Have you ever purposely distroyed any computer hardware?

[pillage2001]

You think you're good??

Wait till you see some smartDoc throwing a pitcher of water into a flaming PC! :Q

 

[OS]

 

[crab]

Heres a tip...If you ever take a torch to a mobo, make sure you remove the CMOS battery! Batteries and flames make "explosive" surprises!

 

[XeonTux]

This thread is just screaming Doc Smarts' name!

 

[tweakmm]

am I the only one thinking office space?

 

[Fiera]

Best one was cleaning out a closet full of old/broken computer equipment. Hearing monitors blow up when hit with dot matrix printers can be so theraputic.

 

[Jyncus]

<< am I the only one thinking office space? >>



hehe, man that was an awesome part in the movie! I've wanted to take a baseball bat to my monitor several times after getting my ass kicked in a game of quake.

err...but related to the topic, me and a couple friends took apart a broken 6gig HD last Monday night... We had fun snapping our fingers between the magnets and each took home a platter as a souveneir <--speeling?
Is that geekish or what?

 

[kranky]

A few years ago e had some very old removable disk packs (300MB packs for CDC drives, each pack cost about $6000) and when we got rid of the drives, we took all the packs and launched them from the loading dock down into the dumpster. Smashed them up good, and when we were done we totalled it up - about $80,000 of hardware. (There was no resale value, so smashing them was OK.) Weird feeling, though.

 

[tigerwannabe]

this thread got my day off to a good start thanks for the stories, everyone!

 

[crisscross]

about 5 years back when my dad wouldn't upgrade the 386 we had for aroun 6 years I opened the case and burnt the RAM using a Matchstick. When my dad asked what happened, I told him that there was a short-circuit!! the next day I had a UPS and a brand new PC

 

[Armitage]

I helped "decommision" hard drives for a whole office once.
We were upgrading everybodies desktop computers. The old systems were all classified top secret, so we had to take the drives apart and remove the platters. The platters were then incinerated.
It got kind of tedious though, probably over a hundred drives.

 

[hagbard]

Took a slege hammer to a Antec power supply last year, like hitting a tin can

Almost fried a computer years ago when I dropped a live wire inside my case, burned a nice hole into the bottom, but the computer just kept on ticking along like nothin' was happening.

 

[Lars]

Never did it on purpose.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

I might have.

 

[ed21x]

<< Good grief, I thought I was demented... I have a tv tuner card sitting here that would still work in a 9x or Me machine but I've upgraded to XP and now it doesn't work and Avermedia doesn't make XP drivers for it cuz its so old. And I lost the cables and the company wants 20 bucks for a new set - f that. I think I'll have some fun with a dremel... >>



heh, the old AverTV card actually does work under windows XP with the win2k WDM drivers. contact me if you need it

 

[sharkeeper]

Giving new hardware to the FEDEX/UPS people!

Cheers!

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

I also disposed of several systems for a company one time... mostly 386's.

For some much needed golf practice... I replaced my 1 wood with a 10 pound sledge hammer and tee'd off on the cases (the distance wasnt as good as a golf ball... but the arc was nice).

For lack of coasters around the office I disassembled all of the HD's and used the platters (after a nice steel wool rub down of course... the platters not me )

To add warmth to the early winter day I set fire to the plastic fronts of the 3.5 drives.

The processors were... well... nuked.. in an old Microwave that burned up half way through the destruction process so we replace the microwave with.. you guessed it! My new 1 wood (be sure to wear protective eyeware... they shatter pretty good).

All in all, much of my angst for computers was cured.