Sliced my finger open when trying to push a drive cover out of a new case. I pushed a little to hard, the cover went flying and my finger got shredded on a sharp edge of the case.
Well, I was helping my friend OC his 566 celeron and it was a FC-PGA and a slocket w/a Golden Orb. I proceed to take the slocket out, with the Golden Orb, but fail no notice that the 3pin fan connector is still in the header. When I pulled it rapidly, it did not come out, but then landed on his first DIMM. At first I thought it had landed on his mobo and had screwed it up (BH6 that I sold to him), but it actually only hit the first 64MB module. It STILL had about 2MB that worked on that stick. So basically I had to give him my ram that I just pulled out of my system when I upgraded to 128 PC133. :-(.
nullshark
Platinum Member
- Oct 28, 1999
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Put a harddrive face down while ghosting it to a larger drive.
*sniff sniff* Hmm... What the hell is burning?
Me to co-worker: "How many drives did we bring today?"
Co-worker: "Why?"
Me: "Oh... just wondering."
I hate after-hours, 4am upgrades, heh.
*sniff sniff* Hmm... What the hell is burning?
Me to co-worker: "How many drives did we bring today?"
Co-worker: "Why?"
Me: "Oh... just wondering."
I hate after-hours, 4am upgrades, heh.
scrathced my first kt7 raid when i was following the instructions of many websites to use a pair of needlenose pliers to put on the HSF. i almost cried that night. i hate rma'ing anything
loosbrew
loosbrew
Zenmervolt
Elite member
- Oct 22, 2000
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If you ever work on an old 486, be absolutely certain that the wire you traced back to the reset button on the case really does go to the reset button and not the "turbo" switch, because if you wire the "turbo" switch to the reset jumper on the motherboard you will fry the "turbo" wiring as well as soldering the "turbo" switch halfway between off and on while you try frantically to keep your father (who is paying for all this and sitting across the room) from noticing that the computer has smoke coming out of it. In an unrelated incident I hooked up a 3.5 floppy drive's power connector upside down. The dang thing still worked though and I wasn't the wiser until I took the case apart for another upgrade later on.
Zenmervolt
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Zenmervolt
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<< Never unplug a CD-ROM drive while the PC it's connected to is still running. It will cause the PSU to either shut down or blow. >>
Heh, I've done that with an internal Zip drive. Not good.
NEVER BUILD COMPUTERS FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. THAT IS SOOOO TRUE.... actually DON'T TELL ANYONE YOU KNOW HOW TO FIX A COMPUTER because they'll come to you EVERY time asking for free service.... LEACHES!!! ALL OF THEM!
Anyways, I've done my fair share..... like backing a hard drive one time. There were 4 partitions total. First hard drive had the OS stuff, and the rest had important data (IE. Porn, Mp3s). So I fdisked and deleted the first partition, then being the idiot I am I forgot to recreate the partition and Formatted C: after I rebooted. Needless to say without that first partition, your D: drive becomes your C:..... I was in the presence of a bunch of my friends at a network so I didn't cry, but that was a years worth of nudies and stuff down the drain.... UGGH.......... I am saddened to this very day as I look at my small nudie collection, wishing it was my old D: drive.
Anyways, I've done my fair share..... like backing a hard drive one time. There were 4 partitions total. First hard drive had the OS stuff, and the rest had important data (IE. Porn, Mp3s). So I fdisked and deleted the first partition, then being the idiot I am I forgot to recreate the partition and Formatted C: after I rebooted. Needless to say without that first partition, your D: drive becomes your C:..... I was in the presence of a bunch of my friends at a network so I didn't cry, but that was a years worth of nudies and stuff down the drain.... UGGH.......... I am saddened to this very day as I look at my small nudie collection, wishing it was my old D: drive.
Didn't push the power connector to the floppy all the way on.... it sparked, puffed smoke, and my floppy was toast.
I did the same thing as warcleric. Every damn day he calls me for the stupidest sh!t. I'm never going to build a comp for anyone else again.
Two words: Cyrix Inside
Also, doing a drive copy from the old drive to the new drive I inadvertently formatted the old drive. Bigtime oooops.
Also, doing a drive copy from the old drive to the new drive I inadvertently formatted the old drive. Bigtime oooops.
Had a case open on the floor and had a big pair of wire-cutters in my hands that I dropped...onto the mobo....which kida looked like the Grand Canyon after impact
Bignate603
Lifer
- Sep 5, 2000
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hmm, i haven't gotten my pc to smoke, just shoot sparks... I never realized how much juice the 12v rail can blast at once.
Left the heatsink off of a Cyrix MII 300 which was in a PC Chips motherboard, then after realizing what that funny smell was, TOUCHED the processor after it had been powered on for 5 minutes sans heatsink. Owie.
Both MB and proc died on that one.
Both MB and proc died on that one.
I got pissed off at a computer at school cuz a NIC wasnt cooperating with me, so while the thing was still on (not thinking), i ripped the damn card right out... (full powered up mind you), as you can guess, that PCI slot is dead on that motherboard, and no one in the class seems to know how it happend....
Clocked a Voodoo 3 2000 from default core speed to core speed of Voodoo 3 3500... from like i think 143 -> 183... BOOM!... fried GPU...
buck
Lifer
- Dec 11, 2000
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Im sure someone has mentioned it, but forgeting to plug in the hsf in a gig tbird. After a second, I said, "Something is missing........................................................................................................................................................................................................................OHH SH!T!"
It didnt fry but it scared the nachos outta me.
Ohh and hooking up a wire(not sure what it was, a ata66 I think, it was b4 I knew better) to my sound blaster, thinking it was a sound connection, then a white cloud of smoke later, I knew I was wrong.
It didnt fry but it scared the nachos outta me.
Ohh and hooking up a wire(not sure what it was, a ata66 I think, it was b4 I knew better) to my sound blaster, thinking it was a sound connection, then a white cloud of smoke later, I knew I was wrong.
NEVER EVER LET ANYONE KNOW YOU CAN FIX COMPS. i am now a dedicated computer repair person for for my entire family and friends. IT BLOWS to have to fix everybodys computer
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