Stupidest thing you have done with a computer?

TaKeN said:
putting my wang into a delta fan..
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Are you trying to prove summin lol

God I hate them dam delta's. Right from day one after I found this forum I went and bought a 60mm screamer for my toasty thunderbird athlon... and then proceeded to poke my finger into it one night when half asleep. It was doing full speed... never again lol
 
My act of stupidity was fixing a friends pc, spending loads of time making it work and putting in new upgrades for them. Then carting back to their house in a sturdy box, I take it of the car and into their house. Stood by their fire place getting ready to unpack and the bloody thing fell out the bottom and landed on my crappy shoe. I dented the tower as it hit their stone tiles
I broke my big toe and I felt like a right knob. Oh the shame lol

Their dam pc still worked tho lol
 
ZG002 said:
no you didn't... there is no way you could "fry" the electrics in your mates house by doing that.
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ummm, when we were about 12 my flatmate put the kettle in the sink to fill it up at her mum's house, and then put it on and the electricity for the whole street went out.

it was one of those ones where the electricity goes in through the middle of the stand.
 
I washed a motherboard, CPU and memory with tapwater, many years ago when I knew much less. I had spilt fizzy lemonade over my PC while it was on and uncased, so I decided to clean it. Tapwater and a hairdryer to dry it off. Remarkably, it worked fine afterwards.

I mis-read the manual and wrongly set some jumpers when configuring a board for a K6-2. It didn't work, so I checked again and saw my mistake (diagram upside-down, if I recall correctly). I had attempted a 100% overclock - oops! That worked fine when I moved the jumpers.
 
Rebelius said:
ummm, when we were about 12 my flatmate put the kettle in the sink to fill it up at her mum's house, and then put it on and the electricity for the whole street went out.

it was one of those ones where the electricity goes in through the middle of the stand.
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Are there not fuses in the house to prevent this sort of thing even happening? At most you'd simply knock out the fuse for the downstairs plug sockets?
 
Had been listening to music ridiculously loud in my room
Stopped playing the music so i could go eat my dinner

came back and decided id watch some porn( back in the 56k days, one of them 10second clips that took 3hours to download)

click on the file forgetting that I had the volume really loud

:p
 
Dropping a bowl of cornflakes, contents of which flew into my 486DX66 with the cover off. It never smelled the same again:D Still worked though.
 
Bought a brand new MSI Neo-f mobo, Intel 945 Processor and 2Gb of 667mhz ram, plugged the cables in, switched it on and nothing.

Thought it was the red switch on the psu so switched it to 150v, hit the power button and goodbye all.

Fried the mobo, ram, hdd and of course the PSU.
 
I once built a computer (about 3 years ago) for a work friend, and connected some wires to the motherboard (DFI) which turned out to be in the wrong place as when i turned it on for the 1st time it started to smoke and burn big time.

So RMA it to (a supplier):eek: and got a replacement. Whoops.

For my protection I cannot say which Supplier ;)
 
walked across my carpet with new motherboard with socks on static fried the motherboard, well that was my theory.

hacked school register system and gave me 100% attendance got in some serious trouble for that one.
 
guess the stupidest thing would probably be the one and only time ive killed my pc

bought one of those big bolt on heatsinks back when i used a barton 2500, it didnt come with the right washers to attach it so i made some make shift paper ones, ended up scratching the motherboards traces while screwing it in, cue the smoke, smell of electrical burning and me swearing

motherboard dead, ram dead, cpu only worked at a speed for about 800mhz which still made it run at something like 65oC idle :p
 
Well the most stupid looking thing I have done was probably with the first PC I built…

We got hold of a 386 with what was back then a huge 360meg hard disk 8megs of Ram and a 1meg graphics card.
The problem was the read arm in the hard drive used to stick a bit, meaning the only way to get the thing working was to repeatedly turn it off thump the side or drop the case and then turn it back on again until the arm decided to work.

It got to the stage that I knew exactly which part of the case to hit to get it going but it looked really stupid. An 10 year old kid booting a PC to get it to Boot.

The most stupid thing I have actually done was to wire multiple things into the back of the same plug. I had to take the back off the plug to get all the wires in and managed to give myself a full jolt of 240v while leaning behind the PC to plug a joystick in.
 
My first build, think it was an old Athlon. Anyway put it all together, turned it on - bang! Didnt put those washer things between mobo and case, on big circuit :o
 
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