Seems like everytime I mess around in my case I get my hand sliced on something in there. Thankfull I either don't get blood on anything or blood doesn't hurt computers.
Also I just upgraded my computer and somehow I bent a pin on a RAM chip. I bought a 2 new mobo's, a new graphics card, a new monitor and a new hard drive thinking anyone of those things could be fubaring my system.
Then I deceided to take it to someone and they said it was that simple.
Almost chucked this computer out the window when I heard that.
Also I just upgraded my computer and somehow I bent a pin on a RAM chip. I bought a 2 new mobo's, a new graphics card, a new monitor and a new hard drive thinking anyone of those things could be fubaring my system.
Then I deceided to take it to someone and they said it was that simple.
Almost chucked this computer out the window when I heard that.
DannyLove
Lifer
- Oct 17, 2000
- 12,876
- 4
- 76
alrighty. this is what happened.
picture this. a nice 5 bay tower, opened from the left side, a monitor to its far left and me replacing hard drives.
It was last year in the summer when I decided to mess around with HD's with my brothers computere. I go in, attach my 30 gig hard drive and have it leaning at the side of the opened case, testing the jumper settings. I turn on the computer and the power works great. Everything going well, its booting from my HD and windows is coming on soon. So I take the bad boy and begin to gently and slowy place it inside one of the bays. Being the lazy ass, i didnt want to wait and shut down then place it inside the case and fire it up, so instead i was placing it inside the bay while booting up to windows.
As I was performing this extremely dangerous task, the hard drives exterior (its a maxtor, you know they have those chips outside) hit the inside bay, (there was this bay holder for HD) and the damn Hard drive started smoking a bit. I smelled it. I immediatley turned off the power.
I placed it back to its position, how i should have done it in the first place, powered it up, and the bios couldn't recognize the HD. I removed the HD< looked at the exterior and noticed two chips completely BLACK, burned to a crisp. I WAS PISSSED!!! all my data, gone, i had only a few old backups, so everything recent and new was alllll gone. I replaced it, thank god for RMA, and i got my 30 gig back, but my data was alll gone...
danny~! i have many more stories, but i dont wanna type
picture this. a nice 5 bay tower, opened from the left side, a monitor to its far left and me replacing hard drives.
It was last year in the summer when I decided to mess around with HD's with my brothers computere. I go in, attach my 30 gig hard drive and have it leaning at the side of the opened case, testing the jumper settings. I turn on the computer and the power works great. Everything going well, its booting from my HD and windows is coming on soon. So I take the bad boy and begin to gently and slowy place it inside one of the bays. Being the lazy ass, i didnt want to wait and shut down then place it inside the case and fire it up, so instead i was placing it inside the bay while booting up to windows.
As I was performing this extremely dangerous task, the hard drives exterior (its a maxtor, you know they have those chips outside) hit the inside bay, (there was this bay holder for HD) and the damn Hard drive started smoking a bit. I smelled it. I immediatley turned off the power.
I placed it back to its position, how i should have done it in the first place, powered it up, and the bios couldn't recognize the HD. I removed the HD< looked at the exterior and noticed two chips completely BLACK, burned to a crisp. I WAS PISSSED!!! all my data, gone, i had only a few old backups, so everything recent and new was alllll gone. I replaced it, thank god for RMA, and i got my 30 gig back, but my data was alll gone...
danny~! i have many more stories, but i dont wanna type
Back in the day of NT 3.51 and OS/2 (half an operating system). I'd been working on NT all day and had to check something on one of our OS/2 servers. Sat down and without thinking hit ctl+alt+del to bring up the login.
The next thing I see is the memory test count as the system rebooted. Oops! I shagged out of the server room and made it about 50 yards before someone came running up to me: "Are we having problems with the network". Me: "I haven't heard anything. Let me go check on the servers."
One of those 'it only takes once' kinds of lessons.
The next thing I see is the memory test count as the system rebooted. Oops! I shagged out of the server room and made it about 50 yards before someone came running up to me: "Are we having problems with the network". Me: "I haven't heard anything. Let me go check on the servers."
One of those 'it only takes once' kinds of lessons.
Hmmm... just put together my first AMD system just last week... previous sys were all Intel based...
Was curious if my Volcano II HSF was sucking air onto the HS or blowing air up from the HS... put my left hand over the fan to see if I can feel the air... stuck a few fingers TOO close to the whirling fan... :Q and luckly only lost a lit' piece of my middle finger's skin, no blood... whew!
A few year ago, tried to put together an old system from left-over parts, fried a Pentium 133 MB while unplugging the keyboard while computer was booting up.
Also years ago, put in the power cable into an AT MB backwards!! But nothing happened when power was turned on and the MB still worked after I corrected myself.
Was curious if my Volcano II HSF was sucking air onto the HS or blowing air up from the HS... put my left hand over the fan to see if I can feel the air... stuck a few fingers TOO close to the whirling fan... :Q and luckly only lost a lit' piece of my middle finger's skin, no blood... whew!
A few year ago, tried to put together an old system from left-over parts, fried a Pentium 133 MB while unplugging the keyboard while computer was booting up.
Also years ago, put in the power cable into an AT MB backwards!! But nothing happened when power was turned on and the MB still worked after I corrected myself.
I had a large desk for my workstation and I had a topped off 32 oz glass of water sitting up there. PC was on and I was doing something and knocked the cup over completely emptying it on my desk top. I wasn't too worried though as it was WELL away from where I keep the computer stuff. However, as these things have a mind of their own I stood in disbelief as the water snaked across my desk around the mousepad, under the keyboard, along a divider I had on there, straight to the back of the desk and directly down towards the floor and into my Altec Lansing Subwoofer *crap!*.
I let it dry out using a box fan and the thing is STILL working today!
I let it dry out using a box fan and the thing is STILL working today!
Nothing that bad, and this was at school. My tech lab consisted of a bunch of 166mhz Pentium 2's, with like a 1ghb hard-drive. Well, one computer would just shut itself down after the Windows Boot Up screen. So, I take apart the computer, thinking it's the Hard-Drive. But no, my "smart" teacher said it was the Video Card and ripped the damned thing out of it's place.. He then switched video cards w/ another computer, booted up, no display. So, while the computer is on, he pushes the video card in farther, and ZAP. The video card just fried, so now we're out a video card and still have a computer that refuses to work. I forget how I managed to fix either one, I did end up replacing the HD on the screwy computer though..
-- mrcodedude
-- mrcodedude
too many of you are mad clumsy...
i only set a floppy on fire by accident...
and ugh got caught going to http://u.r.so.ownd.com
i only set a floppy on fire by accident...
and ugh got caught going to http://u.r.so.ownd.com
Bignate603
Lifer
- Sep 5, 2000
- 13,897
- 1
- 0
never plug in a fan with bear leads while your computer is on. Big sparks and it took over an hour for my power supply to be able to boot again. The voltages on the supply got a little strange after that so I had to replace it.
Well uh, after reading what all of you tards did, i don't feel too bad anymore
I spilled water into a keyboard once.. fried the corner.. microsoft replaced it no questions asked.. (been doin this for years everytime somethin happens to a microsoft product i have.. they always send you replacements for free without asking for you to return the old one)....
anyhow.. mom put a vase with water and a flower on top of my desk.. i didn't know she did.. i sat down.. pulled the keyboard tray out.. wiggle wiggle.. vase fell over and poured right into my nokia 447xi.. needless to say it sizzled a bit and shut off.. hair dried it for a half hour and it worked again (wtf?).. anyhow.. only lasted another year
I spilled water into a keyboard once.. fried the corner.. microsoft replaced it no questions asked.. (been doin this for years everytime somethin happens to a microsoft product i have.. they always send you replacements for free without asking for you to return the old one)....
anyhow.. mom put a vase with water and a flower on top of my desk.. i didn't know she did.. i sat down.. pulled the keyboard tray out.. wiggle wiggle.. vase fell over and poured right into my nokia 447xi.. needless to say it sizzled a bit and shut off.. hair dried it for a half hour and it worked again (wtf?).. anyhow.. only lasted another year
DannyLove
Lifer
- Oct 17, 2000
- 12,876
- 4
- 76
well here goes nothing.
back in my retarded AOL days, I was a massive downloader of mp3s and all kinds of stuff. I remember that proggie called servertoolz which allowed you to request all that crap from those private chat rooms server, serverz, etc. anyways, like i said, i downloaded lots of stuff. I came across I file with a .exe extention and without thinking I opened it. All of a sudden a self running app opened up and only saw the following:
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
it scrolled like maddddddddddddd, i paniced so bad that in 2 seconds I hit the off switch on my crappy Compaq. As I stood there in complete silence, listening to the fan power down.....all silent...... i then proceeded in turning the computer on again, and as i expected, all it said at boot up was, PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK, bla bla bla, everything was lost.....i couldn't access anything, back then i was a complete newbie, i might have been able to recover it, but like i said, i was a newbie
danny~!
back in my retarded AOL days, I was a massive downloader of mp3s and all kinds of stuff. I remember that proggie called servertoolz which allowed you to request all that crap from those private chat rooms server, serverz, etc. anyways, like i said, i downloaded lots of stuff. I came across I file with a .exe extention and without thinking I opened it. All of a sudden a self running app opened up and only saw the following:
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
Deleting: C:\windows\...."file name here"
it scrolled like maddddddddddddd, i paniced so bad that in 2 seconds I hit the off switch on my crappy Compaq. As I stood there in complete silence, listening to the fan power down.....all silent...... i then proceeded in turning the computer on again, and as i expected, all it said at boot up was, PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK, bla bla bla, everything was lost.....i couldn't access anything, back then i was a complete newbie, i might have been able to recover it, but like i said, i was a newbie
danny~!
amdskip
Lifer
- Jan 6, 2001
- 22,530
- 13
- 81
I was trying to fix a perfectly good computer a long time ago. I ended up reformating only to find out my ide secondary controller went bad so I couldn't get windows to install from the cdrom. I learned about primary and slave and everything then. My parents and brother weren't very happy with me but ol' well
I shorted out my new computer. Shut down completly and everything is ok.
Once ran my computer without the heatsink fan plugged in. Good thing I had my case off. Only got to 55 so I got really lucky.
I shorted out my new computer. Shut down completly and everything is ok.
Once ran my computer without the heatsink fan plugged in. Good thing I had my case off. Only got to 55 so I got really lucky.
Hamburgerpimp
Diamond Member
- Aug 15, 2000
- 7,464
- 1
- 76
Somehow deleted all partitions on my buddy's Harddrive while putting in a BackUp Tape Drive. I have no idea how. He was pissed to say the least.
The worst thing I did to my computer is I made my modem stopped working and didn't even know why..
Well one day I was changing my CD-Rom to a CD-RW (i only have 1 bay on the comp). It was my first time changing stuff, so I took my time, and I got little frustrated. When I finally got the CD-RW on, the modem stopped working. By stopped working, I meant the computer wouldn't recognize the modem. I check all the plugs like 100 times, still coudln't figure out why.. So I had to ask my Neighbor to fix it for me... He didn't even know what was he doing, but he fixed it :Q
Up till this day I still fail to find why the modem wouldn't work
Well one day I was changing my CD-Rom to a CD-RW (i only have 1 bay on the comp). It was my first time changing stuff, so I took my time, and I got little frustrated. When I finally got the CD-RW on, the modem stopped working. By stopped working, I meant the computer wouldn't recognize the modem. I check all the plugs like 100 times, still coudln't figure out why.. So I had to ask my Neighbor to fix it for me... He didn't even know what was he doing, but he fixed it :Q
Up till this day I still fail to find why the modem wouldn't work
trenchfoot
Lifer
- Aug 5, 2000
- 16,138
- 8,728
- 136
i went to a friend's house to repair their computer. the tower was located in a very cramped space and was quite difficult to work on with everything hooked up. instead of unhooking all connections, relocating case and reconnecting, i leaned the case at ~45deg./ against an adjacent wall and proceeded to remove and switch cards in slots. i finally got rid of an irq conflict and proceeded to leave the room to call my friend in to let him know the problem was solved. well, the case slid away from the wall and crashed loudly onto the ceramic tile floor. i froze in the doorway, looked at the monitor and that ol' feeling of impending doom fell over me. the monitor went into stand-by, one of the fans in the case was protesting quite loudly, and a loud clicking and buzzing noises was coming out of the case. i uprighted the case, went for the 4 second shutdown and pulled the plug. as best i could, i checked for physical damage in those cramped quarters. i shut everything else down and started to ponder on the consequences of my laziness while i was surveying the wreckage. hdd was trashed with much unrecoverable data onboard, partially damaged slot one cpu/hsf (repairable and repaired) trashed zip drive (repaired) a graphics board hsf that now makes a funny noise but works, and me out of pocket major dineros all because i was lazy and careless. i'm still slapping myself silly over that one.
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