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I take it you mean the Sata connector? If so, it should be attached to the PCB.

It could be. But he also basically removed everything but the disk itself. Even the motor for the disk is no longer connected.

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It could be. But he also basically removed everything but the disk itself. Even the motor for the disk is no longer connected.

 

He opened the hard drive up!?

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He opened the hard drive up!?

Pretty much yeah. There are parts where you can see the actual disk. In fact I'm quite surprised that the drive itself hasn't fallen apart yet.

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Pretty much yeah. There are parts where you can see the actual disk. In fact I'm quite surprised that the drive itself hasn't fallen apart yet.

 

What the?..... I Don't even..... *Sigh*

 

Did he use a drill or something? Hard drive cases are not exactly easy to break, he must have put some force into it.

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1994... guy on my floor buys brand new windows computer (micron pentium 100mhz?)... 

 

first thing after power button... "format c:\"

 

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What the?..... I Don't even..... *Sigh*

Did he use a drill or something? Hard drive cases are not exactly easy to break, he must have put some force into it.

Just a screwdriver. Nothing more. He did use a decent amount of force and there were some quite loud popping sounds that came from the hard drive when it happened.

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Haha well I don't know if this quite counts but it was the day after christmas and I had just gotten the blackwidow ultimate and I was letting my friend play on my computer so i thought it would be funny to go get a snow ball and sneek up behind him but when I threw somehow he knew and he ducked and it directly hit my new keyboard. So yeah thank god for warranty's xD

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Well one day i got home and my pc was doing some weird stuff and i though my OS had lost it. So i re-installed it and it still did it. So i pulled my whole pc apart then when i put it all back together i worked out it was the ram. So when i went to put new ram in i had it the wrong way and turn the pc on (It was not in right it was like half in half not) . After that when i went to get the cpu out of it i bent every last leg on it and i killed my video card as well :/ was not a good week. 

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Letting my parents buy a laptop for me when I was 10.... Well F**K Now I have the same one i3 + Geforce 320m + 4gb ram + Overheating like hell

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Building my 1st computer, I accidentally thought that a cmos jumper was a fan header. 

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Letting my parents buy a laptop for me when I was 10.... Well F**K Now I have the same one i3 + Geforce 320m + 4gb ram + Overheating like hell

how long ago was this?

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Just realized I should have gotten a bigger case since now I do want to watercool

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Just realized I should have gotten a bigger case since now I do want to watercool

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I know that feeling. My last case I couldn't even fit a small fan up top without pushing against my mobo.

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I did not build so many PCs.

 

But i always forget to connect the PCIE power connector to the GPU...

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Back when i didn't know anything about computers, had a pentium 1 pc.......first i deleted the system files trying to make it run faster.......then i followed that stroke of genius by taking it apart (trying to fix it) and running it without the heat sink( soooo much smoke). Looking back i was actually pretty close to fixing it

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Back when i didn't know anything about computers, had a pentium 1 pc.......first i deleted the system files trying to make it run faster.......then i followed that stroke of genius by taking it apart (trying to fix it) and running it without the heat sink( soooo much smoke). Looking back i was actually pretty close to fixing it

lol Nice. At least a 286 your probably could have run without a heatsink, maybe even some flavor of 386/486.

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My first build I made three mistakes;

1) Forgot to plug in CPU power cable so panicked thinking I had bent pins during CPU installation

2) Forgot to plug The SATA cables into my SSD and HDD, so spent nearly 2 hours trying to install my OS

3) Thought ODD's could be mounted from the front and not the back, so once I had put everything in the case my beefy 140mm CPU cooler wouldn't give me enough space to fit the ODD so I had to install the OS with ODD outside the case.

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Wanting to WC a Q6600 in a case that doesn't even support dual 120mm rads. Shit this CM Mystique. CM, make better cases next time. You are full of shit. I mean, your cases are so fucking cheap, I actually broke the stupid front panel just by touching it. -_-

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This threads been blowing up sooo, contemplating buying a console.

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Buying a dell.

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Just some helpful stuff: You're - You are, Your - Your car, They're - They are, Their - Their car, There - Over there.

 

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Buying a dell.

My Dell has been good to me. Best old Dell ever. :)

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My Dell has been good to me. Best old Dell ever. :)

 

I guess mine has too, its just the 604 Xeons are getting a little tired these days

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Just some helpful stuff: You're - You are, Your - Your car, They're - They are, Their - Their car, There - Over there.

 

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My Dell has been good to me. Best old Dell ever. :)

dat dell 2300 series tho

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