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That sucks when that happens I've done that with music and movies as well. Weeks to rip them back on there.

I used a program to recover my lost data. so it only took a few hours after initial setup.

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when i was using a macbook pro I know its sad but a screw shorted out the power delivery system and it went up in smoke

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Nothing has died for me yet, so I can't give personal examples.

That said, has anyone heard of a company called Ballard Power? They were a company that were literally on the verge of starting a huge manufacturing wave of industry-grade hydrogen fuel cells. They had the factories tooled up and ready to go, but then the oil companies came in, and.... well, I think you can guess what happened. Bought out and liquidated. Thanks, Exxon.

Absolute bastards.

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Gameboy Advance SP with FireRed version :'( was only missing Celebi and Jirachi :'(

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Never opened and cleaned my old 8800gts. It got to 139°C when playing crysis and I just let it be like that for months! one of the capacitor are now loose, so if I get black screen I have to push it back into place =P

What the hell kinda stuff were you doing to it to keep it so hot...?

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Does NVIDIA mangling and salvaging the scraps of 3dFX count as favourite tech destroyed?

 

I miss them. :(

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My Gameboy SP lost it's backlight and it hurts my eyes to play it now and only a few games can be played on it due to my cousin dropping it on the stairs :(

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my old soundblaster discrete sound cards became useless with windows vista and any version of windows thereafter... 

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My PS2 version of need for speed underground 2 got scratched, and then I lost the memory card with all my save data on. I'd almost completed it, I just had the last round of underground league races to go and my 240SX would have owned everything :(

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My first laptop ended it's life under the wheel of a 90-something Jeep Cherokee LE... I was about to do a backup the day before, but something got in the way. A couple of months worth of stuff lost. Also, this was about a week before my high school senior year exams. Actually wen't two months or so without a laptop then... 

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Hmm let's see:

 

My brother made me drop my computer off a window

My brother made me drop my laptop off a window
My brother sucked on my processor

My brother cut my motherboard in half

My brother sucked on my graphics card

My brother spilled milk all over my keyboard. I started to cry.

My brother karate kicked my computer off my table

My brother chucked my hard drive full of data at a wall

My brother dropped a 7.1 speaker system down a flight of stairs

My brother poured and dumped 12 cans of Coke on my PSU

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I had my wallet stolen on a bus once, I was about 12 years old so it had nothing of any major value in it. 

 

Except I was getting the bus to my friend's house, and I'd put my PS2 memory card in there for safekeeping. It's probably the worst tech-loss I've suffered, since I generally keep things that are expensive under a close watch, and I lost all my save files for The Incredibles, ProEvoSoccer4, Need for Speed Underground 2, everything. Heartbreaking stuff for a kid.

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my dell dimension 8400, man i loved that machine...

 

unfortuantely the capacitors bursted and after replacing them the pc still didn't work

 

the rest of my tech losses aren't that bad, they are replacable.

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Physical keyboards on smarphones. My Nokia N95 fell apart (after hitting a wall at high velocity). RIP

Plural of PC is PCs, not PC's. Plural of CPU is CPUs, not CPU's. Plural of LED is LEDs, not LED's.

 

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My NZXT Sentry 2 Fan Controller was working for months in the middle of a youtube session i said OMG i see magic smoke opended it up the fan controller wires were bare and  smelt burned got an rma never put it back in my system

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my gameboy advance sp, screen's a mess now and L and R buttons dont work anymore.

100+ hours of pokemon ruby, emerald and fire red

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My older PowerPC Macs. Those were gorgeous machines.

As much as i disagree with what most of you say, i have to agree...the powermacs are all gorgeous :(

 

 

the apple logo is too big though

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My brother's DS Lite. It's not broken but it's still kinda destroyed. It reads GBA and DS games though. The hinges are broken and this picture should show you what I mean:

 

 

 

I bought a case to keep the screen intact, if I didn't then I could just pull off the top section.

the exact same thing hapened to me i also have all of the same pokemon games as you and the same dsi 

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Our beloved family computer. Pentium D 950, 2 whole gigs of ram, 160gb hard drive... After everyone got their own computer, it unofficially became my computer to mess with. Then. My dad threw it away saying I was wasting way too much time on it.

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A friend of mine sliped Famers uinon iced coffee on his laptop. Still works too.

Spilled a bunch of Mountain Dew Whiteout on my netbook. I just shook it repeatedly (after quickly turning it off), mopped the top of the keyboard down with a wet and then a dry towel, then went back to playing San Andreas. Had sticky keys for a while, but now it's fine.

 

Does NVIDIA mangling and salvaging the scraps of 3dFX count as favourite tech destroyed?

 

I miss them. :(

My VooDoo 3 3000 agrees.

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Old Custom PC: C2D (don't remember model), 9400GT 1GB (GDDR2 GUYS HOLY SHIT), 4gb of ram. Many memories with it. PSU died and it had become shit slow by then. I got a mac *heugh* now I'm here with this great 800$ laptop  :wub:

i still use a 9400 gt 1 gb ddr2 for the pc in the living room ,i feel the masterace  

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Hmm let's see:

 

My brother made me drop my computer off a window

My brother made me drop my laptop off a window

My brother sucked on my processor

My brother cut my motherboard in half

My brother sucked on my graphics card

My brother spilled milk all over my keyboard. I started to cry.

My brother karate kicked my computer off my table

My brother chucked my hard drive full of data at a wall

My brother dropped a 7.1 speaker system down a flight of stairs

My brother poured and dumped 12 cans of Coke on my PSU

explain a bit more and we might beat your brother's ass together 

my sister destroyed my motherboard for almost no reason and i got really mad at her 

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i miss my tamagotchi  :(

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