Stupidest thing you have done with a computer?

Borking the mail server at Uni by writing a perl script that bypassed the security, and then created a file which grew exponentially. I was disciplined harshly, but fairly. It was just a stupid test of my "skills" which I thought was interesting.

Done some other stuff but I didn't get caught for it ;).
 
Plugged a floppy power connector in upside down and then watched my floppy drive and power supply to up in smoke. I guess the Hyper PSU was bound to die sometime though. Never bothered to replace the floppy. Everything else survived.
 
Nothing really bad that comes to mind but I remember talking to a customer who proclaimed he could not put any cd's or dvd's into the drive as there was no room. it was only after 10 mins of diagnostics that i realised that he had the machine upside down and was trying to put the cd on the bottom of the tray :) made me laugh
 
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Spent hours trying to work out why I couldn't install windows on one of my rigs after formatting and partitioning the harddrive. Turns out I formatted and partitioned and tried to install windows on my mp3 player which was plugged in by usb >.<
 
Lamo said:
Nothing really bad that comes to mind but I remember talking to a customer who proclaimed he could not put any cd's or dvd's into the drive as there was no room. it was only after 10 mins of diagnostics that i realised that he had the machine upside down and was trying to put the cd on the bottom of the try :) made me laugh
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LOL!
 
Tried to hammer a grahics card into its slot using a hairbrush. The brush slipped and smashed a few components on the board. I took it back and told the guy I bought it from that it wouldn't work and he changed it for a new one. :)
 
Dirk the Daring said:
Tried to hammer a grahics card into its slot using a hairbrush. The brush slipped and smashed a few components on the board. I took it back and told the guy I bought it from that it wouldn't work and he changed it for a new one. :)
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:rolleyes:

there's a special place in hell for people like you!!!

/firefly.
 
Back in the days of ghetto watercooling, running a KT7A Socket A + Tbird Axia? I think? Just spent over £60 on having a Little River White Water waterblock shipped over from Australia. As well a a Dangerden Maze 2 for mt Geforce 2 GTS, btw I cannpt remember if those exactly were the specs.

I had a 15litre reservoir next to my pc with an eheim 1250 mains powered pump (this thing could push a lot of water very quickly) i was using an Aopen HX08 server tower and the side panel was off to allow for tubing.

I had just installed the LRWW without crushing the core, i had the return loop to the gfx card/reservoir fitted and all clamped down with some good quality metal jubilee clips.

Awesome! Time to pwer her up, flicked the switch on the surge protector to power the pump and the big metal 120mm 240v papst fan on the heatercore

**** **** ****

As I realise that the outlet tubing from the pump was not connected to my waterblock and was hanging inside the PC, with the eheim eager to pump litres of water infused with urine smelling antifreeze (to stop corrosion due to mix of aluminium/copper - which didnt work in the end)

The water went everywhere even onto the surge protector. I managed to get to the switch and flicked it to off, phew, safe at last ... it shorted out and fired up the pump again lol this time I went for the wall socket and managed to finally power down the pump.

Well lots of sponging later and a few hours of hairdrier action and overnight in a warm place, everything fired up the next day fine, nothing had died :D I guess because the PC wasn't on at the time. Even got some water into the Enermax PSU.
 
Not putting the fan on my 9800pro right and kinda sat it on with a bit of plastic, overclocked it and yeah smoke came from the pc. Oooops.
 
It was about 3am, my mate said he'd stay up with me while I finished a computer for the following day. Finally got it all working, as i was putting a blanking plate in the back i wasnt looking/was tired and scraped it across the motherboard, there was a nice blue flash that woke me up!:p

Rebooted it, it loaded into the BIOS, then crashed. It never came back to life :mad:
 
I once wired up a molex connector differently to make a 12V fan work at 7V. This worked fine.

About a year later, i must have upgraded some component, but anyway I forgot about the wiring change and plugged it back into a hard drive. Then I was confused as to why it didn't work, so I tried another! Blew up two hard drives before I figured it out. Oops.

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Oh yeah one more little story. When I last upgraded my motherboard I noticed the old one has scorch marks near some small component. On closer inspection I could actually see that there had been a little fire with burn marks,charring and bubbling of the plastic leading a little way up mobo. I never noticed this and the board actually still works fine now and is in use! Very strang and pretrty scary actually. I always turn the PC off when not in use now to avoid burning the house down.

I think it might have been due to a build up of dust or something near the bottom of the mobo when it almost meets the bottom of the case. Very worrying though!
 
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Probably pluging a floppy power cable in wrong when setting up someone's spare PC at a LAN back in 2001. A few minutes later we could smell something burning and then noticed the floppy drive was smoking! Until then I'd always figured power connectors inside PCs were 'safe' and couldn't physically be connected incorrectly.
 
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