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Whats the dumbest thing you've ever done to your PC?

Connected a power cable to a place it didn't belong on my motherboard. Had blue smoke coming out of my PC within seconds of turning it on. Fortunately I only had to replace the power supply; motherboard still worked. That was back in 1998.
 
did anyone tell him that he sucks at teh linkage?

well to answer the question, i once had my lovely lite-on cd burner's tray open and i rested my feet on top of my case... you know what 's next... my foot destroyed my burner =(
 
Are you saying the worst thing you ever did to your PC was install Windows ME? Because I would agree with you if you did. 😛
 
I turned mine on after bringing it in from the car overnight, during winter. I hadn't even considered the possible damage seeing as how it was an old P2. But...it kind of fizzled and made some ugly sounds. I opened it up, took out the wet hardware and let it dry. All good now.
 
I configured a fresh linux install on a home server. Then added an old harddrive with junk and decided to wipe it out. Unfortunately I messed up with mounting and typed in rm -Rf * as root on my fresh install 🙁 I didn't suspect anything went wrong until I got a prompt error 🙁
 
I just found some random memory laying around and decided to put it in my PC and see if it would help. Well needless to say it didn't help, so I removed the memory and from then on my formally 233MHZ machine showed up as 210MHZ everywhere I looked.
 
One time I did an absolute horrible job on sleeving my power cables. I had to push verry very hard so the molex connectors made contact when connecting components. One time, one of the unattached cables had the molex fall off. I had the computer turned on with the side cover off. I had been working on the thing, fortunately I wasn't touching the case at the time. The cables were sparking all over the place! Fortunately, the computer was plugged into a surge protector. Everything still worked fine, surprisingly, but that put me off cable sleeving forever. I think I could have killed myself, from the amount of sparkage going on.
 
Originally posted by: TheNinja
I just found some random memory laying around and decided to put it in my PC and see if it would help. Well needless to say it didn't help, so I removed the memory and from then on my formally 233MHZ machine showed up as 210MHZ everywhere I looked.
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WHAT?😕
 
i picked up a geforce2 mx 440 and forgot to switch the AGP bus from 2x to 4x in my BIOS... emailed the store bitching about the card only to discover some time later that it my own no0bess messing up the card's performance :roll:
 
Running 8 (I'm not exaggurating) virus scans at the same time, on a laptop, on the carpet, with no airflow underneath, after ignoring the overheating recall. Dead HDD, Dead Battery, and because of my not wanting to back up, Dead 3 months of schoolwork. The whole works, essays, reports, you name it, gone. The freezer trick brought it back to life for about 10 mins, just long enough to tell me it needed to reformat and there was nothing left on the drive.
 
Yeah, magnets and heat don't mix. The worst I did was try to resize the clusters on my RAID array without having the drivers for the array. So I had to install to one drive, download the drivers, then rebuild the array. That'll teach me to get fancy...
 
Dropped a beer into the running CPU fan while I was working on it.

It was pretty funny even if it was tragic.
 
Blue smoke is a very nice effect. Is there an easy way to get blue fog for a danceroom without poisoning everyone?
 
The blue smoke part is easy, it's the poisoning part that's a little tricky. You could always blame it on the food...
 
I broke a tab on the mobo for the HSF.. that was pretty stupid.. aside from that.. formatting the wrong partition and losing all my backup data would probably be the dumbest mistake.
 
Originally posted by: Crescent13
Running 8 (I'm not exaggurating) virus scans at the same time, on a laptop, on the carpet, with no airflow underneath, after ignoring the overheating recall. Dead HDD, Dead Battery, and because of my not wanting to back up, Dead 3 months of schoolwork. The whole works, essays, reports, you name it, gone. The freezer trick brought it back to life for about 10 mins, just long enough to tell me it needed to reformat and there was nothing left on the drive.
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