worst computer blunder

deusexlumina

deusexlumina

deusexlumina

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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 :D any others?-
 
LoL. mine was when i was intstalling water cooling, i was following the instructions and some how ended up sticking all of the H Type clips that are mounted under the board and ontop of the water block. lol i only realised when i had secure the water block with the other Metal H Clip. Lol And then it dawned on me i did it wrong lol :(, lol also sorted out now :p
 
i stuck my my new cpu in thermal paste etc then screwed the water block on only to remember 5 mins later i had left the plastic film on the bottom of the water block..
 
lol, nice :P 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 :(
 
Shorted a molex connector while my PC was on last year, Thought I'd blown my HX520 - I was seriously bricking it at the time as I thought I'd taken out all the components. :rolleyes:
 
bought a new CPU and installed, booted up and pc died instantly with a smell of burning.

Checked the CPU and it had a hole straight through the back of it and a burn on the mobo ruining both components.

CPU had a small sticker on the back of it which i had never checked for before installing.

A very costly mistake :)
 
deusexlumina said:
lol, nice :P 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 :(
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nah not really. that was my first rig i ever built so was just a n00b mistake.
 
Shorted out a sata cable which shorted the whole rig! this was after i spent near 3 grand last year on brand new parts, well whole new build lol

Also with same build forgot the jubilee clips over the bards, nb got soaked mobo never worked again hehe
 
I completed my first full build last month however I have dabbled with it slightly in the past.

Took an old LGA775 mainboard out of the case to fit a cpu heatsink. It was one of the models that required me to make fittings on the back of the board. Anyway, I fitted it, taking note of what and where everything was connected to on the board. That night I started getting blue screens non stop. Same thing next day.

Brought it to a repairman I know and told him the only recent change I had made was fitting a heatsink.

Yes, I fitted it correctly I informed him, I put back the cpu carefully I also told him and when questioned about thermal paste my reply was 'themal paste?'

I was getting temps of over 100c. Unsurprisingly I had fried the nearby areas of the mainboard yet the cpu survived.
 
first time i built a pc, it was a duron 800 - i was on a budget lol, and because it was my first build, anyway, i crushed the edges on the processor trying to fit the HSF, had to buy a new processor and got a duron 900 instead :D Worked 2nd time though (and every build since). Hope my new build goes well tomorrow though, it's my first intel build.
 
I couldn't think of anything for ages, till I read about the crushing AMD duron/tbird core. I tried to OC my 1.4GHz tbird (upgraded from a 800MHz duron), and it wouldn't boot, cleared cmos etc but no luck. I swaped the CPU with the duron, which booted fine then swapped it back with the tbird and crushed the core of it with the darn annoying heatsink!!! :( Luckilly it wasn't my main PC at the time though!
 
Rolled over an Athlon 1700 with an office chair, bent all the pins and chipped the core.

We bent the legs back and the chip still works to this day

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Oh and bumped one of those metal 80mm fans into a 9800pro while it was spinning and chopped a capacitor off! That one didnt ever work again
 
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Spilt coffee (eh..accidentally, i don't take sugar either) inside a proliant G4 chassis, a year on and it's still being used as an ACT and Saleslogic server!
 
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Grimley said:
Shorted a molex connector while my PC was on last year, Thought I'd blown my HX520 - I was seriously bricking it at the time as I thought I'd taken out all the components. :rolleyes:
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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".
 
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".
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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
 
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