Your best PC blunders.... *OOPS!*

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Have you ever had one of those complete idiotic moments, where you think to yourself... "Jesus Christ I can't believe I just did that!"

Well I've just had my first in a long, long time :o

After building my new machine (ooh about 3-5 months ago now) I couldn't get my Speedlink Medusa 5.1 headset's microphone working at all.

At first I just put this down to Vista perhaps not liking the Mic and thought nothing more of it.

About twice a month I'd have a quick look to see if I could fix it, download the latest X-Fi drivers, download motherboard drivers.. anything I could think of really.

Today I thought, sod it - I'd disconnect everything and plug it back in... I dropped the powercable for the headphone box... and looked at a lonley cable lying on the floor near the back of my case.

"Hmm... what's this...?"

It was only the freaking microphone cable... that hadn't been plugged in and not working for 3 months!

Popped it in, and it all works like a charm! :o

Feel free to share you blonde moments and PC blunders... please... don't make me feel alone here guys! :p
 
Got **$$** off with my soundcard so rammed it wrong way round while the pc was on, pc died for a few hours

wouldn't say it was a blunder tho, just my stupidity
 
Speaking of fans, that was a blunder I did a few years back.

Trying to measure something on the side inside of my case with a ruler, thought "Bah, I don't need to turn it off..."

The ruler slid into the rear case fan... *BUDDDEERRRRRR* flies out and smacks me square between the eyes... I had a red mark running down the front of my face for about 2 days after that :o
 
Didn't have enough molexes for all my fans, so plugged a separate PSU in to power my GFX and DVD drive. Made a nice indoor firework display, but stunk like hell.
 
Forgot to switch the power off properly and swapped out my old voodoo card for a different card, killed the motherboard and new gfx card oops! Most recent blunder, wondering why the hell the internet was not working, only to realise I hadn't plugged in the other end of the ethernet cable.
 
nikebee said:
Speaking of fans, that was a blunder I did a few years back.

Trying to measure something on the side inside of my case with a ruler, thought "Bah, I don't need to turn it off..."

The ruler slid into the rear case fan... *BUDDDEERRRRRR* flies out and smacks me square between the eyes... I had a red mark running down the front of my face for about 2 days after that :o
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You're very amusing.
 
About 2 years ago my an8-sli died (useless southbridge cooling) so i got a £20 rdx 200 from here (bargin of the CENTURY) and decided it wouldnt be hard to switch them.

Forgot i used artic silver on my opty 148, which was stuck on to the max! (i couldnt be assed to turn on the pc for a bit to heat it up...) and i managed to rip the heat sink with cpu attached out the socket (wince one though it was all ok). 2 hours of thinking of ways to get them separated to get the cpu back in the socket and i didnt have any brilliant ideas. So i put it on its side and the thing tried to 'self right' aka bend 4-5 rows of pins!!!

I swore a lot! Then pried the thing off with a screw driver and set about straightening the pins....

It worked when i put it back to gether, supprisingly!! :D (just, as it turned off when it got too hot....)

Moral of the story, pins on the motherboard all the way! Edit: also hammer guy genious!
 
Does that PSU Voltage switching thing actually work?

I remember doing that on a mates PC a fair few years back now after hearing about what it could do (I don't think he was a particularly... "good" mate).

Don't think anything happened.

I haven't spoke to him in a number of years though... so maybe something did happen :o
 
Taking heat sink off without turning the PC on for a few mins before hand and consequently pulling the CPU out with the heat sink :eek:.
 
Built my computer ontop of the case (didn't use the raising screws) wondered why it wouldn't work for months, even the guys at the tech store couldn't work it out. Noobs.

16 years old first build.
 
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