What was your worst ever computer accident?

probrably putting a piece of RAM that had static electricity on it, put it in my oldd computer, and it killed the mobo...

could figure out what the problem was until i tryed a different mobo and ram lol..
 
hmm... now where did i leave my laptop..
otterbox-case-crushed1.jpg

Oh, there is is! :D

no seriouslt.. my worst was my T-bird C 1400Mhz frieing because the CPU fan quitted :x
 
Probably when a friend and I disassembled my computer after I got a 512MB SDRAM memory module. Well...when we put it together and turned it on, it decided to destroy the processor, and partially melt the ram with the dimm slot on the board. Not a good day.....
 
Probably the day that i threw my backpack with my external HDD in it, broke it all to hell, had to get a seperate cable and whatnot, and then it died. Yay.
 
I deleted ntorskl.exe (not sure if thats the exact name), basically the windows startup file, so my computer couldn't boot (OEM system, I had no OS backup disc). Luckily I was able to salvage the files by loading the drive as a slave on my other computer.
 
a double acciddent. i dropped a college camera onto the college powerbook from a height and broke both. the camera was in pieces and i ruined the powerbook screen. and i was 20 at the time. how bad is that?
 
6071842 said:
a double acciddent. i dropped a college camera onto the college powerbook from a height and broke both. the camera was in pieces and i ruined the powerbook screen. and i was 20 at the time. how bad is that?
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Omg lol,

What did the collage say?:D
 
I once flashed my X800PROs BIOS when it was brand new (this was 2 years ago) and I had just got it used for $200. It was a bad flash and I didn't get jack from it. Thankfully I borrowed an old PCI gfx card from school and reflashed the X800PRO from that.
 
Archangel said:
hmm... now where did i leave my laptop..
otterbox-case-crushed1.jpg

Oh, there is is! :D

no seriouslt.. my worst was my T-bird C 1400Mhz frieing because the CPU fan quitted :x
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I will never have to worry about that because my fan sounds like a vacuum cleaner so I would probably know something was up if it was dead silent............
 
A LOOONG time ago, I was working on an old 286 computer. This was before I knew much about power supplies, or how AT(not ATX) ones connected to the board. For those who havn't used AT power supplies, there are two connectors. When both are plugged in, the inside(four?) wires are black/ground. I got that backwards...

The computer just didn't do a thing the first couple times I turned it on, but then it finally did... Two chips on there litterly started shooting sparks. I don't mean just little ones either... They shot a good foot up from the motherboard. Needless to say, that computer was trashed...
 
First time I ever took apart a PC, it was an old Compaq with a Pentium 133 in it, took it apart and re-assembled it, forgetting to put the heatsink back on (didnt kno what it did at the time :P ) so when I turned on the PC i noticed after a few minutes it got REALLY hot, then just crashed. Turned out the CPU melted to the Mobo, and kinda soldered itself on there.....
 
Spilling a cup of coffee over my keyboard, and incorrectly flashing the BIOS of my graphics card.

:)

Wait, no it isn't. I once hooked a TV up the the S-Video port of my FX5200, and it got so hot it just smoked up like crazy. I burnt my hand...
 
best thread ever

wow from reading about all your proplems and mistakes im happy to findout im not the onlyone to blow up his powersupply and destroy his motherboard. the smell of a burning mobo is amazing with a sad ending with me pulling money out of my pocket for the jerk at compusa mostlikely laughing in my little face (i was 12) :(
 
jimmymac said:
rememeber building a computer at that same place, vanitec. We had a rush order on for a "super computer" (well most powerful one we could make at the time)

Thing was we were out of CPU's and needed one fast. So we nicked on from the Manging directors PC (we had his permission)

The CPU in question was a 476 DX2 66mhz, and for those that know when they were first released they were damn expensive!

So I ran downstairs to pass it to the engineer and as i did so i managed to electrocute him slightly....both stood in shock. Obviously we had just sent a static shock through the CPU to eachother....suffice to say the chip was dead!
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Come to think of it...... What kind of company sells computers with hand-me-down parts?
 
My worst ever, so far, (computer related) accident was when I first started out in IT and network administration. I was working for a small town ISP and we were repairing a fiber splice in one of the splice trays. Getting ready to clean the fiber before pairing it up with the other fiber in the arc fusion splicer, one of my friends bumped me and the little sucker stabbed me in the hand :eek:. Man did that hurt, had to be careful taking it out too because I didn't want it to break while it was still in my hand. Now I do that kind of stuff all by myself so that doesn't happen again :D.
 
ripped out my processor when i way trying to build my first computer out of two computers. keep in mind i had no idea what i was doing. but it all workd for about a year. i put it back and it still worked. my comp blew up like a year later tho do to me not cooling my comp atall and leaving it on all the time tucked in a corner. it must have been the hottest running comp in the world
 
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