Stupidest thing you have done with a computer?

brosduck said:
Killed my 8800GT because my side panel was off and while moving some cables around touched the top of the graphics card with a mini USB cable, it instantly died. :(

A more recent one was trying to flash my bios from inside Windows and bricking the board.
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Killed a 9800pro with a mini chedder on top of it.

Chipped a core on a 3200+ with an overweight copper heatsink.

Very explicit messages with netsend on the college network.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Server box case, so obviously it also makes a handy coffee table. Except theres fan holes in the top of it, so when I knocked my cup over, the fans liberally sprayed the inside of the case with whatever it was I had been drinking.

PC still worked after I dried it out.
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Little brother managed to spill a bottle of lucozade in the top of my tower.

A little sticky still, but everything works. PHEW.
 
Took a PSU apart a year or so back and I touched the metal casing inside and also touched the coil, I got the biggest shock in my life literally my whole body jumped back and I was in shock for about a day! Not a nice feeling at all I don’t know how many volts it was but way over 100.

Other than that noting major, I have killed a HDD by putting both power connectors in, the new Sata type and the molex one :D Just smoked.
 
Fothsn said:
Took a PSU apart a year or so back and I touched the metal casing inside and also touched the coil, I got the biggest shock in my life literally my whole body jumped back and I was in shock for about a day! Not a nice feeling at all I don’t know how many volts it was but way over 100.
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lol I remember first time I did this. What a flipping idiot :p

I think the stupidist thing tho I have done was I wanted to change the Heatsink in my PC. I came home one day and unplugged my PC. Opened it up, noticed it felt a bit warm. Anyways thought nothing of it Went to take off the Heatsink for some reason I grab the metal fans. It was flaming hot my hand felt like it was on fire !

Low and behold my younger brother had used the PC during the day and didnt turn it off :( When I unpluged it I didnt think to check it was on.
 
Installing netbus Trojans on 15 secretarial studies machines when a class went in I scoped out the hot users and started messing around flipping monitors etc. Nearly got caught LOL
 
Buying a new cpu from a pc fair only to drop it walking back to the car. Could not get it to work unless I underclocked it.
 
Started up uTorrent and forgot I was still connected to the university VPN. Got a £60 fine for that one :(

Had a CD writer back when they were novel and pretty expensive. It kept making coasters so I thought it might help if I updated the firmware. I found the latest firmware for the American model and, being young and naive, assumed it would be basically the same. It wasn't. One dead CD writer :(

Bought a second-hand X1800XT from the 'bay. Was excited about installing it and removed it from the packaging a bit violently, and knocked one of the coils off the PCB :( It still fired up, but there was no picture. Didn't have a soldering iron so I lined the contacts up and superglued it back on - worked fine :D

Flashed the BIOS of my DS3 from Vista. The flash program wasn't compatible with Vista and crashed after erasing the BIOS :eek: The system was still working, but I had to find a flashing program that would work before I could turn the thing off or reboot it. Fortunately a previous version worked.

Decided to reorient the fan on a Noctua heatsink whilst the system was running. The metal clip pinged off and fell on the motherboard, the result being a bang and some acrid smoke. Initially the system seemed to be dead, but once I set it up outside of the case it started working again, and I'm posting on it now :)
 
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Putting pinky in a fast fan :(.

Erm, knocking one loose hdd onto another short circuiting one and killing it ( one of the chips on the pcb had a massive hole in it and it smelled :(.

Stuck a molex plug into the zalman fan of my 6800GS (accidentally when mesing around with pc and then not noticing), overheating it to 126 C while playing medieval 2 total war and wondering what the smell was ( glue of cables), luckily it still worked after.

My dad blew prolly over 30 cpu's by not mounting a cooler correctly or forgetting a cooler altogether ( on athlon xp's this resulted in smoke from the cpu lol ). He burned his hand with a p4 northwood once too.

Plugging in a cold cathode into the cold cathode converter ( the one that supplies the cold cathode with power and where the molex goes in) while the pc was running, got a big shock and 2 black dots on my finger along with a burned skin smell :(:(:(.

Updated bios in windows and it failed, luckily the asus emergency bios made it possible to flash it again after from cd... ( eg. the pc booted only showing ''looking for floppy and cd'' for bios).

putting my transport tycoon deluxe cd in incorrectly in the cd burner= the cd blew up to a thousand pieces once the disc closed. Cd burner destroyed and the best game I played at that time too :(:(.

Washing my mates copy of a game with water, only for the printed label on it to wash off lol.

And trying to repair my mates cdr with duct tape ( had a small bit of the reflective silver ripped off), ripping half the reflective layer off and rendering the cd useless.
 
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nikebee said:
Unless your into modding and/or building your own machine there isn't much wrong with them.

Just get them to arrive with no OS installed, so you don't have to swift through all the crap that they install on their machines.
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My Dell xps m1330 laptop came with no bloatware at all and a completely clean installation cd for the OS.
 
Cutting my arm on a sharp corner after cutting out a window for a side panel, scar is faint though now!

Oh, and wondering why my pc wouldn't boot, turns out I didn't put in motherboard raisers (this was my first build about 5 years ago).
 
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