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Here's an interesting story that happened to me last night. I was setting up a machine for my parents just to word process on and surf the net. It's an old P2 333 Mhz processor my friend gave to me with the motherboard and tower. All the rest of the parts I had got from various other places. Anyway, I got the machine up and running but realized I needed new drivers for the video card. Since I had gotten the card from a friend, I didn't even think to check what kind of card it was that he gave me. So I opened up my case and checked. I installed the drivers and I shut down the computer. Here's where the story gets interesting.
I proceeded to place the side panel back onto the tower and I managed to get it screwed on properly. I guess the tip of my screwdriver touched the back of the tower. *FLASH* Sparks flew and I heard all my other hardware turn off. My sub, my monitor, my other tower...off. I sat there in disbelief. I could have fried myself. That brings up a question. Why the hell is the back of the computer touching the power supply made of metal!?
Anyway, after coming out of shock I looked to see that my apartment's hub was off. I had fried the socket. Then my roomate came out of the bathroom and asked what happened. Apparently I fried everything all the way to the bathroom. Half of my room had sockets I had fried. The modem was down and so was the hub. I had killed our internet.
Fortunately for me, all we had to was reset the circuit breaker and all my hardware is in good form. I feel like an idiot but I thought I would share with you guys to lighten up your days.
Here's an interesting story that happened to me last night. I was setting up a machine for my parents just to word process on and surf the net. It's an old P2 333 Mhz processor my friend gave to me with the motherboard and tower. All the rest of the parts I had got from various other places. Anyway, I got the machine up and running but realized I needed new drivers for the video card. Since I had gotten the card from a friend, I didn't even think to check what kind of card it was that he gave me. So I opened up my case and checked. I installed the drivers and I shut down the computer. Here's where the story gets interesting.
I proceeded to place the side panel back onto the tower and I managed to get it screwed on properly. I guess the tip of my screwdriver touched the back of the tower. *FLASH* Sparks flew and I heard all my other hardware turn off. My sub, my monitor, my other tower...off. I sat there in disbelief. I could have fried myself. That brings up a question. Why the hell is the back of the computer touching the power supply made of metal!?
Anyway, after coming out of shock I looked to see that my apartment's hub was off. I had fried the socket. Then my roomate came out of the bathroom and asked what happened. Apparently I fried everything all the way to the bathroom. Half of my room had sockets I had fried. The modem was down and so was the hub. I had killed our internet.
Fortunately for me, all we had to was reset the circuit breaker and all my hardware is in good form. I feel like an idiot but I thought I would share with you guys to lighten up your days.