biggest noob mistakes

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Tell us some of the mistakes you made when you just started learning computers.

mine was trying to network 2 computers together without a crossover cable or hub/router/switch. I thought it would work if I connected 2 56k modems together with a phone cord
 
I sat talking with someone on tech support for like an hour because my comp was not booting up and come to find out the drive was not fully plugged in...

I hung up on them.
 
I was fixing a computer at some point (can't remeber when) and I cut off the cable that the heatsink needed to have power to it :eek: (I forgot there were grooves where it fitted into very snuggly lol
 
hmm... too many as I am still new to computing! :D

My friend tried to put his memory in a PCI slot... I don't know why he thought that becuz a PCI slot is about half the size :D

Using Internet Explorer as said above

Buying an Intel CPU;)

Losing all my mobo drivers and having to stick with Windows 2000 until AM2 debuts:( :( :(
 
i took some ram from another computer that was DDR and put it in the computer in my sig that has DDR2 and tried to put it in and it wouldnt fit. then i took the memory out and put it back in the other computer and i couldnt get it to work. then i asked my dad what was wrong and he went over and pushed the memory down all the way and then it worked.
 
Oh yeah a mistake my mate made that nearly got him killed (if I hadn't of been there) his PSU gave up (I think you can guess) and so he took the case of it and was about to poke around (near the two 200v capacitors) and I shouted "GET YOUR HAND OUT OF THAT BOX" after a small electronics lesson he soon put the case back on...
 
i hooked up my hard drive (200GB) to a power cord that came off of a fan, not realizing that it only had 2 cords. I turned the computer on and it started smoking :P
 
Buzz1927 said:
Using Internet Explorer. :D
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Fanboy :P
i hooked up my hard drive (200GB) to a power cord that came off of a fan, not realizing that it only had 2 cords. I turned the computer on and it started smoking
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Yea, whenver i clean my computer, i spend about 20 minutes checking to make sure the fans arent plugged into anything else.
 
my friends computer was open and on the side layin on the carpet. i was playin wit a baseball bat and a lil koosh ball. not thinkin but all the circumstances, i hit the ball and it flew in the computer, hit somin and the computer crashed..... LOL.
 
Installing my CPU without putting the CPU clip down on the socket.. lol. was wondering why the heatsink was tough to get on... =P. Luckily, the cpu was not crushed :P.
 
erm... not really any major ones but silly things like actually forgetting to put the RAM in when i first built my PC, wondered why it didnt boot, lol

silly mistakes with hard drive jumpers aswell, master slave etc... took a while to figure that one out, lol

dragon2309 :D
 
silly mistakes with hard drive jumpers aswell, master slave etc... took a while to figure that one out, lol
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same here. lol but witht he optical drives.

also i used the wrong screw to screw in the mobo on one of the standoffs so now the standoff is stuck to the screw and cant take off the mobo w/o taking the standoff with it.
 
also i used the wrong screw to screw in the mobo on one of the standoffs so now the standoff is stuck to the screw and cant take off the mobo w/o taking the standoff with it.
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lol, i would suggest hacksawing it off, lol
 
First time me and Redrider were putting in a new mobo for his PC for the very first time (never attempted anything so challlenging before :P) and we thought the standoffs for the motherboard were screw extenders (dont ask why, we were n00bs)... we proceded to try to figure out why the hell the PC wouldn turn on, thinking that there was something wrong with the Power button connectors. Redrider then figured out the mobo was shorting out and put some styrofoam like stuff around the edges of the mobo, and it worked. Took us a long while to figure out that the little gold things were NOT screw extenders.:D
 
Well, I once plugged in the CPU fan onto the wrong thing...twice, but nothing happened to the processor or mobo. I also connected all of my fans together but forgot to connect them to the PSU.
 
my biggest mistake was telling someone (who knew nothing about computers but use them) that i was good with computers.... cue getting a phonecall every couple of days about various pop-up and odd noises etc... i'm glad a got a new phone and didn't tell them i changed my number
 
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