worst thing to happen to your pc

This will make me sound like such a newb (rightly so I guess).

With my first build I was ultra paranoid that I'd doing something stupid and ruin the whole thing. So read and read, asked questions... a lot of questions, I bought and anti-static wrist strap that I'd wear even if I was only touching the closed case. When I finally felt comfortable, I began the build. I had a few minor problems requiring complete disassembly and an RMA (which turned out to be unnecessary). The worst was yet to come. After the second build, which alowed me to lay the cables better, the big moment came. I tried booting it up but after a split second of power it would shut down. I examined ever millimetre of pcb, every cable, every conection, everything was where it should be... or so I thought. The the 4pin for the CPU wasn't plugged in. I felt like such a div.

We live and learn though.
 
I plugged in a Commodore 64 once, and the earth lead from the tape deck touched the live plug pin and BANG. Sparks everywhere and one burned-out C64.

I've also gouged a motherboard trying to fit an AMD heatsink. The type you need a screwdriver to fit by levering a spring clip. I didn't notice the clip had caught half-way up the heat-sink, so I was trying to apply far to much pressure to get the clip onto the lug.

The screwdriver slipped and gouged the motherboard. Luckily the only damage was that one of the memory slots didn't work after that.
 
Smashed up my old motherboard with a screwdriver when installing a crappy arctic cooling low profile cooler. :(
 
i was once subjected to a torrent of abuse from the missus about spending too much time on the pc.so rather than bash her i smashed the pc up.then had to spend 300 quid to get it working again.all that because i don't hit women.next time i swaer it will be her.lol
 
Doctor McNinja said:
This will make me sound like such a newb (rightly so I guess).

With my first build I was ultra paranoid that I'd doing something stupid and ruin the whole thing. So read and read, asked questions... a lot of questions, I bought and anti-static wrist strap that I'd wear even if I was only touching the closed case. When I finally felt comfortable, I began the build. I had a few minor problems requiring complete disassembly and an RMA (which turned out to be unnecessary). The worst was yet to come. After the second build, which alowed me to lay the cables better, the big moment came. I tried booting it up but after a split second of power it would shut down. I examined ever millimetre of pcb, every cable, every conection, everything was where it should be... or so I thought. The the 4pin for the CPU wasn't plugged in. I felt like such a div.

We live and learn though.
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Everyone has done that once in a while, i even did it on my latest build.
 
I purchased a motherboard that has legs of pins bent together.

New CPU, new memory from same seller also.Smoke came out of the PSU, and a track of the board burnt out.

This was 15 years ago from Manchester computer fair (before we had internet at home). I phoned the trader to be told he's train spotting for the day. I thought **** it, and ran a wire between two legs to make up the circuit. The computer worked, and to this day I still have the working computer. I'm about to test a Gravis Ultrasound ISA card on it - then it will finally be de-commissioned!
 
In 1999 I did a BIOS upgrade so I could run Win 2000 as my Bios was unsupported. This destroyed the motherboard as the flash went bad (only time it ever happened to me!). Cost me £800 to buy new PC components as it was a motherboard which had been phased out & back in those days it was not easy to source PC components which were not recent so I had to buy mobo+ram+gfx card+cpu as all my existing ones only fitted the broken mobo as it used old an AGP & Slot 370 CPU with dated Ram slots as well :eek:
 
I had a bad flash brick a motherboard too.

I used the official update tool to do it, but there was a bug in the updater. ASUS later warned users not to use the updater and to do it via DOS, but it was too late for me.

Luckily it was under warranty, but it was a pain to have to take the PC to bits to RMA the board.
 
this evening i was using my desktop when the mouse cursor froze i'm thinking wtf so i pulled it out of the usb slot. i then realized it was hot at the back of the mobo then a puff of black smoke appeared i panicked and quickly turned it off, second board this year that has died on me:mad:
 
Nothing self inflicted so far, accept forgetting to plug the 4pin mobo power connecter in a few times, the little bugger.

Two top brand PSU's have gone bang, and I'm glad they were top brand because they didn't take anything with them. Plus a faulty power switch killed a MOBO.
 
my 1st rig i built when i was 14 cost me £700 off saving up for 2 years and included the most powerfull GFX card in the world (at the time) a 6800 ultra pci-e as kid could you imagin how happy i was as it cost me £250 off my budget when it was ment to be £350 and one month after getting it aftifacting like mad and would do it all the time after it was replaced it became a paper weight ever since i iam sure this was one off the 1st double slot gpu's and was a complete beast at the time can you imaging my face as a time (as a 14 year old kid) when it broke lol didnt get a replacment till the x1800xt was relesed was totally gutted will never ever buy a refurbished part again lol
 
When I build a PC for my mate a few years back, put everything together and powered it on only to hear a zap and everything powering down within a second. Looked at the back and PSU had a switch for different UK/USA voltages and it was set on latter at which point my bowels produced a brick. Proceeded to strip the system down, try components in my PC (which we had to carry for half hour to his house!) to then only realise that all that happened was a fuse going in a kettle lead :p

Also seem to be cursed with Enermax PSUs as out of 3 I've owned 2 were dead on arrival and other one went in 2 weeks.
 
Doctor McNinja said:
This will make me sound like such a newb (rightly so I guess).

With my first build I was ultra paranoid that I'd doing something stupid and ruin the whole thing. So read and read, asked questions... a lot of questions, I bought and anti-static wrist strap that I'd wear even if I was only touching the closed case. When I finally felt comfortable, I began the build. I had a few minor problems requiring complete disassembly and an RMA (which turned out to be unnecessary). The worst was yet to come. After the second build, which alowed me to lay the cables better, the big moment came. I tried booting it up but after a split second of power it would shut down. I examined ever millimetre of pcb, every cable, every conection, everything was where it should be... or so I thought. The the 4pin for the CPU wasn't plugged in. I felt like such a div.

We live and learn though.
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Did this on my first build.
 
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