Ever wonder what happens when you stick metal objects in USB ports?

[beer]

I nominate this thread for the best of year.

 

[Balt]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
I nominate this thread for the best of year.

I second.

 

[dmurray14]

wow, this is sweet. what a great turnout

well i don't know what to do next...I don't want to permanently kill the machine. any other ideas that won't completely kill it or me?

 

[Joony]

Originally posted by: Balt

Originally posted by: Elemental007
I nominate this thread for the best of year.

I second.

third

 

[AkumaX]

really?

 

[rudeguy]

jeebus, is this your work computer??

 

[rpc64]

Originally posted by: dmurray14
wow, this is sweet. what a great turnout

well i don't know what to do next...I don't want to permanently kill the machine. any other ideas that won't completely kill it or me?

You could try the RAM

 

[dmurray14]

Originally posted by: rpc64

Originally posted by: dmurray14
wow, this is sweet. what a great turnout

well i don't know what to do next...I don't want to permanently kill the machine. any other ideas that won't completely kill it or me?

You could try the RAM

heh, what a coincidence...just as I was doing the ram. fellow anandtechers, here is what happens when ram is removed while the system is on - results

 

[dmurray14]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
jeebus, is this your work computer??

nooooo

i'm not THAT stupid

 

[BennyD]

how about swapping HD and CD rom over?

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Krueger81
how about memory? or taking the cpu out of it;s socket

that would rock.

Phil

simply throw back the latch on the socket for the CPU and see what happens.. that's an easy one..

 

[glugglug]

What happens if you take the metal cover off the AGP video card, and stick the card in a PCI slot?

 

[Kyteland]

What happens when you switch the jumper settings for your hard drive while it is running?

 

[sharkeeper]

Why are you trying to stick a knife in your universal cereal port? Usually people use a spoon and put milk in there first!

-DAK-

 

[Luagsch]

Originally posted by: Balt

Originally posted by: Elemental007
I nominate this thread for the best of year.

I second.

***OFFICIAL***

 

[boi]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: Kyteland
What happens when you switch the jumper settings for your hard drive while it is running?

yeah!

 

[Antoneo]

Thanks for doing all of that for me!

 

[Brutuskend]

Lets see what happens when you water cool it!

Take a spray bottle and.....well you get the idea!

 

[Rufio]

Originally posted by: Antoneo
Thanks for doing all of that for me!

 

[dmurray14]

Originally posted by: DanFungus

Originally posted by: Kyteland
What happens when you switch the jumper settings for your hard drive while it is running?

yeah!

OK, just tried. Absolutely nothing happened. So, I unplugged the power cable to the HD while the system was booted. Windows itself didn't freeze until I tried to run a program. After a few seconds I plugged the hard drive in and - holey crap, the application loaded! It seems HDs are semi-hot-pluggable...who knew?

 

[Wooster]

Sweet and sexy pictures. How about a picture with a glass of water on CPU? Just kidding!

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: v3rrv3
As long as you're doing stuff with metal and electricity, I'll give you a tip. Never EVER touch the board underneath your monitor. Dear god that holds alot of electricity. I was using my monitor with teh cover off and touched the board and it felt like it burnt the muscles in my arm

- Kevin

When I was like, 12, the solder on the spot where the cable cord connects to the TV broke on my big bad 13 inch TV. Well, I opened the case to try and fix it, and I saw the big red wire with the big suction cup thingy connected to the tube and thought it would be fun take it off with my bare hands.

I started playing with it, it knocked the hell out of me, I casually set the TV down, and laid down on the floor for about an hour before I felt I could get up.


The next day I did it again.

I seem to get electrocuted once every month or so. There was the shop-vac incident where it had sprayed water into the electrical portion of it, and I went to empty it with the top soaking wet. I touched it about 10 times before I realized what was going on.

Man I was a stupid kid.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Not enuff sparks! MORE SPARKS! :|

agreed

 

[dmurray14]

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: v3rrv3
As long as you're doing stuff with metal and electricity, I'll give you a tip. Never EVER touch the board underneath your monitor. Dear god that holds alot of electricity. I was using my monitor with teh cover off and touched the board and it felt like it burnt the muscles in my arm

- Kevin

When I was like, 12, the solder on the spot where the cable cord connects to the TV broke on my big bad 13 inch TV. Well, I opened the case to try and fix it, and I saw the big red wire with the big suction cup thingy connected to the tube and thought it would be fun take it off with my bare hands.

I started playing with it, it knocked the hell out of me, I casually set the TV down, and laid down on the floor for about an hour before I felt I could get up.


The next day I did it again.

I seem to get electrocuted once every month or so. There was the shop-vac incident where it had sprayed water into the electrical portion of it, and I went to empty it with the top soaking wet. I touched it about 10 times before I realized what was going on.

Man I was a stupid kid.

lmao there's MY laugh for the day. thanks.