Stupid things we’ve done

I read in a magazine that you could speed up early Amiga's by replacing the CPU with the one in the Megadrive, later found out it was the same exact same speed chip.

Never really played the Megadrive anyway... :p
 
KNiVES said:
I flipped the red switch on my PC's last PSU. That was a really nice PSU too.
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I was gonna mention that i did that but figured i would be laughed out of the country. Its just such a nice big red switch, and there's no 'it will blow up if you touch this' sign on there, how was i to know?
 
Streeteh said:
I was gonna mention that i did that but figured i would be laughed out of the country. Its just such a nice big red switch, and there's no 'it will blow up if you touch this' sign on there, how was i to know?
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I have also done this lol - what a stupid place to put a big red switch
 
Streeteh said:
I was gonna mention that i did that but figured i would be laughed out of the country. Its just such a nice big red switch, and there's no 'it will blow up if you touch this' sign on there, how was i to know?
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I would have thought '110V' and '240V' might have been a big enough clue :D
 
On the same subject but not done by me personally..
We once had a customer at working who was going mad on the phone complaining that the wireless LAN on her new laptop wasn't working.
It turned out she was at a friends house in Essex with her laptop and was moaning that she couldn't connect to her router which was in her house in Herfordshire.

Oh, and another one.
A customer who claimed he had built loads of PC's and knew what he was talking about when he returned the box to us.
He'd screwed the motherboard directly onto the backplate of the case without using the stand offs.
 
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thecremeegg said:
I have also done this lol - what a stupid place to put a big red switch
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Yes, me too... I've done it as well. Made a big bang and a nasty smell.

My biggest mistake, however, was swapping an Atari STe with a shed load of games I had, erm... acquired, for a Sega Megadrive with a handful of games. Dunno why I didn't just save up the cash to buy a Megadrive. I did enjoy playing with the Megadrive but I missed the STe as soon as I had given it away :(
 
Last year on placement, a teacher complained that her PC wouldn't switch on.

Turns out she'd plugged the extension adapter into itself rather than the wall :/
 
in my n00b-years, managed to break a heatsink retension clip off an old AMD heatsink takin it off a duron 1300. was in the middle of tryin to sort out a few problems with my friends PC. so i figured id just push the heatsink down ontop of the cpu and turn it on quickly to test if what i'd just altered had worked........

....still have the cpu knocking around somewhere, dead of course lol
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Bit my Mega Drive controller and hurt my teeth.

Didn't learn my lesson. Bit my PS1 controller and hurt my teeth.

I simply resort to throwing things now.
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hehe i've done the bite the controller in anger aswell.

My mega drive controller have a few bite marks on it,

PS1 controller had the most - because of the GT games and the licence tests - it had teeth/bite marks all over the left shoulder buttons.
 
Jefan said:
Random memory that just sprang back to me.

I was playing Dune 2000 on my PS1 and my Dad came in and watched for a bit. It was a particularly nasty mission and I'd been working on cracking it for quite a while. Just as he was about to walk away I noticed he was leaning on the "Power" button so I shouted "Don't move your elbow!", he'd actually clicked it down so if he walked away it would release and turn the console off :eek:. He had to stay there for another 30 minutes, but I got the mission done and saved :D
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Thats class story :p
 
Bought a PS3. I sold it on for what I paid for it and will pick one up again in the future but there's really no point owning one now.
 
I bought a centrino laptop back in 2003, I think, one of the first to come out and loved that beauty, all £1200 of it. After a while I noticed that the power lead was wobbly when powering up, so I looked at the connection and saw it was lose on the laptop motherboard. So I duly thought to myself I can fix that with my trusty rusty soldering iron.

So I actually video’d the disassembly of the laptop to reach the dodgy connection and attempted to solder it. I successfully did this, patted my self on the back and attempted to re build my beloved laptop. IT NEVER TURNED ON AGAIN. Sold it for parts on the bay. Then I bought a cheapo desktop and funnily enough flipped the red switch on the PSU – had to send it back but the sellers did upgrade my then GFX card to 128MB which JUST played BF2 enough- and well that led to my 360 which I simply load with a disc and switch on and off – lesson learned! if it aint broke dont fix it!
 
When I bought my Wii, came back at about 7am so was a bit tired, set it all up and put the IR receiver on top of my TV with the black strip facing the sealing as I thought thats how it went at first

Then sat screaming at why my controllers weren't working and the hand only showed on screen for a split second if I waved my arms about like a loon

Kicked the TV, the IR received fell flat likes its supposed to. Realised my error and felt a bit of a muppet so I went to bed
 
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