WIN the free "BUILD YOUR OWN POWER SUPPLY KIT"

[T Rush]

have you done something just so completely dumb building your PC

If you have...you maybe eligible to win a FREE "Build your own power supply kit"

enter as may times as you care to admit
no rules at all
you just have to have messed something up so bad, that even you can't believe it

[T Rush]

I was setting up my first Raid 0...and I just could not get it to work
I went on forums, looked all over online, read books, talked to friends...no one could help me

turns out I had both hard drives set to slave
took me two weeks to find it

[Bundini]

I watercooled my PC by filling the case with water.

[Rogue1230]

I tried putting my PCI card in the AGP.

lol @ Bundini. Good one

[Spiker611]

A long time ago, I had a new Athlon XP 1600. I was getting ready to put in in the slot, and put thermal paste on it. I was so excited that I didnt read the directions, and covered the entire cpu wafer.

*fizz

Also with older computer
I wanted to change the resolution, set it one step up. My system crashed and monitor said "out the range" (yeah, it was made in china). I spent a month trying to reset the resolution without a monitor.
I finally got the bright idea to get another monitor and another graphics card.

[Spike1075]

Originally posted by Rogue1230
I tried putting my PCI card in the AGP.

lol @ Bundini. Good one ahahahah I did the same thing the other way around. I tried putting an AGP in a PCI.

[Zaious]

Someone told me I needed to set my screen resolution higher, so I put the monitor up on a milk crate.

[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

[Huambo81a]

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

[Cheez-It]

about a year ago i was puting new water into my watercooling system.. well i had a bowl out and the tubes disconnected...well i thought the water would shoot out of the tube in my had and then into the bowl....well it turned out the water went the other way and out the other tube which was on top of my geforce 4 ti 4800...but i let it dry for 2 days and it was fine :D so happy ending.

[Zero7769]

what if he isnt kidding lol

[DarkWasp]

I was installing a motherboard, Plugged in the LED and all, but forgot to plug in the power switch.

My computer starts when i flip the powerswitch on, and you have to hold power for 3 seconds to turn it off.

[I was sitting there for 2 minutes wonderig why the power wouldnt turn off]

[m3ta1head]

i tried to jam the monitor cable into the joystick port :D

[<3 & Peace]

I pluged everything in the wrong slots...

:'(

Started up and no screen even when it was on I'm like Wtf mate^

[chrisn750]

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

[jaredbell165]

I put Arctic silver 5 (after i just paid 10 dollars for it) all over the back of a metal plate after peeling off the thermal compound. And then "pasted the plate" to the back of my 150 dollar motherboard. But hey now she has character. Do i win!??! I soo could use a new power supply. or perhaps even a new motherboard......

[jaredbell165]

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


Hey i did that too!. I was wondering why I had to bend the board to make it fit. Gotta love the newbism in computer building!

[T Rush]

I stuck a stick of ram in upside down...couldn't see what I was doing, crawling under my desk...thought it was locked in, but it was in 'half-cocked'....booted!!!

smoke
panic
pulled plug
fried mobo
fried ram

glad it wasn't a AMD64..as the memory controler is 'on die'

[chrisn750]

Originally posted by jaredbell165
Hey i did that too!. I was wondering why I had to bend the board to make it fit. Gotta love the newbism in computer building!

lol, yah, but did u actually turn yours on, lucky for me i turned it on when there was nothing in there, otherwise, that woulda been bad, i just had to replace the mobo, which i got for free, cuz it was "faulty" from the factory, lol

[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

[d889]

I installed AOL.

Also, one of the people I work with was testing out a motherboard, and took an AMD processor and managed to cram it into a P4 slot on the board, turned on the computer, and the chip melted to the motherboard. And he didn't even realize he had the wrong processor in the wrong motherboard.

[surajd]

i took off every single part of my computer and wet my hands and put tehm back in the wrong way.. then when i started my computer it was hanging and i stuck my finger in the fan and it cut my finger bad.. tehn all the blood dripped onto the gfx card and my whole computer gave me the biggest shock in a lifetime..

yes YES VERY EXCITITNG AND FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(i am malfunctioning - lame)
(very lame story)

[surajd]

i pluged my powersupply cable into the monitor and the monitor 1 into the cpu powersupply.. it was funny

i also tried to overclock my mobo with no fans except a small fan.. and it got fried.. my fan got fried.. gfx card got fried.. everything got fried.. :)

[tyguy81]

i broke off 1 of the lil white tabs on the side of the cpu socket(1 of the 2 the hsf attaches to).....well i tried my hardest to super glue it back on.....but i slipped and got superglue in a few of the pin holes.....i was like hmmmm....i dont think superglue is conductive.....well i guess it was(enough anyways)
*FIZZ

fried cpu and mobo

this was about 2 years ago on an xp 1800+ with a shuttle ak31 (i liked that mobo :/ )

[Spuds1234]

I took the tip of my finger off with a Delta 80mm fan that was spinning at about 6000rpm according to mbm.

That hurt like fu*k and was bleeding every where.

[DarkWasp]

Some of these you can tell arnt true. like, you cant plug a monitor into a power supply, unless you have a very weird coord thingy.

[endoftheline]

Originally posted by DarkWasp
Some of these you can tell arnt true. like, you cant plug a monitor into a power supply, unless you have a very weird coord thingy.

those werid cord thingys come in handy. Especially when you want to plug a 110 volt device nto a 240 outlet.:)

[CombatJesus]

i got a new power supply and a geforce 6800 GT for christmas, it came yesterday, and in a frenzy, i unplugged my old power supply without looking what was connected to what, luckily i live down the road from a LAN center, so i after about 2 hours of fooling around with that puppypuppypuppypuppy, i swallowed my pride and took it down there to get it fixed, i just ordered another stick of RAM and a new sound card, hopefully i cant screw this up...

[Rhondo H. Slade]

<snip>" hopefully i cant screw this up..."<snip>

Wanna bet??????

Steve

[Rhondo H. Slade]

<snip>" hopefully i cant screw this up..."<snip>

Wanna bet??????

Steve

[chrisd@netfacto]

Originally posted by Huambo81a
i once tried to play hl2 on a Celeron 600, not pretty at all. . .

try a voodoo 2

[j.rhy@n]

Originally posted by DarkWasp
Some of these you can tell arnt true. like, you cant plug a monitor into a power supply, unless you have a very weird coord thingy.

My monitor is plugged in to my PSU .... has Male and Female socket.... common these days...

**********************************

My worst has to be splitting the motherboard wile trying to remove the CPU cooler, those clips can be a [color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color] to remove. Anyways after that I removed all components only to find that the core on the CPU was also cracked..

Just dont know my own strength, but this happened at work and not to my own PC, so as you do I went to our stores for more stock..

[T Rush]

I had to boot into 'safe mode' to get a virus off a computer at work (when you booted normaly it would say "not today" and shut off the PC) and I put it on a floppy and took it home to find out what it was

about 6 months later I was looking for a floppy to use...pulled one out of a box....stuck it in, and clicked on the file....@^$##$^$$&^%!!!!!

[CrazybeanswEggs]

Lol T Rush nice 1

[-=[-St@lker-]=-]

A while back, when I knew nothing about the delicate workings of a computer, I bought a new graphics card, installed it, and then "disabled" my integrated graphics chip...by stabbing at it with a screwdriver until I was satisfied it was "removed"...

Needless to say it...well its needless to say...

[Stryker2[X]]

My computer use to shut off and restart randomly and I asked my friend what the problem was, and he told me my computer was over heating and I needed to put a fan in it.

So I went to the store and bought a compact black battery powered fan (one that you would take on a camping trip or something), and placed it inside my case.

[Spuds1234]

I bought a gf5200 back in the days when I thought video ram was the be all end all.

[juju]

Originally posted by -=[-St@lker-]=-
A while back, when I knew nothing about the delicate workings of a computer, I bought a new graphics card, installed it, and then "disabled" my integrated graphics chip...by stabbing at it with a screwdriver until I was satisfied it was "removed"...

Needless to say it...well its needless to say...

HAHAHAHBAHAHA thats quality mate

[whightknight89]

when i was a n00b about pc building(back in 1998) i onc tried to hook up my new cd burner(lol it was soooo slow, like 8x speed tops) and the pc wouldnt boot. I called tech support, got a pc tech (now he is a moron, he does this for a living and he couldnt do it lmao), and then my at the time 12 year old son said to me, "Daddy, did u check the jumpers?" now at the time i had no idea what jumpers were so i was taught by a 12 year old.

Another time i broke a 120 gb hdd connecter on the back of it off by trying to connect the floppy ide cable to the back og it. to this day i am still angry about it and STILL only have a 20 gb, oh well at least i have a GeForce 6600 gt agp and a system that runs hl2 great.

[ATW]

I powered on a PC while clearing the CMOS. I literally had the manual, which stated in bold print "do not power on," in my hand. No harm done, otherwise I wouldn't find it so comical.

[crug3r2311]

post some more, coz im lmao.
actually i invented a new word thingy for the ocation

rofl + lol + lmao = roflolmao

[crug3r2311]

i open my pc's case for the first time, and the hard drive fell out as i opened it. it was my first pc. so i didnt know what to do.
so i just shoved it back in. afterwads the computer was slower.
i must have hit something.

[sonicst0rm]

I had an old pentium 133MHz processor. Had some fun with that. Same with some old hard drives. I always wanted to see what the disk on the inside looked like. Wow, that was the shiniest thing ive ever seen.


The worst was probably when we had a really old crappy monitor. I took a baseball bat and started to smash in the monitor.
After a few swings the screen broke and sorta made this whoosh sound for a second and it sorta collapsed in wards and glass flew everywhere. It was cool. Then i shot it with my potato launcher, and my yard was covered in glass shards. Dumb as crap, i had to clean it all up my parents got pissed.

[SpinaL]

i just got my 6800GT and i touched my vid cards printed circuit board :D woops lol, then i was sleeveing my power supply and when the 20pin came i labled all the pins did it even drew a picture then when i put the connector back on i stuck it on backwords :D smart aint it. Then i was soldering a circuit board and accidently touched the metal piece that you do the soldering with. 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.

[generic]

I was poking around my comp while powered on to check how hot various things were. I got my finger caught on the CPU heatsink fan. It stopped and my comp beeped. No damage was done, except my finger was bleeding slightly.

I also forget to plug in the data cables to stuff like monitors and drives and wonder why they don't work :rolleyes: Once I forgot to plug in the CPU heatsink fan and turned on the computer. It started beeping but luckily no harm was done. That was on my old PIII.

[crug3r2311]

Originally posted by sonicst0rm
I had an old pentium 133MHz processor. Had some fun with that. Same with some old hard drives. I always wanted to see what the disk on the inside looked like. Wow, that was the shiniest thing ive ever seen.


The worst was probably when we had a really old crappy monitor. I took a baseball bat and started to smash in the monitor.
After a few swings the screen broke and sorta made this whoosh sound for a second and it sorta collapsed in wards and glass flew everywhere. It was cool. Then i shot it with my potato launcher, and my yard was covered in glass shards. Dumb as crap, i had to clean it all up my parents got pissed.
i've always wanted a potatoe laucher, but their illegeal in uk :(

[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.

[SpinaL]

lol what?

[Lotos]

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

i did this as well.. lol i burnt out some nforce2 ultra board lol came in a stock dell when i got a new case.. was SO AWESOME TOO! a little light came on in the corner andi thought.. oh i have power.. 5 sconds later.. *sniff* smoke? oh puppypuppypuppypuppy.. and so this little flame burning at like 432174114367344619823 degrees C. burnt off a little chip on my board. my mom yelled at me and said it could have started a fire!

I was poking around my comp while powered on to check how hot various things were. I got my finger caught on the CPU heatsink fan. It stopped and my comp beeped. No damage was done, except my finger was bleeding slightly. i did this well except instead of my finger bleeding i broke off a fin on the fan lol it sounded like a jet taking off

[Spuds1234]

Originally posted by generic
I was poking around my comp while powered on to check how hot various things were. I got my finger caught on the CPU heatsink fan. It stopped and my comp beeped. No damage was done, except my finger was bleeding slightly.


Lol I have also done this but I actually lost the tip of my index finger.

I had just bought a new Delta Black Label fan (http://www.dragonpc.co.nz/p.aspx?1284) which spins at 5700rpm and it has very sharp fan blades.


Well I was like fu*k this blows a lot of air and then this bright idea hit me and I decided to see if to would hover so I stuck it on the top of my case and was quite dissapointed to see that it didnt hover. Then I went to put it back in the case without turning the power off (after all its only a fan what harm can it do?) well when I picked it up I put my finger into the fan blades and needless to say there was a lot of blood and a lot of pain.

[sonicst0rm]

Originally posted by crug3r2311
i've always wanted a potatoe laucher, but their illegeal in uk :(

I found out they're illegal here too. I still have a bunch of 'em but can't use them because my crappy old neighbors will call the cops

[m3ta1head]

Originally posted by Spuds1234
Lol I have also done this but I actually lost the tip of my index finger.

I had just bought a new Delta Black Label fan (http://www.dragonpc.co.nz/p.aspx?1284) which spins at 5700rpm and it has very sharp fan blades.


Well I was like fu*k this blows a lot of air and then this bright idea hit me and I decided to see if to would hover so I stuck it on the top of my case and was quite dissapointed to see that it didnt hover. Then I went to put it back in the case without turning the power off (after all its only a fan what harm can it do?) well when I picked it up I put my finger into the fan blades and needless to say there was a lot of blood and a lot of pain.

lol you tried to see if it would hover???? lmao

[invalidbuffalo]

I fried my cd r/rw burner at a LAN party.

how: one of the molex connectors on the power cable was getting uncomfortably close to my side panel fan so i decided to offset all the plugs one connector to get rid of the slack. i did this while it was on. when i was plugging in my cd burner, the plug went in wrong (the prongs on the drive were long enough to make contact) and voltage crossed where it shouldnt go. There was a big arc and my computer shut down. so when i tried using it it wouldnt work!

[alleydav]

I bought new computer parts but no case, so i made a case out of old milk carton sides... got kinda stinky

i needed some thermal paste for my cpu, so i took some athletes foot cream and used that. I used a metal spatula, and soldered some nails to it to make a heatsink...

To watercool everything, i feeled up my bathtub, and threw all the puppypuppypuppypuppy in while plugged in, and got in with it.... how i survived is a different story

to make speakers, i took a thousand pairs of earphones and mini 2 way splitters and made a set of cheap weak speakers that sounded like crap.

to make the computer run, u have to fill the gas tank with 3 litres of methyl alcohol, and turn the big red nob 4 quarter turns, and get naked, sacrifice a small goat, and sing Kumbaya!

I managed to overclock the processor from 15 mhz to 9999999999999 gajilian trilahertz while ONLY causing a minor nuclear melt down in my home....

Summary of Specs:

Intel 386xs 15mhz
4megs of ram
20 meg hd
ATI Radeon X850 XT 256MB PCI-Express... (WTF!?!?!)
Windows Longhorn (due to be released in 2005) (WTF!!!!??!?!)
0.5X cd-rom
vintage 1980s punch-card reader (DOUBLE WTF!!?!?!)
Dual-T3 internet connection (omg)
5-inch amber-screen (black/orange/amber (thats right,... NOT black and WHITE)


OMG... this is the stupidest thing ive ever written

[yapchagi]

Originally posted by alleydav
I bought new computer parts but no case, so i made a case out of old milk carton sides... got kinda stinky

i needed some thermal paste for my cpu, so i took some athletes foot cream and used that. I used a metal spatula, and soldered some nails to it to make a heatsink...

To watercool everything, i feeled up my bathtub, and threw all the puppypuppypuppypuppy in while plugged in, and got in with it.... how i survived is a different story

to make speakers, i took a thousand pairs of earphones and mini 2 way splitters and made a set of cheap weak speakers that sounded like crap.

to make the computer run, u have to fill the gas tank with 3 litres of methyl alcohol, and turn the big red nob 4 quarter turns, and get naked, sacrifice a small goat, and sing Kumbaya!

I managed to overclock the processor from 15 mhz to 9999999999999 gajilian trilahertz while ONLY causing a minor nuclear melt down in my home....

Summary of Specs:

Intel 386xs 15mhz
4megs of ram
20 meg hd
ATI Radeon X850 XT 256MB PCI-Express... (WTF!?!?!)
Windows Longhorn (due to be released in 2005) (WTF!!!!??!?!)
0.5X cd-rom
vintage 1980s punch-card reader (DOUBLE WTF!!?!?!)
Dual-T3 internet connection (omg)
5-inch amber-screen (black/orange/amber (thats right,... NOT black and WHITE)


OMG... this is the stupidest thing ive ever written

Is there any 386 with 15 MHZ turbo?

[jaredbell165]

I took one of my monitors up to the King County Fair Grounds (WA), along with my WSAR-10 Romanian AK-47, a few hundred rounds, and two 20 round mags. My my that was a fun day. i found that one shot with a 7.62x39 to a monitor causes like internal explosions. THICK glass shards shot all over and the case imploded. then we took the Interstate 12 gauage double barrel side by side to it. Now how many of you can say you have seen a monitor dissinegrate? I felt like watching office space after that.

SYSTEM:
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce Ultra 3, Socket 939
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (newcastel Core, 2.2Ghz)
Corsair PC3200 DDR2, 1 gig (512x2)
Samsung SATA 120gig HDD, 7200RPM
Samsung Dual layer DVD/CD Writer
Samsung 1.44 Floppy
Rosewill Midtower ATX case (5 FANS - one 120mm, four 80mm)
MSI nVidia GeForce nx6800GT 256MB 256BIT

[BattousaiHimura]

first time i tried modding my PC, i bought a new CPU... tried to put it in the slot... and couldn't...3 weeks, and 4 CPUs later, (returned the other 3, i thought something was wrong) i finally figured out that you were supposed to match the arrows up... +_+

[T Rush]

4 CPUs huh?
sorry...you don't win...but you need a good slap

[Danny M]

Originally posted by yapchagi
Is there any 386 with 15 MHZ turbo?
Ahhh, the turbo button. Reminds me of the Pentium 90Mhz I had back in the day.

I never really knew what it did (something about games running too fast IIRC), I was a bit of a computer n00b back then (I was like 10-11 years old).

[T Rush]

Originally posted by alleydav
Dual-T3 internet connection (omg)


yeah know....I've heard of this ...with dial-up... can you do this with DSL/cable ?

[jaredbell165]

it still doesnt beat my IBM which used the original and I mean ORIGINAL floppy diskets. it had the ol' orange screen and was basically DOS only compatible. although i did have as game called pitfall (not the atari game) where there was a square falling down a cave and you had to like, manuever it so it wouldnt hit the walls.

SYSTEM:
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce Ultra 3, Socket 939
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (newcastel Core, 2.2Ghz)
Corsair PC3200 DDR2, 1 gig (512x2)
Samsung SATA 120gig HDD, 7200RPM
Samsung Dual layer DVD/CD Writer
Samsung 1.44 Floppy
Rosewill Midtower ATX case (5 FANS - one 120mm, four 80mm)
MSI nVidia GeForce nx6800GT 256MB 256BIT


Now I have that beast. MWUAHAHAHA. although my video card is still in transit. the shipper had to recall the package because he charged me for 3 of the GFX cards (351 bucks a pop) and sent three out to me. His response at first was (ahh come on man, just take them and resell them for 370 bucks). Well my Bank account didnt like the fact that I only had 400 dollars and paypal was trying to charge me 3x$351....ahh what a mess.

BWT - Ebay.com and a seller named mobo_outlet has MSI nVidia Geforce nx6800GT's for 331 bucks. so ide grab them now! i got the second to last one!!!!! they are brand new by the way.

[Spuds1234]

Originally posted by Danny M
Ahhh, the turbo button. Reminds me of the Pentium 90Mhz I had back in the day.

I never really knew what it did (something about games running too fast IIRC), I was a bit of a computer n00b back then (I was like 10-11 years old).

A common mis-conception of turbo was that it sped up the computer.

This mis-conception came about because when you pushed the turbo button the turbo light came on giving you the impression that turbo was used to speed up your computer (essentially overclock it at a push of a button :D)

What it was actually used for was to slow down your proccessor. Go and download an old dos game like Mechwar (oh how I loved that game!!!) and try an play it. The game will run fine on an old 286 but it will run incredibly fast on a 386 so the put the turbo button on so that when games started to run to fast you could hit the button and underclock your cpu causing the games to slow down to a playable level.

NOTE: Other great dos games that I had on my first computer (a 286) were Leisure Suit Larry, Mechwar, Battletech The Cresent Hawks Inception, Battletech The Cresent Hawks Revenge, Sim City (The orignal version for pc) and Test Drive (you could drive off a cliff and all that would happen was that your windscreen would crack lol)

[Danny M]

Originally posted by Spuds1234
A common mis-conception of turbo was that it sped up the computer.

This mis-conception came about because when you pushed the turbo button the turbo light came on giving you the impression that turbo was used to speed up your computer (essentially overclock it at a push of a button :D)

What it was actually used for was to slow down your proccessor. Go and download an old dos game like Mechwar (oh how I loved that game!!!) and try an play it. The game will run fine on an old 286 but it will run incredibly fast on a 386 so the put the turbo button on so that when games started to run to fast you could hit the button and underclock your cpu causing the games to slow down to a playable level.

NOTE: Other great dos games that I had on my first computer (a 286) were Leisure Suit Larry, Mechwar, Battletech The Cresent Hawks Inception, Battletech The Cresent Hawks Revenge, Sim City (The orignal version for pc) and Test Drive (you could drive off a cliff and all that would happen was that your windscreen would crack lol)

AHh, ok thanks for the info and verifying. :)

[Spuds1234]

Originally posted by Danny M
AHh, ok thanks for the info and verifying. :)

No problem

[ericsheng21]

Originally posted by alleydav
I bought new computer parts but no case, so i made a case out of old milk carton sides... got kinda stinky

i needed some thermal paste for my cpu, so i took some athletes foot cream and used that. I used a metal spatula, and soldered some nails to it to make a heatsink...

To watercool everything, i feeled up my bathtub, and threw all the puppypuppypuppypuppy in while plugged in, and got in with it.... how i survived is a different story

to make speakers, i took a thousand pairs of earphones and mini 2 way splitters and made a set of cheap weak speakers that sounded like crap.

to make the computer run, u have to fill the gas tank with 3 litres of methyl alcohol, and turn the big red nob 4 quarter turns, and get naked, sacrifice a small goat, and sing Kumbaya!

I managed to overclock the processor from 15 mhz to 9999999999999 gajilian trilahertz while ONLY causing a minor nuclear melt down in my home....

Summary of Specs:

Intel 386xs 15mhz
4megs of ram
20 meg hd
ATI Radeon X850 XT 256MB PCI-Express... (WTF!?!?!)
Windows Longhorn (due to be released in 2005) (WTF!!!!??!?!)
0.5X cd-rom
vintage 1980s punch-card reader (DOUBLE WTF!!?!?!)
Dual-T3 internet connection (omg)
5-inch amber-screen (black/orange/amber (thats right,... NOT black and WHITE)


OMG... this is the stupidest thing ive ever written

although this is obviously a fake, i was lmao so hard, he deserves the win.
stupidist thing ive done? I got the radeon 7500 pci version, then i saw that it has 3 connectors that u put in a pci slot (cause they have 2, the long one and a shorter one) and i was friggin scared i got this card offa ebay and thought it was agp! :P turned out the three connectors just fit in as normal and that i am an idiot :)

[Captain_Nick]

i have a belly button

[crug3r2311]

Originally posted by Captain_Nick
i have a belly button
now that is funny'er then any of the other story's lmao

[Nark08]

hehe I remeber my old school 808 computer hahaha, and my packard bell 486 is still sitting in my room...hehe those were the days.

[SuperDude501PIR]

I have taken my pc case front off while my computer was still on.

I have removed pci slot covers and dropped screwes or the actual cover on the motherboard or videocard (luckily no shorts)

I was soldering a blue led in place of the original green led for my speakers. Inside the volume control thinggy I dripped a blob of hot solder onto a black microchip bridging 4 connections and was unable to remove it. (it still works fine)

I opened up my monitor to fix the power switch unaware of the dangers of the power coil. I found out later how close I was to shocking myself to death. (very lucky)

I have voided the warranty on EVERYTHING pc related except my monitor and hard drives

I use ducktape to splice wires together inside my case.

[SpinaL]

is there actually gonna be a end to this thread? its been on for like 6 months

[arcticwolf_0]

Originally posted by jaredbell165

SYSTEM:
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce Ultra 3, Socket 939
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (newcastel Core, 2.2Ghz)
Corsair PC3200 DDR2, 1 gig (512x2)
Samsung SATA 120gig HDD, 7200RPM
Samsung Dual layer DVD/CD Writer
Samsung 1.44 Floppy
Rosewill Midtower ATX case (5 FANS - one 120mm, four 80mm)
MSI nVidia GeForce nx6800GT 256MB 256BIT

Please tell me the DDR2 is a typo, since that mobo doesn't support DDR2 (Or i got ripped off) nor does any AMD mobo as of yet...i believe...

[Spuds1234]

When will the madness end?


More stories please for my reading pleasure.

[WeKnowHowToLive]

i bought new ram and a new video card, went to install the new ram after checking to make sure the video card worked, and dumped water/chew spit down the top of my case. i actually watched the bottle get closer and didnt even think about it falling. I felt like such a dumbass. Luckily everything worked after a good cleaning and CMOS reset.

[Irish llama]

My game server/ftp one day was working fine, i wanted to shut it down one night, so i did. The next morning i wokeup and was like oh i should turn it on now, so i did, and for some reason. BLEHM nothing showed up on the screen, i tried for around 5 months to get it working, many forums, tech's, i thought the Gfx card was fried. Well. I recently was fiddiling with it again, and i was using the same monitor as i was on it before. SO i was fiddiling with the monitor. and it comes to find out, I had the Brightness all the way down, and the contrast all the way up... So 6 months wasted because for some reason i turned the monitors settings wierd....


Oh, yeah washing my heatsink out with water because it was VERY dusty, then putting it back on without drying it or putting more artic on it... Luckily nothing fried. I think my computer is like Imune to water. I have spilt liquids in the inside of it at least a dozen times while it was on.


The Cool but stupid thing. I have one of those Turbonator fans (DONT BUY ONE) they are loud as hell, and spin SUPER FAST, but any ways i found a plastic army man, i stuck his head in the fan while it was at full speed, heh it was pretty funny, it didnt decapitate him but he looked like michael jackson almost.

Also, I tried to plug a fan into where a jumper would normally go.
Plugged the one of the powerleads into a 2nd harddrive, while the compputer was on... I was wondering why my 1st hd sounded like it was starting up... no damage done, luckily.

[RageRiot]

hehe,once when I was rather computer noob I downloaded a Hard Drive killer to nuke someones computer, somone that pissed me off. anyway I downloadd it and ran the .exe .. I closed it quickly thinking I dont think I should have done that. so I read the read me file and it said somthing like "Do Not execute on your own computer" I was like ???? I read a litte more on how it worked and how to use it .. it said it wipes all drives connnected to ur computer but drives in use like ur windows drive are wipped on windows restart,

I checked out my back up drive .. it was empty .. everything gone

and I might have had another drive connected .. cant remember now but my C was ok, I didnt want to restart since since it said it would wipe drives in use on windows restart so I called my m8, he or was rather skilled at computers so I figured he could help it turned out in the end this hardddrive killer had added some lines to my autoexec.bat and config.sys that run ok boot so he gave me directions to remove it. in the end I restarted and my system was fine :D except from the files I lost on my other drives

Nowaday I dont make them stupid mistakes anymore since I'm what people might called a computer Geek .. after all I spent over £1300 upgrading my computer.

[EVH]

I was cleaning the stock thermal paste off a CPU and spilt some of the TIM cleaner on the chip.. not good.

Rebooted - "No Signal"

????! lol

[WeKnowHowToLive]

I think rage riot wins ;)

[Spiker611]

I was removing a hard drive (IDE) and had alot of trouble removing the ribbon cable. After trying pliers, and many other things I just pulled on the ribbon itself.

The insulator was pushed down, but the bare wires were still connected.

After I finally got it removed, I didn't have another cable, so I just taped that one and stuck it on my new drive.

Well, eventually the bare wires found their way to each other...

[Spuds1234]

And this thread lives again.

Why wont it E-DIE?

Ok so another from me:

I was changing the way most of my fans in my case were facind and replacing the cpu fan.

I now have a l33t psu mod which only a pic would do justice to, and airflow that goes basically in reverse to a usual case. The psu fan was so sh*t that air was actually being sucked through the psu, against the fan in the psu, and into the computer, causing 60C idle temps.

Anyway I was inside the psu (Great way to void warrentee, and I kinda bridged the leads of a rather big capacitor with my little finger. Man did that hurt. I then droped the psu, and after recovering I put it all back together and it now works fine.

[CrazybeanswEggs]

Originally posted by WeKnowHowToLive
I think rage riot wins ;)
Yep :D

[rakfl]

True story...

The parts to my FIRST cuztom made comp came in the mail and I was ready to get it together. It was a 2.4Ghz P4 and 512Mb RAM (this was about 3 years ago if I remember correctally)

Anyway, my current computer was 200Mhz and 130Mb RAM, so as you may have guessed I was pretty excited to set it up. If you a guy and your like me, you dont read instructions. So I screwed everything in (I took apart comps alot so I pretty much knew what I was doing). Turn out, theres something called spacers you need to put inbetween the mobo and the case. Well how was I supost to know that :p

anyway I fried the motherboard and had to get it replaced. :o

[Sniper1120]

Accedentally put a huge 5inch magnet ON THE SIDE OF MY FRIGGIN CASE.... My PC started, but clicked a ton, and shut off. Took me LITERALLY 5 weeks to FRIGGIN FIND WHAT WAS WRONG... The 5inch magnet i put there 5 weeks earlier was still there...


Why didn't i think to look on the side of the case? I mean, I took it apart and EVERYTHING trying to find the problem...

[Spuds1234]

Originally posted by Sniper1120
Accedentally put a huge 5inch magnet ON THE SIDE OF MY FRIGGIN CASE.... My PC started, but clicked a ton, and shut off. Took me LITERALLY 5 weeks to FRIGGIN FIND WHAT WAS WRONG... The 5inch magnet i put there 5 weeks earlier was still there...


Why didn't i think to look on the side of the case? I mean, I took it apart and EVERYTHING trying to find the problem...

I guess it still went then?

Lol you should put that magnet next to your screen for about an hour.

[hArtin]

Originally posted by d889
I installed AOL.

HA HA HA HA ha ha.....classic

[allenjamieson]

gee you name it ive done it,

1. i got a pc from school (they were throwing the old ones out) so i picked up the lightest one, i got it home plugged everything in and nothing!!!, my uncle came and opened it up and it was an empty case with a power supply

2. Built a pc in the smallest case and filled it with a load of hardware and NO COOLING, it lived for 30 mins and FRIED

3. Asked at pc world in july 2004 if they sold windows 3.1, (they laughed!)

4. I removed my network card while the machine was still on, and my screwdriver hit my sound card and guess what? Pzzzzzzz very sore hands,

and thats it

oh yeah i also got AOL..... and i still got AOL now look

http://aquamark.mypicgallery.com/Route.asp

[Rhondo H. Slade]

Originally posted by SpinaL
i just got my 6800GT and i touched my vid cards printed circuit board :D woops lol, then i was sleeveing my power supply and when the 20pin came i labled all the pins did it even drew a picture then when i put the connector back on i stuck it on backwords :D smart aint it. Then i was soldering a circuit board and accidently touched the metal piece that you do the soldering with. 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.

Note to self: NEVER let SpinaL never any of MY PCs!

Steve

[TyrantCS]

I decided I was going to "upgrade" my wife's perfectly functioning PC with a CPU I had just removed from my system.

This would be a nice cheap upgrade for her, and I wouldnt feel bad for spending a few $100 on upgrading my PC... a win, win situation.. or so I thought.

I checked and made sure her motherboard could support the processor and proceeded to replace her slower CPU with my faster one.

Once I had replaced the CPU, I booted the PC and it proceeded to crash over and over and over. It wouldnt make it to windows 9 out of 10 times.

After hours of screwing around with her PC I decided to replace the faster CPU with her original CPU.

Even with the original CPU installed, the PC would crash over and over.

After yet more hours of banging my head, I removed the motherboard and noticed ALL of the CAPs of a certain kind, were leaking. Some how I had fried the motherboard.

$650 later, after a new motherboard, CPU, ram .. blah blah blah.. my wife's PC was "upgraded".

Hardly the "cheap upgrade" I was planning.

[TyrantCS]

I decided to build a new PC. I decided to build the PC in an old case then once it was fully functional I was going to move all the components to a new case.

Everything was going great. My PC was all assembled and working perfectly, so I decided to move the parts to the new case. I began taking out my brand new GeForce 4 TI 4400, I had a good grip on the card and pulled, the card was difficult so I repositioned my hand for a better grip and pulled harder....

... bang.. across the room goes a capacitor, I watch it bounce off a wall and fall to the floor... about the same time as my jaw.

Not to be undone, I grab my soldering iron and proceed to fix my video card.

I find that one of the legs on the cap is now gone. I end up having to hot gule the cap on the top of the card and run new leads to the board, more difficult than it sounds.

I placed the card into my new case fired it up and it worked great.

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

[|2ob]

I was trying to remove my heatsink from my AMD Athlon 64 3400+, with all screws and "holders" off, but it just wouldnt, so i decided to give it afew good tugs.

I GOT IT OUT!

but with my CPU still attached to the bottom... (no the lever to hold the CPU in place was not released...)

[ReCoiL]

LOLOLOL

[Lotos]

Originally posted by |2ob
I was trying to remove my heatsink from my AMD Athlon 64 3400+, with all screws and "holders" off, but it just wouldnt, so i decided to give it afew good tugs.

I GOT IT OUT!

but with my CPU still attached to the bottom... (no the lever to hold the CPU in place was not released...)

i did somewhat the same thing except i had too much paste on my cpu so when i pulled off my heatsink along came the cpu out of the socket hence bending alot of pins! i used a 1 cent 5cm nail to fix a $220 3400+

[Mr. Josh]

Originally posted by rakfl
True story...

The parts to my FIRST cuztom made comp came in the mail and I was ready to get it together. It was a 2.4Ghz P4 and 512Mb RAM (this was about 3 years ago if I remember correctally)

Anyway, my current computer was 200Mhz and 130Mb RAM, so as you may have guessed I was pretty excited to set it up. If you a guy and your like me, you dont read instructions. So I screwed everything in (I took apart comps alot so I pretty much knew what I was doing). Turn out, theres something called spacers you need to put inbetween the mobo and the case. Well how was I supost to know that :p

anyway I fried the motherboard and had to get it replaced. :o


LOL same here! And my recent incident you can find on the hardware fourm. It's "My Pentium reached 200F etc.."

[Pon]

My monitor got so hot one day, playing the newly-released Doom, I decided to cool it down by pouring water on it. I was 8. All was well for five seconds or so, then the screen went blank, then smoke started pouring out. Then the thing just imploded- Damn, it stank like a dead animal or something. Anyway, about two days later, for some reason, a TV that was on the other side of the room did the same thing- Except that it did it randomly :S

[CaJaks2]

LMAO
my brother trying to delte spware on windows 98 deleted half ofe windows

[pukka]

hmm worst ive ever done was i was installing a geforce MX 400 64mb video card ( long time ago ) and i didnt listen to the thing about electric shock screwing it up. So i put it in with my base hands but i was told to touch ur hands on the power supply to ground urself, well the power supple was still on and it fried the card. My whole comp was messed up so i brought it to a repair shop.

[Jumpy-B-L]

No problems here, I've built my own PC's and fiddled around with them for years. I've never had any issues at all, I take my time, read the manuals just to be sure and research a topic to death before doing anything I'm unsure of.

[BFNAM]

I made a pretty dumb move a week or so ago, I was going to install a zalman vf700cu on my new x800xt, I thought I read the directions thoroughly.

So I proceeded to install the hsf thought everything was done right, went to turn it on and.....nothing.

I thought I had crushed the core from tightening the screws too tight, turns out though after returning the dead card I forgot to put the standoffs on the back of the card so the backplate was touching the back of the vid. card which fried it.

Finally when I did get it to boot it had tons of vertical lines. I guess thats what I get for trying to meddle with the computer when theres a cat and a baby fighting behind you and you're trying to mediate between them.

That core could hit 560 on atitool....the new one so far has maxed out @ 542 :(

[davidc538]

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

[WildTurkey101]

Well I am not close to any of these but the only thing I can think of was caused by my drinking problem. I fried 2 mobos and sound cards back in the days when the speaker sockets on the SBlive didn't have plastic insulators around them. The first time I left the computer on and unplugged my speakers to plug in a headset and saw a spark when I hit the brass collar of the jack and the metal case...and was like this can't be good. Well it wasn't I lost sound that night and the mobo 2 days later...now if that wasn't dumb enough about 3 months later I was drunk and wanted to do the same thing...I thought about it and decided if I was careful I could pull it off....well I did the exact same thing....that was the year I went though 3 mobo's in 6 months.

[HoodooThere]

Here goes:

On my newest system:

I built a nice new custom system for my wife and myself. everything was working well but it was a little loud and a little hot.

while fiddling with the fan setup, i unplugged them one at a time to find out which was loudest. i unplugged one of the fans, and dropped the power lead. the lead fell on to the bottom of the case and i saw a spark and my comp shutdown. i freaked out thinking i fried something. i made sure it couldnt happen again and started up. no damage. It did scare me so it thought:

"NOTE TO SELF, DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN"

a few days later, and what happens? i do the same thing abgain. and i think:

"NOTE TO SELF, DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN!"

so a few days later, and what happens? i do nearly the same thing, except no shutdown this time, just an arc. ARGH!!!!! so this time i think:

"STOP PULLING SH#T OUT OF THE PSU WHILE THE COMP HAS POWER!!!!"

also on this system, i have failed to plug in my video card into the molex twice. when you do that, the comp makes a loud beep. no damage, but i managed to do it twice.

and this is on my brand new system. this stuff is harmless, but still dumb. however, i should have learned my lesson on older systems by doing these things b/c they were a little more severe:

-unplugging the primary HD while the comp is ON. (arc at the power connector signified a fried HD).

-plugging in the primary HD while it is sitting on the bottom of the case. resultant frying of HD.

-pluggin in the 3.5" drive thinking "ill just keep it on this cardboard piece while i use it, no need to install." the cardboard piece slips out, 3.5 touches bottom of case, poof, no 3.5" drive.

-my PSU fan was getting loud so i put some bicycle chain oil on it. yeah, like that didn't attract dust, helped the problem for like a day, then it was louder than ever. i just kept oiling it until the comp was replaced. the inside was CAKED with oily dust. it looked seriously like the engine compartment in a car. it ran so hot that all (two) of the fans were always on full speed. good thing i never checked the temps.

and my roommate in college did this: i set up a proxy server to share a connection using a compaq 500mhz windows machine. the monitor would show the internet activity of any user but the monitor was always off. he comes out of his room, turns the monitor on to check the connection, then goes back into his room. me and my guests start seeing the list of porn sites he's visiting scroll down the wingate window.

[=[AnTaZ]=]

Me - Buys an X800 XT a few weeks ago... its PCI-express... Oh yeah! I forgot i didnt have a pci-express mobo.. Oh well!

Friend - His dad got some of the new apple macs years ago, cost him thousands... My friend (the son) flips the switch to chnage the power supply.. Poof... New mac fried.

[davidc538]

Originally posted by =[AnTaZ]=
Me - Buys an X800 XT a few weeks ago... its PCI-express... Oh yeah! I forgot i didnt have a pci-express mobo.. Oh well!


Hey just mail it to me... ll j/k pci-e mobos can be bought for less than 100$ ex. nForce 4

[l337x3r1cx]

it was my first time installing components in a comp (a new mobo, cpu and vid card), and nothing would show up on screen... i kept messing with stuff... took me 30 minutes to realize my monitor wasnt plugged in

[Boosted One]

I'm dating myself here.... lol

I tried installing a better 3.5" floppy into my Commodore Amiga 500 and I had the power hooked up backwards. Blew the whole computer/mobo...that sucked...have been much more careful since that day on... lol

[generic]

Originally posted by |2ob
I was trying to remove my heatsink from my AMD Athlon 64 3400+, with all screws and "holders" off, but it just wouldnt, so i decided to give it afew good tugs.

I GOT IT OUT!

but with my CPU still attached to the bottom... (no the lever to hold the CPU in place was not released...)

I did the same thing, except with my P4 willamette.

I was replacing the heatsink's thermal pad with AS5, I had to use a knife to lever the cpu off the damn thing.

[Sierra Sonic]

On a processor upgrade I pulled out the socket with the processer, note this was before i learned about the nice little handle that releases the processer. ;_;

[BigDaddy85]

I bended almost all of amd k6 cpu's pin while I was too rushy to put the cpu into the socket. So i had to unbend it slowly instead of pulling off the pin. It worked find after all.

Again i burned my mobo by reversing the memory stick into the memory module. :-s

[WeKnowHowToLive]

Originally posted by BigDaddy85
I bended almost all of amd k6 cpu's pin while I was too rushy to put the cpu into the socket. So i had to unbend it slowly instead of pulling off the pin. It worked find after all.

Again i burned my mobo by reversing the memory stick into the memory module. :-s how did you get the DIMM in! there is a slot...wow.. this guy wins

[oPURT]

Years ago I bought my first graphics card (ATI 7000 PCI - SWEET !!!) and after installing everything I couldn't see ANY difference at all in gaming, which was Tribes at the time. I was very dissapointed and almost returned the card. But a freind of mine who was building his own comps at the time came over to make sure I had installed everything properly before I returned it. It took him about 30 seconds to point out that I still had the monitor plugged into the onboard video. DOH!!! :eek:

[GoldenlupeX]

I told my friend I had more space than his 4gb memory. (I was thinking of hard drive)

[Rhondo H. Slade]

Originally posted by Artem
I snapped off two of the batteries on my video card :(

Video cards have BATTERIES????

I always thought they were capacitors!

Steve

[Henry Rollins]

i was swapping all the components from my old crappy dell case *so very sad* and i put in the mother board, and all the others, and it booted up just fine the first time, but..... the sound didnt work, turns out i shorted sumthin, and i had to replace the motherboard....

[jagPanzer]

Buy List:
1) 1 AMD processor
2) 1 set DDR memory
3) NF2 mobo (yeah, I know it's old)

Cannibalized items
1) 1 cpu case w/ psu
2) 1 FDD
3) 2 HDD (80 GB & 40 GB)
4) Keyboard, mouse, external modem, monitor

Mothballed
1) Intel Mobo w/ 192 MB RAM
2) Intel Pentium III

I assembled in less than an hour, but it won't power up?
Read the manual again. Hmmm, I have everything in there, except the Pentium 4 power supply connector.
Well, I had an AMD processor did'nt I? :D

[T Rush]

Originally posted by Rhondo H. Slade
Video cards have BATTERIES????

I always thought they were capacitors!

Steve

nope...those are little batteries

they aren't like flash light batteries

video card batteries hold little pixies inside

all these tiny pixies draw the pixels we see on our screens

[foxeh]

Not bein able to get two ASUS A8N-Deluxes to work (brand new ones!!)

/me licks DFI Lanparty

[=[AnTaZ]=]

Originally posted by davidc538
Hey just mail it to me... ll j/k pci-e mobos can be bought for less than 100$ ex. nForce 4

Yeah, thats what im getting. Its designed for nvidia though so i hope i dont have problems with it, since my card is ATi

[-Stealth Beast-]

I spent 2 weeks trying to figure out what was wrong with my computer, only to find out that it only wasn't starting out cause there was a floppy in it.

good times

[slacking]

Originally posted by T Rush
nope...those are little batteries

they aren't like flash light batteries

video card batteries hold little pixies inside

all these tiny pixies draw the pixels we see on our screens

I think all my pixies are "special"
in the short bus kinda way

[Rhondo H. Slade]

Originally posted by T Rush
nope...those are little batteries

they aren't like flash light batteries

video card batteries hold little pixies inside

all these tiny pixies draw the pixels we see on our screens

TRush...

At this rate, all YOUR little pixies are going to be incapitorated due to heat buildup and lack of oxygen. This is precisely why one should run the system without the case cover on...to assure the pixies receive life-giving air!

Steve

[Zander14]

im was installing a new fan and while doing so i did a stupid thing and had it pluged in before it was in and hit it against the corner of the case and knocked 2 blades off and i swear it sounded like my dads jeep... now i have a 8" fan blowing into my case without the cover :D now my comp is cooler than ever and its on the floor and i wear headphones so it dont bother me

[LONEWOLF69]

Originally posted by Spiker611

Also with older computer
I wanted to change the resolution, set it one step up. My system crashed and monitor said "out the range" (yeah, it was made in china). I spent a month trying to reset the resolution without a monitor.
I finally got the bright idea to get another monitor and another graphics card.


LOL...I did that same thing with coolbits and an nvidia card.Took me two days to figure out that if you start windows in safe mode you can reset the refresh rate.LOL.

[the great one]

clean the components with a jet wash

[Krakanor]

When I had a Pentium II computer and was upgrading to a P3 with a new mobo, I was trying to remove the ATX power connector from the old MB. The case was very cramped and the connector was under the hard disk bays and hard to grab with my fingers. I ended up getting frustrated trying to finesse it out and yanked it out. The whole dongle connector from the mobo came out attached to the psu connector.

I didn't care because I wasn't going to use the mobo nemore but I wanted to sell it on ebay :\.

I think the worse thing I did though was when I had a very small case with very limited drive bays (it was a store bought PC) and when I went to install a harddrive I found out it needed slide rails and the PC company was going to [color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color][color="#FF66FF"]♥[/color] me on price for them. Well I just set that HD on top of the cdrom drive in the other empty 5.25 bay because there was no empty 3.5 drive bay. But then I bought a third HD and there was no room for me to stack it so it basically hung from the power connector and rested against the bottom of the case vertically.

Oh yea, I also actually bought a tape drive instead of a CD burner. What a waste...

[needforspeed]

When I was around 9, I decided to take the computer apart while my parents were gone. While it was opened, I was thirsty so I got some fruit punch, and then I accidently spilled it all inside the computer. We had to buy a new one because the warranty was up :(

I wasnt allowed to use a computer for a very long time.

[Parr0t2k5]

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

[RAKTHEUNDEAD]

The worst was probably when we had a really old crappy monitor. I took a baseball bat and started to smash in the monitor.
After a few swings the screen broke and sorta made this whoosh sound for a second and it sorta collapsed in wards and glass flew everywhere. It was cool.

To you, and anyone who has experienced an implosion in your monitor, it's because your CRT has a vaccum inside it.

Anyway, I haven't had any major problems with computer building(I don't do it myself). Although I did once try to play the Half Life 2 Demo with my old PIII 450 and the same Riva TNT that I'm still using. I had to reset REALLY fast.

[ravensix]

I remember the very first computer i had, an old packard bell it was a 386, didn't even have a math co processor. had only 1 ISA slot for a riser card(i don't think PCI was even close to being out yet, this was before windows 95) and the 14.4k modem was KINDA built in, it was a separate board, but had a ribbon. anyways, i tried to do something with it, while it was turned on, i took the screw off and it slipped form my hand and landed right on the on board VGA and fried it.


Another thing i tried doing an upgrade for a cpu.. and i tried taking the fan clip off with a phillips head screwdriver from the top part (yanno trying to push down so it would unhook easily?) its for Socket A CPUs.. so yeah,.. anyways, i at one point pushed the screwdriver too hard and it slide down off the fan clip and gouged the motherboard up nice.

The best thing to do is to try to install a stage 1 gentoo linux install (for those of you that don't know, gentoo is a linux flavor where you compile the whole system. on a dual xeon 2.8GHz it could take you a couple hours to install including the desktop part of it) on an old AMD p75 (socket 7 i think?) took 3 months to install.(not including the desktop part)

[cac]

Originally posted by T Rush
I was setting up my first Raid 0...and I just could not get it to work
I went on forums, looked all over online, read books, talked to friends...no one could help me

turns out I had both hard drives set to slave
took me two weeks to find it

how would you set for raid? anywebsite you can suggest?

[rotNdude]

Originally posted by cac
how would you set for raid? anywebsite you can suggest?

The best source is the motherboard manual. It will tell you most everything you need to know.

[Doaner]

i put an agp card in a pci-express slot

[peteuk25]

i built a pc for a customer ,she had spend all her saving on it £1500!!!! so i was really carefull when building not to mess anything up

i finished the build ,installed XP ,light a cigerette,pc was doing fine on its side on the floor next to the desk!!

the girl came in to see how things were going and confidently i told her it was all done barring drivers (i was downloading them)

so she offered me a cup of tea ,as i was installing the drivers ,she came in and put the tea on the desk next to the ashtray ,so i reached over to put my ciggy out and acsidently knocked the whole cup of boiling hot tea into her brand new system

bang bye bye pc

im still paying for it now ,had to borrow £1000 from my mum to pay for the damage

so now tea+pc=bad idear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i cant belive i did that!!!!!!!

[the great one]

repeatedly punched a pci-e x850xt into my agp slot

[Dcroy]

Originally posted by Huambo81a
i once tried to play hl2 on a Celeron 600, not pretty at all. . .

i played far cry with a celeron a 500mhz, 256 pci 100 and a 5200 fx; depressing to only get 8fps then blow away unreal tournament 2003 with over 160fps;

i tried also to stick a pci-e video card into my agp slot, had to send it back for the agp version (felt stupid to the fourth degree)

Dcroy

[Greg2k6]

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

I did that too when i built my first comp, i didnt even know what a stand off was.

LOL I unplugged the HSF on my 933mhz cpu cuz it was too loud.

Actually, I did those 2 with the same computer.

Originally posted by the great one
repeatedly punched a pci-e x850xt into my agp slot

lmao

Originally posted by T Rush
I had to boot into 'safe mode' to get a virus off a computer at work (when you booted normaly it would say "not today" and shut off the PC) and I put it on a floppy and took it home to find out what it was

about 6 months later I was looking for a floppy to use...pulled one out of a box....stuck it in, and clicked on the file....@^$##$^$$&^%!!!!!

HAHAhAHAHAHAHA LMAO!!!

Originally posted by -=[-St@lker-]=-
A while back, when I knew nothing about the delicate workings of a computer, I bought a new graphics card, installed it, and then "disabled" my integrated graphics chip...by stabbing at it with a screwdriver until I was satisfied it was "removed"...

Needless to say it...well its needless to say...

rofllolmao!

Originally posted by Stryker2[X]
My computer use to shut off and restart randomly and I asked my friend what the problem was, and he told me my computer was over heating and I needed to put a fan in it.

So I went to the store and bought a compact black battery powered fan (one that you would take on a camping trip or something), and placed it inside my case.

OMG HAHAAHAHAHA IM IN TEARS!!

Wow I typed this post almost 4 years ago.

[tehstretch]

i think the dumbest thing i ever did was forget to put arctic silver on an AMD Tbird 1.4 GHz. The fan went on fine but it fried after 10 minutes which was halfway through the Windows install. Luckily it could be RMA'd so was an easy fix.
I guess I'm just too cautious and know plenty to not make these type of mistakes....

[Greg2k6]

Originally posted by Captain_Nick
i have a belly button

Wow that post made me look like an idiot. Even though that reply still makes me crack up.

[CaJaks2]

*note this isnt me it is my friend UsbisFUNFORME or some name like that

Anyway he spent 5 minutes trying to put on a undershirt and he couldnt find the whole to put his head through finally he realized it was a pillowcase. Not hardware also he thought pci slots were slots for RAM

[DiZzyBonne2]

Way back when I had a 166 MHz computer, my HDD had two partitions, C and H. I wanted to make space on my H drive for games, so I moved everything over to my C drive, asked me to replace so many files I got tired so I picked "Yes to all." When I tried to boot up my computer the next day:

Error, missing file himem.sys.

[Olliee]

When i just got a computer for the first i deleted the user.dat and system.dat to what would happen.

the laptop wouldn't start up and i had course work on it to be handed in for tomorrow , so i sprinted up stairs and got my boot disk loaded it up and fixed it with windows registry repair. ( i think was a long time ago)

[pinkLOVE]

I bought a p4.

[Nark08]

oooooooooooo.....thats a slap in the face right there...hehe

AMD biach!

[Reebdoog]

Installing a new dvd drive into the computer, trying to bend the metal thingys on the front of the case to allow it to slide it. My hand slipped, cut my finger on the metal, 5 stitches and a new mobo later (blood is impossible to get off the mobo...)

[Ramzy]

Used a defect 9800XXL long enough so as that it melted my motherboards AGP slot, and i had to get the mobo replaced.

[FidelCastro]

I got a xeon 3.6ghz along with two 6800ultra's SLI and i'm now scoring what people that have amd get with one card...7909. Anyway I can safetly say intel can go ???? itself from any other cpu purchase I make in the future.

[steve910]

my brother. he is 12. he thinks he knows about computers. he doesnt. for my 16th birthday, i was given a VERY nice computer. cost around $3500 AUD which is a considerable amount of money.
1, he tried to overclock the 3.2ghz p4 to speeds of 4.6. *INSERT MELTDOWN NOISE HERE*

2. he downloaded the Bropia Worm and managed to infect 6 networked computers. the worm beat me. i couldnt kill it. mcaffee died. the USB ports stopped working. floppy drives stopped working. system restore stopped working. *insert brother bashing noise here* i had to reformat.
3. he tried to clean the inside of the fans out with "BIG KEVs GOO REMOVER". *Insert fizzing noise here*
4. he touched it after i banned him from using it. *Insert brother bashing noise here*
5. he got me banned off an IRC and Server browsing software for LIFE for spamming. dont ask what he spammed. *Insert brother bashing noise here*
6. he threw logitech mx1000 mouse at wall after losing in css *insert smash here*
7. spilt honey in keys so they ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssstick from time to time *Insert squelch noise here*

this is steve. 16 and 6 months. signing out for the time being *insert radio noise here*

[Ramzy]

Originally posted by steve910
my brother. he is 12. he thinks he knows about computers. he doesnt. for my 16th birthday, i was given a VERY nice computer. cost around $3500 AUD which is a considerable amount of money.
1, he tried to overclock the 3.2ghz p4 to speeds of 4.6. *INSERT MELTDOWN NOISE HERE*

2. he downloaded the Bropia Worm and managed to infect 6 networked computers. the worm beat me. i couldnt kill it. mcaffee died. the USB ports stopped working. floppy drives stopped working. system restore stopped working. *insert brother bashing noise here* i had to reformat.
3. he tried to clean the inside of the fans out with "BIG KEVs GOO REMOVER". *Insert fizzing noise here*
4. he touched it after i banned him from using it. *Insert brother bashing noise here*
5. he got me banned off an IRC and Server browsing software for LIFE for spamming. dont ask what he spammed. *Insert brother bashing noise here*
6. he threw logitech mx1000 mouse at wall after losing in css *insert smash here*
7. spilt honey in keys so they ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssstick from time to time *Insert squelch noise here*

this is steve. 16 and 6 months. signing out for the time being *insert radio noise here*

If that was my brother he would have been kicked out of the house longggggggg ago.

Man i hate little kids who just spoil everything

[MattTodd]

Originally posted by FidelCastro
I got a xeon 3.6ghz along with two 6800ultra's SLI and i'm now scoring what people that have amd get with one card...7909. Anyway I can safetly say intel can go ???? itself from any other cpu purchase I make in the future.

erm, duh? Not being rude at all, but the E7525 chipset which ties xeons to PCI-E isnt exactly aimed at the gamer market. If you're rendering 3D models in maya etc, ur rig rocks. Gaming, you spent way more than you could have done if you'd bought a decent 925XE board and a P4 5 or 6 series chip. Not Intels fault you bought the wrong gear mate. I've got a twin xeon 2.8Ghz machine here which is used for rendering and its insanely fast at just that, but throw far cry at it and forget it lol.

Second point is, ur not running SLI on that board either, so ur score is what you'd get with one card. The only platform that supports SLI for intel is the NForce4 Intel edition, which supports socket 775, not the xeon sockets. Your effectively just running a second card, albeit an expensive one.

Just my 2 cents, blame not the manufacturer....

Matt

[steve910]

Originally posted by Ramzy
If that was my brother he would have been kicked out of the house longggggggg ago.

Man i hate little kids who just spoil everything
yyeah i make him pay for stuff now to pay off all the heartache he caused me when ihad to reformat 7 computers and rebuild mine a couple of times..... at least he doesnt play with magnets or dissemble my computer....he also downloads hacker tools which pisses me off when he brute forces various passwords and thinks he is a "1337 H4x0|2" because he can use ????ty little programs to get into my stuff....

[WiNN3R]

With my old pc...PIII 1GHz..i wanted it to go faster..and the powersupply had a switch to "produce" more power...so i set it from 120 to 250...5 secs..of overspeed...then a boom :D psu and cpu fried :D:D:D thank god everything else were ok...

[Rhondo H. Slade]

Originally posted by steve910
yyeah i make him pay for stuff now to pay off all the heartache he caused me when ihad to reformat 7 computers and rebuild mine a couple of times..... at least he doesnt play with magnets or dissemble my computer....he also downloads hacker tools which pisses me off when he brute forces various passwords and thinks he is a "1337 H4x0|2" because he can use ????ty little programs to get into my stuff....
Steve....

Just start breaking and removing his fingers one at a time. By the point you reach the 6th or 7th finger gone, he'll start to get the idea.

Steve

[pinkLOVE]

Originally posted by Nark08
oooooooooooo.....thats a slap in the face right there...hehe

AMD biach!
yep, i also did more stupid things like, when my friend said my pc was getting really hot and that i needed to cool it down i went to the kitchen and took all the food out of the freezer and put my comp in there.

[Taimaster]

I used a huge pair of visegrip to remove a chipset heatsink.
I smeared the printed curcuits when i suddenly realized i was much too close to the board as i worked the fastener out of the board.
The board just beeped during boot up after that.

[Dcroy]

Originally posted by steve910
yyeah i make him pay for stuff now to pay off all the heartache he caused me when ihad to reformat 7 computers and rebuild mine a couple of times..... at least he doesnt play with magnets or dissemble my computer....he also downloads hacker tools which pisses me off when he brute forces various passwords and thinks he is a "1337 H4x0|2" because he can use ????ty little programs to get into my stuff....

unplug network cable so bro cant hack, strangle bro with cable;



Dcroy

[pinkLOVE]

Originally posted by Dcroy
unplug network cable so bro cant hack, strangle bro with cable;



Dcroy

lol

[Dcroy]

one time i was trying to fix my computer (hard drive died making loud screetching noise and clicks) my dad thought he could fix it since hes a mechanic so i let him open it up and run it without the steel plate on, a few minuteds later it refused to post and i pointed out that it was his fingerprint over the drive platter so he had to buy me a new one;

also a week before this happened it was acting up so i picked it up and dropped it in my frustration, though i killed it until i foudn out the power cable just popped out;

Dcroy

[pinkLOVE]

Originally posted by Dcroy
one time i was trying to fix my computer (hard drive died making loud screetching noise and clicks) my dad thought he could fix it since hes a mechanic so i let him open it up and run it without the steel plate on, a few minuteds later it refused to post and i pointed out that it was his fingerprint over the drive platter so he had to buy me a new one;

also a week before this happened it was acting up so i picked it up and dropped it in my frustration, though i killed it until i foudn out the power cable just popped out;

Dcroy
were u stoned or something? or were u just really pisssed of?

[Dcroy]

incredibly pissed, i had just finished a huge assignment to find out it didnt save and locked up on me, had to reformatt and instal win 98se (replaced it with xp and all my problems went away last year)

i felt prety stupid after all that, and my dad dented the inside of the case when it wouldent stop beeping after he performed surgery on the drive (spindle appeared to snap off at the bottom), the hd made a great paperweight tho;

[-Stealth Beast-]

haha, man u all have some stupid storys, i have a story that will kill ALLLL of tyour storys!

TRUE story!

I actually got AOL.

And if that wasn't enough, i actually got bonzi buddy!

OMG!~

[Fetou]

Lol... i had a speaker cord when i was younger... and i had no idea where to plug it in, so im like hunched over this desk... and i got frustrated and uh.. put it into the eh... uhmm... fan.... lol. The end of the speaker cord didnt really hold up to well... and my brother wasn't happy

[Cognition]

i got 2 stories.
I was pretty noob at building comps. But i could still do it. Anyway an old amd k6 was going bad so i took out mobo and put in a new cpu. while it was out i decided to work with it while the pc was on. I think i was changing jumpers and putting my hands inside the case was a hassle. I put it on a foam rubber thing on top of the case... put the power supply in and turned it on. It was fine for a while until it slid off the rubber foam and touched the metal case on the bottom of the mobo. Needless to say after about half a second smoke started pouring out of the last PCI slot and filled the house. My head was spinning and i opened the door. Oh, and there were about 5 other people in the same room as me, that was NOT fun at all lol. I'm not that dumb anymore :p


next; (this was in school) my friends and i had a few hard drives go bad so we decided to play with them. We opened one hdd case and plugged the hdd in and let it spin up. After about a second of that we find this nail on the ground. And we are like "Hey lets grind the hd with the nail!" So we stick on there and let it grind. Well after about a half a min or so the nail touches the end the spinning disk and it gets thrown across the room and hits a girl in the head. She screams and we just bust out laughing. She was so pissed lmao.

[[KKO]]

A long time ago, I bought a computer from Best Buy and about a week later I started tinkering with it. I took off the CPU fan and took out the chip to look at it. After I was done looking, I put the chip back the wrong way and started up my computer.... Their was no sound, video, lights, fans, nothing, the chip was fizzed. I returned it to Best Buy for a full refund. :D The "Geek squad" couldn't figure it out so I guess it's their loss. I hope no one from Best Buy will read this and get my IP and track me down...

[T Rush]

good God..this thread has 4900 views on it, and I'm the only one who has voted if they like it or not :p
(and I don't think my vote counts because I started it)

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 @_@

[-Stealth Beast-]

voted =P

[Fetou]

Originally posted by T Rush
good God..this thread has 4900 views on it, and I'm the only one who has voted if they like it or not :p
(and I don't think my vote counts because I started it)

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 @_@
Water cooling.. I still have trouble with all the different parts of it so i dont even venture there... I understand the basic concept of a fan, i use them to cool me down at night :-p

[Rhondo H. Slade]

Originally posted by T Rush
I would want it to be something that you could really mess up when building it, or make a really bad smell that never goes away and scares the crap out of the dog...
But what happens when you try to SELL that house???????????

Steve

*EDIT*
DAMN! Just found out that we can't stack the votes in the "ballot box".

[Alcohol Fuelled]

i tried taking out my cpu to put on some thermal paste adn well...

it was an athlon XP2000 and any one thats got one or similar will know the clip to get it out is darn hard to unclip,, so with a flat headed screw driver pushing down pretty hard, it slipped and scraped the motherboard..
so i was thinking,, ok ill put it back together adn it will be ok.
bah,, wat a mess, it would boot to windows then shut off, and sometimes not even get passed the POST screen, so i removed the side of the case to take a look and noticed where teh screw driver slipped,, i had actually taken out a 5mm chip out of the board, which unfortunately had many of the curcuit wires running through,, god knows wat they were for.. but they were no more :))

One motherboard upgrade later, i installed the CPu, which by the way,, i never did add the thermal paste, and 20-30 mins later, the CPU fried.. so i went out and bought a p4 3.0, intel mobo, new sound card, gfx card, hdd, c drom drives and case,, and just amde a comepletely new pc,,

hehe :)
Dan

[Alcohol Fuelled]

Originally posted by [KKO]
A long time ago, I bought a computer from Best Buy and about a week later I started tinkering with it. I took off the CPU fan and took out the chip to look at it. After I was done looking, I put the chip back the wrong way and started up my computer.... Their was no sound, video, lights, fans, nothing, the chip was fizzed. I returned it to Best Buy for a full refund. :D The "Geek squad" couldn't figure it out so I guess it's their loss. I hope no one from Best Buy will read this and get my IP and track me down...

..... | IP: Logged

rofl

[allenjamieson]

ever screwed a motherboard direct to the chassy of the pc case, well i have done that and it works fine, no standoffs used or anything, but i do get static shocks of it

[Rhondo H. Slade]

Originally posted by allenjamieson
ever screwed a motherboard direct to the chassy of the pc case, well i have done that and it works fine, no standoffs used or anything, but i do get static shocks of it
The word is 'chassis'.
From the French word meaning "to chass". :p

Steve

[theonly5th]

I used thermal paste to glue my cpu into the socket A slot.....because i broke off the little hammer.

[Rhondo H. Slade]

Originally posted by theonly5th
I used thermal paste to glue my cpu into the socket A slot.....because i broke off the little hammer.
The 'HAMMER'?????
When did they start equipping chips and mobos with hammers?

Steve

[n00bl3t]

I just put my 5200 in (2 yrs back) and i put the screen input in the Intel Extreme Graphics VGA. I Kept Wondering why my 5200 was giving me 30 fps in CS 1.6 !..

^This is a True Story^

I Tried to cool my computer bye putting Dry Ice in the cabinet. Turns out it actually did help :P.

^This is true too^

[Dcroy]

Originally posted by Rhondo H. Slade
The 'HAMMER'?????
When did they start equipping chips and mobos with hammers?

Steve

i think he meant the little arm you use to lock down the cpu pins after its inserted;

also the best bet for pushing down the retention arm for a heatsink is a perfect sized ratchet head cause it wont slip as easy,

oh yea, last year i tried to make an amp and mistaked a pnp chip for an npn , burned, electrocuted and cut myself at the same time freaked out and dropped the solering gun on my hand, took a week to pick out the resin and i have a permanent shiny spot on my knuckle that wont tan right;

Dcroy

[passedoutghost]

i jammed an amd chip into a p4 motherboard for fun lol. Then i started up the computer it worked fine for a few days (2-3) and then the chip fried lol. Luckly the components were free due to the fact that my school was throwing/selling their old p4's. Since i was studying IPT at that time we got the priviledge of taking a system home or at least salvaging parts for it :D Oh and i didn't bother to put on thermal paste because i was rushing to put the whole system together during lunch which gave me a grand total of 45 minutes.

[NemeAlamoda]

I had to trim an older mobo down because it wouldn't fit right in my mini-ATX case. I tried using a paper board cutter, and that seemed to work fine. Apparently motherboards need that CPU slot to run, so it didn't go as planned. Thanks for the advice on that one, Steve. >:|

[Alcohol Fuelled]

Originally posted by passedoutghost
i jammed an amd chip into a p4 motherboard for fun lol. Then i started up the computer it worked fine for a few days (2-3) and then the chip fried lol. Luckly the components were free due to the fact that my school was throwing/selling their old p4's. Since i was studying IPT at that time we got the priviledge of taking a system home or at least salvaging parts for it :D Oh and i didn't bother to put on thermal paste because i was rushing to put the whole system together during lunch which gave me a grand total of 45 minutes.

lies,, allll lies,,, big fat lies and pies!

[Cardboard093]

rofl

[Fetou]

Originally posted by Alcohol Fuelled
lies,, allll lies,,, big fat lies and pies!
Chocolate pies, with french fries?

[Sniper_Spike]

I was OCing and my computer wouldn't reboot so i had to remove the bios battery and put it back in. After that, i kept getting a system disk read failure. Then i just freaked out, thinking i had just fried something. I must of tried everything, boot disks, boot cds (well, maybe not everything) then i checked inside the case again. And i had unplugged that damn SATA plug from the hdd when i had removed the bios battery. XD (Just happened yesterday too)

Originally posted by -Stealth Beast-
haha, man u all have some stupid storys, i have a story that will kill ALLLL of tyour storys!

TRUE story!

I actually got AOL.

And if that wasn't enough, i actually got bonzi buddy!

OMG!~
z0mg

[Noni51]

I thought higher numbers= better.

So i traded my 7800GTX for a 9250.



I tried to put 2 hardrives in SLI.

[Sniper_Spike]

Its called Raid :D

[USB is FUNFORME]

Just about a minute ago I thought I fried my PSU and I was panicking.. until I realized I didn't plug in my power button right! :)

Good thing my mobo had a built in power button right there that I could push..

[SpinaL]

this thread is ancient and is so pointless lol

[CaJaks2]

Originally posted by SpinaL
this thread is ancient and is so pointless lol
You are.

[USB is FUNFORME]

Originally posted by cajaks2
You are.

*with a boston accent*

[CaJaks2]

Originally posted by USB is FUNFORME
*with a boston accent*
lol your right. "Your retahded"

[Alcohol Fuelled]

so err.. i hate to break the party up, but when does the winner get announced?

[CaJaks2]

Originally posted by Alcohol Fuelled
so err.. i hate to break the party up, but when does the winner get announced?
Now ITS a PARTY! "And weebs"

[dontbeamenace84]

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

been there lol

[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

[CaJaks2]

Like an old pumpkin. Wait nevermind

[fstorm]

I couldn't figure out how to dis-attach my mobo from it's case, for 1 week... Then I found out I didn't un-screw all the screws. -_-

[Killer-Hamster]

First computer I went to transfer, from a HP mATX case to my current E-ATX Dragon,
I had no instructions of any kind. Decided to go ahead anyway (this was a 2400+ AXP -- the processor still works too) against what my parents were saying. Put everything in, looks great. Spent about an hour figuring out the front panel as it wasnt clearly labeled. After I got everything all nice and wired, i went to turn it on, boots right up....except that the motherboard doesnt seem to recognize any commands. Detects no mouse or keyboard...but they are plugged in! The only thing that works is the monitor, usb keyboards dont work, nothing. So i take the thing apart, and as i remove the motherboard, a screw falls out from under the mobo. Not only did it short the PS/2 and USB circuts, it decided to crack the motherboard! Being an HP mobo, it was out of warranty and i "had" to get an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe :D

[Sniped2Death]

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

I had a trainee in a computer shop do that also he was there with the owner all night trying to fix it cos it didnt work lmao.

I went in the next day had it all working in a hour (he never lived it down)

I requested some data from an ordering system be placed into a file (just 2 fields into a text file) thought nothing more till my boss got the bill for £23k

I left soon after ;)

[Jay]

i once built a new system plugged everything in and pressed the power button but there was not action so i took it all apart and put it all back together again... still nothing, no sound, no lights, nothing. After the third rebuild i noticed I hadn't turned the power switch on at the wall.

[nick_karstedt]

I bought a 60/80mm fan adapter for my heatsink, but it turns out that my heatsink fan is 70mm (AMD) so I bent the fan adapter outwards and only put in the top screws. The weight of the fan keeps it pressed down so I still use it :P

[pinkLOVE]

Originally posted by T Rush
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
a couple of months ago i opened my old psu up, didn't give me shock.....I never new it could, I'm luky, LMAO

[CaJaks2]

Mine shockes me i touch it anyway. is that bad? When i touch the metal it shocks me

[rotNdude]

Originally posted by cajaks2
Mine shockes me i touch it anyway. is that bad? When i touch the metal it shocks me

That usually means you have a problem with the house wiring. Maybe the ground and neutral are reversed, one of them is bad or has a bad connection at the receptacle or fuse/breaker panel. They make little testers to check for correct wiring.

[CaJaks2]

Originally posted by rotNdude
That usually means you have a problem with the house wiring. Maybe the ground and neutral are reversed, one of them is bad or has a bad connection at the receptacle or fuse/breaker panel. They make little testers to check for correct wiring.
Hey when i changeed my power cables my shocknig goes away!

[rotNdude]

Originally posted by cajaks2
Hey when i changeed my power cables my shocknig goes away!

Cool beans! Another satisfied customer! ;)

[hangtite68]

my friend told me to up my voltage, so I plugged some jumper cables, from my car to my computer :(

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by hangtite68
my friend told me to up my voltage, so I plugged some jumper cables, from my car to my computer :(

no you didn't.

[T Rush]

was your car 12 volt?...

next time try a big boat or truck battery..I think some of those are 18volt...that might make your friend happy....as that would "up your voltage"

[hangtite68]

actually I did, cause I played my computer in the car! I had a battery around, and had a power inverter that connects to the battery! it was a little hard tho...

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by hangtite68
actually I did, cause I played my computer in the car! I had a battery around, and had a power inverter that connects to the battery! it was a little hard tho...

no you didn't.

[hangtite68]

noob... you obviosuly never tried new things

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by hangtite68
noob... you obviosuly never tried new things

no, i just have a knack for identifying bs stories.

i mean, i can spot a lot in this thread, but yours was the newest, so i chose that one.

[magik10]

Originally posted by hangtite68
my friend told me to up my voltage, so I plugged some jumper cables, from my car to my computer :(

Pics? If not, redo this mess and take pics with the system running.

[hangtite68]

i'll submit them once I get back in town :)

[tofu@phile.net-]

well first he connected the jumper cables directly to the computer, then in his second post an inverter was magically thrown into the mix.

but he words it as "i had a battery around" so that would mean it wasnt even connected to the car's battery at all.

all so confusing :(

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by hangtite68
i'll submit them once I get back in town :)

i'll submit photos of who really killed JFK when i get back into town, as well.

[magik10]

Originally posted by tofu@phile.net-
well first he connected the jumper cables directly to the computer, then in his second post an inverter was magically thrown into the mix.

but he words it as "i had a battery around" so that would mean it wasnt even connected to the car's battery at all.

all so confusing :(

thus a picture equals a thousand (or more) words :(

hangloose, When are you back in town or I can spam each of your posts asking for pics?

[T Rush]

I have a XBox and a TV(crt) in our car...and it takes one heck of an inverter to run that


let me see if there are any funny/odd stories about that....

nope...well we did lose the remote so that the kids couldn't watch movies for about the last 7 hours of a trip
(but that wasn't funny)

[hangtite68]

i am going to be back in town in two weeks, my job has me bogged down! and what I was referring to, was the jumper cables I clamped the battery and then converted it to a power strip. all the while being in my car :) and btw. If you plug a computer to a car's battery you'll kill it! and it's hangtite, doofus

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by hangtite68
i am going to be back in town in two weeks, my job has me bogged down! and what I was referring to, was the jumper cables I clamped the battery and then converted it to a power strip. all the while being in my car :) and btw. If you plug a computer to a car's battery you'll kill it! and it's hangtite, doofus

well if you used an inverter and had your carputer set up correctly, how exactly does this equate to something stupid that you've done?

now i know you were just trying to twist the details around to squeeze some humor out of it, but i'd just like to hear your explanation...

[T Rush]

both cars and computers use 12volt

I bet you could find a way to run a computer off a battery...heck laptops do it all the time

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by T Rush
I have a XBox and a TV(crt) in our car...and it takes one heck of an inverter to run that


let me see if there are any funny/odd stories about that....

nope...well we did lose the remote so that the kids couldn't watch movies for about the last 7 hours of a trip
(but that wasn't funny)

that gave me an idea.

home audio equipment in the car.

[T Rush]

yeah...but how many amps/watts do you need to run a amp/receiver and a CD or turn table?

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by T Rush
yeah...but how many amps/watts do you need to run a amp/receiver and a CD or turn table?

i don't think a turn table would work, man...

especially if you're the off road type

if i use really efficient speakers (unlike most car speakers) i won't need much power. 10-20 watts would suffice

[hangtite68]

i wasn't tryin to be humerous, but whatever floats your boat.

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by hangtite68
i wasn't tryin to be humerous, but whatever floats your boat.

well this thread is about posting "stupid things you've done"

i'm sure its goal is to be atleast somewhat entertaining. you can get the jist of that from other posts people have made here.

what made you feel the need to blatantly lie?

[T Rush]

I think it would be cool to turn the box truck I drive for work into a giant folded horn

that way I could drive really fast...and if a cop tried to stop me...I could just put out some sine waves in the 10 to 15Hz range and make him have to pull off and puke

[hangtite68]

not a lie. you don't know anything, cause you aren't monitoring me.. and besides, you don't need to work up a sweat by trying to point out who's bsing you and who's not. drop it.. i'll send some pics out later

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by T Rush
I think it would be cool to turn the box truck I drive for work into a giant folded horn

that way I could drive really fast...and if a cop tried to stop me...I could just put out some sine waves in the 10 to 15Hz range and make him have to pull off and puke

i don't think a truck would be big enough to make a 10hz horn :(

[T Rush]

hmmm...well what...you need the horn to be like 50 foot to make a 20Hz one...so if it was some how folded 3 times..would that work?

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by T Rush
hmmm...well what...you need the horn to be like 50 foot to make a 20Hz one...so if it was some how folded 3 times..would that work?

there is a limit to how many times you can fold a horn. i'm not sure how that would apply here. i suppose some software would help us design the smallest possible 20hz horn.

it's still going to be a monster :(

[T Rush]

ok...I guess I'll just try to drive slower then :(

[Dcroy]

ive seen a spiral horn sub that took the entire trunk space of a car, i think it was 2500 watts but prolly couldent go lower than 30htz

Dcroy

[tofu@phile.net-]

Originally posted by T Rush
ok...I guess I'll just try to drive slower then :(

well from the way i understand it, the mighty klipschorn uses the room as an "extension," hence its ability to dig so deep.

i guess that's why bass response sucks when its not in corners, or atleast has false corners...

i've been wanting to build my own set of khorns with swiveling tops so i'm not limited by a 45 degree angle. it makes seating arrangement a pain in the ???. i don't think anyone has done something like that yet, or atleast been public about it.

may as well put this table saw to good use.

[T Rush]

you could make a leslie horn (http://www.winthropeagles.com/default.asp?section=4&type=player&id=365)

[Quintox]

Originally posted by T Rush
have you done something just so completely dumb building your PC

If you have...you maybe eligible to win a FREE "Build your own power supply kit"

enter as may times as you care to admit
no rules at all
you just have to have messed something up so bad, that even you can't believe it

Huh? I am very confused....build your own PSU??

[T Rush]

yeah...and it will be a water cooled one too

[DHFinal]

it was one of those rainy days i just couldnt wake up.... so i wandered over to the fridge with my eyes closed and got a bottle of water..... i guzzled it all.... it tasted kinda wierd and i looked at it closely and "HOLY CRAP IT'S VODKA!!!!!!!!!!"...... yes by the time i realized what just happened i was getting dizzy.... so i handcuffed myself to the bed so i wouldnt do anything stupid....... when i woke up a girl was standing over me because she was wondering why i didnt call her so she came to my house to see what was up..... and my first sentence was "HOLY CRAP WE DIDN'T JUST DO IT DID WE???????"

[WiNN3R]

Originally posted by DHFinal
it was one of those rainy days i just couldnt wake up.... so i wandered over to the fridge with my eyes closed and got a bottle of water..... i guzzled it all.... it tasted kinda wierd and i looked at it closely and "HOLY CRAP IT'S VODKA!!!!!!!!!!"...... yes by the time i realized what just happened i was getting dizzy.... so i handcuffed myself to the bed so i wouldnt do anything stupid....... when i woke up a girl was standing over me because she was wondering why i didnt call her so she came to my house to see what was up..... and my first sentence was "HOLY CRAP WE DIDN'T JUST DO IT DID WE???????"
lol LOL rofl lmao :p [nothin to do with Hardware tho.. ]

[Alcohol Fuelled]

Originally posted by BoNdJaMeSbOnD
Huh? I am very confused....build your own PSU??

I think you just cracked it,, there never was a "Prize" as teh one mentioned is a bit inconsievable (Is that spelt right?)


Still a good funny thread tho

[dozier768]

i left the side of my case open and my ferret got in there... didnt hurt anything tho just got a bit tangled up. also i was upgrading my bosses computer which was a DELL and decided that everything was crap but the HD and PSU and case....... let me tell ya NEVER! plug a dell ATX power supply into a mobo that u didnt take it out of..... all the pinouts are different!!

[idonthack]

Originally posted by jaredbell165
Hey i did that too!. I was wondering why I had to bend the board to make it fit. Gotta love the newbism in computer building!

i did same thing....and it's still like that. power wouldnt turn on for a while except when i took it out of the case not i think the screws are just really loose

[pukka]

In computer class i once was putting a computer back together and i didnt place a fan or heatsink on the CPU and i rest my Tim Hortons cup( all us canadians no what that is) on it and i turned it on, the class smelt burning and the cup actually cought fire and kinda melted to the mobo, lukily the teacher left to visit the princibals office because hes on probation. :)

[T Rush]

Originally posted by DHFinal
it was one of those rainy days ... a bottle of water..... i guzzled it all.... IT'S VODKA......DID WE???????"

personally...I don't drink water
(its been years)

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

[anarklov3r]

I bought a new case and the switch was faulty, so i just joined the 2 wires, now the pc wont ever tun off. stupid if u ask me... but hey... it was funny :)

[gOaTz]

My little brother had a bunch of cars and he was playing with them on the inside of my open computer case running them along the HD and video card and such, so i get him out of there and see they all have magnets in the bottom of em that makes them go on the track they go with...so my computer got magnetized... :(

[steelman93]

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

got that one covered myself. i was mounting a motherboard with a ps2 mouse connector in an old 386 case. need some modification so I drilled with the motherboard still in it. I figured I was being careful no risk.

Fact: motherboards do not like drills

[steelman93]

i was having serious boot problems. after hours of frustration i got mad and unplugged the cpu powersupply from the board. While the board power was still on.

arc must have been an inch long.

good thing the mobo was still under warranty

[Agizor]

Regardless of the safty features they incorperate into preventing this, I managed to put in a stick of ram BACKWARDS into the motherboard... Cooked my mobo CPU, and ram.

[Squishy]

I took apart my brandnew computer before and it took me a month to fix it , during that time tho , I learned what I needed to know . :)

[han.rush]

When I was building a computer I was reading how to hook everything up and read about Masters and Slaves and called the police and told em that Asus was racist.

[lester2401]

on my computer i use two keyboards 1 wireless and one wired. the reason being that if i have to go into safe mode or anything the wirless wont work until the drivers are loaded in windows. so a few weeks ago i was downloading something and zonealarm popped up saying it had treated win32.silly virus (or something like that so thought nothing of it. a few hours later i tried shutting down my computer but i was unable to click on the button as it was flashing from ok to cancel i kept trying with the mouse to select ok but i was not quick enough. i clicked on zonealarm selected virus scan but was unable to select anything there because it was just rolling through the options. after a few hours i thought bugger it i ll do a fresh install(which dont bother me much because i keep all my programs on a secound hd). formated c: then installed windowsxp when i goto the point of selecting time country date ect same thing again. buy now im fuming with this virus so i thought sod it refomated c: and d: thinking the virus was going back and forth. goto same stage again still no joy. i had wasted about 18hrs of my life with this (i had gone round to my brothers house to see what,when, why and how to deal with win32.silly) then it dawned on my as i sat in front of my computer the wired keyboard had fallen down the side of the case and the tab key was being pushed in. as i said 18hrs of my life and around 120g worth of data gone i could of cried.

[Djduece]

my old pc66 SDram wouldnt fit in my new lga775 motherboard, all i had to do is file new grooves in the ram.
it works fine, i swear to god.

[Sniper_Spike]

I bought a dell.
:D:D

Originally posted by Agizor
Regardless of the safty features they incorperate into preventing this, I managed to put in a stick of ram BACKWARDS into the motherboard... Cooked my mobo CPU, and ram.
Did that on a MDG 1.7 p4 a week or two ago.. Seemed to be a sign to upgrade :D
New Specs:

Amd Atholon XP 3200+
Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ
Sapphire Radeon 9600Pro Atlantis
512mb DDR Corsair Value

After getting that, i tried for like half a week to get the new damn SATA harddrive to work on it (Windows wouldnt reconise during install). Like different driver floppys and utilities, etc. Finaly one day i was searching through the BIOS, and foun this one setting "SATA Mode" It was set to RAID at default so... I switched it, and it worked. lmao :D