>i could remove the sata cable to his HD but that's more work than fucking with the bios

Hurr

Take out his CPU, give it back when he bucks up.

WoW has parental control options though..if you know his password somehow..

let's make excuses for parenting.

Raise his FSB to 9000

Tell her to man up (lol) and just fucking kick him off the computer till his grades improve

She needs to stop trying to be sneaky or make excuses and be a fucking parent

1) open case
2) remote some critical component, PSU, CPU, memory or something
3) ????
4) Put it in your girlfriend's pooper!

Help him by setting an example instead. For one thing, you could start using proper capitalisation and punctuation.

Tell him to get the hell off the computer, or you'll beat his ass. He'll say he will, and then beat his ass for lying.

Then he will use the computer without asking, so you should kick his ass then too.

Then rape him and his mother.

Install gentoo.

That's what I threaten my little brother with..If he doesnt improve his entry scores.

>>3886551
What this guy said.

>>girlfriend
>>14 year old son

...WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?

Just take out ram and put it in a drawer at home OP, you will not lose it/nothing will happen to it.

login to router and set access times.

>>3886551
>LOL I HOPE THESE GUISE THINK IM BADASS LIEK MADDOX :3

Grab the computer. Take the computer.

>>3886595
Who is maddox?

>>3886601

The original blogger troll.

www.thebestpageintheuniverse.com

Also, get the fuck out of here underageb&.

>>3886601
>>who is maddox?

Mega-newfag.

take the power cable
take the mouse
take the keyboard
take the monitor
take the computer itself
PUT A FUCKING PASSWORD ON WINDOWS LOGIN

it... really... isn't hard

>>3886608
>>3886607
LIEK OMG I U GUYZ R SO COOL M SO SRRY

>>3886596
>>3886596
>>3886596
>>3886596
>>3886596

THANK YOU. THIS IS THE ANSWER.

>>3886612

Stop posting.

LOL BIOS. If he's even remotely clued he he can reset the bios easily. In fact, even restarting your computer at the right time can "break" the bios password.

>>3886546
she told him no computers but he still gets on it

>>3886532
it's not just WOW, he spends hours on facebook

to the people suggesting removing a component e.g. CPU, yes that definitely would work but it's a much bigger hassle than changing the bios to not have a bootup device

he's not my kid so all i can do is what she asked - to disable his computer. if he was my kid he wouldn't even have a Windows PC, he would be using linux and learning programming and doing science experiments and reading, not fucking playing WoW. but my hands are tied

>>3886585
actually i already did fuck with the router (put in bad DNS entries lul) but then he just plays single player CoD4 or some bullshit

>>3886610
taking parts = i need to keep track of them, i can't be bothered
changing his windows password = i don't really want to fuck with his system other than just making it temporarily inoperable, even to the minuscule extent of changing his password

>>3886687

Take the power cable and and any successive power cables until he realises he can't win.

/g/ doesn't know how smart he is
at 14 I could and would just order parts when something broke in my computer
it wasn't like I'd see "awww windows wont boot.. oh well i better do mah homework!"
I'd just go to a friends house, find out what was wrong, etc.

He's going to do the same, if not to fix it then he'll just go to friends houses and play games there.

this is a bad solution.

Thermite.

Just take the fucking power cable.

>>3886729
Even better, access his WoW account and enable parental controls.

1) Unplug the power switch wires from the motherboard.
2) Unplug the power LED wires from the motherboard and plug them into where the power switch is supposed to plug into the motherboard. (Make sure you plug it in backwards though (i.e. + to - and - to +)).
3) Plug the power switch wires into the spot for the power LED (it doesnt matter which way around they are, this is just for appearance).
4) Close the case back up.
5) ???
6) Demand anal sex from your girlfriend.

If he figures it out, I'll be amazed.

>>3886723
Hey faggot how about you just confiscate the computer and stop being such a pussy. Move on.

>>3886723
If he had the level of curiosity and intellect required in order to be the kind of person who, when confronted with a problem, investigates to find it's causes, he'd be able to get at least a mix of A's and B's on mid terms without even revising. Sounds like he's your average American- unconcerned with any knowledge that is not immediately relevant to their situation.

>>3886729
>>3886723
>>3886722
>>3886668
see the thing is, he's not that good with computers. he lost his WOW account because he filled out a form on a phishing site. he had a virus on there from clicking a link in an email. not a big deal, we were all there once. but he never fixes problems himself. he asks me for help or just ignores it. it's fucking annoying to me because i like figuring things out and fixing problems but he just lives with google search box not working (forwards to some 3rd party site) and he has the side of his case open so he can use an old dvd burner i gave him because the cable is too short to mount it properly and he's too fucking lazy or dumb to figure out what cable it is and buy a longer one. literally since christmas (when he got the case from his mother) the dvd burner has been sitting on the floor next to it with the case side panel leaning against the wall.

he just doesn't give a shit about doing things right. anyway /rant, my point was that i don't want to just take away the power cable. i want to do something a little more complex so he doesn't know how to fix it, which will hopefully irk him enough to try to find a solution or remind him that he doesn't know shit about his favorite tool so that he becomes motivated to learn a bit more about computers. i doubt it though.

open hosts file, override wow and any other websites to 127.0.0.1, save, reboot.

>>3886758
Now I think you are trolling, because you are ignoring the "TAKE THE FUCKING COMPUTER" idea. Really.

>>3886734
yeah i thought about that too, that's probably the ideal solution. simple enough that someone could fix it but not so obvious that he can figure it out w/o research

>>3886746
that is exactly the situation. like i said he's

>>3886768
read >>3886758 to see why i'm avoiding the obvious

also why the fuck should i carry and store his 40lb computer when i can solve the problem with a sata cable?

>>3886546
lol she couldn't say no before

>>3886778
I have a sibling similar to him. He won't fix it. He'll bug you or someone else until it is fixed. He won't learn. If that failed to work, he'll fuck around with it and make it worse. If he fixes it, he will forget how he fixed in five minutes. He is a moron and should be treated in that matter.

Remove the pleasant stimulus for negative reinforcement.

>>3886766
what are the hoaddresses to the wow servers?

>>3886778
Then unplug all the shit. Have fun, christ, you sound just as lazy as he is.

err that was supposed to say hostnames

>>3886796
>>http://www.egn.com.au/wiki/WoW_Server_IP_Addresses

>>3886799
as i explained, i want to do something subtle that is fixable with knowledge, to motivate him to learn something to try to solve the problem. taking away a cable doesn't teach him anything.

i could go really crazy and set up a proxy server and set up his computer to use it. then i could replace his porn with goatse or do something equally fun

>>3886809
you can also try us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com

my plan is to disable everything in the boot sequence and then password protect the bios. that should take all of 10 seconds

Do that.
easy and effective.

Rape his face

>>3886833
Second this.

>>3886816
thanks, if can block WoW and facebook and CoD4 somehow, he might actually get some homework done.

i'd like to block his porn too, it bothers me that a 14 year old is looking at hardcore porn online. that can't be good for a kid. i had a playboy or two when i was a teenager but he is looking at hardcore shit every day.

>>3886809

You can't block IP addresses with DNS hosts file.

>>3886768
>>he just doesn't give a shit about doing things right. anyway /rant, my point was that i don't want to just take away the power cable. i want to do something a little more complex so he doesn't know how to fix it, which will hopefully irk him enough to try to find a solution or remind him that he doesn't know shit about his favorite tool so that he becomes motivated to learn a bit more about computers. i doubt it though.

The only foolproof method is to just rip out his damn processor.

Or, if you want to be a dick, wire a piezo buzzer into an empty molex connector. Computer turns on, screams at him, bitch is caught in the act.

Vnc server on his computer, client on yours. When he starts doing something he shouldn't be, just kill it off.

>>3886524
Beat the fuck out of him with a rubber hose every time he goes near the PC. He'll stop wanting to use the PC.

>>3886884
i thought about that but
a) that's creepy as fuck
b) i'm busy, i don't have time to waste watching him surf
c) when i saw him looking at porn i would be very uncomfortable, to say the least
d) i don't want him to know the extents of my power :D

>>3886849
Yes. Find a way to block the porn somehow, perhaps blocking his regular sites by adding them to the hosts file.

As for disabling his computer, disconnect the SATA cables from the drives (but don't take them away) and then perhaps disconnect the power supply cables from the drives. And another thing, block his access to facebook (by use of the hosts file), and also WoW.

But don't be cruel - at least let him use facebook now and then, or every weekend, and give him access to WoW at certain times in the week.

Also, give him a guitar or something. Maybe he will do something more productive with his time if given the alternative.

>>3886923

>i thought about that but
>a) that's creepy as fuck
>b) i'm busy, i don't have time to waste watching him surf
>c) when i saw him looking at porn i would be very uncomfortable, to say the least
>d) i don't want him to know the extents of my power :D

This guy isn't his step father or whatever just some silly prick trying ruin his friend's computer.

just take his monitor

>>3886946
after playing rock band and guitar hero he asked his mother for a guitar a year ago

it sits untouched in his room

when i was a kid i never got shit. i wanted to learn an instrument and my parents told me to fuck off. i was into computers thanks to the apple ii's at school and when i asked for a C64 my parents told me to fuck off

so it burns my ass a bit to see him get everything and appreciate it so little

>>3886889
by beat the hell out of, you mean rape the hell out of, right?

>>3886958
i assure you the situation is exactly as i have described it

any friend of mine would figure out what was wrong with his pc quickly and i wouldn't be an asshole like that to a friend in the first place.

no, i'm just a grown man looking for a way to fuck with a spoiled teenager. that isn't pathetic enough for you?

sounds like his mother could use a beating for raising such a spoiled little cuntbag

>>3886978

Just fucking swap pins around on his mobo power or something, install keyloggers, sell his wow account etc

Why don't you just take the entire computer, moron.

>>3886984
of his friends he's the most well behaved. in many ways he's a good kid. just not intellectual, curious, or appreciative. but that's probably normal for most american teenagers.

1. Change the jumper settings on the HDD.
2. Take away any Network connections
3. Edit the hosts file and change server IPs to 127.0.0.1
4. Take out critical components
5. Disable the HDD as a boot device in the BIOS
6. Take his hard drive out
7. Take the power switch wires out.
8. Kick hole in computer.

Also, if the case has a lock handle to secure the case, get a padlock and use it.

>>3886995
learn2 read thread, i answered this at least twice already

She has to talk to him and explain why he needs to spend less time playing WoW. Also, you can block applications from accessing the internet via the router or an iptable. You can even schedule access.

Do both the above. Kids need to understand discipline. Also make some deal like she'll upgrade his GPU if he gets better grades.

>>3887007

Store it away under lock and key, idiot. Who the hell would carry around computer parts with him?

You clearly are not that bright. Perhaps you're the one who should stay off the computer.

>>3887013
i don't want the hassle of setting up something complicated like filename-based blocking on the PC, and i don't think the router is capable of blocking outbound connections based on the app on the pc. it has no way of knowing what app started the connection.

>1. Change the jumper settings on the HDD.
sata, no jumpers
>2. Take away any Network connections
i don't really want to fuck with anything i can't just re-enable easily. his windows is already brittle thanks to virus infections so i don't want to break something i can't fix
>3. Edit the hosts file and change server IPs to 127.0.0.1
yeah i might block WOW, facebook, steam and COD4. that's all he does on there other than porn
>4. Take out critical components
i could easily pop out the ram in 2 seconds but as i said i wanted to do something more subtle that might drive him to explore how the computer works and learn something, rather than just giving up because he can't buy more ram
>5. Disable the HDD as a boot device in the BIOS
this was actually the first thing i did and he exceeded my expectations by figuring out how to fix it! i did this yesterday, today i need something a little stronger
>6. Take his hard drive out
eh can't be bothered to get a screwdriver when the bios solution is easier
>7. Take the power switch wires out.
yeah as mentioned in thread, i might fuck with the panel connectors. simple, foolproof, effective

I propose a test. Change the wires around in his 20-pin mobo power connector. explain to him quite clearly that if he tries to turn on the computer it will destroy it. See if he tries it.

>>3887019
i guess you still need to learn2 read, the point of this isn't "HOW TO DISABLE COMPUTER" anyone can pull out 2 sticks of ram

i am looking for something more subtle that will ... eh fuck it i already explained.

why do people not beat their kids anymore?
it just works

>>3887056

Take the entire computer.

punch them in the face

uninstall wow and make his mother monitor his computer usage like a fucking competent parent should be doing

if you want him to learn you could try overriding the MBR with big fat zeros

http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/ except turn off the part where it then boots the computer.

Also you could do the hosts file or change sporder/sockets, or install linux and then set mbr password and give him only a user account so he cant install wine and then wow (although if he REALLY learns something he will learn to install software as a normal user, which isnt simple in linux.

>>3887001
>of his friends he's the most well behaved
Just because a piece of shit in a shit-pile stinks a bit less than the other pieces of shit does not mean that this initial piece of shit is something other than a piece of shit.

Anyway, just open up the case, snip some important-looking wires, tape around them to mask the cuts, then close up the case again. When you want to fix the computer, just solder up the broken wires.

>>3886849

Trust me, it's not

When he's 21 he'll be into some fucking gross shit.

I know, when I was young we had pirated satellite.

I'd slash your tires a and pour paint stripper on every panel of your car also headlights rubber seals on windows, it'd fuckin cost you if you messed with me.

>>3887093

14 year old detected.

Just redirect the WoW login servers to localhost in the hosts file

>>3887111

>>3887085
You got a scat fetish or something, boy?

>>3887119
what are there hostnames? save me a google search :D

>>3887132
THEIR hostnames sorry

You have your answers faggot, now please leave.

>>3887181
too bad you're not in charge

If you are too fucking lazy to do anything, just fuck off and tell him that you will beat the shit out of him if he plays WoW again.

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a friend brought a computer to me that had that done (I found it)

/g/ - Family Counselling

Kids these days won't do anything that they don't care to do, or won't do. The only thing you can really get them to like is by bribing them.

Or maybe the kid is fucking messed up because his mom is dating some pathetic loser. Obviously the kid, in the end has problems in some way or another. How about you ask him why hes doing bad in school? Talk with him? I had plenty of friends back in Highschool who played MMO's like WoW, Everquest, FFXI day and night and still pulled A's and B's.

Instead of doing backhanded shit, try and help him with homework, or if that won't do anything, ask him if he would like a tutor. Either-way turning his computer off won't do anything, as he will just find ways around you. Maybe instead he will just go out with friends and start hitting some drugs?

>>3887591

he's not my kid, my hands are tied