Specop 007
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StrangerGuy
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When I was replacing my northbridge cooler, I tightened a screw a bit to far and ripped the hook that holds it on out of the motherboard.
Superglue is my friend.
Superglue is my friend.
some great ones guys and gals peronally i like the fingernaill story
so lets give the daytime ppl a shop
whats the dumbest comp thing you have destroyed even though you knew better ?
so lets give the daytime ppl a shop
whats the dumbest comp thing you have destroyed even though you knew better ?
I de-lidded an old K6-2 processor way back when.
I actually chipped the core's corners, but it still worked. :Q
Yes, my finger. :QOriginally posted by: StrangerGuy
Haha. Anyone stuck something into a 7000RPM Delta fan?
It left a mark.
I chipped my first cely 566 and my XP 2100 the xp contined to work fine the cely died
although the place I got the cely from replaced it for some reason (I admidted what I did and they still did it)
although the place I got the cely from replaced it for some reason (I admidted what I did and they still did it)
mrSHEiK124
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Never managed to chip a core (don't know how anyone could) but I've done my share of stupid things.
Knocked half the little resistors on a DDR DIMM off by trying to put it in backwards. Reaching in to install RAM while not looking is BAD, mmk? When I realized why it wasn't going in (and saw the little mess I'd made in between slots), I flipped it, installed it, and MemTest'd it. Worked fine, nobody ever had to know about that one
Installed a motherboard without standoffs, I probably spent the good part of an hour wondering why it would beep [alot] when I tried to turn it on, then I noticed a full bag of standoffs
And, recently, didn't tighten a heatsink well enough. THANK YOU ASUS, man, if it wasn't for the A7N8X-E's feature that killed the power if the CPU was overheating, I would've blown my Athlon XP up and I wouldn't have known why.
Knocked half the little resistors on a DDR DIMM off by trying to put it in backwards. Reaching in to install RAM while not looking is BAD, mmk? When I realized why it wasn't going in (and saw the little mess I'd made in between slots), I flipped it, installed it, and MemTest'd it. Worked fine, nobody ever had to know about that one
Installed a motherboard without standoffs, I probably spent the good part of an hour wondering why it would beep [alot] when I tried to turn it on, then I noticed a full bag of standoffs
And, recently, didn't tighten a heatsink well enough. THANK YOU ASUS, man, if it wasn't for the A7N8X-E's feature that killed the power if the CPU was overheating, I would've blown my Athlon XP up and I wouldn't have known why.
I have installed and removed heatsinks on hundreds of Dumb-ass-design-exposed-core AMD's and never damaged a core.
Quite possibly the worst core design evar.
Quite possibly the worst core design evar.
A 4 year old was "helping" me build an athlon machine a few years ago. I let him hold the ram and CPU in his hands, he promptly rubbed them in the carpet. I never got to see those chips work.
mrSHEiK124
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They weren't the Tualitin cores are MUCH harder, I belive Intel used a coating of some sort.
I worked for a huge online dealer at the time (TCWO), and the returns we got due to that fragile core were amazing. We nearly never got back a Tualitin because of a chipped/cracked core.
At least it wasn't something else. :QOriginally posted by: Eli
Yes, my finger. :QOriginally posted by: StrangerGuy
Haha. Anyone stuck something into a 7000RPM Delta fan?
It left a mark.
I've built several computers and have never fscked up any hardware components The worst I've done was accidentally plugged a PATA HDD that I meant to be master into a slave slot. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to just switch the cables without completely removing the drives in the case I was working on, so I had to completely remove the drives and put them back in the other way.
I did have a dead ASUS A8n-SLI Deluxe motherboard recently that I had to RMA, but I did some digging and apparently a good number of those boards manufactured at the time were DOA. Kind of pissed me off that I had to pay for shipping to Newegg, but it wasn't a big deal.
My girlfriend did something pretty bad though. She took her Radeon 9800 Pro out of her case so that she could clean it with some canned air (which I sitll don't understand; you should leave the video card in so it can lose dust too). But we had one of those heavy screwdrivers that are kind of like a swiss army knife, only each tool is just a different size/type of screwdriver head. As she was putting her video card in, the head she was using tried to flip back inside and she dropped the hole thing right onto her video card and lost an inductor! Needless to say, this card did not work after losing an inductor like that, even when we tried to glue it back into place with the metal parts touching correctly. We managed to RMA it just fine though
The worst I've done was accidentally plugged a PATA HDD that I meant to be master into a slave slot. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to just switch the cables without completely removing the drives in the case I was working on, so I had to completely remove the drives and put them back in the other way.I did have a dead ASUS A8n-SLI Deluxe motherboard recently that I had to RMA, but I did some digging and apparently a good number of those boards manufactured at the time were DOA. Kind of pissed me off that I had to pay for shipping to Newegg, but it wasn't a big deal.
My girlfriend did something pretty bad though. She took her Radeon 9800 Pro out of her case so that she could clean it with some canned air (which I sitll don't understand; you should leave the video card in so it can lose dust too). But we had one of those heavy screwdrivers that are kind of like a swiss army knife, only each tool is just a different size/type of screwdriver head. As she was putting her video card in, the head she was using tried to flip back inside and she dropped the hole thing right onto her video card and lost an inductor! Needless to say, this card did not work after losing an inductor like that, even when we tried to glue it back into place with the metal parts touching correctly. We managed to RMA it just fine though
Originally posted by: Eeezee
I've built several computers and have never fscked up any hardware components
I did have a dead ASUS A8n-SLI Deluxe motherboard recently that I had to RMA, but I did some digging and apparently a good number of those boards manufactured at the time were DOA. Kind of pissed me off that I had to pay for shipping to Newegg, but it wasn't a big deal.
My girlfriend did something pretty bad though. She took her Radeon 9800 Pro out of her case so that she could clean it with some canned air (which I sitll don't understand; you should leave the video card in so it can lose dust too). But we had one of those heavy screwdrivers that are kind of like a swiss army knife, only each tool is just a different size/type of screwdriver head. As she was putting her video card in, the head she was using tried to flip back inside and she dropped the hole thing right onto her video card and lost an inductor! Needless to say, this card did not work after losing an inductor like that, even when we tried to glue it back into place with the metal parts touching correctly. We managed to RMA it just fine though
Nice.. Screw the vendor for you gf's incompetance.
:disgust:
had to change the stock heatsink of my P4 2.53Ghz (this pc) once because it made an annoying sound...
when i figured how to remove the clips, the heatsink wouldnt come off. now im a carefull guy, so i didnt use much strength. started twisting the thing and slightly pulling. then a bit more strength. then it went pop, i almost fell backwards, and the heatsink was off the mobo. then looking at the socket, i notice theres something missing. looking at the heatsink, the bottom to be precise, and i see my proc hanging there... bent like 3 pins on the corner (bend them back and it still works.) took me a knife to seperate those 2.
but wait! theres more! i cleaned it nicely, but didnt use any thermal pase since the HSF i bought already had some at the bottom. so i popped it ontop of it, fastened the clips, closed my computer, and botted it up. appearantly, if you remove the proc from the socket, it boots up at 66 mhz or something. i didnt check temps, i thought it should work, and clocked it up again to 2.53 ghz. it lasted 3 seconds (wow) before poof, and the comp shut down. thank god for thermal protection. the new HSF didnt even toutch the proc.
if anybody ever ses that too much thermal paste wont work, their crazy. i had a whole tube of thermal pase lying around, cleaned off the tiny bit on the HSF, and just used the entire tube on the proc. i thought if i use too much it wont work, but i didnt have much choice. i used enough to replace it 5 times (at the very least) popped the HSF back on, fastened the clips, closed the comp, and let it boot up. it now runs 31C idle 52C load. *shrug*
also slipped with a screwdriver across the mobo during the above story, right across alot of memory lanes. thank god it wasnt hard enough to cause damage. nothing more really...
when i figured how to remove the clips, the heatsink wouldnt come off. now im a carefull guy, so i didnt use much strength. started twisting the thing and slightly pulling. then a bit more strength. then it went pop, i almost fell backwards, and the heatsink was off the mobo. then looking at the socket, i notice theres something missing. looking at the heatsink, the bottom to be precise, and i see my proc hanging there... bent like 3 pins on the corner (bend them back and it still works.) took me a knife to seperate those 2.
but wait! theres more! i cleaned it nicely, but didnt use any thermal pase since the HSF i bought already had some at the bottom. so i popped it ontop of it, fastened the clips, closed my computer, and botted it up. appearantly, if you remove the proc from the socket, it boots up at 66 mhz or something. i didnt check temps, i thought it should work, and clocked it up again to 2.53 ghz. it lasted 3 seconds (wow) before poof, and the comp shut down. thank god for thermal protection. the new HSF didnt even toutch the proc.
if anybody ever ses that too much thermal paste wont work, their crazy. i had a whole tube of thermal pase lying around, cleaned off the tiny bit on the HSF, and just used the entire tube on the proc. i thought if i use too much it wont work, but i didnt have much choice. i used enough to replace it 5 times (at the very least) popped the HSF back on, fastened the clips, closed the comp, and let it boot up. it now runs 31C idle 52C load. *shrug*
also slipped with a screwdriver across the mobo during the above story, right across alot of memory lanes. thank god it wasnt hard enough to cause damage. nothing more really...
Originally posted by: skyking
crunched a pally that I had did the mod trick to............
Scratched a vidcard changing fans. It dieded also.
shorted the bottom of a HD, carelessness.
I don't feel any better
sorry i was hopeing you felt better
honestly, I've worked on probably 20 or AXP cores and I've never chipped one. You'd have to be jamming that HSFU on pretty fvcking hard.
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