Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[David_Chrisp]

Bought a bundles setup

[joelthezombie15]

i disnt do this but its one of my favorite stories. my parents first computer was a commodor pc and it would always turn off if you had any staic electricity on you and so my cousin (much older than me) as a kid went to use the computer and he had some static on him and he litterally fried the computer like there was smoke coming out of it (or so ive been told) and now 30 years later they just told my cousins parents that story and it was hilarious

[joelthezombie15]

I plugged a 4 pin floppy connector into a CD aux connector on a sound card when I was quite young. The blue smoke that made the sound card work escaped.

mmmm the smell of burning silicon just exquisite

[joelthezombie15]

got some thermal paste in cpu socket :( killed mobo and cpu

never thought of that happening now im scared to build my computer lol

[joelthezombie15]

i bought a console and have just now seen the error of my ways paid $600 for a ps3 never use it i only own 6 blurays payed $250 for a 360 hardly play it other than with family bought a wii sold it a year later for $70 bought a old gamecube for some nostalgic games formatted the memory card

[tobben]

the worst mistake i ever made was to smash the top of my pc in pure rage .. i managed to break the cover for the graphics card so that the fan couldn't cool it .. resulted in overheating ..

i also downloaded a virus at some point that fried my system ... shamefull i know

[mrthuvi]

Broke a few pin in my CPU socket when removing cpu cooler for cleaning. Took the cpu out to have a look & cleaned it, reapplied thermal paste before putting it back. Computer never starts again. I have no idea how that happen. Finally gave me the push to move from 775 to 1155.

[crazy_104]

I have one of those Silverstone STF50F-230 modular PSUs that has an odd SATA modular cable that has 6 pins in one end. I accidentally plugged that into an identical plug which was supposedly for one of two PCIE 6 pin connectors. Needles to say it fried out my DVD drive the moment I powered on the system. Thankfully, my Hard Disks were plugged into the correct modular plug.

I'm now afraid to use the second PCIE plug (where I mistakenly plugged the SATA power cable), and the SATA power cable which fried my DVD drive. For my other SATA devices, I'm using the molex plugs with a SATA power adapter.

[KieranRogers]

While replacing a broken mobo I put some things in the return box which was not part of the components which had to go back.

result: no standoff screws (so i could not use it) and no post beep speaker. luckily got some free standoffs + screws a few days later.

[Navin]

I did cut myself while fixing the I/O plate (badly on the thumb) had a blood stained motherboard... could not build my PC for 2 days.

[ixi_your_face]

Buying a cheap noname PSU as a temp replacement for my 12 Yr old dying PSU, the thing literally blew up, sparks burnt my wall and fingers, all the components survived but i was really close to taking a hammer to everything in anger at myself. On hindsight, it was quite a spectacle though, huge bang, sparks, screams of pain, you know. The usual.

[joelthezombie15]

- buying a cheapo raidmax 530W PSU semi modular

- buying a reference evga gtx 560 ti

- not planning my color schemes when I first bought all the parts

i almost bought that powersupply lol changed my mind a while ago

[obsidian1200]

I went with a TJ08-e for my case. This thing has had so many annoying issues... I'm so glad to be getting my white R4 in a few weeks...

Also, like Ghost said above me, investing in my PC in general.

[PRODVDi]

I placed a copper coin on my Quadro FX 1500 while it was running and it sparked.

The computer went BSOD and I pulled the plug and took the coin as fast as I could.

It just started up again like nothing happened.

[Chivpcgamer]

Mine has to be tinkering about with my bios and accidentally saving over my overclock profile!! What a doosher!

 

oh yeah and playing at 1080p and not realising that the screen I was using was 720p lol. bye bye graphics card!

 

I was showing off too, I was like "yeah look, duke nukems running at like 5'000'000'000 frames a second"..............................power off!

[Nort]

Letting someone who can't figure out which button is an ad and which is the real download use my computer.

[Dave :)]

Tea and computers don't mix. :angry:

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Learned the hard way what format c: meant back when DOS was still around. Nothing valuable lost though, just a couple of games and an OS to reinstall. :)

[crazystorm13]

like what  Nort said... yay anti virus

[NewHopeTech]

Destroying an 8 year old computer. Pretty simple it just starts beeping and nothing happens. And no, not the good beeps. i may have been modding it when it stopped working. Yet I still have a working 13 year old computer. I think I have a computer older than some people on this forums!

[Mo5]

I was troubleshooting the PC and I inserted a RAM Dimm backwards :blink: . I destroyed one of the two slots on the mobo. The RAM was already dying, so no harm there :)

[stevenbg]

I can't remember my worst but i remember my last one.I started to install hdd in my laptop and i forget that i don't have screw driver with magnet and it was horrable and very hard to put the screws in without proper screw driver.If 1 screw fail i had to shake my laptop till it drops on the table and start again :D

[bedro]

I tried to overclock my old notebock for the first time and all go wrong when I put the clock of a dual core to 6GHz

[ofr057]

when i was first getting into computer's i replaced my exhaust fan - backwards , temp went up abit

 

the only other mistake what wasnt bad was having ram not properly clicked in so it wasnt being recognised

[Guest]

Buying computer peices every month because i didnt have enough money to buy all at once i thougt i felt static the first time i touched the motherboard kept thinking about it for the 6 months i was putting it together