worst computer blunder

deusexlumina · 23 Oct 2008 at 17:31

we've all done something liek it at one point im sure, in the days where you werent quite sure how to overclock orit was your first ever build, whats the worst mistake you've made?

mine was a cpu upgrade, i was using a 939 -which i didnt realise at the time - amd x2 and wanted to upgrade to an AM2- 6000+, i ordered it, took the machine apart and was wondeirng why the cpu wasnt fitting in the socket, i then saw the numbers 939 on my mobo socket, and was quite frankly horrified

all fixed now though of course

any others?-

deusexlumina · 23 Oct 2008 at 18:15

lol, nice

both to do with watercooling, it does look really complictaed whenever i look at guides, still too much of anoive to try it really

i also dropped a stick of pc3200 RAM once while upgrading and needless to say it didnt work after that

deusexlumina · 23 Oct 2008 at 20:34

icedragon999 said:
Yes, I also did this. There was a click and it all went off. Luckily it came back on when I pressed the on button.

I also had a failed flash on my board TWICE, although that is not really a "blunder".

i've also had the failed BIOS flash problem >.< there was no reason for the fail whatsoever and i ended up RMA'ing the board, you'd think they'd make something like that a bit more...repairable

deusexlumina · 23 Oct 2008 at 20:57

ph3onix said:
Amature ey. Im no better these days tbh

neither am i

deusexlumina · 24 Oct 2008 at 23:26

TomL said:
My worst blunder was leaving porn on my desktop!

accidnetally pressed a print button once without reasling, printer was off so it didnt print

next day turned it on to print some stuff with my folks in the room, guess what decided to start printing >.<