For the first time in my life, I killed a motherboard....

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I think everyone's slipped and fucked up a component. I knocked a capacitor off of a motherboard once. Still worked.

 

[nonameo]

I can't remember what the model was, but I once killed an ASUS motherboard that supported both pentium III and DDR.

edit: it was a loss.

 

[ahenkel]

It seems all of my near accidents happen with clip on heatsinks.
Its the main reason I got rid of my sunbeam core contact. Bloody thing needed 2 pliers a screwdriver and a sacrificial goat to get removed.

 

[duragezic]

I think everyone's slipped and fucked up a component. I knocked a capacitor off of a motherboard once. Still worked.

Haha. Should have wrote them with your cost saving measure!

 

[Rubycon]

I've definitely killed my fair share of hardware - often brutally!

 

[sandorski]

gp;h2r!!!

 

[Demo24]

First time I knowingly killed one was when I was turning it on and off by connecting the pins with a flathead screwdriver. That worked great until it slipped and *PFFZZT!*, didn't work after that.


I've killed a few server mobo's, but mostly due to trying to troubleshoot problems that ended up not being related to the boards. One way to make your stomach turn is to accidentally rip a Xeon processor out of a dual socket mobo, thankfully that one still worked!!

 

[Raduque]

My first kill was a videocard. My side panel fan was using quick-connects (I don't use those anymore!) and the quick-connect on the hot side came loose as I put the fan back on. It fell down and sparked across the backside of a GeForce2 Ultra. Scratch one GF2U.

Killed a mobo by overheating and melting the VRUs due to no airflow around the CPU (watercooling).

Killed a few HDDs in my time.

Crushed several AMD XP-era CPUs, but never killed one. Pulled a heatsink off a Celeron and yanked the die out with it, though. Left the substrate in the socket.

 

[Engineer]

I don't feel as bad after reading a few of the other slipups...I probably should be ashamed to feel that way though!

 

[TecHNooB]

I killed 3 ICs during a lab practical. Was cuz my ground rail wasn't actually tied to ground.

 

[eldorado99]

I once killed a mother in ar.

 

[Leros]

I once scraped a few surface mount components off a graphics card when I was struggling to install the heatsink.

 

[Howard]

Haha. Should have wrote them with your cost saving measure!

If it was just for voltage smoothing it wouldn't have been a big deal. AC coupling, yes.