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Title says it all, 

 

Mine would be trying to take off  a large CPU air cooler and having the whole CPU chip coming out of the socket (Yes the cpu was latched down)

"45 ACP because shooting twice is silly!"

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I caught my finger in a stock amd cooler. That hurt.

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Nothing too bad happened to me but my grandma tripped on her laptop altough I told her to never lay it on the floor. Screen was shattered and could be easily replaced

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That time I deleted a .dll off of my moms laptop to make room to install the sims (can't remember which one, but it was WAY back before the sims 2).

 

I knew nothing about computers, it bricked the laptop to the point the IT store couldn't fix it apparently.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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Dropped cola over the keyboard. Don't even bother to clean it. That won't come off  :ph34r:

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Irrevocably corrupted the data on all my hard drives, including my backups. Six years of accumulated media and files down the drain in one fell swoop.

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Irrevocably corrupted the data on all my hard drives, including my backups. Six years of accumulated media and files down the drain in one fell swoop.

Same here.

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Hm.... trusting my dad to keep my 760K safe. He decided the box was to bulky so he took it out of the packaging. Pins bent and broken, it was a disaster. 

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Just... You know.... Got my fucking hand stuck here when my computer was in a shitty Rosewill Redbone with a cross threaded stand off and that requires holding it with pliers to remove the motherboard and I didn't have the time... So I just installed the cooler.

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Owwwwww (It actually didn't hurt)

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I caught my finger in a stock amd cooler. That hurt.

 

I know that feel.. fx 8350 on full load can slice your hand off..

MB dropped from shelf... 2m...

Poor thing, was it totaled?

 

That time I deleted a .dll off of my moms laptop to make room to install the sims (can't remember which one, but it was WAY back before the sims 2).

 

I knew nothing about computers, it bricked the laptop to the point the IT store couldn't fix it apparently.

Thats nuts!  .dll deletion = magnet over harddrive apparently.. 

 

Hm.... trusting my dad to keep my 760K safe. He decided the box was to bulky so he took it out of the packaging. Pins bent and broken, it was a disaster. 

I would have cried for the rest of my life.

"45 ACP because shooting twice is silly!"

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I know that feel.. fx 8350 on full load can slice your hand off..

Poor thing, was it totaled?

 

Thats nuts!  .dll deletion = magnet over harddrive apparently.. 

 

I would have cried for the rest of my life.

Yeah it was nuts, for whatever reason, they couldn't even wipe the HDD and replace the OS, whatever I deleted, basically made the HDD useless and it had to be replaced entirely.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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I have a Dell Optiplex 755 (size: 'desktop') and I accidentally pushed it, and it fell... I heard boom and thought shit. Luckily it fell on the side where also some rubber things were, and it didn't care lol :D. It's only like 12 cm wide, and pretty tall, so very easy to topple over :/

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I dropped a heatsink on the backplate of my gpu, left quite a nasty scratch on the brushed aluminum.

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That time I deleted a .dll off of my moms laptop to make room to install the sims (can't remember which one, but it was WAY back before the sims 2).

 

I knew nothing about computers, it bricked the laptop to the point the IT store couldn't fix it apparently.

deleting a .dll file CAN NOT brick a computer. Something else happened.

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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Grounding failed in my wall socket, don't know when. Some time later, power surge. Happens all the time...come home and clocks are blinking. No bigs right, just power on again, right? Wrong. Blue sparks, smell of burning plastic.

 

No better excuse in the world to do a new build, though.

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using my old laptop as a beer coaster is up there.. seeing an entire pint dissappear through the keyboard and out the bottom..

next is probably when I set my gpu on fire stress testing an overclock while I was afk...

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I never really had anything devastating happen to one of my pcs yet, I only broke off a part of the pcie lock when installing my gpu (it still locks anyway).

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

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Let my mother use my desktop. She ended up getting a virus that deleted the path to every program I had installed and I slowly lost access to everything.

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A couple years ago I thought I was being smart and took the ram out of my old pc and put it back in again. I booted it up again about a month later, I was using a newer mac instead, and it gave me an error screen. My dad brought it to get repaired for a free "diagnosis". It turned out that I hadn't put my ram in all the way, it was slightly out of its slot. They decided to charge me 40 dollars because they had to open the case.

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deleting a .dll file CAN NOT brick a computer. Something else happened.

I'm just telling you what they told us, and what we ended up having to do. Granted I was like, 11, so you're moving backwards of 15 almost 15 years of alcohol and weed use so...lol

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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Deciding to buy a corsair CX PSU.... blew it up, bought another.

 

(anyways enough of that)

 

I once dropped a laptop and screwed up it's hard drive :'D.

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Using a PowerCool AUBA-B "750W" PSU to keep my PC stable during benching.

 

Core i5 3570K 4.9GHz @ 1.53V. Probably was consuming a metric ton of power. Plus both GTX 660s where under full stress. 

 

got a real PSU now, SuperNOVA 850W G2 <3

 

The PowerCool now powers my green desk underglow. 

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