Anyone ever CUNCHIFY a processor ??

[OhioState]

Ok so ive been into building comps since that really pimpish celeron 300A was a champion.
So i should know better. soooo.... Im changing the heatsink on a 2100+ and while takin it off
CRUNCH goes the core. Come to find out its way way easier to remove the fan first as to make the angle better.

So fess up whats the dumbest thing you have broken in you comp knowing full well how not to break it ??

 

[Leper Messiah]

probably when I de-lidded my old clawhammer. I didn't break anything, but I had no replacement for the proc, and knew full well there was a chance I was going to toast the thing.

 

[Cawchy87]

I stuck a pen into a fan one time and the blade broke off.

 

[myusername]

Hm. When my power supply failed, the computer powered off quietly .. so I turned it on again. It POSTed and then died. So I turned it on again. It blipped on and off. So I hit the power button one more time, got a nice flash of light for my trouble and fried the mobo.

Mind you, I didn't KNOW it was the PSU, so it wasn't really my fault..

 

[TheGizmo]

i put some memory into a motherboard backwards once at work oops! haha it only fried that slot though, the rest of the board was fine.

 

[OhioState]

Originally posted by: TheGizmo
i put some memory into a motherboard backwards once at work oops! haha it only fried that slot though, the rest of the board was fine.

thats a good one

ive gotten some good laughs so far.


come on people i know somone out there has totally jacked up somthing big

you will feel better if you talk about it

 

[McCarthy]

I chipped up my Athlon 650 a few times, but it still worked. First of the exposed cores for me, got lucky.

 

[intogamer]

I forced a P4 2.53 in the slot wif out doing the lock in with the stick
the Heatsink musta bent all the pins


Bestbuy replaced it

 

[toekramp]

i had a heatsink fall off once, the processor died within a second

i also plugged an IDE cable into some special mobo port (i forget one type of machines they were) anyways, press of the power button and a poof of smoke later, that machine was dead.

 

[RGN]

yeah, I put a 486 in the socket 90 degrees off. It actually cracked, burned a hole in the socket and melted a spot on the bottom of the mobo. The sad part was that I wasn't a newb when I did it. Good thing it was only a 486 and not really a loss.

 

[nageov3t]

we use a lot of compaq DL servers at work, especially DL320's and DL380/385's.

the DL380 cpu's come from compaq clicked into the heatsink... well, one day, I needed one of the cpu's (P4 3.0 GHz) but not the heatsink, since I needed it in a non-compaq box. so I start getting it out of the clips with a small flat-head screw driver, slip, and manage to bend half the pins on the cpu

I just kinda slid it into a box of bad cpu's and no one ever noticed

 

[OhioState]

Originally posted by: toekramp
i had a heatsink fall off once, the processor died within a second

i also plugged an IDE cable into some special mobo port (i forget one type of machines they were) anyways, press of the power button and a poof of smoke later, that machine was dead.

nice

 

[hjo3]

"Cunch"? Is that some sex thing?

 

[RGN]

Originally posted by: loki8481
we use a lot of compaq DL servers at work, especially DL320's and DL380/385's.

the DL380 cpu's come from compaq clicked into the heatsink... well, one day, I needed one of the cpu's (P4 3.0 GHz) but not the heatsink, since I needed it in a non-compaq box. so I start getting it out of the clips with a small flat-head screw driver, slip, and manage to bend half the pins on the cpu

I just kinda slid it into a box of bad cpu's and no one ever noticed

I've done that successfully with a razor blade.

j00==n00b!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: hjo3
"Cunch"? Is that some sex thing?

He meant crunchify, as in "CRUNCHIFY ME CAP'N".

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: hjo3
"Cunch"? Is that some sex thing?

He meant crunchify, as in "CRUNCHIFY ME CAP'N".

omg, is the OP cereal killer!?!?

he hax0red the gibson.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Worst I have ever done was a minor scratch on a motherborad. I'm very careful with PC hardware stuff.

 

[OhioState]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Worst I have ever done was a minor scratch on a motherborad. I'm very careful with PC hardware stuff.

awwwww come on ever back into traffic >?

 

[Saint Nick]

i scratched the bottom of my motherboard before this one with a needlenose pliers while trying to get these plastic plugs off so that i could remove the northbridge heatsink to apply as5.

holy run on sentence bat man.

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: OhioState
Ok so ive been into building comps since that really pimpish celeron 300A was a champion.
So i should know better. soooo.... Im changing the heatsink on a 2100+ and while takin it off
CRUNCH goes the core. Come to find out its way way easier to remove the fan first as to make the angle better.

So fess up whats the dumbest thing you have broken in you comp knowing full well how not to break it ??

I recently killed my 1700+ TBred B, I don't know how but maybe I didn't seat the heatsink on it correctly, or mashed it taking it out. I didn't even know it was dead till AFTER I sold it on the forums here. The buyer was nice and politely sent it back, and I sent first so no money had changed hands.

I don't know what I did as it was working when I pulled it from the machine. It was a overclocking champ too, I'm sad.

Oh and I blew the crap out of my original 1700+ Paly, accidental overvolt, don't ask.....

 

[magomago]

pop in a 350mhz k6-2 AMD processor to replace my 233mhz k6 one. Then i went to eat. When I came back I forgot to adjust all my jumpers.

Turn on...poof! Weird sound from the mobo, smoke begins to emit for a few seconds...and the fact my processor doesn't work anymore sucks

Luckily I told the place what happened, and they GLADLY took it back, providng I pay another 40 dollars to upgrade to a 550k6-2 But I couldn't get the processor higher than 500mhz stable (before i made that realization I was reinstalling windows literally every two days. I still have my 98 CDKEY memorized )

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: magomago
pop in a 350mhz k6-2 AMD processor to replace my 233mhz k6 one. Then i went to eat. When I came back I forgot to adjust all my jumpers.

Turn on...poof! Weird sound from the mobo, smoke begins to emit for a few seconds...and the fact my processor doesn't work anymore sucks

Luckily I told the place what happened, and they GLADLY took it back, providng I pay another 40 dollars to upgrade to a 550k6-2 But I couldn't get the processor higher than 500mhz stable (before i made that realization I was reinstalling windows literally every two days. I still have my 98 CDKEY memorized )

stinks doesn't it? i'll never forget the smell of a burning palomino.

 

[Mrvile]

My water res leaked all over my DVD-RW drive and broke it. I don't know why the drive is still in my comp...guess I'm too lazy to remove it.

 

[imported_electron]

I forgot to put the lever down on a processor socket once. Damn thing wouldn't post and I couldn't figure out why for like 2 days. Nothing got fried and it all worked fine after I discovered the problem and fixed it but man did I feel dumb as hell.

 

[brtspears2]

Destroyed perfectly good Celeron 533 because I set the jumpers wrong on the slotkey. Set it to 2.2V.