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

Pixel said:
Not mine, but relevant.

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Sweet Jesus of Nazareth.

I think my most technical blunder is probably the time years ago I somehow managed to earth a running PSU while working on a case, went bang along with everything else, except the RAM and a CD drive. Everything else dead.
 
When i had a BBC b, yes im that old, i had to solder some bits onto the circuit board, yes, again, we did things liek this way back in the day, anyways, i could not hold the soldering iron, the solder and the item inquestion, so i wrapped the solder around my finger a few times to hold it in place.... i know now how fast heat travels up solder and how fast i can get to a source of cold water lol..

Dam ive had some fun times with PC's...

<ColiN>
 
Back around 1992 when I worked for a big HP distributer they loaned us about £5k worth of Netserver complete with the then brand new ZIFF cpu socket. We marvelled at how easy it was to take the CPU on and off, and then i quickly learned that putting it in the right way is very important.

I may be the first person in the country to goose a CPU by putting it on the socket the wrong way around :)

No heatsinks back then though :) Was a 486/25 iirc.
 
Just remembered another blunder of mine,

I was building a pc for a friend, and it was a socket A cpu, I was trying to fit the heatsink (which was near impossible to do back with socket A) and heard a nasty crack,

I carried on hoping it would still work but when it was all finished it wouldn't boot,

I took off the heatsink and there was a nice little crack down the middle of the cpu :(

Luckily he took it to the shop he bought it from and they replaced it as i told him it was like that when i opened it :)
 
Stuck my pinky into a very fast fan: Deep cut.

Erm, I accidentally had a molex in my zalman gpu cooler, then playing medieval 2, wondering what's the ''glue'' smell, looked into everest and gpu temp was 126 C :eek:, the whole area around my gfx card had bloody hot air, when i saw the temps i pulled the plug, let it cool and luckily my 6800gs survived and still works by this day, sitting on my shelf as a backup card for dark hours...

And erm, I plugged a cold cathode in when my pc was on, the transformer was already plugged in just plugged it the cathode to the transformer, I pushed too hard and touched the 2 poles, got a shock, and smelled something burning, looked at my finger and it had 2 black dots on it...

Could also tell lots of stuff bout my dad, but in short he's burned up loads of cpu's, t least 20 in the past 5 years.... A few gpu's and mobo's too...
 
riddler said:
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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I did this. It fried the mobo.
 
Gotta say its pretty worrying how many people have posted that they've mounted motherboards straight to the tray/case without risers! Do they not teach the fundimentals of electricity / conductivity at schools these days? :eek:
 
OzyOly said:
Well not technically a PC blunder, but I changed my Xbox hardrive (original) with a bigger 250Gb one, but forgot to turn the power off. If my hand touched the PSU to the right, I would have been in trouble. :p
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How could you not know it was on? Had you disconnected the fan?

L33 said:
Gotta say its pretty worrying how many people have posted that they've mounted motherboards straight to the tray/case without risers! Do they not teach the fundimentals of electricity / conductivity at schools these days? :eek:
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More impressed with the guy who smoked out his class room building a pc for coursework :p
 
colinuk said:
When i had a BBC b, yes im that old, i had to solder some bits onto the circuit board, yes, again, we did things liek this way back in the day, anyways, i could not hold the soldering iron, the solder and the item inquestion, so i wrapped the solder around my finger a few times to hold it in place.... i know now how fast heat travels up solder and how fast i can get to a source of cold water lol..

Dam ive had some fun times with PC's...

<ColiN>
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You call that fun? :p
 
buy expensive games laptop
take it to SU bar with to show off to mates
go to bar to speak to someone
come back
no computer
doh

[luckily they had it on cctv and the bloke was caught by uni security]
 
peige said:
Picking the wrong disk when doing a OS install, now I disconnect all the drives apart from the new one when I do a fresh install !

Lost a load of wedding photos and baby pics.... and yes I know I should have backed them up :s
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Could easily have gotten most of them back with getdataback.
 
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