What components have you broken/fried?

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Here's something I've been wondering, since this is something i've actually never done, in the 13 or so years I've been building computers:

What computer components have you broken/fried, when you've been fiddling around, or building a computer?
 
I had a CPU stuck in a socket once. Ended up using a screwdriver and flicking it accross the room. Wasn't bothered though, was just trying to resurrect a dead machine.
 
I remember buying a set of PSUs from an auction to test out on an old PC of mine, first 3 worked fine, fourth one fried everything in my PC xD
 
When i had my first PC i paid a fortune for a single speed CD writer and fried it when i forced the molex power connector in the wrong way up :p

And i also fried a Duron 1100 when i started it up forgetting to put the heatsink on
 
MeatLoaf said:
When i had my first PC i paid a fortune for a single speed CD writer and fried it when i forced the molex power connector in the wrong way up :p
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Wow. I know someone who recently fried a motherboard by forcing the CPU into the socket upside down. I lol'd
 
MeatLoaf said:
When i had my first PC i paid a fortune for a single speed CD writer and fried it when i forced the molex power connector in the wrong way up :p

And i also fried a Duron 1100 when i started it up forgetting to put the heatsink on
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I did that to a thunderbird A once!
 
MeatLoaf said:
When i had my first PC i paid a fortune for a single speed CD writer and fried it when i forced the molex power connector in the wrong way up :p
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My mate a uni bought a Sony one and it cost £250 :eek:

I fried an xp2200 when the waterblock wasn't on properly
I cracked a gf4 waterblock when I screwed the barb in too far
I killed a ddr memory module forcing it in the wrong way round

MW
 
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I managed to kill an Asus mobo, it was fine one minute wouldn't boot the next. I put it down to ESD.
 
I killed an AMD Duron 1200 many moons ago, all down to the vendor recommending a copper spacer to put between the cooler & the CPU. It was my 1st AMD PC build & didn't know it wasn't needed. :rolleyes:

I also short circuited my old HX520 with a dodgy molex plug connection. Didn't do it much good & must've killed it in the end.

Another component that broke was an old MSI socket 939 board, just stopped working & it was rma'd

I had also had a biostar SFF PC that died after 6 months too.
 
Well once I stripped my pc down and lost a screw for the mb and thought it came out but was behind the mb so when I turned it on it shorted the mb and the the gril frien spilt tea on graphics card and killed it
 
Too much Vcore while going for the magic 4ghz, VRMs let go so bye bye motherboard.

Replacement board arrives, build system and discover dead Athlon II X4 620 due to previous motherboard failure.

A CM Hyper 212, that I 'trimmed' the heatpipes on to make it fit in my case. Only afterwards did I find out how heatpipes worked.

Couple of dead hardrives as I forgot the molex splitter I was using was wired to run fans at 5v rather than 12v
 
I borked a stick of RAM with my first attempt at overclocking, having thoroughly misunderstood memory dividers.

My brothers kids fried his motherboard, RAM and HDD by sticking a screwdriver in a USB port while it was on :D
 
Most recent one was replacing a friends PSU with one i had spare (sat in a box for over 2 years), installed it, hit the power and BANG! took out his mobo :(

needless to say he wasn't very happy :)
 
Killed a GTX280 when attaching a water block. I tightened one of the screws with too much force and I heard an audible 'crunch' as I mashed the PCB to the block. Luckily it was a BFG card so I reattached the stock cooler and returned it for a new one. Wonder why they went bust...
 
Fried a Dell pc when I decided to move the 240 / 110v switch across, made a nice loud bang and a dead pc.
 
Bought a PB iMedia back in 2002, was recomended I upgraded the BIOS, well, I did and that was the end of the motherboard, seemingly it was the wrong BIOS...
 
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