Amateurs

Combat squirrel · 3 Jul 2007 at 12:41

My -god- never let untrained sorts near PC's.

Just took the side off a poncuter thats 'acting strangely' and full of spyware, an 80mm fan (3 pin) was conneted to a 3 pin adaptor straight into the mainboard.......ok this is fine, but obviously just plug the fan straight into the board, but because of the adaptor it was also plugged in direct to the PSU; AS WELL AS the 4 pin port powah port on a SATA hard drive, that also had a SATA powah cable plugged into the other side of the harddisk :eek:

Tis the biggest crosswire, fire inducing mess I've ever seen inside a pc, ever since taking the interesting wire config to bits and doing it properly oddly enough its working fine, no sudden drop outs, and crashes. The poor PSU and mainboard were probably working overtime trying to correct powah spikes

So shocking I had to share

Tk7 · 3 Jul 2007 at 12:58

Obviously an explosive device primed to detonate. You've saved us all

misterPK · 3 Jul 2007 at 12:59

Sounds like a classic case of "well it fitted so i thought it belonged there"! Maybe you should sell them a smoke alarm to go with it!

I wonder if anyone has put one inside their case, just as an extra precaution...

PK!

PhillyDee · 3 Jul 2007 at 13:00

Wow, that thing could have taken out the internet . . .

Combat squirrel · 3 Jul 2007 at 13:21

PhillyDee said:
Wow, that thing could have taken out the internet . . .

Keyboard warrior saves the day again

ChoÞÞer · 3 Jul 2007 at 14:57

Best news i heard all day :rolleyes:

^o)

div0 · 3 Jul 2007 at 15:05

Too much POWAH! :rolleyes:

PinkFloyd · 3 Jul 2007 at 15:28

Didn't you know that plugging both sata and molex into a harddrive makes it overclocked and run faster?

dun · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:23

Better more cables then none at all like that guy who kept asking why his hard drive wasn't detected by windows when it was just connected to the psu

(well perhaps equally as bad

)

TheDean · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:24

At least that's not dangerous I suppose. Just stupid

jak731 · 3 Jul 2007 at 19:44

Didn't you know that plugging both sata and molex into a harddrive makes it overclocked and run faster?

lol

Theguy · 3 Jul 2007 at 20:04

saying that, what happens when a HD is plugged into both molex as well as sata power? does it just auto turn off? or what, interesting question abit like... what is fire?!

Tom|Nbk · 3 Jul 2007 at 20:40

This almost beats the Crysis Argos thread.

LoadsaMoney · 3 Jul 2007 at 20:51

I like Amateur stuff.

carlazai · 3 Jul 2007 at 20:56

I hope you ran the bomb disposal squad

Raikiri · 3 Jul 2007 at 20:57

Well... at least they didn't plug a 240v adapter for an external HDD into the S-Video port on a 6800 :rolleyes:

Oh well their loss, they had to go back to using a 9600.

semi-pro waster · 3 Jul 2007 at 21:09

Theguy said:
saying that, what happens when a HD is plugged into both molex as well as sata power? does it just auto turn off? or what, interesting question abit like... what is fire?!

People have done it before and it has worked but that is more luck and testament to the fact that computer parts are surprisingly resilient rather than anything else. In most cases you will probably end up completely shafting the hard drive due to running 2 power sources through it but it can work.

Theguy · 3 Jul 2007 at 21:30

a right ta. i was expecting a, it will smoke answer. heh, like what u get when u plug the molex in the wrong way round in a floppy drive..

aa fun times my youth.

Delvis · 3 Jul 2007 at 21:43

Funny you say that about the fan though.

Some Intel fans for theyre servers have a type of 'splitter' cable that goes into the motherboard, then to the power i think.

Pointless granted.