Stupidest thing you have done with a computer?

i forgot to switch off the psu switch when i was installing memory then i nearly crapped my self when i started getting blue sparks flying out of the memory slot.

thankfully the memory was ok :)
 
A very long time ago, ran a CPU without a heatsink/fan on.. went up in smoke in a few seconds....
 
A very long time ago, ran a CPU without a heatsink/fan on.. went up in smoke in a few seconds....

Ow that reminds me of another I did about 8 months ago,

Was working on an HP ML server (can't remember the exact model though I know it was a rack one) and the fans were running really loud and was giving me a blinding headache so I took 3 of them out and then 5 minutes later the machine turned itself off - the heat-sinks on the dual Xeon CPU's were roasting! :eek:

Thankfully no harm done, though it did take a while to get rid of the thermal shut down errors in the BIOS :p
 
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 :(

Made me lol :D

Not sure what mine is... will put one tomorow when I think of one.
 
Brought the fan heater over to face my chair as it was chilly one evening.
Must have fidgeted or something and knocked the fan heater so that it was pointing directly in the front fan ducts.
I physically couldn't touch the case (Aluminium Lian-Li) it was that hot and the power and reset buttons had melted. :(
Still working though. :D
I just have to poke my finger inside the front cover now to access the "stalk" further in to switch it on. :o
 
Signed up for ocuk, I'm pretty sure this has done more Damage to my marks/grades than every video game ever made :(
 
Managed to get onto a work colleague's login and into his Outlook, then as a joke typed out an email that went like this:

"Please sack me asap, I would like to have sex with you and your wife, you can have a go with mine, she's a bit of a dog but what the hell"

(word for word - it's kind of burnt into memory now)

In the 'To' I addressed it to the main boss of the entire department, then being funny (in retrospect it wasn't) and with a crowd of laughing co-workers I pretended to hit send - only I did actually send it.

Que immediate drainage of all blood from my face and the sudden realisation I have just lost my job, followed by the panic reaction of turning the box off - didn't know about recall message until after doing this :(

So yeah, last I heard that story had started doing the rounds in offices in Swindon, the colleague who I sent the mail from was suspended, I got fired after an internal investigation, and I live in fear of said old boss finding me and taking me up on the offer!

Scort.
 
Went to build a mates pc, put it all together and it wouldn't boot.

While it was ON, I switched the PSU from UK to US, a great flash of light a a huge bang blinded a deafened me for about 10-20 seconds.

Now I know what it's like having a flash bang go off right in your face.
 
Sending an offensive e-mail through the college network and nearly getting chucked off my course for it.

I did that in school with a fake email but forgot Hotmail adds your real name to the end in form of a signature... :o:o:o

So I got caught and suspensed and had to right an apology.
 
That would be today...

Decided to kick off a partition resize - wait for it - Whilst on the bus with my laptop !

Fortunately the battery didn't fall out/didn't get a loss of power - If I did I would have lost all my data. With the fresh new partition I kicked off a windows xp sp3 install.... and it was as you would expect from windows - RUBBISH

Back on Linux posting this albeit minus 8gig that has been wasted on windows xp
 
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Many years ago on a very cheap case I was poking out the pci-blanking plates (the kind that have a little tab of metal holding them in still, yeah.. cheap kind).
Anyway my screwdriver wasn't to hand and so I used my instead.
I still have the scar where it literally flayed the skin off! :D

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