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i thought thehighest one they made went to 3.2ghz stock

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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.

how did the vacuum cleaner kill it o.o

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Hrmm I cannot think of my worse but I do have a "funniest"

 

Back in the 90s when there were actual mom and pop ISPs selling dialup I worked for one said company doing admin work.  Myself and another co-worker were in the server room doing something I cant remember and that somehow turned into tackle football.  We came out and my system is the one that did all the network monitoring.  I come out and Whats UP is completely red and screaming.  During the ...... hard work .... we knocked out the internetz!

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i thought thehighest one they made went to 3.2ghz stock

 

There was also a 4.0GHz stock clock version as well.

 

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Once when I was a young one, I burned a disc at my computer, ejected it and ran into my brother's room to give it to him. I was in a rush. I ran back into my room to get back to whatever I was doing, didn't look where I was going and promptly sat down on the CD-ROM tray, which snapped like a twig.

 

Boy did I feel stupid.

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Once when I was a young one, I burned a disc at my computer, ejected it and ran into my brother's room to give it to him. I was in a rush. I ran back into my room to get back to whatever I was doing, didn't look where I was going and promptly sat down on the CD-ROM tray, which snapped like a twig.

 

Boy did I feel stupid.

 

rofl not as bad as my mate, the moron thought it would be a good idea to use it as a cup holder

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Naming both of my hard drives as "primary active", because then they both try to boot and chaos ensues...and u cant boot into windows so you have to re-install:(  

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Worst I've done is spilling cola all over my laptop when it was a couple of months new.  Probably caused quite a few issues I had with it down the line.

 

I recently witnessed a 20-pin ATX connector plugged into a 24-pin motherboard.  It was never turned on though.

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Installing Ubuntu. When I noticed that wasn't ready for the switch, I put in the Windows 7 disc and tried to install it as usual. Thought it would format the drive for me and everything would be well. Ruined two HDDs that way and swore to myself that I will never try to install any kind of Linux on any of my better HDDs ever again. Would still like to try to get into Linux, but those two failed attempts left a bit of a bitter taste.

 

Oh and I spilled a bit of Danklorix on my netbook, which broke the keyboard.  <_<

 

I don't really play many games for gameplay anymore honestly. I play most games just for the graphics.

 

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i had decided to sleeve my PSU cables and destroyed the cables. and then found out i needed a new PSU because im gonna run sli  

so now i have spent over $500 on just PSUs for one computer in one month.:(

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I recently witnessed a 20-pin ATX connector plugged into a 24-pin motherboard.  It was never turned on though.

Why should that be a problem? I did it lots of times and never had any problems, as long as you are not running any GPU purely from the PCI-E Power...

Installing Ubuntu. When I noticed that wasn't ready for the switch, I put in the Windows 7 disc and tried to install it as usual. Thought it would format the drive for me and everything would be well. Ruined two HDDs that way and swore to myself that I will never try to install any kind of Linux on any of my better HDDs ever again. Would still like to try to get into Linux, but those two failed attempts left a bit of a bitter taste.

Did you just ruin the partition table, or the HDD's physically?

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Can't recall the worst right now but on the top of my head I would say Installing a pirated copy of NBA2k13

 

MS-security essenstials already flagged the crack as a "virus"(rld.dll) but I ignored and spend the next 2 days tracking down why my computer is suddenly slow.

 

Not only a lesson in computer security but in pirated software as well. So there  =)

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how did the vacuum cleaner kill it o.o

I have no idea, was dead after i finished cleaning :P

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Can't recall the worst right now but on the top of my head I would say Installing a pirated copy of NBA2k13

 

MS-security essenstials already flagged the crack as a "virus"(rld.dll) but I ignored and spend the next 2 days tracking down why my computer is suddenly slow.

 

Not only a lesson in computer security but in pirated software as well. So there  =)

 

Yeah I learnt that lesson the hard way. I installed a pirated version of photoshop that came with four trojans...I ended up reformatting my entire computer.

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I have no idea, was dead after i finished cleaning :P

It's because vacuums create a lot of static electricity while they run, and now that I mention static electricity you understand why.

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Not cleaning my computer for 2 years.

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

I truly do worry for those people. It's a big bad world we live in.

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I was tightening cables and what not behind my motherboard whilst my pc was on and it pulled out the 8 pin CPU power. Luckily there was no damage :/

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Not my mistake but check this beauty out!

 

P010513_2036.jpg

 

Friend walked into the kitchen  and did not realise his GF had been cooking and he put it on the hob!!! Amazingly it still works so i gave him 30 quid for it and the parts to repair are gunna cost me 30 so i'm happy :) 

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1. Deleting files trying to update java.

2. Anything to do with malware/viruses.

3. Spilling stuff on laptop keyboard.

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Not my mistake but check this beauty out!

 

P010513_2036.jpg

 

Friend walked into the kitchen  and did not realise his GF had been cooking and he put it on the hob!!! Amazingly it still works so i gave him 30 quid for it and the parts to repair are gunna cost me 30 so i'm happy :)

 

Holy crap, that looks scary :D That must have been quite a nice smell too^^

 

It's a miracle the battery didn't start venting/exploding

Good news everyone...!

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If that was my laptop I think I'd be pissed lol

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Breaking off the pins on the USB 3.0 connector on my Mobo because I wanted nice and tight cable routing

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Breaking off the pins on the USB 3.0 connector on my Mobo because I wanted nice and tight cable routing

 

wow I bet that was a little irritating lol

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