WIN the free "BUILD YOUR OWN POWER SUPPLY KIT"

[[GT]HaX^]

I spray painted my case so It would look leet, then my computer didn't work any more. I hit it, made a big dent in it, but now my computer looks ghetto

[rotNdude]

Originally posted by T Rush
personally...I don't drink water
(its been years)

but still, when I go out to eat...they ask

And don't eat the yellow snow! ;)

[SlyKilLeR]

Originally posted by d889
I installed AOL.


Lol he gets my vote

[CaJaks2]

I installed linux and managed to accidnely delte the hard drive partion it was ony so i get a bootscreen to switch to linux cvept if i press linux my computer freezes

[rotNdude]

I love bumping these absolutely enlightening threads. What more can we add to this other than here is a PSU we can actually build our selves with the help of a few dollars or whatever currency?

http://www.diyparadise.com/powersupply.html

[PacoW]

I spent $120 on a 256 stick of RAM from best buy (this was only 6 months ago or so...)

THEN I spent $130 on a PCI ATI 9250.

THEN I tried plugging the monitor into the recently disabled onbord video.

THEN I got sick of trying to upgrade the crappy computer... so...

I spent $1,300 on a Dell 8400 (PCI-E 6800, gig of ram, 3ghz CPU)

well... at least I get great perfromance...

[Deathspawner]

Back when I got my brand new 286 computer, I went to format a floppy to back something up, but instead accidently formatted the hard drive.

I definitely learned my lesson from that day forward.

[Goldy1986]

unplugged or plugged in a cd burner to molex while power was on, arc in my hand and powered off, though oh crud and wouldnt power up , unplugged power cable from mains and plugged back in turned on and seemed to post then i could smell burning, powered off checked cd burner, nothing rong, but a chip on my 80 gig hdd melted :( , annoying as hell tbqfh

Goldy

[Erf]

My dad who builds computers quite often gets angry at his computers sometimes. Hitting them is punishment often reserved for terrible misdeeds by the computer. I watched him hit one tower that was on top of another. The first tower tipped over and only shut down. The computer on the bottom evidently was not happy with my dads mistreatment of his brother and decided to commit suicide by frying its own psu. He doesn't hit computers anymore.

My dad also has a very nice rogue audio system in his office. He had all of the speaker covers off. My small cousin went around and pushed in all of the bubbles on the speaker cones. He found this so amusing that he proceeded to do this to as many speakers in the house [at his height] as he could find. Very expensive hobby.

[Zanderson]

Computer studies lesson at school, my friend asks what does the little swithch on a pwersupply do. I told him that it changes the voltage, from 230 to 110. (in Australia, anyway). so he flicked the switch. the computer was on, someone was using it. Bang, smoke and a stench, and a panicking teacher.

[chaplain_wu]

Originally posted by SpinaL
i was also putting in the vantec ram slot covers and when it didnt go in i ramed it in and heard a "crack" luckily it wasnt my mobo (almost crapped my pants lol) it was the 2 clips snapping into place. yeah thats freaky everytime i install ram
Originally posted by Jumpy-B-L
I take my time, read the manuals just to be sure and research a topic to death before doing anything I'm unsure of.
everyone else here is doing exactly the opposite

[The Doors]

lol this threads so old , but humerious

this is so old ... theres a post from my first steam powered forum account !

***** 6 or 7 accounts later
lolol

[olileauk]

Originally posted by chaplain_wu

everyone else here is doing exactly the opposite [/B]

yep, that's right. i just hope im doing things right. i'm careful with things like my processor, but ram and things i just shove and hope. :D

[dogie]

I got a free hair cut by sticking a geforce 2 mx into an on computer...

[blencoe]

i tryed to replace pc3200 ram with pc133 ( taking a friends stick of ram he gave me ) system was still on and started smoking and very smelly. motherboard and ram needed replacing :(

[hulkpop]

I don't remember doing anything terribly stupid, but back in 1996, I spent $160 on 4M RAM (upgraded from 8M to 12M with WIN 3.1 -DOOM (1) never played so smooth!), $110 on a Logitech 3 button wireless mouse and $350 on a 1.6G WD HDD. YEAH! BTW - those were average prices back then! Ah, 10 years ago...

[ReDgUaRd008]

Has anyone even won it yet? lol I think Mr. Rush forgot about this. :(

[Suede]

I didn't know they had wireless mice back then O_O

[riseagainst169]

Hahaha...

My first PC I built I accidently forgot to ground my motherboard, turned the PC on, and *PUFF* sparks/smoke everywhere

[rotNdude]

This thread is so old that there are still people with clocks under their names. :D

[MovingTarget]

How bout this one? Taking a cap of a athlon 64 3200, placing it in the mobo, applying the heatsink.. (not touching the die btw :D) and killing a perfectly good processor?? May my 3200 RIP..

[bryanf445]

I have broken so many harddrives its rediculous. At least 4 of them blue screen no matter what. I tell you what its that damn ide interface, im going sata from here on out

[T Rush]

Originally posted by ReDgUaRd008
Has anyone even won it yet? lol I think Mr. Rush forgot about this. :(

na...I love this thread
Originally posted by T Rush
Originally posted by Alcohol Fuelled
so err.. i hate to break the party up, but when does the winner get announced?
Originally posted by T Rush
and I am working on putting together that 'prize' ...
the free "BUILD YOUR OWN POWER SUPPLY KIT"

but I really think it should be a water cooled unit

as I would want it to be something that you could really mess up when building it, like burn down the house or at least make a really bad smell that never goes away and scare the crap out of the dog...so he runs and hides under the bed when ever you boot a computer and he hears that post beep @_@

well...its just kinda a joke.....as I would ever try to work on the inside of a powersupply....I mean if you can screw up some of the basic tasks when building a computer...would you really trust yourself with working on something a dangerous as a powersupply? (they can hold large amounts of power for years after they are not even plugged in, that can give you a very nasty shock...plus they also have acid in them)...this is just a place to share stories about some of the strange/stupid things we have all done when building computers....and as far as a thread being old.....anyone who has lived outside of the MTV generation knows that the older and more in depth something is...the better it is

[-tofu@phile.net]

"build your own uranium power supply kit"

[bltsponge]

When young, I was afraid to make a new account on my 98 system because I was convinced that it would copy all of my current files from one account to the other, thun halving my space :p

[marie pavie]

If you're worried about safety, just put a
fuse (http://www.submerged.co.uk/base%20and%20nose%20fuses.php) in it.

[USB is FUNFORME]

I'm most likely going to soon attempt to configure a custom water cooling setup.

Just gimme the kit now, seriously.

[-tofu@phile.net]

Originally posted by USB is FUNFORME
I'm most likely going to soon attempt to configure a custom water cooling setup.

Just gimme the kit now, seriously.

i thought you were attempting to do that before i was banned. must be a serious project.

[siddhartha13]

Ok, i got one. I once did a voltage mod on my palomino AMD 2000+ by sticking a piece of wire between 2 sockets to short them together. This did in turn raise the voltage and allow me to overclock further, but i burned up a stick of ram in the process. :P

[RemixPinoY]

lol man this never gets old.

[antibiker]

I think i got one that takes the cake with stupidity.

Well I got my new rig recently which is now currently a work in progress, and i got everything together and i turn on the comp, and guess what NO VIDEO.
So i freak out thinking it was the power supply i cheaped out on. And then eventually it wont boot. Now me being a complete idiot decided to flip the little red switch on the back of the psu, now this does nothing so i flip it back. Doesnt boot at all. So somehow i got it stuck in my head that the psu was burnt and the mobo went with it. So i take everything out of the mobo and the proc is stuck. So what do i do, i try to pry it out with a knife of course. And of course i bent the pins(3700+ btw). So now im screwed and have to wait till my b-day for a new proc. Oh and on top of that the mobo's not burnt out.

[RemixPinoY]

Aww, You can't try to rebend the pins?
Did you do this when the heat sink was stuck to the cpu? If so you should of used a blow dryer lol.

[antibiker]

Lol nope my mom cleaned out my room and took the liberty of throwing it away. And i did try but it just bent em more. No heatsink wanst stuck it was just stuck in the socket itself.
T Rush my prize please :)

[RemixPinoY]

WAIT, your mom threw the processor AWAY? You didn't try to refit them back in the mobo lol oh man T Rush This guy wins lol.

[antibiker]

Lol they were bent reaaaaaly bad. Yes please Mr. Rush

[siddhartha13]

Damn thats #bad. I vote for you.

[Goldy1986]

Originally posted by siddhartha13
Damn thats #bad. I vote for you.

I vote you out, I win, my beloved 80gig hdd :P

[antibiker]

Woot. Who would have thought being a [color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color] would pay off?

[siddhartha13]

Originally posted by antibiker
Woot. Who would have thought being a ritard would pay off?

WTF it won't let me correct your spelling of r3tard. LoL

[-tofu@phile.net]

Originally posted by siddhartha13
WTF it won't let me correct your spelling of r3tard. LoL

retard

[siddhartha13]

Originally posted by -tofu@phile.net
retard
h4x

[infotech1]

once i was messing with visual basic .net and decided to make a program that when ran added 30000 txt documents to the startup folder, i never an it or tested it, like am onth later my mate came around and just happened to run it, lets just say windows trying to open 30l notepads on start up isnt fun

[Aaron Lira]

Originally posted by chrisn750
i forgot to put the motherboard standoffs on and put the mobo directly on the metal case (doh)

same

[Nark08]

Originally posted by chrisd@netfacto
try a voodoo 2

Ive seen an article where a guy tweaked his VooDoo2 to run Doom3 at 50fps, :)

[RemixPinoY]

How?

[T Rush]

Originally posted by antibiker
Yes please Mr. Rush

hmmm...for some reason...I just still like this one the best

Originally posted by MagicBobert
I drilled holes in my metal case with all my components still inside.

I'll let your imaginations run wild with that one.

--Bob

[hulkpop]

Originally posted by Suede
I didn't know they had wireless mice back then O_O

Sonny, back in my day...

Yep - was wireless and took... either 2 AA or 2 AAA batteries.

[bltsponge]

Originally posted by infotech1
once i was messing with visual basic .net and decided to make a program that when ran added 30000 txt documents to the startup folder, i never an it or tested it, like am onth later my mate came around and just happened to run it, lets just say windows trying to open 30l notepads on start up isnt fun

I know someone who created a virus that filled you system with randomly placed 250 kb (~) text files. Your Whole system.

:P

[-tofu@phile.net]

Originally posted by bltsponge
I know someone who created a virus that filled you system with randomly placed 250 kb (~) text files. Your Whole system.

:P

i know someone who killed a man in mexico and got away with it.

[siddhartha13]

Originally posted by -tofu@phile.net
i know someone who killed a man in mexico and got away with it.

People get murdered in Mexico all the time, its just commonplace.

[Pheonixaurora]

Originally posted by siddhartha13
People get murdered in Mexico all the time, its just commonplace.

Really? No way, Not in Mexico, Mexico is a transitional country. Maybe in some of the European Baltic Countries, but not in Mexico...

[Porkybubs]

broke my ram by jamming it in backwards. it obviously worked like a charm right after :)

[Quintox]

I've done lots. One is that I plugged in my Dell's PSU into my components while the Dell PSU was still in its case b/c I couldn't get my PC to turn on. I have pics but I don't feel like putting them up unless wanted.

[Goldy1986]

I dropped my whole system including monitor in the bath, while my girlfriend was in there, well that ended well :(

System works fine tho, and who needs a gf?

[siddhartha13]

Originally posted by Goldy1986
I dropped my whole system including monitor in the bath, while my girlfriend was in there, well that ended well :(

System works fine tho, and who needs a gf?

WHAT?! Elaborate, please.

[Goldy1986]

well , it works fine after i rinsed of all the residue(bubble bath) ovbviously dismantled the bugger, left all the components to dry for a week, then prayed as i put ti together and voila, however the hard disk and cd drive were useless, but those are the cheaper parts eh.

[siddhartha13]

Oh come now, tell us show it happened. The whole story.

[antibiker]

Please tell you realize thats a fake?

[Goldy1986]

whole story? alright.

well i was carrying my newly built machine from the dining table,, to the study, where it was being setup, but of course the girlfriend wants me in the bathtub with her, so i think, ah ha some role playing, at this time the computer wasnt powered up obviously, so I'm in the bathroom being the super technician, know what im saying laydeeeees you loves it, but after a bit of tomfoolery with my "network cable" the computer fell outta my greasy mits onto my gfs leg, damn, her shin was bleeding like wild. Any way, i retrieved the machine and balanced it on the edge of the bath, and ran to the study and grabbed a monitor. and an extension cord to wire up, putting the monitor on the shelve like part of the bath(its an awesome bath with like this extra bit) i promptly powered up the machine, holdin onto the tower of course, (I'M NOT PSYCHO) well i held it, until it sparked, EEK I thought as i jumped backwards, tower fell pulling screen with it, into the bath with my dear gf bleeding from the shin. punted the extension cord to cut power and grabbed my beauty out of the water dismantled rinced and dried, damn it was a close call.

[siddhartha13]

Originally posted by Goldy1986
grabbed my beauty out of the water...


Lol i wasn't sure if you were talking about your girlfriend or the computer...But i think we have an obvious winner, that sounded ♥♥♥♥ing hysterical.

[USB is FUNFORME]

Originally posted by -tofu@phile.net
i thought you were attempting to do that before i was banned. must be a serious project.

Hah.. that was for a few weeks before Christmas when I was considering it.. but then I found some stuff to get.

This time I'm actually going to do it.

Well, unless something goes terribly wrong (you can count on that)/

[ernasty10050]

best thread ever. keep this good stuff comin!

[Simmons 2.0]

When mounting the motherboard, I didn't put on the mounts. :)

[staknhalo]

i went for months buying pci video cards to increase preformance from ati 9250 up to nvidia 5700 le.... then i found out i had an agp slot on my mobo :(

[bushleaf2]

i was bulding a pc in a flightcase and i had these bolts but the motherboard ATX holes weren't quite wide enough.

out came the power drill.

and on the last hole, (having done the rest successfully, i slip and the drill bit scrapes along the hole board.

needless to say is wasn't gonna work.

lucky for me it was a cheap one.

[MaFi0s0]

I went temporarily blind for 10 minutes while cleaning my video card RAM with isopropyl alcohol as it was all I would of been inhaling at the time.



I thought the smell of my PSU overheating was the smell of food, This smell lasted 15 minutes before resulting in a voltage spike damaging my CPU wich could of been saved if I had turned my computer off earlier.

It sounds like I have no sense of smell, but infact its better then most people I know.

[-Withnail-]

stored some sweet chilli sauce in my PC as i had no fridge, it burst :(

[Aaron_K II]

one time, i was using a can of air duster to blow out dust from my PSU while it was on....i forgot that you cant use the can while its upside down or all the frozen liquid stuff comes out.

anyways...


fried the psu which also corrupted all the data on my harddrive, must not forget also from the loud sound the PSU made it scared me which made me blow the frezzing stuff on my hand....which left an intresting burn.

[picartman]

i couldnt reformat my hdd so after 2 all-nighters of trying to figure it out, my ide cd/dvd/hdd cables were switched around -____- :mad:

[Sterkey25]

I knocked my motherboard off my table cracked it then stepped on it and broke a PCI slot

[hl_gamer_123]

When I was 4 years I screwed around with my poor Pentuim 133 MHZ....Poor thing....

Well I took the ram out and I put it in the wrong way or I think it wasn't fully in there.....

So it fried.


Another time I had this old crappy laptop that had ATI on it so I downloaded ATI tool and the Core/Memory was 50/10 so I made it so it says "apply clock immediatly" and I changed the core speed to 700 MHZ while my finger was on the Core of the card and it burnt my finger and it fried.

[ZeusH8sU]

I used my dremel tool to cut a notch into a stick of memory(pc2700) so that it would fit on a e-machine mobo that took pc133 and some how managed to release the magic smoke.

[csnewbie156]

when i was drink juice i was laughing and i split it on the moniter screen :(

[kingcars66]

I know a guy who couldnt get his brand new 7800GT to fit past his RAM sticks on an ATX Micro motherboard, so he bent the card to get it to fit. Then when it gave him artifacts, he had no idea what would cause it (I'm shocked that it worked in the first place).

Wait, you're 12 but you were smoking a cigar?

[Siddhartha 2.0]

Originally posted by ZeusH8sU
I used my dremel tool to cut a notch into a stick of memory(pc2700) so that it would fit on a e-machine mobo that took pc133 and some how managed to release the magic smoke.

R O F L

[sptonjohn]

Bump!

[Aaron_K II]

woah, 2 bumps in like a min?

somone is on a bumping rampage....

this one time i was trying to install wolfenstein for DOS on a mac.

i was literally trying for 48 hours nonstop. untill i read that DOS and watever the mac OS was at the time are NOT one in the same.

[riseagainst169]

Originally posted by Aaron_K II
woah, 2 bumps in like a min?

somone is on a bumping rampage....

this one time i was trying to install wolfenstein for DOS on a mac.

i was literally trying for 48 hours nonstop. untill i read that DOS and watever the mac OS was at the time are NOT one in the same.

nub

[FR4GG3R]

one time i was dusting out my pc and i believe that i almost fried my mobo by spraying so much alittle big that liquid came out tiny bit so i let it dry out and pc worked good thing i didnt turn it on so fast i wait like a few minutes :D

[cs_maan]

i took apart my old computer with a 500Mhz celeron, hdd, ram, cables, mobo, i tried putting it back together but i put on the MOBO backwards (as in not in its right slots) so then i also forgot to label the cables and had to guess where each and everyone of them went, and thanks to my super amazing image memory i got nothing right, and i couldnt fit my cpu back in its slot cuz guess what....i broke off a pin, my dad comes home he helps me put everything back including the cpu without its one measly pin and my computer didnt work :(, i lose, but i got a new computer so i win :)

[picartman]

do u actually win something? is this a contest? or just a place where u can state ur stupiditys

[sniper313]

Originally posted by Mr. Josh
I forgot to use the things that go behind the motherboard so it doesn't touch metal and I screwed it in and the motherboard was like bent and stuff.

I did that and it shorted my mobo and blew up a lil chip on my mobo. Still works fine though.

[cs_maan]

Originally posted by picartman
do u actually win something? is this a contest? or just a place where u can state ur stupiditys

my guess is place where u state ur stupidities :), who cares tho its funny

[cs_maan]

my dad once brought a computer home that he found while driving ( a company was getting rid of their computers) so he took one, brought it home, guess who was first to take it apart....yea me...anyways the system had everything but an HDD i was disappointed because i wanted to open it up, no having read all of this thread i read that PSU give out electric shocks if you touch them.take them apart....yea gues what i did, the first thing i took apart was the PSU, i poked around in it and now i realize how lucky i am, also i litterally pried out the MOBO because i was too lazy to unscrew everything and took out the CPU, it was a Pentium M, if my memory serves me right, i decided to have sum fun with that and i took a pair of wire cutters and cut off every pin :)

[picartman]

i broke one damn pin on my +4400 and i had to get a +3800 cuz it wasnt in the warranty

God


Damn


It


:mad:

[antibiker]

lol read mine picartman...its so much worse.

[picartman]

what page is it on?

[antibiker]

Originally posted by antibiker
I think i got one that takes the cake with stupidity.

Well I got my new rig recently which is now currently a work in progress, and i got everything together and i turn on the comp, and guess what NO VIDEO.
So i freak out thinking it was the power supply i cheaped out on. And then eventually it wont boot. Now me being a complete idiot decided to flip the little red switch on the back of the psu, now this does nothing so i flip it back. Doesnt boot at all. So somehow i got it stuck in my head that the psu was burnt and the mobo went with it. So i take everything out of the mobo and the proc is stuck. So what do i do, i try to pry it out with a knife of course. And of course i bent the pins(3700+ btw). So now im screwed and have to wait till my b-day for a new proc. Oh and on top of that the mobo's not burnt out.

[picartman]

DAMN THAT SUCKS!

[cs_maan]

oh shiz man that sucks, see thats y we dont screw aorund with sensetive shiny things (that we may need in the future that is)

[treeisteh1337]

so erm...who won the "make your own power supply" kit?

[picartman]

Originally posted by treeisteh1337
so erm...who won the "make your own power supply" kit?
exactly what i was wondering

[Goldy1986]

Originally posted by treeisteh1337
so erm...who won the "make your own power supply" kit?

I am the self proclaimed winner, and only one person died :D

[picartman]

someone didnt die......

[Goldy1986]

Originally posted by picartman
someone didnt die......

you havent read my entry?

[picartman]

nope srry, where is it?

[Goldy1986]

Originally posted by picartman
nope srry, where is it?

Page 21 and on :P

[CanadianMob]

years ago, I tried to shove one computer into the other and see if they can run faster. Plus, I've used glue to kix a computer :D - didn't turn out so good.

[T Rush]

Originally posted by treeisteh1337
so erm...who won the "make your own power supply" kit?

Originally posted by T Rush
Originally posted by Alcohol Fuelled
so err.. i hate to break the party up, but when does the winner get announced?
Originally posted by T Rush
and I am working on putting together that 'prize' ...
the free "BUILD YOUR OWN POWER SUPPLY KIT"

but I really think it should be a water cooled unit

as I would want it to be something that you could really mess up when building it, like burn down the house or at least make a really bad smell that never goes away and scare the crap out of the dog...so he runs and hides under the bed whenever you boot a computer and he hears that post beep @_@

well...its just kinda a joke.....as I would ever try to work on the inside of a powersupply....I mean if you can screw up some of the basic tasks when building a computer...would you really trust yourself with working on something a dangerous as a powersupply? (they can hold large amounts of power for years after they are not even plugged in, that can give you a very nasty shock...plus they also have acid in them)...this is just a place to share stories about some of the strange/stupid things we have all done when building computers

[sniper313]

well...its just kinda a joke???? I put some hard earned work into posting my reply. Where's my prize?????????

[Goldy1986]

*cries* :'(

[gOaTz]

I spilt a whole jug of Coca-Cola into my computer and modem... :(

[Silverstone]

Originally posted by Parr0t2k5
tried overclocking my cpu by putting the clock in windows 2hrs forward

!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!OMFG!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!


ROFL!
LMFAO!
LOL!

;)

[cs_maan]

wow man even i wouldnt try to put 2 PCs together

[cs_maan]

oh no :o no one has posted in a day could this be the end...

[sonofahb]

i was building my first pc and i didnt realize that i had to put the metal post in the case so the motherboard sits suspended from the case. well got tyhe whole thing built took me forever(first time in all) go to turn it on hoping to see the fruits of what i just created and zap zap zap smoke smoke and i almost sh*t myself. now in hindsight i dont believe i didnt realize what those little metal pieces where for. stupid me i was just in such a hurry to get it built and running that i didnt think things through. building pc is easy but there is a thousand little things that you can do wrong to totally **** up your day.

[cs_maan]

well as omeone mentioned earlier, its better to take your time, try to resist the voice within thats tellling u to build faster

[Goldy1986]

Originally posted by cs_maan
well as omeone mentioned earlier, its better to take your time, try to resist the voice within thats tellling u to build faster

But I wanna play now

[Oblyter8ed]

I tried to put in my power supply upside down for about 15 minutes while my friends were watching me, and they finally told me that it went the other way... I should have known - the fan was blocked the wrong way (>_<)

[wormsunited]

Ive never blown a pc up :D but all my old pcs seemed to of died a slow and painful death.

[cs_maan]

Originally posted by Goldy1986
But I wanna play now


all im going to say is take your time when putting it together

[sonofahb]

Originally posted by cs_maan
all im going to say is take your time when putting it together

i understand that now but as i said before it being my first build you are very prone to mistakes. unfortunatly my mistake cost me about $100 usd. well at least i will never forget or neglect to put the studs in the case before putting in the motherboard. :)

[teh_own3r]

I was working on my AMD 64 3000 + Computer and I was installing a new heatsink, while I strugled to pull the heatsink off the computer I finaly got it, I pulled it off and the CPU was not inside its socket and I was being really stupid and tossed the Heatsink with the AMD CPU stuck on the bottom of it. Dum of me The pins were bent to hell :(

[cs_maan]

this is the dumbest mistake ive ever made, for about 1 hour ( i was rly exhausted) i kept trying to plug in the VGA cord from my new monitor to my computers serial port or w/e its called and i kept trying and trying and i was like "WTF!!!" and then it came to me that it was the wrong place

[Santa88]

I just bought a new case and I installed it screwing the mobo directly to the case without using any pins underneath the mobo. I was so excited and didn't listen to anyone. I just thought I knew it all. So when I tried turning the pc on the pc wouldn't ofcourse turn on. And for some reason the mobos light was orange instead of green. I kept installing the pins over again through instructions and checked if all the wires were correctly installed.
Then later I realized on the forum that you had to put pins underneath the motherboard to avoid short circuit. And luckily my pc didn't fry up. Thankgod for that! xD

[Verminus]

Originally posted by TyrantCS
.....My only problem was that if my FPS ever hit 88 FPS, it would trigger my flux capacitor thus propelling it into time.

Stop playing Space Quest IV then..

[Asphyxiated Xih]

I never managed to get my computer to work, thought I had destroyed the CPU since the system wouldn't start up entirely.

Went to the store where I bought the parts, and he connected the 4-Pin thing and the system was just fine...






(See, that's why they ALWAYS have a manual that comes with the damn MoBO..)

[AceMace1292]

I bought an AGP card for a computer that didn't have AGP on the mobo. Doh!

[widgen]

built a new rig 939 socket went all out 6800GS at the time forgot to put standoffs in fried psu tryed again fryed everything even the case power button, then lator on having not learned my lesson i salvaged my hdd put it in my old pc and then it knoked into the mobo and sparked one of the chips and died now alls i have left is a mobo and a cpu :/ and a dell comp

[halonx2o]

Originally posted by davidc538
I used windows me. I know i know but is that good enough for me to win?

me too brother.....me too

[motorex259]

i unplugged the cpu fan on my friends amd 64 fx60
and
pourd water over my hd.....
and pulled out a NVIDIA 4200ti hs's fan and (after that it felt like a ROASTED CHIKIN!!!!! or melting metal..well it was melting.......)
and oh yea put a ecs the thin one hs on the apgs memory...(the screen look preattyljiakmamksdmsakdmksa(buzzzzzz)thx end WAIT THEN i had bath time with a $199 ati 9600xt long time ago
but the free hl2 code was worth it......LOL

[faLLeN777]

I took apart an old computer. Took out everything, and forgot to put all the cooling stuff back in, as it was off to the side.

I turned it on, played a game for half a minute, and my computer EXPLODED.

[Kidfinger]

About 3 years ago, I bought a SOYO Dragon . My first real quality board. I installed the CPU and was putting the stock AMD heatsink/fan on the CPU. As I was installing the HS clip, the cross headed screwdriver I was using to push the clip down promptly slipped off the clip and smashed one side of a mini transistor located just under the clip.........I cried.

[rantarave]

i tried to install a printer when i was 7 and it didn't work so i but the cable that connected to the ink place when it was turned on I told my dad that using a couler printer is pointless and are old greyscale one was good enough

[rantarave]

my friend tried uninstalling his onboard graphics card by unscrewing it he couldn't find the screws so he called me over

[rotNdude]

Friday's preservation ritual. :(

[Shame]

I switched that little switch on the back of PC's to change the voltage so that I would win in a competition on who could build the pc fastest in college, and got told off and it was one of the reason's I got kicked out of the course. lol.

I'm at university now doing computer studies and science :)

[-Withnail-]

My 17" PowerBooks stories:

1. I poured cranberry juice all over the keyboard and the comp smoked :(
2. (happened many times) my chair gets caught on the power cable and it pulls the laptop off the table and it goes flying and get's huge dents and the screen got wasted D:
3. Put paper into the slot CD drive
4. Got stressed out and ripped out many keys from the keyboard.

This has happened to 2 powerbooks, but they are under insurance so all these problems have been fixed :D

I'll post my pc stories later.

[killkillkill]

i was doing something to my pc,before i'd learned to put clips on all the pipes.while i had my hands in the case i knocked a connector off and ended up with both thumbs covering the ends of the pipes.i had to just let the water spray all over inside my case while i tryed to force the two ends back together.
my board was a a8n-sli premium which ended up failing two days after i sold it.

[bbdude]

Where to start....

Well it was my first build ever (Still using it right now, too :D), and I was just finishing up building it. All I needed to do was install XP and the necessary drivers. The problem was, I had 2 hard drives, and one of them is recycled and already had an install of Windows 2000 on it. Every time I booted up, it would go to Windows 2000. At that time, I didn't have enough knowledge to get around this, so I left the IDE cable in but left the molex connector out. Big mistake.

After that, I installed XP, and installed most of my Steam games, and drivers, and... stuff like that. I played Half-Life 2 and was amazed...

...oh dear god, this is an old-&hearts;&hearts;&hearts; thread.

[CaJaks2]

its a classic! Its one of the first threads i saw

[T Rush]

a winner has not been declared yet


this is still my vote

Originally posted by MagicBobert
I drilled holes in my metal case with all my components still inside.

I'll let your imaginations run wild with that one.

--Bob
...and thats from page 1 posted on 12-30-2004

so there is still plenty of time to try and top it

[riseagainst169]

I can't blieve I'm telling this . . . :(

I built my machine under a half-hour. My desk was glass and my tower was on top.

Without my knowledge, I left off the Heatsink too the processor - which after about 30 seconds of boot up, I started to see smoke coming out of my PC. With my stupidity, and my glass table, I stood up so fast that I knocked the glass out of place makign that fall too the ground shatter along with my case breaking and my motherboard snapping in half.

In the end result, I had a 80 piece computer - or in that case, what was left of it!

[RemixPinoY]

What were the specs and damn dude!

[Aaron_K II]

riseagainst, i hope that wasnt the TANK case, the 3800x2, and the epox mobo...

[Roxuresox]

so far my vote is for the trying to disable an onboard graphics by stabing it, probably fake thou and my vote dosent count

burnt myself a few times on a NF4 chipset

got a new 2400 XP years ago and spent months trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with it then finnaly found out i it was a mispackaged 1800XP

also while a noob because my comp was soo loud i got the idea to try to silence it by putting wet sponges on the inside of the sides to help absorb sound, ill never forget the smell

finnaly get the money to build a computer and the pci covers on my case wernt machined well so while trying to pop one off i got the bright idea to try to use a screw driver and a hammer, didnt take the mobo out thou, screwdriver slipped while hammering it, almost cried myself to sleep that night

[killkillkill]

sorry but how did your motherboard snap in half?.was the case made of rubber coz it must have snapped in half to do that to the board.

[Goldy1986]

Originally posted by killkillkill
sorry but how did your motherboard snap in half?.was the case made of rubber coz it must have snapped in half to do that to the board.

IDD, a crack would be more believable

[Boomsling]

Never try to arc weld a LAN carrying handle to your case with the gubbins still inside, i figured it would earth it ok through the PSU and would be ok due to it needing only 2 spots on each end of the handle...and it did.

Buzz, crack
Buzz, crack

Blow smoke away

Buzz, crack
Buzz, crack

Job done, kinda...


Needless to say everything was borked, memory, CPU, HD etc...

Use rivets

[Sierra Oscar]

Ha christmas morning...had just put the finishing touches to my comp


Went to turn it on and nothing happened............turns out the ram was placed wrong


Took me a day to find that out

[USERX15]

Originally posted by Bundini
I watercooled my PC by filling the case with water.

your joking right?

[USERX15]

Originally posted by Gentle
No, that wasn't "faulty from the factory" that was user error.

There is a difference.

User error = insurance
Defective from factory = warranty

Gentle

I think he knows that....you don't catch onto jokes very easy do you?

[rotNdude]

Friday's anti-purge ritual. :(

[Verminus]

can't beileve i'm posting this but...
i havent made any MAJOR screwwups in awhile, but i do have some very weird and random stories.


I must have connected the FDD ribion cable wrong way round or something on an old comp I was trying to salvage, powered on, sparks fly from the FDD and connector as the two melt togeather. (3 years ago)

When connecting my PC to a mates laptop using a crossover ethernet cable, couldn't figure out why i wasn't working, untill i rembered i had previously dissabled the on-bord lan, 2 seconds after re-enableing my comp stats screeming out of my speakers, my mobo monitor displays low voltage errors, and thick white smoke pours out of the back of my comp, my mate panics like crazy and I casualy lean back in my chair and flip the mains switch behind me. when i open my case expecting my Mobo to be fried i find the two wires to the internal speaker have been reduced to nothing but burnt insulation, the rest of the comp was fine. and hasn't had a fault since. (3 years ago)

Building a new PC, couldn't get the brand new atlon XP3200 to work, so i tried it in my other system to see if it was the CPU of Mobo causing the problem, now i HATE tring to install heatsinks on CPUs especialy in mini and mid sized cases when the mobo is allready in place so i leave it off thinking 'it should be fine, afterall the tech specs for the athlon CPUs have the max die temp listed as 80-90°C depending on model, so if should be ok for a few seconds just to see if it boots.....'
.... wrong! power on = 1 burnt out CPU
so i took it back to the shop i bought it from and blaged the guy at the customer support desk, unfortunatly it was the weekend and the were out of stock so i coun't get a replacement, but as my purchace was defective i could have a full refund, so i bought the next best CPU avaliabe as i was in a hurry to have my comp up and running, all they had was an XP 2400 :(.
so i get hoem and install me 'NEW' CPU, and it dosn't work, turns out i haddn't connected the power suppply properly, ( the connector wasn't in fully, a piece of paper/fluff was blocking one of the pins).


thats all i can remebmer for now, nut i'm sure there are others

[X-Treme_Monkey]

unplugged my videocard while pc running fried it took it back to future shop saying it was defective game me a new one!

[Assassinxkilla]

bump :( sorry...so it doesnt get purged like some of my other threads...

at least this will keep this thread busy for a while :)

[wormsunited]

Im a complete noob with computer hardware but i havent actually blown anything up before :P

[Aaron_K II]

Originally posted by USERX15
your joking right?

oo come on.

thats one of the oldest biggest computer hardware jokes of all time.

[rotNdude]

Friday's anti-purge ritual. :(

[Assassinxkilla]

bump

[Cookies]

i thought my CMOS was my CPU..stupid eh?! i went out to loads of shops looking for CPU's in CMOS shapes! Doh!!!

[Assassinxkilla]

Originally posted by Cookies
i thought my CMOS was my CPU..stupid eh?! i went out to loads of shops looking for CPU's in CMOS shapes! Doh!!!

thats pretty funny lol.

[Cookies]

Originally posted by Assassinxkilla
thats pretty funny lol.

so many moons ago:D

[LiPeH]

I had my head in my case to find out what the weird buzzing noise was... realised it was the psu so moving my head closer to it forgetting i had a case fan and got my hair jammed into it.... and because it wasn't spinning with my hair stuck it, the motor stated smoking with my head still in the case.... and the moto of the story is boys dont grow ur hair like Liam Gallagher.

[just a lil bit]

i bought a GeForce 7900 GT for one of my families computers, to find that i had paid £250 for a card that would not fit. And they would not refund me!!!!!!!!!

[wormsunited]

Send it to me :D

[Splinter000]

Heh, this thread gets dug up again, it is a classic.

The stupidest think I managed to do was to plug a PS/2 keyboard into the mouse slot of a new build, then wondered why the "Press F5 to install a SCSI/RAID adaptor" didn't work. :X

[kingcars66]

I personally havent done anything completely stupid, but I know a guy who got a 7900GT and the RAM sticks kept it from fitting on his Micro ATX motherboard, so he bent the card around the RAM sticks...

[Carver]

My friend somehow managed to jam DDR memory in a DDR2 slot :D

[Aaron_K II]

i bought my dell laptop with an x1400 a week before the same one had the option to have a 7800 for only 20 bucks more

[GrassMaster]

First time I got a new heatsink I globbed almost half a thing of arctic silver 5 thinking "the more I put on the better it will work". Could hardly clamp the heatsink down there was so much. Needless to say i was not satisfied with the temperatures i got.

[Piy]

I bough an mp3 player and put it in, something went wrong when I installed it and so I tried again, it didnt work again so i puulled it out.

then a error said something like unplugged without disconecting. i installed it on another pc and went fine, but i hade screwwed my front usb's and whenever I put something in it destroys it and i have to reformat it on another pc, went through 3 devices before i realed why they were working!

[Greg2k6]

I bought an AGP video card without looking into the computer first to find out there was no agp slot...

[Death&Demise]

I have bought a huge cpu heatsink to find out it won't fit. :(

[Jesse2200]

my friend put together my computer and didnt ground it...he almost fried the whole thing...

[teh_tourist]

i hooked up my first pc
was sooo happy
but it wouldn't turn on
took me three days to figure out that i never hooked up the PSU

[ReDgUaRd008]

Has anyone won this yet? Its almost 3 years allready lol.

[T Rush]

Originally posted by ReDgUaRd008
Has anyone won this yet? Its almost 3 years allready lol.

I'm almost 42 years old (Oct. 12, 1964) and no one has won me yet
(well, not counting my Wife I guess)


Originally posted by T Rush
Originally posted by Alcohol Fuelled
so err.. i hate to break the party up, but when does the winner get announced?
Originally posted by T Rush
and I am working on putting together that 'prize' ...
the free "BUILD YOUR OWN POWER SUPPLY KIT"

but I really think it should be a water cooled unit

as I would want it to be something that you could really mess up when building it, like burn down the house or at least make a really bad smell that never goes away and scare the crap out of the dog...so he runs and hides under the bed whenever you boot a computer and he hears that post beep @_@

well...its just kinda a joke.....as I would ever try to work on the inside of a powersupply....I mean if you can screw up some of the basic tasks when building a computer...would you really trust yourself with working on something a dangerous as a powersupply? (they can hold large amounts of power for years after they are not even plugged in, that can give you a very nasty shock...plus they also have acid in them)...this is just a place to share stories about some of the strange/stupid things we have all done when building computers

[t4ct1c47]

I used to own a Pentium 4.

[olileauk]

hahahaha, that's legendary.

[ChurchBurner]

I gave my (then brilliant) watercooled athlon-based rig to my girlfriend for her birthday after building myself a project gaming machine, but I'd mixed a particular motherboard with a particular ATi card and the two wouldn't play nicely together at all.

I then had to suck up my crap computer and my 15fps in quake 3 for 3 months whilst my girlfriend used my beautiful old monster rig to play "Solitaire" 4 feet away every evening.

[Carver]

I gave my (then brilliant) watercooled athlon-based rig to my girlfriend for her birthday after building myself a project gaming machine, but I'd mixed a particular motherboard with a particular ATi card and the two wouldn't play nicely together at all.

I then had to suck up my crap computer and my 15fps in quake 3 for 3 months whilst my girlfriend used my beautiful old monster rig to play "Solitaire" 4 feet away every evening.
Oh man, I know how you feel.

[cac]

i had a cup of water on my desk that spilled over and poured all over my tower. At the time i kept the side of the case ALWAYS off. I did get some water on my mobo and pieces but not much. I turned it all off, unplugged everything and set it outside to dry with a fan blowing on it for an hr to two.


after that it all worked great


next, I forgot to plug the fan off the HS for my friends CPU. He used it for about 40 mins and boom it turned off. I was like what THE... i noticed the hsf was HOT HOT HOT. I put small fan by it to cool it down and replugg the power wire back in to the mobo.


than recently not me but my friend plugged the 2-4 pin atx power supply pins into his motherboard


seasonic s12 650 watt psu
asus p5w deluxe mobo

on the motherboard there was a atx slot for 2 atx power pins or whatever. on his psu there was 2 4 pin connectors that fit for the mobo, it says on it cpu 1 and cpu 2 connectors. He plugged in both, fired up his system, and boom a firestarts up and burns a hole into his mobo. the piece that burned was the PHEAT? chip i forgot. But he had his mobo for 4 hours and had to RMA...

[UR14]

i opened up a PSU to get it's fan out.
Fan seems to run at a really HIGH RPM. it's from panasonic. 80mm...

psu is now used for holding my crunch bars

[Goldy1986]

i opened up a PSU to get it's fan out.
Fan seems to run at a really HIGH RPM. it's from panasonic. 80mm...

psu is now used for holding my crunch bars

yum, and yeah, psu fans are very powerful :D

[rhondohslade]

...seasonic s12 650 watt psu
asus p5w deluxe mobo

on the motherboard there was a atx slot for 2 atx power pins or whatever. on his psu there was 2 4 pin connectors that fit for the mobo, it says on it cpu 1 and cpu 2 connectors. He plugged in both, fired up his system, and boom a firestarts up and burns a hole into his mobo. the piece that burned was the PHEAT? chip i forgot. But he had his mobo for 4 hours and had to RMA...
To be honest, I don't think end-user stupidity should qualify as a valid reason for RMAing a product. I know that it is done all the time, but that is only hurting EVERYONE in the long term....higher prices for all.

Steve

[Dead_heaD17]

To be honest, I don't think end-user stupidity should qualify as a valid reason for RMAing a product. I know that it is done all the time, but that is only hurting EVERYONE in the long term....higher prices for all.

Steve

isnt that CID?

[cac]

To be honest, I don't think end-user stupidity should qualify as a valid reason for RMAing a product. I know that it is done all the time, but that is only hurting EVERYONE in the long term....higher prices for all.

Steve


lol he is still in the RMA process, im sure hes not going to get another one...

just think about it, dont yout hink asus will make rules to RMAing...

(especially through misuse...)

[oktober]

I got the artic cooler for my ATI 9600xt, but i forgot to check the relief diagram, so i missed that cos my card was the saphire version not the plain ATI, there was a huge capacitor blocking where the memory cooler needed to go, so i had to solder off the capacitor and put it on little wires.

[timmy3193]

RMA - what?
Cid- What!

What? the hell do these mean lol

[timmy3193]

Lol i was at school (yes like a school chump)

Mate turns computer on... Pfft wtf is that smell...?

I.t guy comes around to find the computer engulfed in black smoke

LMAO turn mine on does exact same thing..

[v@.Li.um]

I changed the wattage (how's that called) of the PSU, believing that'll make it use less power. So I pluged in my computer, and the fuse box went "bam" :\

[rotNdude]

You actually changed the voltage input selection. ;)

[mex-assassin-]

just for kicks..

mine was at one time, when ever I tried to install games with multiple cd's, my computer would freeze if i took out the first cd and insert the 2nd cd.

Tried everything, re-installing, different brands, drivers.. nothing happened.. the computer would still freeze.. weird cause i had WINXP home.. then after i installed WIN PRO.. the problem went away.. :confused:

[oPURT]

BF2142 will only work from one of my DVD drives but other games (including BF2) work fine from either drive.

[JamezKangzta]

none of my cd's are read with my optical drive, but the secondary cd drive reads anything, from smears to scratches...

[some1_829]

Mine is strangest, or should I say rarest. My PC is fine when I don't play games, but crashes with black screens when I play games. The thing is, NOBODY has heard of the symptoms I described before, and I also tried ATI tech support (they didn't know what it was either). I'm starting to think I'm the only person who has ever experienced this particular problem. I'm going to reformat when I get a chance.

[µR¼]

windows xp....

gave me problems...lots of them
example is one...
[URL IS DEAD NOW X(]-missing the installation ID

[passedoutghost]

My floppy drive doesn't work anymore lol I can put disks in, but they can't be read or formatted. Reinstalling drivers for the damn thing doesn't do much at all. Luckily I don't use it anymore :D

[Fsta-Atls]

When I was very little...

My cousin tricked me and gave me a Coaster CD, which was a "Failed Cd.."

So, I thought it was a game...And I tried installing it. :D

[passedoutghost]

I bought an AGP video card without looking into the computer first to find out there was no agp slot... lol exact same thing happened with me. Spent the best part of a day, trying to jam an AGP card in to a PCI slot lol :p

[ChuckNorris]

Bought a new vid card, disabled my integrated grf turned on my PC and could hear windows and everything was starting up but there was just a black monitor. Who was gonna tell me i had to plug my monitor into the grfx card nto teh motherboard?

[Dead_heaD17]

lets see, I accidentally removed the psu tray and was too lazy to put it back, so i tried taping the psu to the case frame. almost worked.

[Fast Freddie]

i wanted to overclock my gpu. so i downloaded the ati tool thing to do it without knowing how it worked. i figured out that you press start for it to increase the power and speed(not knowing that your not supposed to go all the way up). once it reached the highest it could go i played a game for a bit with better performance. then the scean went blank my speakers made a loud funny noise, and my computer was stinking up my room. i later realized that i completely fried my gpu.

i learned my lesson. never try and oc a gpu over again...:)

[Aegis]

Old Amiga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga) mishap this:

I had a crappy pair of battery-powered speakers that I used to use on my Amiga 500 - one day I went to plug 'em in whilst both they and the Amiga were switched on. Accidentally brushed one of the joystick ports with the phono lead and *bang* - smoke, blank screen - dead Amiga - I'd blown one of the CIA chips that handled input devices and other fairly critical tasks - *sob!*

i learned my lesson. never try and oc a gpu over again...

Damn - I seriously stressed my 7800GS+ the other day OC'ing with nVidia's 'Coolbits' - I clicked on the button that sets 'recommended' settings and it set the Core speed to 750+mhz and the video ram to 2100+mhz (normal speed 450/1250) - I'm glad the PC just locked up when I went to play Dark Messiah...

Pleased to say it seems to be fine after its ordeal, clocked back at its default speeds...

[robinsonsam]

overclocked my cpu too far and my pc wouldnt start!

fixed it eventualy

<3 mobo FSB Limiters in jumper form

also i did the "plug your netgear pci wireless card in 1st, then install drivers"

they dont like it

at all

trips your pc off constantly

[MP81]

This ain't incredibly stupid, but when my computer got dusty about 2 months of running after I built it, I took canned air and blew the dust out of the case. When it came to my video card, however, I blew the air (consequentially the dust as well) into the card. It eventually overheated and began to produce artifacts. Lets just say XFX has great customer service, or I would have been out $200 for my stupidness.

[pumahawk]

I didn't realize the power supply I bought clicked off from 24 pin to 20 so I went all the way back to the store to return it and get a 20 pin

[Timon5022]

Some time ago i overclocked my ATI 9600xt so much that i fried the HDD, then i got a new HDD, but because they didn't have my model ready, they gave me one with 80gb instead of 40 :D

my 9600xt was unharmed, and is still running, as i type this message :)

[shadowarrior33]

ok here is my little story

One day, i decided why not strip the IHS off my 3500+. fast fun and what not. Since im a big overclocker i like the posibility of lower temps without the IHS.

So i put my cpu in the freezer to break the bonds between the IHS and the freaking strong rubber (or some kind of material that looks like rubber). then take a sharp razor blade and push it through the four corners of the cpu. then go all around the cpu with the razor blade and after a long 30 minutes of hardwork i finally manage to take off the IHS. Well to my suprise in the process of taking the IHS off i cut a transitor little leg off. Ahh no big deal there its only 1 leg of a transitor. so i just take a lead pencil and try covering it as good as i could. put it back in the socket and power it up. NO POST. ok i said it must be the freaking transitor. So i thought cut the transitor off completly and then trying to reconnect it with some lead pencil. NO didnt work. So here i am with a dead amd a64 3500+ because of a freaking little transitor. cant believe that people accually managed to run cpu with craked cores and even 2-3-4 missing transitors, but me 1 leg out of 1 transitor kills it :(. here is a pic of the cpu without the IHS:

http://i12.tinypic.com/4hj1kew.jpg

enjoy

[Death&Demise]

ok here is my little story

One day, i decided why not strip the IHS off my 3500+. fast fun and what not. Since im a big overclocker i like the posibility of lower temps without the IHS.

So i put my cpu in the freezer to break the bonds between the IHS and the freaking strong rubber (or some kind of material that looks like rubber). then take a sharp razor blade and push it through the four corners of the cpu. then go all around the cpu with the razor blade and after a long 30 minutes of hardwork i finally manage to take off the IHS. Well to my suprise in the process of taking the IHS off i cut a transitor little leg off. Ahh no big deal there its only 1 leg of a transitor. so i just take a lead pencil and try covering it as good as i could. put it back in the socket and power it up. NO POST. ok i said it must be the freaking transitor. So i thought cut the transitor off completly and then trying to reconnect it with some lead pencil. NO didnt work. So here i am with a dead amd a64 3500+ because of a freaking little transitor. cant believe that people accually managed to run cpu with craked cores and even 2-3-4 missing transitors, but me 1 leg out of 1 transitor kills it :(. here is a pic of the cpu without the IHS:

http://i12.tinypic.com/4hj1kew.jpg

enjoy

How interesting...That IHS is better because it absorb's the heat and transfers it to the HSF since it's flat it also transfers better.

[shadowarrior33]

How interesting...That IHS is better because it absorb's the heat and transfers it to the HSF since it's flat it also transfers better.

true and not true. On the extrem overlockers forum many people manage the take the IHS off succesfully without damaging the cpu and they saw a decrease in load temp going from 5-12 degrees and from 2-5 idle pretty good!!!

[Peppers30]

I remember when C&C YR came out I had an old monitor that would not go past 640x480.. The game defaults at install at 800X600 so when I would go to start the game all I would see is swirly lines and so forth. I kept trying and trying to change the resolution ingame to 640X480 without being able to see a thing. I eventually was able to do it about a week later. I was so proud. LOL

[Enigma776]

plugged the front usb cables in the wrong way and fried all usb devices that was a great thing, as according to the manual it was the right way lol

[UA 49n50 24e0]

Well I have done thing to my pc too. I remember my very first time of putting one more stick of RAM. I was on very old system and I was very new to this stuff. I managed to stick new stick of RAM other way and turned my pc on. Well 2 sec after I felt some burning smoke comming from my case. I rip the power cort out and opened case. Half of RAM stick was fried to black.

Well I put it back right way and it is working untill now with half of RAM stick fried. It has been 3 yrs now.

[xelink]

How interesting...That IHS is better because it absorb's the heat and transfers it to the HSF since it's flat it also transfers better.

not at all.

it's physically improble to get the IHS 100% flat and smoth and it does not have a 100% heattransfer rate.

removing the IHS puts the core smack against the HSF which results in better thermal transfer.

also, you didn't f' up a transistor, you f'ed up a capacitor.

[letterpigeon]

Well i got my new case and psu and went to move everything across, got my mobo screwed in, standoffs on first of course, and plugged in all the hard drives, optical drives usb ports etc. I went to switch it on and, nothing............ I checked all the wires, everythin seemed fine, so i try it again, nothing. Now the mobo light was on so i thought it cant be my new psu. So i took it apart and put it back together, nothing. About 3 hours later after i'd read through the case, optical drive, mobo, cpu and psu manuals, i noticed id got the power switch one pin too far to the left on the mobo and id managed to keep puttin it in the wrong place ROFL

[Sniper1120]

Overclocked my poor CPU too high... when I had no idea what I was doing.

*sizzle sizzle*

Fried my Video Card (Radeon 9800 Pro) doing the same thing...
I went through 3 cards before "Hey... this is overclocking the Video card...


Fried the memory too... same way -.-

Shot my LCD moniter when my gun discharged (airsoft)

I have a broken HD. I decided to experiment. I took the wrong one out (the working one) and proceded to open it up. Started my PC later to figure out i took out the good one..

When my dad said clean the inside of my PC, I actually put it in the tub (okok, i was stupid)



Mind you, this was when I was young.. I know better than all of this now :P

[Greg2k6]

this was recent but I tried hooking up a sata and Ide drive to the same computer...it took me like a week to figure out that the jumper on the IDE drive had to be on master, and I had to set up the boot options in Bios...

[RemixPinoY]

Have any of you guys almost friend any of your hardware or have? I had my cousins new build in the process of installing windows and I had the asus 650i board and a e6600 with stock cooling on. Well.... I didn't seat the cpu fan power pin to the boards adaptor and well I didn't notice until 15 mins in. I touched the heatsink and it burned me. Has anyone ever done something like this? Run a computer without a working heatsink fan and lived to tell about it? Phew caught it before anything happened it was just idling thank god. I have the thing off right now until it can cool down. :eek:

[dustbunny]

I did something like that before, but I touched the processor Die and had almost a third degree burn on my left hand middle finger. Do not do that, and the processor I did that too is an Athlon 1.2Ghz Thunderbird.

[Fast Freddie]

once i tried to oc one of my gpu's and i fried it. that was the first and last time i ever fiddle with a gpu. now i just buy and use

i am too scared to fiddle with my cpu. i am getting my motherboard back tomorrow because it was getting fixed. instead my putting my cpu on myself i will let the store do it for me. i dont want to screw anything up.

tweaking is a learning process i know(accidents happen). but i prefer my accidents to NOT cost me alot of money:)

[xero273]

Have any of you guys almost friend any of your hardware or have? I had my cousins new build in the process of installing windows and I had the asus 650i board and a e6600 with stock cooling on. Well.... I didn't seat the cpu fan power pin to the boards adaptor and well I didn't notice until 15 mins in. I touched the heatsink and it burned me. Has anyone ever done something like this? Run a computer without a working heatsink fan and lived to tell about it? Phew caught it before anything happened it was just idling thank god. I have the thing off right now until it can cool down. :eek:

The fan in my Tuniq died and I didn't find out until two weeks later.

[Viscerality]

Lucky you. That processor gets very hot, I'm sure.

[KentaroShinseki]

Well, lets see.... on my gigabyte board i had before this asus, the northbridge got so hot it could melt your skin. So... naturally I returned it.

Other than that, the only accident I've ever had was with a HDD.... I was stupid enough to think I could take it out (not unplug) and move it to a different space while the comp was on. Buncha sparks flew everywhere and it downed my whole computer. Scared me XXXXless.

Eventually, I got it working (it was with that gigabyte board, so I'm glad I returned that as well) ... but I'm too leary to use that HDD anymore. I bought a new one.

[BiohazardX]

i havnt , yet atleast. but my friend fried his motherboard when i was over at his house. he was playing on his computer and he got up to go to the bathroom or something and forgot to take off his headset and the wire pulled and disconnected his soundcard enough to cause his comp to have BSOD while gaming and shutting off. The only thing close to frying anything was my old 9600xt's fan died and i got a few artifacts under heavy gaming but it never fried , and all i had to do was get a pci slot fan heh.

[Peppers30]

Well, lets see.... on my gigabyte board i had before this asus, the northbridge got so hot it could melt your skin. So... naturally I returned it.

Other than that, the only accident I've ever had was with a HDD.... I was stupid enough to think I could take it out (not unplug) and move it to a different space while the comp was on. Buncha sparks flew everywhere and it downed my whole computer. Scared me XXXXless.

Eventually, I got it working (it was with that gigabyte board, so I'm glad I returned that as well) ... but I'm too leary to use that HDD anymore. I bought a new one.

Ah I use to do that all the time. Now what you said is gonna make me think twice.

[KentaroShinseki]

Ah I use to do that all the time. Now what you said is gonna make me think twice.

Yeah, learn from my mistake, don't go pulling out HDD when the comp is on ;)

Granted, the HDD works still... But I dont think I'll ever use it again. It was acting kinda funny after that happened.

[dustbunny]

Yeah, learn from my mistake, don't go pulling out HDD when the comp is on ;)

Granted, the HDD works still... But I dont think I'll ever use it again. It was acting kinda funny after that happened.

Did you RMA it?

[KentaroShinseki]

Did you RMA it?

Nah. It was my mother's dell's HDD (i upgraded her HDD for her while back, had this laying around), 80 gigs. I needed a new one anyway, i was just using it till I bought a new one.


Otherwise yeah, I'd RMA it

[Timon5022]

well, if it gets too hot it would just freeze or something like that? wouldn't it?

i "accidentally" overclocked my stock 2500+ with stock cooling to 4300+ or something the like. it froze at the login screen, so i shut it down and turned it on and let the computer running for an hour or so... nothing got fried :p

But i did infact overclock my GPU at a time and it fried my harddrive :/

RMA what is that?

[|chr!s|]

Return of Material Authorisation. Basically get the manufactorer to replace it cause its broken. It stands for something better, but can't remember xD

I was overclocking an E6300 under water for someone, dual prime 95s after some continuous 3Dmarks. I hear a clunk, look inside, whole waterblock decided to rip itself off its threads... bare CPU sitting there... look back at the screen, Core Temp off the scale lol (+120). I'm like wtf, and dive for the power cable.

[happychappy]

This thread reminded me of this:
CPU Heater (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=133024)

[Jake_E]

I ran my computer with a dead chipset fan (unknowingly) for about 3 weeks. The thing got so hot when I finally found out the fan was dead, the plastic of the fan itself had melted out of shape. Yes, NForce4 chipsets run HOT!

Now I got a Zalman fanless cooler for it so I don't have to worry about it ever again.

My next story isn't really computer related, but ok I was stupid enough to work on someone's car stereo without disconnecting the car battery. Was doing some wiring up using an allen wrench, which shorted out and got red hot in about a second, right in my hand. Still have a bit of a scar from it. So people, always disconnect the battery before working on 200A car wiring.

[KonB7]

Yeah, learn from my mistake, don't go pulling out HDD when the comp is on ;)

Unless it's a SATA drive.

[ChikenBiscits]

Well, I was rea-mounting the Artic Freezer 7 Pro and I hate those pushpins! Anyway, The Heatsink wasnt touching all of my E6600! I booted up went into the bios to make sure everything was ok. IT WASNT! My C2D was already 85C!!!! I shut down like a MOTHER FER!

[tuxdalinuxpen]

did that to myx800gto forgot to plug the fan in i had it oced about 10% ran oblivion for about 4 hours then got out the card was hot but not soo hot that it could kill it but still ive done that

[xero273]

Well, I was rea-mounting the Artic Freezer 7 Pro and I hate those pushpins! Anyway, The Heatsink wasnt touching all of my E6600! I booted up went into the bios to make sure everything was ok. IT WASNT! My C2D was already 85C!!!! I shut down like a MOTHER FER!

That's why I tossed my Arctic freezer 7 into the dumpster

[ChikenBiscits]

That's why I tossed my Arctic freezer 7 into the dumpster

Im getting the Scythe SCNJ-1100P

[Fast Freddie]

i didn't actually screw anything up but ba month ago my motherboard(m2n32-sli deluxe) crapped out on me. it short circuited i think. anyway my warranty completely covered its services. the only bad thing about free servicing is that it takes A LONG TIME. i am only getting it back today. and its not even the same one. they gave up fixing it and instead the manufacterer is just replacing it. but at least its free and i got a brand new mobo now.

[RemixPinoY]

Haha you guys, this reminds me of T Rush's thread but no one ever won anything. Well the computer is fine I'm typing on it right now. But the problem is when installing windows right after it rebooted I decided to go sleep and not continue installation so now it's sometimes gets kernal error on start up. I did a few chkdsk's and fixboots but don't know if that will work. Probably reinstall windows.


Anyway out of curiously for all of you who've had fans died how did your computer react afterwards? Slower?

Xero do you even need a fan on a tuniq if you ran yours without one? It's friggin loud... I'm thinking about just swapping it for a quieter 7 blade or something.

[rotNdude]

Haha you guys, this reminds me of T Rush's thread but no one ever won anything.

Do you mean this one?

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218935

Crap, I missed this one for the stickies. :( Sorry, T Rush!

[xero273]

Xero do you even need a fan on a tuniq if you ran yours without one? It's friggin loud... I'm thinking about just swapping it for a quieter 7 blade or something.

Is it really that loud? I'm using a different fan so I don't really notice it being loud.

[rotNdude]

Bringing this to the foreground!

[RemixPinoY]

I've been hijacked!!! Haha :p


Xero which fan did you use to replace the original fan and why?

[dustbunny]

Holy Thread Merge Batman.

[Green Machine.]

After Rmaing my video card and using it to test out if the new one worked, I turned the computer on but to no avail, it didnt boot at all. I relised that the power switch on the back of the PSU was switched to off. >.<

[RemixPinoY]

I've had those few scaring moments!

[µR¼]

I cut my thumb on ram....it was on dual channel....
(2 cuts)

[wannabeapilot]

^^ i cut two of my fingers trying to remove a graphics card hurt like crazy

[tuxdalinuxpen]

i once tried to play hl2 on a Celeron 600, not pretty at all. . .

yeah i had a celeron 450 that i did it with with an mx440 i oced the chip to ~650 ish and got it to run with 25-30 fps :P

[AlecJ32]

My mobo on one of my older systems was only detecting 128mb of my 196mb of RAM, and while fussing with the ram, I bumped the pin on my CPU fan and it popped off(it was basicly a hair pin trigger, lol), and the fan fell and broke my video card.

And, I got HL2 working great on a celeron too, ~801mhz

[weedo]

This thread is great, i am going to read all the pages lol.

Worst thing i have done is fried my motherboard cos i put it directly on the metal. Took me ages to get my core 2 system runnning.

[Timon5022]

Can someone tell me how the title is related to this thread's purpose/content.

[ChurchBurner]

Can someone tell me how the title is related to this thread's purpose/content.

Well a "build your own power supply kit" posted here is an obvious silly, one which attracts system builders. Most likely ones who need cheering up - well it worked for me anyway, what can I say? :)

[cac]

has anyone cause their computer to light on fire?

[kmmck1984]

has anyone cause their computer to light on fire?
my buddy had his hard drive just sitting on the shelf in his case and the vibrations caused it to fall off the edge causing a massive short. There was sparks and fire involved and by the end of the day he had a fried motherboard and hard drive.

[cac]

my buddy had his hard drive just sitting on the shelf in his case and the vibrations caused it to fall off the edge causing a massive short. There was sparks and fire involved and by the end of the day he had a fried motherboard and hard drive.

wow, no damage to any other things?

[sakkez]

I fried my old graphics card cos I was trying to overclock -_-
however it was pretty old and I was gonna buy new one soon anyway and this current is kick-XXX so no harm done (and my mother paid 50% of this new one's price so...)

[cac]

I fried my old graphics card cos I was trying to overclock -_-
however it was pretty old and I was gonna buy new one soon anyway and this current is kick-XXX so no harm done (and my mother paid 50% of this new one's price so...)

is it possible to really fry something when TRYIng to overclock it? Doesnt it just fail and you get the BSOD?

what card were you OCing, and what card do you have now?