Stupidest thing you have done on a computer?

Not really my fault but I walked into a server room for a large telemarketing firm I tapped the mouse to flick the screen saver off and the server blue screened.

No one had seen me go in so i walked back out went down to reception that was unmanned, I used my mob to call my on site contact to say I have arrived, he was very please I had arrived saying they had a major system outage and all the telemarketers were out of the system!!!
 
Oh god, so many I can't remember lol

Plugged a test router into a production network and wondered why the LES100 to another site no longer worked.

Released XP SP3 via wsus to an entire LAN at the same time.

Gone to recover a users laptop and used the wrong XP cd, wandered away from my desk and found it had done an unattended fresh install.

Killed production exchange servers mid working day by accidentally applying updates.

God loads..
 
mattyfez

Your sig is bringing a virus alert up. Not just me, but many people on this forum.

I am using Chrome and win 7 64 bit. Just thought you should know. I have a clean system and just checked on another system and it is still coming up.

You may need to look into it.
 
Changed password for the wrong AD user once. Took down the entire SharePoint farm. Luckily it was the pilot farm and nobody noticed :p
 
Magic_x_uk said:
mattyfez

Your sig is bringing a virus alert up. Not just me, but many people on this forum.

I am using Chrome and win 7 64 bit. Just thought you should know. I have a clean system and just checked on another system and it is still coming up.

You may need to look into it.
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Probably becuase you are using a ghey browser. Try using the "un-ghey" option.
 
Encrypted my backup drive using Truecrypt (which contained 400GB of document/application backups). Then i tried to remove the redundant drive letter using With Windows "Disk Management" and accidently removed the actual Truecrypt drive letter from Windows.

It was basically impossible to find again as windows thought the drive needed formatting, and i couldnt browse the drive using a piece of recover data software because it was encrypted :D

A lesson was learnt that day! :D
 
David91 said:
Encrypted my backup drive using Truecrypt (which contained 400GB of document/application backups). Then i tried to remove the redundant drive letter using With Windows "Disk Management" and accidently removed the actual Truecrypt drive letter from Windows.

It was basically impossible to find again as windows thought the drive needed formatting, and i couldnt browse the drive using a piece of recover data software because it was encrypted :D

A lesson was learnt that day! :D
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That drive encryption is evil?
 
i backed up all my important files to my other hard drive then reformated the wrong one and lost everything :S
 
Formatted the wrong hard drive a few times.

Downloaded a fake plugin before (was very drunk and not paying attention before my 1st year laptop was getting its weekly nuke)

Put my mac on a chair WHICH GOT KNOCKED OFF! (wasn't pleased as there's a dint in the side now)

Got Football manager

Managed to delete the graphics drivers for a very old flat panel monitor many years ago as I wanted to play Le Mans 24 hour on my pc but couldn't get it to work in 3d (was better on the pc than anything else anyway). Took my dad all weekend to fix that one as the drivers for w98 didn't really exist...
 
When very very very little I managed to get lost and get to the opperating system files on our family computer and delete the lot my parents just took it to PC world and that's when was discovered what the issue was my mom just blamed my dad Ive never admitted this.
 
Lets see....

Dropped a screw onto a live motherboard - screw shot out of the case like a bullet, bright spark and one dead mobo.

Flicked the voltage switch over on a psu to see what would happen while it was running...... BOOM

Fired up a PC with no heatsink/fan mounted to make sure the cpu worked before mounting said heatsink/fan.... cue that electrical burning smell and smoke off the cpu (luckily no damage done.)

While building my first PC I mounted the mobo to the case without using any standoffs.

Ran format c: from a command line while windows was running to see what would happen .....

Plugged the front panel usb ports on a Coolermaster case onto the firewire socket on the motherboard - powered the PC up to see huge amount of smoke coming from the front of the case. Those front usb ports never worked again.
 
Oh yeah put the wrong bios on a motherboard too (wanted to see if i could get it to over clock, which it didn't)

Took me hours to realise just taking the battery out would get it to restore the original one
 
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