Mobo trashed, sympathy needed!!!

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******* ******* ******* ****.

I've just tried to get a scythe mini ninja into a Lian Li v300, I checked all the dimensions, the available space, and was sure it would fit (with the decorative caps taken off the heatpipes).

sure enough, caps off, and it was just the right size, all I had to do was unfix the PSU, lift it a bit, and slide the HSF in from the side of the case, avoiding all obstacles along the way.

I know, I thought to myself, for once in my life I won't rush a job, I'll have a dry run with the CPU safely out the way. It went in a like a dream, and I thought it'd be easy.

BUT, at that point, I realised that the "scratch" the fins of the heatsink had given me whilst taking off the heatpipe caps was actually ******* blood at quite a rate, QUICK! I thought, get my bloody hands and HSF out before I drip, and then I ploughed the end of the plastic clip/pin right into the cpu socket, and obliterated about 12 pins. They're far to bent to fix, and thats £100 for a new P5Q pro.

Anyway, they say a problem shared is a problem halved, and at least its an excuse for an upgrade.

So anyone got any other bad stories to cheer me up. Or does anyone want a gigabyte G33m DSR2 with an knackered socket? I can't think what to do with it.
 
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Yeah, I've cut my hands countless times on heatsinks and the like and then bled over the components. So annoying.

Unfortunately, I haven't got any really bad stories (yet).
 
Unlucky!

I spilt a full pint of water over my £1k laptop and killed it completely. :(
3 months later and I'm stilling in the process of buying a new computer, it's been a nightmare.
 
Thanks GSDog, thats even worse than mine!

er, I mean, sorry to hear the bad news ;)

I just keep trying to think of all the times I've "got away with it" without causing damage, I guess it always catches you up in the end.
 
I've managed to draw blood on occasion when i've slipped when working on a pc, never totaled a component because of it though.

I'll happily bt you the money for posting your totaled board to me!
 
thanks jak731, but I've already got rid I'm afraid. I never realised it would be so popular.

I'll let you know as soon as I've knackered its replacement ;)
 
i bricked a gigabyte p35-ds3l from a failed bios flash, and then bricked a dfi p35 t2rs less than a week later by changing the ram ratio (defected memory controller according to ocuk so rma'd no problem)

put me off OCing for quite a while

i know it feels awful bricking 1 or more of ure components, but it is 10x worse when u do it again :P
 
happens to the best of us, a couple of years ago I was moving a P4 (when they were still worth a fair bit) from one machine to another, took it out, went to go to the other machine and stubbed my toe, dropped the thing onto a wooden desk, it didnt work again :(
 
Ouch everyone, slightly less woe full but back in the day of my 939 setup my motherboard died (an8-sli with a duff southbridge heatsink) so i comes to replace the board. My HSF combo is completally stuck to my opty :(

I managed to yank it out wiout loosing any pins! (supprisingly) but in the hour or so trying to separate the 2 i manage to crash a side of the cpu! Swearing, bleeding (its all sharp as hell) i managed to bend everything back into place and it just about worked....other than the overheating every so often....
 
Back in the days of the Pentium 4, the Thermalright HT-120 was the cooler to have!.

it was a lot like the current crop of 120mm coolers, except built with the fan blowing down onto the socket...
i think you can work out the issue here.

once i was trying to remove the cooler, and i was angling the cooler on its last motherboard hook to detach it, when i heard a grinding noise...






yep, the CPU had lifted out of the socket with the HSF, and the grinding noise was the pins (1/2 of them!) being crushed out the way!
3 hours with a scalpel and some patience, and the cpu fit back into the socket without issue! it went on working fine for years!
 
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Ouch. Ive got a Asus Striker Extreme that cost me £250 when it 1st come out. A few weeks out of warranty I got the dreaded CPU INIT ERROR. Tried everything I could to get it working. Loads of other people seem to have had the same problem. I lost the will to live in the end and bought a Asus P5Q Deluxe. So far so good! Would still like to get the Striker working in another build though.
 
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Ouch. Ive got a Asus Striker Extreme that cost me £250 when it 1st come out. A few weeks out of warranty I got the dreaded CPU INIT ERROR. Tried everything I could to get it working. Loads of other people seem to have had the same problem. I lost the will to live in the end and bought a Asus P5Q Deluxe. So far so good! Would still like to get the Striker working in another build though.
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RMA'd 3 of them in a row and all died within months or weeks... gl with the P5Q - personally I'd stay a wide margin from any asus P5 based board they are all defective at one level or another and the memory controller has a habit of degrading quickly.
 
Ok check this one out:

On my now-dead machine (Currently using an old Study one), the specs were always poor. I'd wait 'till components died before replacing them with equally poor parts (Mainly because during the tenor of my own computer, I was like between the ages of 12 and 16). So during it's final two years up until a month or so ago, the specs were 2.5Ghz Athlon, 1GB Unmatched RAM (One stick being a good 8+ years old I think), 2 HDDs (One at 5 years old, the other 10), a cheapo mobo, and the two good parts were a Tagan Easycon 580w and a X1900XT. Unfortunately, the computer had no cooling at all, and obviously this led to the detriment of the parts.

Now for the nasty bit.

Obviously this machine wasn't great for playing games or doing much this year at all, but it still ran fairly nicely. About a month ago, I hear a not so comforting crack. Then wizzing. Then rattling.

I check the PC.

The Fan on the heatsink had broken. 3 of the fins snapped off, flew around the case. One severed the power cable that connected the fan to the mobo, the other 2 did unknown damage to basically everything. The already deteriorated CPU fried under the heat. Both my HDDs (240GB worth of data, including all college work, personal work, pictures, music, you name it) died.

I can no longer play any games, barely watch films, and have no music (Any i'm a music tech student)

Yay for my life. My goddamn guitar broke only a week before.
 
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