What components have you broken/fried?

1998 ish

1. Maxtor Fireball ...Installed, Turned Computer On = Smoke -->RMA

2. Maxtor Fireball "The 2nd" ...Get mate to stand next to me and watch, Installed, Turned Computer On = Smoke

send back and get refund, and discover its a faulty batch ;p changed to Western D ;p

Most recently...2010 my only mistake...gettin grumpy and agressive with kit.

EK-Supreme HF - Full Nickel CPU Water Block From OcUk

wanted to change plate, got 3 out of four holding pins out...4th wouldnt budge.... made terrible mistake of rotating the 2 pieces... still wouldnt budge...and now id damaged internal flow channels by shearing and bending.... so chalked it up to exp, and installed my old supreme ;p Throw shiny paper weight in the bin, and go to the fridge. :))
 
A psu blew up on me once. when i turned it on at the wall... This was a prebult system very old and worked flawlessly till that point. It happend to take the whole thing with it.
 
Flipped the little red switch on a PSU 10 years ago from 220 to 110 while powered on; luckily, it only took out the PSU.
 
First ever mobo I killed by flashing the BIOS using a very old and knackered floppy disc. File was corrupted and the flash failed, leaving me with a borked board. Managed to RMA it okay though. Company went bust not long after. Not my fault, though, I hope :)

Had plenty of components since die spontaneously, but never actually killed anything else myself.
 
Killed an asus a8n sli deluxe by flashing the bios in windows, also had a brand new seasonic s12 psu blow up the first time it was turned on.
 
1 Zalman fanmate fan controller. For some reason thought it would be a good idea to plug in a fan with the PC turned on.

That's all I've ever fried.
 
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