Stupidest thing you have done with a computer?

syke said:
^ Could base a movie on that.
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It felt bad enough at the time, realising that nothing could be done.

The fact I ruined the guttering, smoke'd the kitchen and kicked the door in was the icing on the cake.

I spent the next 2 days hiding at an Ex's uni house :eek:
 
Someone I knew; Her Heatsink on the CPU came loose some how, so she decided to put it back on with...






















...Superglue!!!
 
Eriedor said:
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 >.<
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brilliant.
 
Rebuilt my rig today after my watercooling woes...

My 8800GTX found use in my Media Centre, so whilst building my machine I tasked my other half to rebuild the Media Centre (replace the 8800GTX with the 7800GT that was in there, plug two 80mm fans in and jobs a good 'un!).

I just finished installing Vista 64, when I hear "ARGH... the tele is lagging!"
First thought, "Drivers, try uninstalling the ones for the 8800GTX and use the old ones we were using before..."
*a few minutes later*
"It's still doing it... maybe it's the weather interfearing with the signal?"
"Try recorded TV...."
"Doing it there too..."
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"The 6pin connector on the graphics card... you did remember to plug it in yeah?..."
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*she looks blank*
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"I didn't think so...."
*plugs in power cable*
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Horray, we have TV again...
 
Server box case, so obviously it also makes a handy coffee table. Except theres fan holes in the top of it, so when I knocked my cup over, the fans liberally sprayed the inside of the case with whatever it was I had been drinking.

PC still worked after I dried it out.
 
I have one, Never thought of this.

Spent over £100 on a 5200 128mb VGA only GFX card - AGP . It was during a time I knew nothing about graphics cards.

I could have got a 9800 for little more than what I paid for the 5200 :(
 
Well it was an old AT style of system rather than the modern ATX or soft power buttons - the computer kept on, but it crashed rather spectacularly, and ended up having some bad clusters and screwed sectors. Nothing a good ol format wouldn't fix. I've never dared to do it on a modern system or with SATA drives.
 
ive been curious before and done that for a laugh freefaller, pc managed to stay on the windows logon screen and alive, mouse could move, pressing ctrlaltdel to login though did crash it :D
 
I did something similar, I removed a server hard drive chassis while the computer was still on. Completely by accident, I thought it was off, But the monitor was off. Thing is the server isn't exactly quiet, So god knows why i would have thought it was off :D

Thankfully it wasnt a shared drive :p
 
Freefaller said:
Well it was an old AT style of system rather than the modern ATX or soft power buttons - the computer kept on, but it crashed rather spectacularly, and ended up having some bad clusters and screwed sectors. Nothing a good ol format wouldn't fix. I've never dared to do it on a modern system or with SATA drives.
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I did it with an SATA drive. I think it killed the SATA connection on the motherboard. The disk was fine though.
 
Freefaller said:
Well it was an old AT style of system rather than the modern ATX or soft power buttons - the computer kept on, but it crashed rather spectacularly, and ended up having some bad clusters and screwed sectors. Nothing a good ol format wouldn't fix. I've never dared to do it on a modern system or with SATA drives.
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oh man, that's inconvenient, thankfully SATA drives are a lot more forgiving but I can understand why you wouldn't want to disconnect while the comp was on
 
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