Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[AroundWayOtherThe]

Forcing a sound card into a PCI-E slot when it didn't want to for some reason. One snapping noise later, I have a bent PCI-E slot... thank god everything still works though

[Kerplex]

Mine would also have to be dropping it while moving in to my new place. Dog started acting stupid while I was going up the stairs and cut me off....trip....drop....tumble tumble. surprisingly the only thing that broke was the PSU fan

[FireFox]

I put the clock of a dual core to 6GHz

 

Really, how did you manage that?

[Rhizo]

I'v had a few, recently I tried to put an 6+2 pin pcie power cable into the 8pin motherboard power for about an hour... oh ma I felt stupid. And of course I have broken multiple linux distro's through tinkering, lost all my data a few times, now I back everything up religously though..

[FireFox]

Since my first computer at the age of around 6-7 I've been quite lucky, I'm very cautious so that might have helped because I think the worst thing I did was forgetting to apply thermal paste on a Pentium 4 3.73GHz and wondering why it was hitting something like 70 degrees about 10 years ago, but I've grown up since then and have never repeated that little piece of incompetance.

[Smeyer40]

I tried using a 32-bit WIN 7 cd to repair my PC when I have a 64-bit version installed..... It deleted the boot loader file causing me to lose all of my data and forcing me to reinstall win 7

[Snickerzz]

Since my first computer at the age of around 6-7 I've been quite lucky, I'm very cautious so that might have helped because I think the worst thing I did was forgetting to apply thermal paste on a Pentium 4 3.73GHz and wondering why it was hitting something like 70 degrees about 10 years ago, but I've grown up since then and have never repeated that little piece of incompetance.

3.7ghz P4? o.O

[Art Vandelay]

I divided by zero...

 

Seriously though, it would have to be the time I thought a graphics card had died because I didn't push the HDMI connector in fully, then reseated the card, fixed the HDMI cable, and forgot the plug in the PCIe 6 pin, then repeated these mistakes for a good 20 minutes, until I eventually got it right and the card worked. 

[matt12046]

Buying a gateway.

[FireFox]

3.7ghz P4? o.O

 

She was a beast in the day:)

 

http://ark.intel.com/products/27492/Pentium-4-Processor-Extreme-Edition-supporting-HT-Technology-3_73-GHz-2M-Cache-1066-MHz-FSB

[Soolkiki]

I think the worst that I've done is working on a computer with it still plugged into the wall. My dad caught me and made sure that I was thoroughly lectured. 

[David89]

the first time i got a pc i was around 7 years old, it ran Windows 95 and i removed the "System32" Folder^^

[FireFox]

the first time i got a pc i was around 7 years old, it ran Windows 95 and i removed the "System32" Folder^^

 

I bet the computer wasn't impressed after that lol

[MariusJS]

Got cut by a D14 :P

[Kilmer02]

Buying a brown motherboard with blue ram slots and blue pcie slots and red RAM. It is so ugly I can't take it anymore!

[Broseephus]

Went to have a BroLan with my buddy. Was a 3 day session of non stop pc gaming of all different flavors. Spilled beer all over my BRAND NEW keyboard before I had even sat down to use it. Luckily it was before I knew about mechanical so it was only a $40 Sidewinder x4.

[David89]

I bet the computer wasn't impressed after that lol

Neither was my granddad :D

Two years later, i learnd what "format c:" meant...the hard way :D

[FireFox]

Neither was my granddad :D

Two years later, i learnd what "format c:" meant...the hard way :D

 

rofl yea, but now you know right:P

[Soolkiki]

Neither was my granddad :D

Two years later, i learnd what "format c:" meant...the hard way :D

Can't say that I've done that. :P Curious about his trust concerning you and computers after that! haha

[David89]

Probabaly the biggest and worst mistake was installing windows 8. Windows 8 completly destroyed my partition table, so i had to restore about 1,8 TB of Data.

Even Linux didn't make such a mess...

[Spannerhands]

Not me but a temp guy that was working with me.

 

Putting cat 5 into an old school 400 network sockets.

 

They decided they wanted the cab moved to the room next door..... Now 400 numbered and grouped cables needed to be 6 meters shorter...

 

Asked this guy to do the work.... 20 Min later he said "so what else do you want me to do" 

 

He just cut the cables and did not renumber them !!! Never felt so ill...

[W-Junk]

A large glass of water and a laptop does not mix well :s

[Cluso]

I wanted to clean my computer so i stuck a vacuum cleaner in there and killed my 500GB boot drive, was fine though because we spent the whole day driving around my little town looking for a shop that sold hard drives and found a new one, being about 15 i didn't loose anything important. 

[HEXiT]

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!

your not the only 1 i still have a zx81, atari 800 and a compaq portable from the 80's i know the later 2 still work but i cant find the power brick for the zx81. funny though i will keep old tech but i rarely keep pc parts.

[s0nrise]

Accidentally moved /bin to /var/www on my server, it fucked up everything and i had to reinstall :(