Biggest Computer Disasters?

[Hoxton Master Senpai]

I was trying to play Half Life 2 and some guy told me that if you delete system32 the game will run better and to this day I can't believe I fell for it! :'(

[connorpiper]

Forgot to secure cooler (Back in 2008 or so) to the CPU. Fell off and landed on my hand.

It was one of those larger tower coolers. (Off-brand) 

[christianled59]

I bent my USB 3.0 Pins on my Motherboard

I thought i was the only one! But mine had the whole plastic bit around it snap off too. I bent the cables back and it worked but the plugin doesn't stay as securely.

[Dabombinable]

Failing to set my P5K-VM on fire (still killed it though), then buying a P5Q Turbo as a replacement and finding that someone had beaten me to it and had it catch fire (it still works on the 4 remaining VRM, which makes me think that its a 4+2 design, not 8+1).

[STRMfrmXMN]

Tried yanking my 3.5" HDD out of my case a few months ago. I sorta yanked too hard and ended up with the force bringing my hand into the wall next to my case and hitting the corner of the HDD into my finger. Hurt a lot and there was a lot of blood...

My hard drive was totally fine though.

[Mattr567]

I had a CX750 that blew up, then i had a CX750M that just flat out died on me.

CX750M was being a component killer, when it died....simply tossed it bought that Supernova G2 and now my PC feels so much healthier and works that bit smoother.

 

But again i probably am this forums resident "Person that really dislikes CX PSU's"

 

heck even my non 80+ Enermax unit lasted longer and worked better than both the CX Units.

 

Then I am the resident person that really dislikes XFX PSU's.

 

Two Proseries 750W PSU's out in 6 months

 

First one: Blew up throwing sparks, didn't kill anything.

One RMA later and 3 months later I take out the PSU while upgrading.

Gave it to my brother who was upgrading at the same time.

 

He used it for only 4 seconds posting on the mobo box.

After he installed his mobo into his case (with standoffs) he tried to post it there. With everything plugged  in correctly, (I doubled checked before he tried)

A smell wafts throughout the room. The PSU blew up on the spot after 10 seconds of running. Killed the Gigabyte Z97 board. Thank god it didn't kill the 780 Ti or i5-4690K that was on the board at the time.

 

Two XFX PSU's blowing up in the same time frame = done with XFX

Friend also had trouble with a XFX 7970 (ill spare the details) but after testing multiple cards with no issue they denied the RMA in the end.

 

 

Now living on a XFX 650W, but my brother had it for a year before me, (We originally swapped my 750 for his 650 because he needed the wattage) so it is probably ok, but it is noisy under load D:

[Dabombinable]

Then I am the resident person that really dislikes XFX PSU's.

 

Two Proseries 750W PSU's out in 6 months

 

First one: Blew up throwing sparks, didn't kill anything.

One RMA later and 3 months later I take out the PSU while upgrading.

Gave it to my brother who was upgrading at the same time.

 

He used it for only 4 seconds posting on the mobo box.

After he installed his mobo into his case (with standoffs) he tried to post it there. With everything plugged  in correctly, (I doubled checked before he tried)

A smell wafts throughout the room. The PSU blew up on the spot after 10 seconds of running. Killed the Gigabyte Z97 board. Thank god it didn't kill the 780 Ti or i5-4690K that was on the board at the time.

 

Two XFX PSU's blowing up in the same time frame = done with XFX

Friend also had trouble with a XFX 7970 (ill spare the details) but after testing multiple cards with no issue they denied the RMA in the end.

 

 

Now living on a XFX 650W, but my brother had it for a year before me, (We originally swapped my 750 for his 650 because he needed the wattage) so it is probably ok, but it is noisy under load D:

My feelings with 4 Dell laptops within a month.

[han_han08]

dropped my PC (case & all) about half feet on the floor..

 

still working, though not sure if that's the reason of my MB port woes

[Gloxxy]

I have pulled the CPU out of the socket of many old Intel and AMD CPUs while trying to remove the CPU cooler. It has bent the pins sometimes but they have all still worked once I bent the pins back.

[Majinferno]

My mom unplugging the family desktop because it was taking to long tPaARTITION the hdd. Killed the windows installation. No os detected

[EllieThePurpleFuzzy]

Then I am the resident person that really dislikes XFX PSU's.

 

Two Proseries 750W PSU's out in 6 months

 

First one: Blew up throwing sparks, didn't kill anything.

One RMA later and 3 months later I take out the PSU while upgrading.

Gave it to my brother who was upgrading at the same time.

 

He used it for only 4 seconds posting on the mobo box.

After he installed his mobo into his case (with standoffs) he tried to post it there. With everything plugged  in correctly, (I doubled checked before he tried)

A smell wafts throughout the room. The PSU blew up on the spot after 10 seconds of running. Killed the Gigabyte Z97 board. Thank god it didn't kill the 780 Ti or i5-4690K that was on the board at the time.

 

Two XFX PSU's blowing up in the same time frame = done with XFX

Friend also had trouble with a XFX 7970 (ill spare the details) but after testing multiple cards with no issue they denied the RMA in the end.

 

 

Now living on a XFX 650W, but my brother had it for a year before me, (We originally swapped my 750 for his 650 because he needed the wattage) so it is probably ok, but it is noisy under load D:

 

It was between a CX750 and a XFX 750W PSU for when i was picking a PSU :'D both 80+ Bronze.

 

I wish i knew more back then.+-

[Mattr567]

It was between a CX750 and a XFX 750W PSU for when i was picking a PSU :'D both 80+ Bronze.

 

I wish i knew more back then.+-

 

Mine was actually 80+ gold, it was apparently a really nice PSU. Nope!

 

Link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207029

[Techdude154]

I had an old dell optiplex GX270 I installed linux on and I was going to mess around with. I had it on my basement floor so I could reach everything. The next day the basement flooded killing the motherboard, the computer was still on and hard drives, fan, PSU were all still working. The motherboard was completely corroded though

[Arty]

Deleting The wrong System Reserved 

[Exploded117]

Accidentally kicking an old computer I used to have..... Since then the hard drive was failing and was making weird noises then once when I went to use it the hard drive completely died.

 

From now on I know that if your hard drive starts making weird noises, GET YO STUFF OFF DAT THANG QUICK!

[ace101.]

Drilling holes on my case window for additional 120mm fan. It looks terrible.

[Shottie]

Overclocked a GTX 570. Stank up the whole house after it sparked and started melting.

http://imgur.com/o3TOLTu

http://imgur.com/t8LRZRT

http://imgur.com/iaRsjEp

 

Seriously can't use link from imgur on these forums? Bruh...

[Fgtfv567]

Overclocked a GTX 570. Stank up the whole house after it sparked and started melting.

http://imgur.com/o3TOLTu

http://imgur.com/t8LRZRT

http://imgur.com/iaRsjEp

 

Seriously can't use link from imgur on these forums? Bruh...

And I thought I had no self-control...Jesus, if you really wanted more performance, you might as well have gone with a 970...

[Shottie]

And I thought I had no self-control...Jesus, if you really wanted more performance, you might as well have gone with a 970...

It was a couple years ago when this happened. It was my first attempt at increasing voltage. Won't ever do it again.

[CommandMan7]

Drilling holes on my case window for additional 120mm fan. It looks terrible.

I thought I was the only one! Mine's a HP stock case I've been meaning to replace anyway, so no big loss.

[ace101.]

I thought I was the only one! Mine's a HP stock case I've been meaning to replace anyway, so no big loss.

I guess i'll just order a side pannel to replace this so that I can forget what I did. It's only 7 months since my build and I'll be using this case for a long time.

[fracking4oil]

Stepped on and cracked a new laptop's LCD screen, while getting out of bed. Thankfully it wasn't too pricey replacing it myself.

[Wardojack]

One day I was removing the hard drive from a mid-2010 iMac, as I was putting it back together I made some big mistakes and the screen fell out, sheared half the pins off the display ribbon cable and ripped a connector off the LED driver board.

My mum was unhappy.

[gnarly0531]

just got a 560ti back in the day and it was running hot so i went to gently press my finger on the bottom to see if the fans were spinning on the acx cooler i believe and SNAP two blades broke off the one fan and cut my finger. also making the fan about twice as loud and worse cooling obviously. ended up buying an arctic cooling twin turbo after market cooler..... but was way better than the stock cooler on there. also last time i bought an evga once i saw how bad the performance of their ACX really was.

 

edit: also any time i open a closed system (ie. laptop, ps3, ps2, etc.) i always have "spare" screws once it is reassembled.  i swear at this point my launch ps3 probably has 10 screws missing but it still holds together and runs so in the end i really ask sony why so many unnecessary screws lol

[nj4ck]

was trying to fix a cross-threaded compression fitting whithout draining the loop, was stupid enough to do it with the system running. Hand slipped, tubing popped off the fitting, UV-blue coolant everywhere, entire carpet ruined. At least I was smart enough to instantly switch off the PSU before it shorted out anything.