What are the scariest tech-related things you've ever experienced?

[suchamoneypit]

On 6/11/2018 at 9:40 PM, Imbellis said:

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This is the type of forum shenanigans I like to see. Phenomenal mounting solution.

[suchamoneypit]

One time I plugged in a cold-cathode light in my PC and like 45 seconds later the power delivery box (whatever it was) lit on fire in my PC. Another time I slipped with a screwdriver and knocked off a resistor on a quad socket server board. Still worked without issue though. I guess luckily for me I haven't had too many catastrophic failures.

 

Oh, one time I spent 8 hours setting up and audio system and then right as I was wrapping up, I put a multi-meter where I shouldn't have and shorted the system and was greeted by a large arc and pop, and everything turned off and would not turn back on. Luckily though I found out the next day it blew a fuse and system was fine after replacing that but man, was I pretty bummed to end 8 hours of hard work on that not knowing it was any easy fix.