worst computer blunder

Mine happened just 2 days ago, I was wanting to change GFX card, to my new 3850 so i went to delete the Nvidia drivers of my previous 7600GT. I deleted the display drivers but also the Nvidia IDE and ethernet drivers (nForce 570 board) and so upon booting my mouse and keyboard wouldnt work at all. It took me approx. 6 hours to get my system back up with my new GFX card in - all is well now though (R6 Vegas running very nicely) :D
 
I can guarantee that mine is the worst ever blunder!

A few years ago I bought a new motherboard, PSU and graphics card to upgrade my computer. Only to find that I had a Micro ATX case, and so the motherboard didnt actually fit into the case... to make it worse, the graphics card was PCI-E and my existing mobo was AGP. So the whole lot had to go back.

Amature ey. Im no better these days tbh :P
 
It wasn't on my PC so it's all good, but I didn't insert RAM properly (as in the clips didn't secure it down properly) which resulted in the RAM becoming so hot it was far from touchable. Had to wait for a few minutes before we could remove it due to the heat. It wasn't damaged funnily enough and still works to this day as far as I know.
 
Freeman said:
It wasn't on my PC so it's all good, but I didn't insert RAM properly (as in the clips didn't secure it down properly) which resulted in the RAM becoming so hot it was far from touchable. Had to wait for a few minutes before we could remove it due to the heat. It wasn't damaged funnily enough and still works to this day as far as I know.
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How lucky is that!
 
I fried my WD Raptor by pluging the power cable upside down by accident!

Also...

Fixing a friends PC - which the owner said they saw a flash and a bang and the PC stopped working. Quicky identfied powersuply was dead as I tested my own PSU with their PC.

Stupid me thought lets just test old PSU again... plugged it in... switch it on.... bang!!!! Big flash... mega electric shock! To this day I cant flick the PSU power switch on or off - have to use a pencil or something.
 
My biggest blunder has got to be.... Buying a premade system from fleabay.

Over expensive, under specced crap.

Thank god i have since seen the light and build my own.

The worst part is that the case was vile and the door dropped off after about 3 days use.
 
Not my blunder but my dad spilt like 7 quid a bottle beer onto our old computer, and the case was perferated all over and the beer just seeped into the computer over the front part of the mobo and harddrives.
But after a few days of drying it out, it worked but some components smelt kinda yeasty when i took it apart.

But mine during the build wondering why the system didnt power and i forgot to plug iin the 4 pin power cable with the over socket felt like a numpty for a whole 10 mins!
 
One of my (then) puppies slashed all over the tower which was on. There was some unpleasantness ... it didn`t work after that. The missus wouldn`t let me salvage anything neither. Unbelievable, but true :\
 
When I built up my brother's PC, I accidentally stuck my finger into the AMD stock cooler fan. I cannot remember the reason why my hand was in there... :confused:

It cut my finger quite deeply and broke two fins....... but was still spinning and the the temps did not change.

So I left it at that....thinking I got away with it!! :p

About a month later he phoned me up saying he had looked inside the case to try and findout why his case was "rattling and vibrating" so much and he noticed there were some fins missing on the main fan....Doh..... I managed to bluff my way out saying it must have been a faulty fan.... :eek:

I did make amends though as guilt got the better of me and I brought him a AC Freezer 64 pro CPU cooler as a replacement. :)
 
Freeman said:
It wasn't on my PC so it's all good, but I didn't insert RAM properly (as in the clips didn't secure it down properly) which resulted in the RAM becoming so hot it was far from touchable. Had to wait for a few minutes before we could remove it due to the heat. It wasn't damaged funnily enough and still works to this day as far as I know.
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About ten years ago I had one teacher who was at the time one of the top overclockers in Finland. He had wired ZIF-socket to one motherboard for using it for flashing BIOS chips. Once he had wondered why BIOS chip was becoming burning hot and then noticed it was wrong way. Turning it around showed it had survived that "heat treatment".
 
Slashiem said:
Not my blunder but my dad spilt like 7 quid a bottle beer onto our old computer, and the case was perferated all over and the beer just seeped into the computer over the front part of the mobo and harddrives.
But after a few days of drying it out, it worked but some components smelt kinda yeasty when i took it apart.

But mine during the build wondering why the system didnt power and i forgot to plug iin the 4 pin power cable with the over socket felt like a numpty for a whole 10 mins!
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Hehe, that's funny!
 
Was building a PC for a mate. He paid me beer. I was using a WD hard drive. I had it set to "Master - solo" , but I should have had it set to "Master with Slave present" because I had a CDROM on the same cable. Took me 2 hours and lots of swapping about to work out why? It wouldn't detect it in bios, but windows would boot and install onto it but then it would vanish after the reboot!

Crazy.
 
I was upgrading a pc with about 6 internal harddrives in it. I had fit the motherboard and was reconnecting and wiring everything. I was struggling to get the creative breakout box wired and the wire would just reach. I connected it all and turned the power on. I smelt smoke and the breakout box caught fire, I must have had 2 many conncetions on one wire. Needless to say the sight of my main pc in flames had me dumping bricks at an alarming rate:D. Luckly I got the power off and only the breakout box was harmed. Using all external harddrives now:) lesson learned.
 
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