Did you ever stupidly damage your IT stuff?

[soldier_ph]

On 5/23/2020 at 3:21 PM, Ergroilnin said:

Heya,

 

so I just managed to brick my mech keyboard (like 80 euros give or take) and damage my monitor (around 450 euros).

 

I have a strict policy of not eating or drinking near my PC at all, well guess what, the one time I break it and bring a sugary drink there, I immediately manage to tip the cup over in a way, that the liquid hits whatever was in front of me, which obviously was my keyboard and main monitor.

 

The keyboard at first only left me with fully functioning keys but only left half of the keyboard still lit with RGB, after immeadiate disconnect, 24 hours of letting it dry and then cleaning it with isopropyl alcohol, it just died. No RGB, sure, but not even any keystrike recognition. Ouch.

 

Now the monitor did function properly for few hours (also turned it off as fast as I could and leave it off for more than a day to dry off (though not cleaning it, as dissasebly of monitor is way more work etc.), but two days after, it developed two vertical lines that are always red/blue respectively.

 

I hate myself so much right now. And I have noone but myself to blame.

 

But that is life I guess and I will learn from my mistake, though it will cost me a lot of money (I know that, give or take, 100 euros is not THAT much, it will still hurt my wallet... I will keep the monitor for now, since I was at least lucky enough, that the vertical lines are not near the center of the screen, so it is usable enough for me...)

 

The reason why I am not typing this as a status update is because I would like to know if any of you have some similiar experiences, what happened and how did you react to it, both immeadiately and over the time  .

*Takes a sipp from LTT Water Bottle over Peripherals, Mouse Pad and Phone* This ain't ever happenin' to me *knocks on wood aka the table*

[StDragon]

Spilled a large cup of coffee on my 2013 Apple Macbook. That instantly ended up to be a very expensive cup. The laptop was toast. Way too expensive to fix from Apple, so I ended up tossing it as e-waste.

 

I was on the fence as to whether or not to upgrade to a newer MBP as none of the newer model were upgrade friendly. In hindsight, it was for the best. I'm now back to Windows 10.

 

Wish I had know about Louis Rossmann, I would have gladly sold him my broken unit for at least spare parts; would have recouped some of the loss I think.

[StDragon]

duplicate post. sorry

Edited May 31, 2020 by StDragon

[sansyy]

Cat pulled a cable causing me to fall causing a monitor to fall on top of me smashing the panel

[TempestCatto]

43 minutes ago, sansyy said:

Cat pulled a cable causing me to fall causing a monitor to fall on top of me smashing the panel

Is the cat okay?

[sub68]

Just now, TempestCatto said:

Is the cat okay?

probably yes

[zakius]

put my helix 2 on top of the tallest closet I have in my room during cleanup, the next thing I did was sweeping glass from the floor

it wouldn't be even so bad (even though I had it maybe like half a year at that poinmt) but there was no device that could replace it on the market, I really didn't want to go for surface pro and go was so much worse (and yet more expensive than what I paid for helix) I just gave up and kept using my older, Z8350 based tablet instead

 

and when I finally gave in and bought foldable instead go2 got announced fixing the most annoying issues of go1

[sansyy]

16 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

Is the cat okay?

yes the cat is fine he just ran off lol

[Froody129]

I was trying to lift up my 1060 Armor because it had fairly bad GPU sag. For the short term I tried to just tie some floss to it. Some gloss got stuck and I thought I'd just quickly move it with a pair of pliers. I thought it would be quick and easy so I didn't even turn off the PC. 

 

A heart-wrenching ZAP and a puff of smoke, followed by the PC shutting down. I'm sitting there with a pair of pliers, mouth agape at what must certainly have meant a dead card, or perhaps even more. 

 

To my great fortune the card still worked, though it now had a new case of coil whine. I later sold that card for more than I paid for it because of the mining craze. All in all lucked out. I wonder if that card is still running. 

[Statik]

My CableMod came in a few weeks after my components, so I had my rig torn apart last December as I routed the CableMod. I wasn't fully paying attention and went to grab my virtually new 2080S and my finger brushed the PCI-E Connector and there was a static shock. My asshole has never been more puckered than when I pressed the power button after reassembling (all good though).

 

 

I also once put the front glass piece back on my O11 Dynamic, the top didn't seat properly, I turned around and it just fell off and right onto the concrete floor, and somehow by the grace of God, the corner landed on the back of my slipper instead of the concrete floor, and it didn't even so much as scratch.

 

I've also taken the side glass panel off, put it on my chair and almost sat on it more time's than I can count.