Stupidest thing you have done with a computer?

plugging a 120mm screamer in without screwing it into place and watching it takeoff and clip the edge of something and shatter like mad.
 
Blowing the fan of an old GeForce 3 to hear the cool whine noise (the fan blades are made out of metal). Lip = sliced.
 
Beat my first pc to death (literally) with a golf club when I was 15. I used to have temper issues.
 
Trusting Windows to not crash while I updated my BIOS. One dead motherboard.

Ok, not my fault, but I had an Abit motherboard and the clip that held the northbridge fan on fell off. As it was a non standard fitting I had to get a new motherboard. Two dead motherboards.

So got my replacement for that. A week or so later I wanted to get some pics off a digital camera. So I plugged it's base unit into the PC, and it died. Everything just stopped and it wouldn't turn on again. I figured the motherboard must have been faulty for it to just die like that when you used it. Again not my fault. Three dead motherboards.

So I replaced that one too. I still wanted those pics off the camera. I was sure that it couldn't have been a faulty USB device that caused a PC to die, so I tried it again. Four dead motherboards.
 
My first venture into watcooling.

I bought a waterchill watercooling kit (was worth £190 at the time, paid £35 for it). Opened it up, read the instructions and fitted everything together, however I hadn't forced the inlet tube to the cpu waterblock in hard enough, after doing a 2 hour leak test I moved my rig off the floor and back to the desk and powered it on.

:eek:

A dead 520w ocz, 5950ultra and 1 hard drive was the result of the pipe exploding off the cpu block and all over the inside of the pc. Never again will I use a pre made kit or anything without tight fitting barbs + clamps.
It was stupid of me to not think that something like that would at some point happen.
 
When I was in year 7 of high school my parents bought our first pc (pentium 3, 450mhz, windows 98). Not knowing the first thing about them, me and my dad kept deleting the system files wondering what they were and then arguing with each other over who had put them there. We wanted to keep the system "clean" from junk you see.

After about the 5th time in 2 week visiting the pc shop with the same problem (wouldn't start, errors, etc), we realised our mistake.

How embarassing :rolleyes:
 
kinobestew123 said:
When I was in year 7 of high school my parents bought our first pc (pentium 3, 450mhz, windows 98). Not knowing the first thing about them, me and my dad kept deleting the system files wondering what they were and then arguing with each other over who had put them there. We wanted to keep the system "clean" from junk you see.

After about the 5th time in 2 week visiting the pc shop with the same problem (wouldn't start, errors, etc), we realised our mistake.

How embarassing :rolleyes:
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Heh, at least you're not the only one, me and my dad did that when we got our first computer.

'who keeps putting these damm cookies everywhere and why do they have the sites I've visited on them'

:D
 
lay-z-boy said:
Heh, at least you're not the only one, me and my dad did that when we got our first computer.

'who keeps putting these damm cookies everywhere and why do they have the sites I've visited on them'

:D
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What kind of sites was he visiting?
 
Not With my computer but one of my fans had come loose and fell onto the floor next to my computer (the side of my computer was off) and i started my computer up, the fan went crazy and one of the screws that came undone came flying up and smacked me in the eye, i then kneed my computer and broken my case :(
 
This isn't something stupid I did, But my girlfriend did.

I had an overclocked 6800LE, It was so beautiful.

Anyways, My computer chair was broken, So my girlfriend start pulling the Couch up to the computer in-order to carry on using it. Which was fine.

Now I have an Antec Sonata II piano black case, With 2 vents, 1 on front and 1 on back.

My Back fan is my intake and the front fan is the exhaust.

We leave the PC on over night downloading, Always do.

This particular night, I set the downloads off while my girlfriend is on the computer, I wake up the next morning, To find the couch is still right up to the side of the computer blocking the exhaust, my girlfriend hadn't moved it back, And it's not turned on... FEAR STRUCK.

I moved the Couch back, and tried everything to get the system back online. But unfortunately, My girlfriend had essentially turned my computer into a fan assisted oven, and she cooked my Graphics card. :(

For those who don't get it, Air could get into my computer, But not escape due to the blocked exhaust vent. That's a bad environment for overclocked components.

Thankfully my overclocked Opteron was a little tougher than my Graphics card.
 
Me and some guys at my last work place were bored so we dismantled a hard drive, bluetacked a penny to the platter powered it up and hid! :eek:

It held really well then suddenly we heard what sounded like a bullet and found it embedded into the crappy walls that used to hold that place together.

Another time when we had a skip outside and were chucking old machines we found it necessary instead of opening the door to chuck the stuff in to run up the stairs and throw them in style out the window :D naturally this was hilarious till my mate misjudged a throw and it landed INCHES from the bosses 911 :o
 
i thought the pc died because i put something down and it hit the desk hard, and the vibration ended up causing the 4 pin CPU connector to disconnect itself somehow, causing the pc to instantly turn off, and when i tried to switch it back on again the fans spun but it didnt boot. luckily when i opened the case i noticed it before i took the whole pc apart and put it back together again...

also something funny that WAS NOT ME - in college we took apart some pcs then put them back together again, and 1 of the groups connected the 2 SATA ports on the mobo into eachother (rather than from the mobo to the HD):eek:
 
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shauncr91 said:
Putting a motherboard in without the rising pins below it, just screwed it straight into the case :(
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A 15year old neighbour once convinced his parents to let him build the family PC based on my testermony "oh its easy, idiot proof. And I'll be over the road if he runs into trouble"

He made the same mistake :rolleyes:
 
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