The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

http://technologizer.com/2008/09/18/errormessage/

Site loads but then takes forever to finish loading. The irony ;)

I think the Stack Exchange network 404 pages are worth mentioning:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/$

http://stackoverflow.com/$ (this one's geek-y)

http://superuser.com/$

http://serverfault.com/$

They missed my favourite BIOS error message: "no keyboard present, press F1 to continue" haha.

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btw: if Windows is counting down to reboot you can abort it by Start, Run, "shutdown.exe -a"

Richard S.

Not your fault Ice, but I gave up waiting for that page to load. I don't think I've seen a page with so many elements:

Not your fault Ice, but I gave up waiting for that page to load. I don't think I've seen a page with so many elements:

Yeah. It might be the 500 or so comments below the actual article.

They missed my favourite BIOS error message: "no keyboard present, press F1 to continue" haha.

:lol: Too funny!

I had to figure out an error on my moms laptop yesterday which wasn't obvious by any means; it wouldn't load her Windows XP user profile because for one of the stupidest things I've seen yet on Windows was the typical "loading" screen however there was an RTC ("Real Time Clock") battery dead error dialog hiding behind it.

I gave up...

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Yep, me too, TCPView showed 619 endpoints, IE8 frozen, had to just quit. Tried 3 times.

Loads for me in about 5 seconds :P

Loaded fine for me.

Loaded fine for me too, but I did see A TON of blockable things

It takes forever because of whatever one particular third-party site is loading, I ended up letting it load all the normal stuff on screen and then just hit Stop in Firefox. Note that it's like that on every page!