Stupidest thing you have done on a computer?

I've made the formatting mistake a few of the posters have already said.

I've also Ghosted a wrong partition on one of my works computers at my previous employer. Fortunately, no personal or work data was lost. Just had to re-image the OS.
 
Wonder how many people have tried to give a fan a quick clean whilst it's spinning & snapped a blade off, I have. :o
 
I have actually done this by accident :( only it was chmod / :( fortunatly it was a single purpose machine and relatively easy to setup again from backups. Completely toasted the OS tho.
 
I flicked the voltage switch on the back of the PSU whilst the PC was on about 12-13 years ago, there was a nice bright blue flash and a puff of smoke

Instant death for that PSU
 
Couldn't find out why my PC would not power on about 5 years ago, was reseating ram and G-cards etc, and gave up after about 2-3 hours, I worked out the powersupply was dead.

Then looked at the plug, I had a four way adapter thing and the PC wasnt plugged in :(

Massive FAIL
 
4T5 said:
Wonder how many people have tried to give a fan a quick clean whilst it's spinning & snapped a blade off, I have. :o
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i have, i have :D
and accidently caught my finger in my servers cpu fan, and wondered why my finger hurt and why my server was vibrating like a biatch, To find out the fan only had 2 blades remaining, and cpu temps were upto 80C
:D
 
once deleted my wedding invitations / guest lists / menus etc etc the wife was designing was about to print off the following day
 
I had to take some of my watercooling tubes off to fit a graphics card, so I put some tissue on the ends of the tubes to stop any excess coolant from leaking. Anyway, I put the tubes back in, and fired it up... flow meter wasn't spinning... yep, I forgot to remove the tissue.

I've also yanked my VGA cable TWICE (two separate occasions) whilst it was screwed in to my graphics card, and bent the PCIe pins some how... I had to buy new motherboards on both occasions.

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Also, I'd been putting my motherboard back in my case, and I went to turn the case up-right... it was only then, that I remembered I hadn't screwed the motherboard down; luckily nothing was damaged (I think).
 
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I've destroyed a few PCs in my younger years by deleting important files without realising what they did.

Whoopsies.
 
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