please help i think i destroyed a computer

[Your Local Persian]

My school was on 3 hour lockdown and i put a bobby pin into the back of the computer behind me and it exploded and sparks everywhere and the computers ethernet lights stopped flashing but it was a lockdown so the lights are off and i just acted like i didnt see anything. Pretty sure the bobby pin touched the motherboard, is there an easy fix for this or have i destroyed a school computer pls respond quickly

[Arika]

.......why would you do that?

 

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it exploded and sparks everywhere

if you're not exaggerating, it's dead.

 

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is there an easy fix for this 

tell the teacher...fess up to it and deal with the consequences.

[Crunchy Dragon]

If there were that many sparks, it's probably dead.

[corrado33]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

If there were that many sparks, it's probably dead.

Maybe.... computer PSUs are pretty good about shutting off when you short them out. 

 

I've done it before and there were no consequences to the PSU. Worked fine afterward. The OP MAY get lucky. Did you try turning it back on? 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, corrado33 said:

Maybe.... computer PSUs are pretty good about shutting off when you short them out. 

 

I've done it before and there were no consequences to the PSU. Worked fine afterward. The OP MAY get lucky. Did you try turning it back on? 

PSU could be fine, I wouldn't bet on the mainboard or much else on it surviving.

[dizmo]

Who would have thought that stupid actions would have stupid results.

[corrado33]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

PSU could be fine, I wouldn't bet on the mainboard or much else on it surviving.

True. When I shorted out the PSU I literally just shorted a cut 12V wire to the chassis. Not through the board itself. 

[Hv440]

take out the motherboard and relative components from another cabinet that is not in use anymore and put it inside the fried cabinet, no one will ever know or else,
get ready for homeschooling.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

do you remember where the pin was in contact? motherboard/ psu or other?

open up the case to see any burned marks

[MandoPanda]

Not likely it touched the motherboard if its a standing tower. You probably put it into the PSU. It's dead.

[MandoPanda]

58 minutes ago, Your Local Persian said:

is there an easy fix for this or have i destroyed a school computer

It's dead. Honesty is the best policy but if you act like you know nothing then IT will be called out and it will be replaced in the coming weeks.

[vanished]

If there is a fix the school IT will figure it out.  It's not up to you to repair it, although if you confessed to breaking it and offered to help, who knows what might happen.  If/when they do ask what happened, you really should tell the truth.  Breaking things and then hiding it is just as bad as stealing it imo.

 

It's possible it just shorted and shut down (semi) harmlessly, or perhaps only the PSU is dead.  It's possible the whole thing is shot but that would be very unlikely imo.  Even if you killed the motherboard, odds are some other parts are still ok (CPU for example).

 

Reminds me of a slightly less serious but somewhat similar story.  Someone near me was just leaning back in their chair, balancing on the rear two legs as you do, but they went too far and their hair started to get pulled into the PSU behind them and get shredded No parts or flesh were injured but it was quite entertaining.

[Guest]

Accidents happen and the truth is always the right way. No worries man. Everyone messes up sometimes its all good. If I was a teacher I'd totally understand, all part of growing up. 

[tatte]

1 hour ago, Your Local Persian said:

i put a bobby pin into the back of the computer behind me and it exploded and sparks everywhere

Sounds like the computer had what we humans would call an orgasm, your bobby pin must be pretty long to poke all the way to the motherboard. You should probably buy it some memory tomorrow or its thermal paste might dry up and burn its CPU. I also hope you had some rubber on your bobby pin, as doing that bare could be dangerous.

[MandoPanda]

1 minute ago, RorzNZ said:

Accidents happen

It wasn't an accident.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, MandoPanda said:

It wasn't an accident.

No one meant to cause harm to the computer, it was an accident. 

[leo1798]

Just don't do it again and think before you act in the future. 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

18 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

If there is a fix the school IT will figure it out.  It's not up to you to repair it, although if you confessed to breaking it and offered to help, who knows what might happen.  If/when they do ask what happened, you really should tell the truth.  Breaking things and then hiding it is just as bad as stealing it imo.

imagine the psu is dead. and you replaced /fixed the dead parts. One day, someone got hurt from shock by pc or it blew up, who's liability is that?

[vanished]

33 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

imagine the psu is dead. and you replaced /fixed the dead parts. One day, someone got hurt from shock by pc or it blew up, who's liability is that?

It is impossible for the PC to blow up or injure anyone as a result of a damaged motherboard, CPU, etc.  Regardless, this is irrelevant and it would be pointless for me to speculate since the school IT department will take care of repairing or replacing the machine (if necessary), and so how they do that, why, and what happens as a result is entirely their business to deal with, literally.

[Guest]

Yeah... this is a troll post, right?

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

8 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

It is impossible for the PC to blow up or injure anyone as a result of a damaged motherboard, CPU, etc.  Regardless, this is irrelevant and it would be pointless for me to speculate since the school IT department will take care of repairing or replacing the machine (if necessary), and so how they do that, why, and what happens as a result is entirely their business to deal with, literally.

this may bad example going to extreme, the point is if anything happens after you "touched" it, you are the person to blame. so let the IT guy deal with it.

[Canada EH]

2 hours ago, Your Local Persian said:

My school was on 3 hour lockdown and i put a bobby pin into the back of the computer behind me and it exploded and sparks everywhere and the computers ethernet lights stopped flashing but it was a lockdown so the lights are off and i just acted like i didnt see anything.

LOL so funny, acted like you didnt see nothing or do nothing, classic.

I woulda acted injured myself $ but hey.

 

Why was your skool in lockdown?

I wouldn't want to stay there, like a deer in headlights, fish in a barrel, get the fuck outta there now!

But hey thats what Id do. Just go home and wait until they call you that its all safe.

 

 

 

[SadaleNet]

... Why did you do that? Try powering it off and on again and see if it works, and I guess that's pretty much all you can do.