old school gamer man wrote on 2025-06-09, 14:17:

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Thought this my be the fun idea for a discussion.

I snapped this one a few years ago when I tried to put OEM WD raptor drive on a old 865 chipset board. The drive ran fine on newer boards but oddly it would never work on old nf2 or 865 boards or any other really old sata chip set card.
apparently the board thought it was a buzz drive 🤣 .

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What about you guys ? seen anything odd or funny ?

i get this exact error if i plug in 2 IDE drives on the same cable with the jumpers set the same.

almost all versions of windows

leileilol wrote on 2025-06-11, 14:02:

"bitmap is too big for hole anal" is one that had struck some game developers....

🤣 what, I'm sure there is some meaning behind that I don't get

^"bitmap is too big for whole analysis?" 🤷‍♂️

Jo22 wrote on 2025-06-11, 16:32:

^"bitmap is too big for whole analysis?" 🤷‍♂️

ohh that makes a lot more since.

The error message itself wasn't particularly funny, but what happened when it displayed for the end user was.

I had taken a call from a customer with an SB16 in their system, but they tried to run something like "Oil Change" or maybe some Norton utility, whatever it was it performed a quick hardware enumeration. They called to say that this software would report "No sound card detected".

I asked them to reproduce the error. Over the phone I heard the classic chord.wav sound.
Me [knowing full well what the sound was]: "What was that sound?"
Them: "That sound played when the error came up."
Me: "Ok, so who are you going to believe? The software saying it can't detect your sound card, or the sound card that played the sound?"

Technically not an error, but I like this message from my XT clone. Especially when counting in the 80286 had already been called brain-dead by the time this system arrived to the market.

Stesch wrote on 2025-06-09, 15:55:

Error: Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue

And they say computers don't have humor...

Yep,
best of the best!!!! Legendary!!!! Puts smile on my face even after almost 30 Years 😀 😀 😀

My favorite one is this message from the typical multi-stage windows installer, that unpacks the installer in the first stage:

Installer wrote:

An error occurred while preparing the files for installation: The operation has been cancelled.

The installer will try to continue the installation as far as possible in spite of this error

This is not the exact wording, but reproduces the meaning of the message.

I was digging up a retired development system from storage with the intent to check on some old code.
To be safe I tried to make a backup of the reference floppies before editing, but always got 'Error 30' after the copy finished.

The system manual did not list any error 30, so I started searching for alternate manuals in the storage, which took me a day or so.
It turned out the system was built to give each unit a base number: 10, 20, 30 etc. for each attached device, and the floppy drive units response messages started at 30, the message 'error 30' meant: floppy copy operation - no errors.

Performance Warning

Windows has detected a new MS-DOS driver named 'WIN'.
This driver may decrease your computer's performance. Would you
like to see more information about this problem?

[Yes] [No]

Maybe not an error message but I found it funny when windows sometimes listed a folder to have an eternal size.

Everyone at the LAN gathered around to see it pass 1tb. Totally outragous numbers!

not really an error message but I love a good VB5 installer program that fails on loading MSVB5VM.DLL and suddenly has to run a whole rollback installer program to rollback the nothing it did.

Not really an error, but I always laugh at the 99 years remaining while doing a copy on 9x.

linux has the best error messages imo..

"sacrifice child"
This is wild. 🤣

$ tar cf something
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

From OCCT version 0.9:

OCCT detected that you closed Speedfan. You shouldn't do it. OCCT will now terminate. Bye. Never do it again while OCCT is running. It's a weird idea anyway.

It's because of such silly ideas that we, programmers, have such hard work trying to figure out what users might do. Save a programmer. Kill a User 😁

Yeah, some stuff in linux is funny. Apart from already mentioned OOM-reaper related stuff there are also things like this that i find funny:

Linux error/warning messages are funny, but sometimes the responses to them are even funnier. I still remember when some years ago I tried to reflash my old home router with modified linux-based firmware, I had to use some undocumented weird command line parameter like "-iwantabrick" (I want a brick).