Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[PandaCopyRight]

letting my dad keep all the pc's in the house running ....
biggest mistake ever.... all of the pcs have been living longer since i got my hands near them
oh and im 16 atm

[insayan]

Before the whole NAS fad took off here I imported one from the US, the US being the US and using 110v and me living in Europe where we use 220v sure did give some nice fireworks. 

[DimasRMDO]

When i was 10 i think we have this old deskop computer that i use all the time. One day it got some random error and the computer shut down. Me at the time have 0 knowledge about computer at all so i though i just kick it until it work again ( brilliant i know). But somehow kicking the pc make it work again so from that point on every time i got a error on that pc i kick it. One day i was playing some game on it and it got a blue screen, i have been playing that game for quite a while i think 2-3 hours of gameplay was lost due to that blue screen so i was very pissed off. I somehow kick the pc so hard that the side pannel broke and the pc fell over to the side. I remember the cpu cooler fan was half broken and most of the mosfet on the motherboard was bent. It was very awkward to explain to my family what happend

lol I did that when I was like 8, I thought computer was "Alive" so whenever my computer was slowing down I was like "Work damnit!" I kicked the PC and it became worse  then I became crazy and kicked the PC even more and broke it (just like you the PC fell over) and broke like everything I saw the CPU Cooler fell over and the PSU fell (it was mounted at the top of the Case).

[NightMiu]

When i was 10 i think we have this old deskop computer that i use all the time. One day it got some random error and the computer shut down. Me at the time have 0 knowledge about computer at all so i though i just kick it until it work again ( brilliant i know). But somehow kicking the pc make it work again so from that point on every time i got a error on that pc i kick it. One day i was playing some game on it and it got a blue screen, i have been playing that game for quite a while i think 2-3 hours of gameplay was lost due to that blue screen so i was very pissed off. I somehow kick the pc so hard that the side pannel broke and the pc fell over to the side. I remember the cpu cooler fan was half broken and most of the mosfet on the motherboard was bent. It was very awkward to explain to my family what happend

haha, poor pc.I used to something similar with my "peasant" controller when it didn't do what I told it

 

bought a laptop...

duh

np will buy desktop...sometime

Glad you have seen the light

[NicekillBG]

I played fifa on my mom's work laptop when i was 8. R.I.P screen

[Castdeath97]

Believed a store clerk who claimed that all laptops have 3-4 hours of battery life standard, and bought a laptop that had 1 and half hours on power saver. 

[Ceatra]

When I was 10 I had some shitty Compaq PC.... It had an old PSU, so it had a Volt switch.... I didn't know what it was so I switched it to 110 (120) and... "Swshh" It fried... RIP in pieces....

[Geralt]

Inb4 the classic red voltage switch on the psu mistake

Lol

[Nexxus]

letting my dad keep all the pc's in the house running ....

biggest mistake ever.... all of the pcs have been living longer since i got my hands near them

oh and im 16 atm

My PCs run 24/7 and have for years before you were even double didgets and ive never had hardware failure other then 1 680 which happened in game as I tabbed out.

[Dzzope]

2 worst, wrong mount stand-off, Shorted out the board

 

Got a full tower (current rig) with SLI, even though I knew I'd have to take it home eventually... Should have went ITX.

[Dannykins]

Mine would have been probably buying a laptop first, and using whilst in bed, until it overheated and, because it was poorly designed it literally burnt through my LCD cable connection to the monitor.

 

So the screen just went black it started smoking i started to get a little worried it was going to blow up in my hands, so in the end, i got a portable fan a chair and a laptop cooler pad, i competently removed the screen and panels until it was just a keyboard basically and plugged it into my tv  until i could afford a desktop.

 

it took two years to get a desktop and that laptop was so ghetto

[isaacsmith570]

Recently this year i bought an HP All-In-One 21-200a... the slowest computer i have ever used and now i regret spending $600 AUD on the piece of junk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

now i am looking to build my own PC after i have saved up enough to pay for all of it I've found a case and that"s all and i was thinking of using the NZXT Phantom 820 but i"m not sure of what motherboard to use and CPU and all the rest of it   CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PandaCopyRight]

My PCs run 24/7 and have for years before you were even double didgets and ive never had hardware failure other then 1 680 which happened in game as I tabbed out.

well ... before i started taking care of the pcs ... it was like this :

"DAD!!! my pc is not working correctly"

"Restart it then it will work"

"Ok..."

now: 

i clean all the pcs, maintain them and if there is a problem .... usually never is ... i hop on this forum

[dildo_baggins]

I had a usb sound card that had my headphones were plugged into, and since my PC is on the floor, and I have pretty long legs, I bumped with my knee, and completely wrecked the soundcard and the usb port.

[Juanse]

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.

omg, lord linus, praise him!

[10ochamberlain1]

My biggest mistake is on my first ever build I bought the Corsair Air 240 and the MSI R9 270x. The graphics card is wayyyy too wide for the case and the power cables make the window bulge out a load

[ACatWithThumbs]

Forgot to plug in the cable for my disc drive after doing cable management and thought it was broken...

[Wardojack]

Accidentally formatting a disk filled with someone else's pictures...

Ohhh I once formatted my mums flash drive with all her university work and various other documents on. She was not happy

[faziten]

Not buying a Coolermaster Haf X when i had the money. I live in a 3rd world country, now Haf X is 4x price it was back then. 

I regret up to this day. Anyway i bought a half priced Xaser VI and feeded 6 Coolers, 6 HDD's, a G1 970 and still have place to dance inside with a few friends. 

[ollioddi]

Recently this year i bought an HP All-In-One 21-200a... the slowest computer i have ever used and now i regret spending $600 AUD on the piece of junk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

now i am looking to build my own PC after i have saved up enough to pay for all of it I've found a case and that"s all and i was thinking of using the NZXT Phantom 820 but i"m not sure of what motherboard to use and CPU and all the rest of it   CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Make a new thread, dont post questions about your own build, on another thread, people will most likely not be able to respond as well, or might just dont want to because its not as easy. Sort your stuff together on a new post and i think people will help you

[sebRR]

This isn't really anything too serious but almost 4 years ago I decided not to pay the extra $100 for a Nvidia mobile GPU in my laptop, probably would of been many times better than these rubbish Intel "HD" 3000 graphics, going to upgrading soon anyway.

[tom_mack98]

Crossfired a pair of Radeon 7950's - One being in a 16x slot, the other in an 8x

[VioDuskar]

i got a PSU with a cool LED fan inside, but you couldn't see it well with the sides on it.

 

so i cut the sides off.

accidently put my foot against the heatsink.

shocked the fuck out of me, and flipped the breaker.

thought i ruined the PSU right after i bought it.

 

later i dipped the PSU in oil. i have put it in 2 other cases after that. still using it.

[PapaGangster]

Hmm, Not getting a Intel CPU since they run less hot then a amd and also my GPU since it is made to run at 90 degrees  

[lovetech000]

forgot to put on the Cooler for CPU, and accidently ran it for 30 minutes