1)Had a IDE cable in the case, pulled it wouldn't come out. Then I pulled too hard and destroyed the board. 
2)Was testing something things, make sure everything worked before assembling everything in the case. Had a heatsink over the proc, however it didn't latch it down. The pads on the AMD XP held the heatsink up and the core did not touch the heatsink. I became confused, so I disabled the overheat protection. Needless to say, I fryed my proc.
2)Was testing something things, make sure everything worked before assembling everything in the case. Had a heatsink over the proc, however it didn't latch it down. The pads on the AMD XP held the heatsink up and the core did not touch the heatsink. I became confused, so I disabled the overheat protection. Needless to say, I fryed my proc.
I bought myself a new power supply and 512 of RAM to add to my computer. I was at a LANparty when I tried to install it all, so it was nice and dark. I install the ram, install the PSU. Start it up.
*POOF* *pop!* Smoke starts pouring from my 9800Pro. I scream like a little girl.
I look inside the case...
I installed the RAM...backwards
*POOF* *pop!* Smoke starts pouring from my 9800Pro. I scream like a little girl.
I look inside the case...
I installed the RAM...backwards
Plugged in a second hd without making it a slave. Don't ask how long it took me to figure it out.
Accidentally stopped the eseutil from running against my priv.edb file on my Exchange server one time without having a valid backup copy of it. I eventually recovered, however, not before I was threatened with being fired by a few people.
CPA
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My first build: had everything lined up, last thing to do was plug in the floppy power supply to the drive. did it, turned on the computer and immediately notice the smoke. Hear a crack, snapple, pop! and everything shuts off. Come to find out that when I hooked up the PSU line to the floppy I had the pin setting off one to the right. It fried the floppy and the, of course, the PSU. But everything else survived.
On another build a few years ago, I was using a screwdriver to push down on the clasp of the heatsink. Slip...scratch....motherboard needs to be replaced. Think that was on my Soyo Dragon board. Forget what kind of hs it was.
On another build a few years ago, I was using a screwdriver to push down on the clasp of the heatsink. Slip...scratch....motherboard needs to be replaced. Think that was on my Soyo Dragon board. Forget what kind of hs it was.
Phoenix86
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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowskiI came back and forgot that the screw was out of the laptop. I picked it up and went to turn it over and the HDD came flying out and hit the floor. The drive sounded like a maraco afterwords.
We ended up taking the drive out of a new computer in the store and RMA'ing that new computer. Told the owner of the laptop with the now screwed HDD that he had a bad virus and we had to reformat his drive. We charged him for it too.
You charged him for losing his data.
Satan must have a special place in hell reserved for you.
HardcoreRobot
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- Nov 7, 2000
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Deleted partitions, had bad wiring on a ghetto fan that shorted my psu, and worst of all, deleted pics on accident on my digi camera..... GF was pissed.
Probably would have to be when I encrypted all my personal documents and such, when I'd first gotten Windows 2000...then later I reinstalled the OS (I forget why), without making a backup of the recovery key, and of course the encrypted files were forever inaccessable. Luckily there wasn't anything all that important in retrospect (I was 15 at the time).
Yeah I've done this. Had a minor ball of flame as some of the capacitors on the motherboard popped. Big puff of smoke. Fried the mobo, the cpu, and the memory. Luckily it was my own junk parts but man it sucked.
put some RAM into a mobo carelessly and didn't check to make sure it was completely in. Booted up, fried the caps on the mobo, fried the RAM, fried my GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB.
Hmmm where to start?
1: Was doing something at work and had two hard drives laying near me. One was bad and one had all of my data on it. Somehow I confused my good drive with the old one and dropped it from at least three feet into the trash can!! My heart skipped a beat when I realized what I had done. I tried to see if I could recover any data off of it but it would click and freeze before booting into Windows.
2: Had a customer's Dell in the passenger seat of my car and somehow it flipped over and onto the floor when I made a sharp turn. I was scared sh!itless instead of making money on the job I was going to have to replace something but it booted fine and hasn't ever shown a problem since.
3: Just bought a new external CD-ROM for work and brought it on a business trip. While at the location I needed it in I balanced it on the edge of a counter while talking to a coworker. The next thing I know I hear a crash as the CD-ROM and box full of stuff I had with it lay scattered on the floor. Needless to say it no longer worked.
There are more but these popped in my head first.
1: Was doing something at work and had two hard drives laying near me. One was bad and one had all of my data on it. Somehow I confused my good drive with the old one and dropped it from at least three feet into the trash can!! My heart skipped a beat when I realized what I had done. I tried to see if I could recover any data off of it but it would click and freeze before booting into Windows.
2: Had a customer's Dell in the passenger seat of my car and somehow it flipped over and onto the floor when I made a sharp turn. I was scared sh!itless instead of making money on the job I was going to have to replace something but it booted fine and hasn't ever shown a problem since.
3: Just bought a new external CD-ROM for work and brought it on a business trip. While at the location I needed it in I balanced it on the edge of a counter while talking to a coworker. The next thing I know I hear a crash as the CD-ROM and box full of stuff I had with it lay scattered on the floor. Needless to say it no longer worked.
There are more but these popped in my head first.
For me it had to be when I went to set up my wireless broadband router at home and I couldn't figure out how in the heck some other guy's computer kept showing up on my network even though I had enabled WEP encryption on and disabled SSID broadcast. Plus I had limited the number of DHCP clients allowed to 2. One for me one for my wife. It started showing up in my network neighborhood right after I set everything up. . .I thought, "how could somebody break my WEP key so fast?" Finally I try to wirelessly log into the admin console of my router (using the id and password I had set while configuring the router when hard wired via ethernet cable) and the password doesn't take. . .so I'm thinking I've been hacked! Somebody has gotten in my router and took over my network!! Already! So I reset the router factory defaults. . .I log in with the default factory user id and password. It lets me in and there is that friggin hacker connected to my network again in the DHCP client table! Then it dawns on me when I notice the WAN IP this router is connected to is not the one assigned to my cable modem. The router I am logged into is not mine. It is one of my neighbors and that computer is his. I AM THE HACKER! The guy apparently had the same wireless broadband router as me and never bothered to change the default settings. My computer was connecting to his network rather than my own! I had initially entered the wrong WEP key in my wireless configuration and my computer was detecting his network and falling back to connect to his instead. Which was completely unprotected. And still is to this day to my knowledge.
dusted a video card with a cloth. Actually HEARD the static... couldnt figure out what it was till I plugged the video card in
Watercooling with copper and aluminum. Never, never add bleach to the system.
Battery effect ate little holes in my radiator, which peed on my hard drive.
Battery effect ate little holes in my radiator, which peed on my hard drive.
I inverted the power connector on my new mobo without realizing it. Turned the new rig on. *sniff* So that's what burnt electronics smells like.
Adul
Elite Member
Put some huge 120V fans in my case (a LONG time ago) but i wired them wrong.
They worked but something kept leaking charge to my case and it shocked me a few times and eventually ruined the motherboard after a few weeks. I only found it out after I sold the case shortly thereafter and the buyer was like "WTF YOU WIRED THE FANS AS A DIRECT SHORT!!"
They worked but something kept leaking charge to my case and it shocked me a few times and eventually ruined the motherboard after a few weeks. I only found it out after I sold the case shortly thereafter and the buyer was like "WTF YOU WIRED THE FANS AS A DIRECT SHORT!!"
In HS chem lab, a friend of mine was typing a long essay on the computer station, when I felt curious and pressed the "reset" button on the electrical outlet that the computer is plugged into. Booop, there went her unsaved essay.
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