The ****-ups Thread!

Once spent a good 20 mins wondering why a PC wouldn't let an OS install and just kept powering off, heatsink wasn't porperly attatched. Whoops!
 
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Some time in early primary school I threw a largish stone at a tree. It bounced off and hit some haemophiliac dude in the head. He had to go to hospital :(.
 
Rebuilt my comp the other day with the B3 revision mobo, looked at idle temps and thought i'd just check my cooler (Hyper 212+ with Push/Pulls) to my horror both the fans were pushing into the cooler ;)

Ho hum herpa derp
 
Some epic replies here guys thanks, I am trying to think of others to share you hopefully should have something soon.

Stoner81.
 
One of my first field service calls was to an IBM PC-XT clone type machine with a 20MB seagate ST225 hard drive patitioned into two 10MB drive's. I was following my workmates advice over the phone and he said 'just run fdisk and reformat it', so I did and it erased the wrong partition!

Customer was not very happy. Not made too many more mistakes than than in my 22 years fixing PC's.
 
I once decided to save having to wash a plate and just cut the bit of bread in the palm of my hand. With a really sharp breadknife. "I'll just be really careful" I think was my reasoning.
 
Once, when cooking rice I had a cunning thought. "Why wait until I get to the sink before draining it, I could just do it now". And promptly poured a pan full of rice and boiling water through a colander spreading hot, starchy water all over the kitchen floor - and my bare feet...
 
I upgraded a large SQL database, being very careful to make a backup at each key stage... I was very happy when it all worked..

there were loads of backups and support files left in the database folder so knowing the SQL database was open and could not be deleted I did a del *.* only to realise about 1 second later I had stopped the SQL server for some reason....
 
Went to reinstall an Adobe product on a pc at work and broke the hard drive....new disk new build new everything....still dont know what happened.

on my first ever build i plugged in the power, but the mobo had a 2nd power in or some rubbish, i plugged them both in, the power went in one and out the other! couldnt figure out why it wasnt starting for hours :(
 
Not my mistake but,

Back in the day, my first rig bought 2nd hand off a guy who lectured at leeds met, cyrix p150+,

Now I was a pc 1st timer, this thing was a monster to me,

My cousin who arranged the buy and brought over the PC also brought a isa 14400 modem.

He tried for about 6 hours to get this modem to connect to his demon account, then gave up and went home.

I had told him, I saw a message about it needing to re-boot after he put the drivers on, he was having none of it, a pc noob telling him something need doing.

I rebooted it and went and grabbed a cold one from the fridge, starts the demon software and discovered the internet!.

He hated me for it.

He told me never to open the case, it was all too complicated inside, he had took years learning before he built his own or anything, a mortal such as me who had only just got a pc had no right to tinker.

And after a week I had rebuilt the whole thing, put in 64mb of edo, got all the front pannel lights working, hdd ect and popped in a 3d card.

I still give him a dig about it now.
 
Once putting a cpu heatsink on with a flat head screw driver, christmas morning, used a bit too much pressure, bam.... big **** off scratch down the motherboard.

Suffice to say it was killed in the process
 
New build related:

Finished my WC setup, only to power on my finished pc to find it wasn't working!

Tried everything, reseating, literally everything I could think of.

Apart from reseating the cpu. Turns out I screwed the waterblock on too tight. Now works perfectly :)
 
First fail, fitting a floppy disk drive to new computer (built especially for Half Life 2 in 2004/2005). Second fail, doing it in poor light and using a very old floppy cable. Third Fail, forcing the cable into the back of the floppy drive the wrong way round. Fourth fail turning the computer on and watching the floppy cable burst into flames, filling the room with acrid smoke.

Worked out alright in the end though, nothing else was damaged and it all worked fine.
 
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