So I almost had a heart attack

[TopWargamer]

I was typing away and drinking some water...when I accidentally spilled some water all over my $150 Ducky. Normally if something like this happened, I would just buy another one or use my warranty to swap it out, but 1) this wasn't a cheapo keyboard and 2) I have no warranty on it. So after keeping it upside down for 30 minutes...it's all good, but now the LED on my caps lock button borks out from time to time. 

 

Do you guys have any "heart attack moments" to share? 

[TechTheWorld]

I dropped a CPU once and bent 2 of the pins. I just re-positioned the pins and it worked fine! I was really scared though.

[AraSarkisyan]

My LG Dvd drive went up in flames once. I thought I killed my build. 

[MdX MaxX]

I dropped my Atrix from the top bunk bed one time.  I was listening to music and it slipped of the bed.  Landed hard on the tile floor, right on the glass.  I was so scared to pick it up. :lol: Miraculously the screen was undamaged.

[MontyBonjangles]

My first ever bsod would scare bricks out of me, my hands would be shaking, I dunno why, i was just really scared of em :D

[Ngrungebb91]

My network card fried on a very old build I had during a thunderstorm. Couldnt figure out why I wasn't getting internet for like 2 days :p Then I found out.... lol.

[david cassar]

I was moving my pc from time to time and once i fell while carrying it. When i went to check if it was working it didn't. I tried to figure out the problem and i found out that i didn't plug in the power supply. Complete blonde moment there XD

[xeonsamari]

my brother spilled a glass of water on my brand new cooler master HAF 932 build. I had only finished my gaming PC build like a month before too. Thankfully those cases are big and I still had the grill plates behind the 3.5 inch drive bays that stopped most of it the rest ended up on the top of my disk drive. Very close call if those metal plates had not been there it would have been all over my brand new crossfire 5770's I had at the time and possibly my mobo. Now there is a no drink rule in my office haha

[TPS_REPORT]

While installing a fan for a friend, I decided to do some cable management for him.

I also took out one of the unused drive cages and repositioned his drives.

 

I happen put his hard drive on top of the case and forgetting it was there, tipped the case so I could reach for something.

The drive crashed to the floor and my heart stopped.

 

Luckily it still works fine!

[FireFox]

My LG Dvd drive went up in flames once. I thought I killed my build. 

 

Jesus, what was you doing with it lol

[Guest]

My first ever bsod would scare bricks out of me, my hands would be shaking, I dunno why, i was just really scared of em :D

Hahahhaha that would happen to me and my brother

 

Brother: WTF IS THIS?

Me: Oh it is just a BSOD

Brother: What is BSOD?

Me: Blue screen of death

Brother: Huh WTF?

Me: Just restart it

(my brother restarts the laptop and it is not working)

STARTED TO SHAKE LIKE A SNAKE

(restarted it 3-4 times)

Oh, it started to work XD

[ThunderShark]

I got up of my bed and for some reason my laptop went flying. It landed on the floor about 4 feet away from my bed. I was freaking out because I only had it for like a month but I ended up only breaking the connector for my earbuds.

[fishymamba]

I kept on getting BSODS after I opened my case and blew out all the dust with an air compressor. 
Turns out my GPU drivers were causing the problem. 

[JohnnyGrey]

While trying to use a flat-head screw driver to pop open the locking tab on the PCI-E slot, I scraped my Geforce 6800GT OC and broke off a surface mount chip. Luckily it still worked!!!

[JordanMac]

my hard drive fell off the table and i caught it just before it hit the tiled floor.

[Vitalius]

I was trying to remove a heatsink from an AMD Phenom II X4 CPU but the thermal paste was holding it together.

So I twisted and turned the heatsink to try and get it and and *pop* out comes the CPU with it. This is without the safety latch being pulled up meaning it should've been pretty securely in there.

This almost gave me a heart attack because this was my first computer and I didn't have the money, time, or energy to get a new one then.

Well, I decided "oh well", pried the CPU off the Heatsink and re-seated it after inspecting all the pins. Everything seemed fine.

After re-installing everything along with the new heatsink, the computer worked like a champ and has been to this day. 

My respect for the ruggedness of CPU's grew tenfold that day.

[UselessBread]

I once spilled absinthe on my Qpad Mk-50. The keyboard was fine, only my x c and v keys were a bit sticky for like three months.

[qwertywarrior]

botted my 689i board with the jumpers on the reset side

started to bsod all the time after that

[Agons]

My first build was in a CM HAF 912 which since my desk at the time was wood with glass on top(not my idea) my parents were upset that the weight of my build was going to crack the glass. So i had to stick it in the cabinet below my desk. Which worked fine but i was running a 6970 which generate alot of heat and i spent about 7 hours gaming on sc2 that night on ultra setting. The cabinet was open so no problem, but when i finished i left my computer running and my father came by after i left and closed the cabinet. The next morning i got up and played probably another 6 hours of sc2 not even noting the cabinet door was closed. Later that night i walk into the room where my desk was and all i could hear was this super loud humming. *SNAP i suddenly realize what is was! I ran over, opened the door and was greated with the biggest blast of hot air i have ever felt, I shunt her down so she could cool and the next morning i thought i was going to cry until she turned back on :D only some small artifacting from the gpu and i lived with that till about 6 months ago when i upgraded my gaming rig.

[AraSarkisyan]

Jesus, what was you doing with it lol

It had dust inbetween the sata power and it started smoking in my pc and i freaked out 

[CowsGoMoo32]

When I had first buitl my computer I did not have the extar money to buy a new desk so I had my PC on a book shelf that stuck out farther then my desk...

I heard some deep bass coming from outside my house and wanted to see who it was. So i jumped up hitting my book shelf super hard and it ended up falling over. It scarded me so much. I had it for less then a week I was shaking so much. I reset the PC and everything was fine. Since then I got a proper desk.

[MdX MaxX]

So I totally just had one of these moments today.  I was trying to plug back in a case fan while the PC was on.

 

The PC shut off.  I smelled electronics burning...  :blink:

 

Fortunately, I got really freaking lucky and the PC booted back up just fine.  The fan header's toast, but it's not a huge deal, I'll just use a 3-pin to molex on that fan.

 

So this is what it looks like when you short 12V to Ground:

 

Lesson learned: shut off the computer before removing/inserting anything internally.  Shorting exposed pins is bad.

[FireFox]

Lesson learned: shut off the computer before removing/inserting anything internally.  Shorting exposed pins is bad.

 

Good :P

 

Not the wisest thing I've ever seen while the PC is running

[SuperPug]

accidentaly broke of a pin on an Athlon 64 3800+. Just put it back in the board and it ran perfectly fine :P - my good old socket '938' lol

[FireFox]

accidentaly broke of a pin on an Athlon 64 3800+. Just put it back in the board and it ran perfectly fine :P - my good old socket '938' lol

 

Was it originally 939 lol