This is a great site I just found - it lists the various ways PC hardware have been killed by imcompetent users:
(found it at theregister, bts)
http://www.blarg.co.uk/obituaries/
here are some good ones:
Hardware: Loads!
Cause of Death:
This isn't your standard obituary. My overclocked Celeron 300a@450 was "relieved" of me from my local pawnshop after I failed to make the loan payments on it. *Sniff* I miss that damn thing. It had a Voodoo3 3000, PCI TVWonder, 10/100 LAN, 56K, ISA sound card, 96MB of PC100, etc. They stole it from me for the bargain price of $200!
Um, I have also killed a few other "overclocked" systems. One was a Super Socket 7 board that I installed the AT power connectors on backwards (black wires on the outside). Another was an old PS/2 486 I threw out my 6th floor apartment window (it pissed me off). Another was an Asus P2B-F, Celeron 300a, and RAM that fried when the cheapo power supply EXPLODED!
I am sure there is more, I just can't remember.
Hardware: Creative Labs Riva TNT
Cause of death: Improper removal of heatsink with a screwdriver: crunch
Hardware: Packard Bell Legend 2000, 486/25sx
Cause of Death: Cover was off the case, and the cat pissed in it. Looked like the computer got it's revenge though, electrocuted the cat. Came home to one dead PC and one dead cat.
Hardware: Samsung 2Gb hard drive
Cause for death: I took it out of my third pc and hit it hard several times with a large hammer.
I am guilty of many of these - ie... putting an AT mobo power supply connector backwards (black on the outside), putting an IDE connector backwards, etc. Nothing really happened to me except the time where I connected a FDD connector backwares and it fried the floppy controller on the mobo (the rest of the mobo worked fine), and when I fried a brand new Geforce 2 GTS 32 DDR. Thank goodness it was under warrenty, though.
enjoy!
(found it at theregister, bts)
http://www.blarg.co.uk/obituaries/
here are some good ones:
Hardware: Loads!
Cause of Death:
This isn't your standard obituary. My overclocked Celeron 300a@450 was "relieved" of me from my local pawnshop after I failed to make the loan payments on it. *Sniff* I miss that damn thing. It had a Voodoo3 3000, PCI TVWonder, 10/100 LAN, 56K, ISA sound card, 96MB of PC100, etc. They stole it from me for the bargain price of $200!
Um, I have also killed a few other "overclocked" systems. One was a Super Socket 7 board that I installed the AT power connectors on backwards (black wires on the outside). Another was an old PS/2 486 I threw out my 6th floor apartment window (it pissed me off). Another was an Asus P2B-F, Celeron 300a, and RAM that fried when the cheapo power supply EXPLODED!
I am sure there is more, I just can't remember.
Hardware: Creative Labs Riva TNT
Cause of death: Improper removal of heatsink with a screwdriver: crunch
Hardware: Packard Bell Legend 2000, 486/25sx
Cause of Death: Cover was off the case, and the cat pissed in it. Looked like the computer got it's revenge though, electrocuted the cat. Came home to one dead PC and one dead cat.
Hardware: Samsung 2Gb hard drive
Cause for death: I took it out of my third pc and hit it hard several times with a large hammer.
I am guilty of many of these - ie... putting an AT mobo power supply connector backwards (black on the outside), putting an IDE connector backwards, etc. Nothing really happened to me except the time where I connected a FDD connector backwares and it fried the floppy controller on the mobo (the rest of the mobo worked fine), and when I fried a brand new Geforce 2 GTS 32 DDR. Thank goodness it was under warrenty, though.
enjoy!
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