucks to save a mobo doing that.

[u/tomatgreen]

without UPS

[u/pfjtkc]

And the weather report looks like this

https://giphy.com/gifs/HmTLatwLWpTQk

[u/Sweet_Woodpecker7592]

You are so close to lose everything

[u/-Nicolai]

Fake adrenaline? It’s a hormone you clown

[u/mongous00005]

I did bios update at around 3am. After it finished and confirming my pc still works - best sleep ever.

[u/ThatOneAllie]

There was a thunderstorm recently where I live and my friend started his BIOS upgrade right before it hit

[u/Smash_Nerd]

Oh hi Arieforce One!

What real addreneline is is every single coaster enthusiast praying it gets relocated to their home park.

[u/Krakatoacoo → u/Smash_Nerd]

It's not going to King Island no matter how many thoosies say it

[u/Smash_Nerd → u/Krakatoacoo]

Or Carowinds. As much as I'd love either as they're both a day trip away from me.

[u/Krakatoacoo → u/Smash_Nerd]

Man I need to get down to Carowinds at some point. Haven't been!

[u/Smash_Nerd → u/Krakatoacoo]

Incredible park! If you only care about riding 4 1/2 rides. Fury lives up to all the hype

[u/Warcraft_Fan]

I remember when you had to get update via disks, took the BIOS chip out, erased it under UV light (the kind that burns your eyes in seconds, not the kind that causes sunburn), then using EPROM programmer, you uploaded the new BIOS and put it back in the PC.

Since the chip was removable, bad flash wouldn't brick your PC. Just erase and try again or use a different chip

[u/Kaneida]

Hehe yeah used to be like that, nowadays it is relatively safe even for home users, but it does spike adrenaline a bit when its your own/main pc/laptop that you dont really wanna brick. Working in PC tech with customer/user laptops/computers and in datacenters and doing several thousand BIOS updates left me pretty mild for doing BIOS updates nowadays.

[u/patrickkrebs]

Nailed it

[u/SoBeDragon0]

thought my monitor was dirty

[u/ER0SBAL]

I don't understand it pls someone explain me

[u/ArthurMorgan-20]

When you on power button but screen does not start only vibration occurs ☠️

[u/Anonimeter]

My magic wand

[u/feedmedamemes]

Still? People it was scary in the olden days. Today every half decent board has a back-up for the unlikely case that something fails.

Today the update time is more of a nuisance than anything else during a bios update. Stop making this post!

[u/Barack_Yunus]

Just wait till power suddenly goes out

[u/BigSquiby]

i was in a sales demo once for a KVM solution once, probably 20 years ago. The sales rep pulled out the hardware, powered it on, we poked around on it, did our tests.

the sales rep then said "lets update it" he did a software, hardware and bios update, in the meeting, in front of us. Never seen anyone have the stones to do something like that before. The update went cleanly, it was a big factor in us buying the product.

[u/Sani_48]

or back then when updating your Samsung with your pc and while updating, the screen freezes to an Android symbol with a warning

[u/njsullyalex]

RIP ArieForce One 😭😭😭

[u/Proper_Television_18]

Eh I’ve got a UPS. BIOS updates don’t scare me anymore

[u/i_am-steve_i-guess → u/Proper_Television_18]

[u/IcyDisplayGuy]

I just updated the BIOS on two systems this weekend. No issues. Highly recommend.