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

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Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: BroeBo
How about waking up in the middle of the night and pissing on your open-cased computer? I didn't remember a thing!
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When I was 7-8 I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I guess I turned the wrong way and went into my parents bedroom instead of the bathroom. Once there I lifted the lid on the "Hi-Fi" cabinet and peed in it. I never knew a thing until our room door burst open later that night and my father came in mad as hell yelling "who pissed in the stereo cabinet?". Fortunately he had not put the equipment in it yet so I lived.
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My son used to sleepwalk when he was about 4-5. I caught him peeing all over the place, sometimes in a paper bag on the kitchen floor (that had recycling in it.) He'd turn left instead of right in the hallway and evidently anything the correct height for a toilet looked like a toilet to his sleeping mind.
 
Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: BroeBo
How about waking up in the middle of the night and pissing on your open-cased computer? I didn't remember a thing!
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When I was 7-8 I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I guess I turned the wrong way and went into my parents bedroom instead of the bathroom. Once there I lifted the lid on the "Hi-Fi" cabinet and peed in it. I never knew a thing until our room door burst open later that night and my father came in mad as hell yelling "who pissed in the stereo cabinet?". Fortunately he had not put the equipment in it yet so I lived.
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Wow, I just laughed really hard. :thumbsup:
 
I tried to increase the core voltage on my video card using graphite (ie. drawing on it with a pencil). That was stupid.
 
had just gotten an External 28.8k USR Sportster, this was when the first came out, so they were pretty price (I think around $300) Had it sitting on the chair next to my computer chair, had a Double Gulp cup on top of my bunk bed *had a computer desk built into it) I reached up to grab the cup, was completly full, the outside was wet from the moister, I didn't have a good grip on it. and *SPLASH!* cup crashes on the chair with the modem, and 64 oz's of Grape Kool-Aid spill everywhere. I was 16 and I was so scared aha. the modem didn't even break.
 
Well I've got a pretty stupid noob story. Thankfully it wasn't my computer...

Well my friend had a Socket A system that he wanted to upgrade. He figured it wouldn't be so hard to do it himself. I had never upgraded any major hardware so I decided to watch. Well that damn HSF clip was hard as hell to pull off so when we put the new CPU in the socket, we figured we'd make sure it worked before we went through the trouble to put on the new HSF 😱. Well it didn't take long before we saw smoke coming off the processor. Fried the CPU, motherboard, RAM, and graphics card. That's my noob moment 😱
 
I went to change the cpu on my current computer from a athlon 64 3200 winchester to a amd athlon 64 3700 san diego, well when I took off the heatsink, out came the cpu with it and bent pins.
 
Originally posted by: Einstein Element
Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: BroeBo
How about waking up in the middle of the night and pissing on your open-cased computer? I didn't remember a thing!
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When I was 7-8 I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I guess I turned the wrong way and went into my parents bedroom instead of the bathroom. Once there I lifted the lid on the "Hi-Fi" cabinet and peed in it. I never knew a thing until our room door burst open later that night and my father came in mad as hell yelling "who pissed in the stereo cabinet?". Fortunately he had not put the equipment in it yet so I lived.
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Wow, I just laughed really hard. :thumbsup:
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So did I 😀

Dumbest thing for me was a few years back, a modem was giving me hell. For some reason it didn't like the driver that came with it, or the new driver from the companies website. In frustration, I took the modem out. Problem was, the computer was still running 🙁

The computer shut off right away, and I thought to myself "thats why the modem was so warm to the touch". It's crazy, but all the hardware was not damaged.
 
probably hot swaping fans to test out low voltage. didn't harm anything, but not the brightest idea. i've forgotten to plug in cpu fans before, but i'd catch that like within 30 seconds. I've bent some pins on hard drives because I was too lazy to get a flash light. nothing major.

however, the winner of stupid things goes to this kid in our computer recycling program... he pried out some sticks of memory out of our test bed because they were stuck... with a screwdriver... WHILE THE SYSTEM WAS LIVE.
 
Nothing too bad.

Once I stripped some wire from power cables and spliced in some heatsink fans to use as a case fan. I tried to hook up a fan like this while the computer was on and I heard a pop and the machine turned off. No permanent damage though, it turned back on no problem.

Another time I accidentally formated the my data partition instead of my OS partition and lost a bunch of stuff for good.
 
heh, my cousin just told me that he bonked his raid array by raiding the wrong hard drives, i think he lost quite a bit of infomation.
 
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