Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Darkman]

Letting Fed-ex ship my pc.

Maybe let them ship your paperweights instead?

[Tech_Dreamer]

Kept starting up the pc for like (3 weeks) using screwdriv3r shorting method , since it was easier & as i did not want to lookup the manual.

 

 

ninjas are lazy sometimes.

[theelitegamer]

On the PSU I was looking at the GPU plug and seen the wire that said 'GPU' but my card only had a 8 pin while the PSU have the 4 pin.. me being new, started to panic, and called the Asus, and they laughed at me.

[YellowDragon]

Maybe let them ship your paperweights instead?

are you kidding? They will find a  way to break  those too !!!

[Tech_Dreamer]

"You were here before & you did something , that's why the PC stopped working.."

 

 

 

 

 

& I'm like...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a ninja waits in patience

[Thalandros]

..Recently bought a non-K i5 4670.

[Darkman]

are you kidding? They will find a way to break those too !!!

Then ship bagged air.

[EmotionalSloth]

I got pretty damn close to dropping my cpu once

[Cris]

on my first PC I installed a new graphics card without removing the drivers for the old one first, that was fun Course the only bad mistake is one you don't learn from

What happened?

[minimoose]

Didn't install the RAM properly in my first build which caused my computer to go on an endless restart cycle which made me really scared...

I did the exact same thing, in fact I returned the mobo as broken and when the new one did the same I finally figured it out.

[Silent_R493]

Just seen a live streamer build a PC with a 1500w PSU and ITX mobo in a full tower; no cable management, single GPU was at least a GTX 680.

 

It was built on a carpet floor with socks on, then puts mobo on anti-static bag to "Protect it".  Damn near wanted to face palm my screen.  The build was so unbalanced,  like slapped together I mean.

[mr.skyrim_pc]

Bought a GT 620.

 

Still have it.... shame.

That is whats in my PC......

[ionbasa]

I have an Geforce 210 paired with a Pentium D 925 3Ghz dual core and 6Gb of RAM, the chipset technically only supports up to 4Gb. That PC is actually now running Ubuntu with Apache as a web host,a MySQL server, and 2x 1T in Raid 0 with SMB file sharing.

 

That computer used to be my daily driver until a few years ago, it would run Windows 7 half decently. Oh, since the motherboard was from 2003 and was a workstation motherboard, I got driver updates all the way until Windows 7 64 bit.   Driver support ended in late 2012 though.

[niwas981]

connected my fan led switch of cm 690 to ground in the frustration of pc not booting up no matter what I do.Didn't realize i was connecting it to ground as anger had taken better of me. After that puff of smoke ,Fried the switch  :blush:   
Thing I learned , "Never get clumsy while working with pc components".

[ttam]

Did you know you can add RAM while the system is running? Windows wont like it but a restart fixes it.

This I would never recommend to do... ever. 

[Joshua Ondangan]

turned on my new built pc couple of years back without the heat sink on it

 

was a c2q 9550 it still works but it scared me hahahaha.

 

damn kinda embarrassing though since I was showing it on a class on how to build a pc hahahhahahahahaha

[elan2468]

Accidentally did one of those "open all tabs" on my browser. My browser was frozen for about 5 minutes. I have a lot of bookmarks  :unsure:

I bookmark everything that i find interesting then forget to remove them I stopped counting my bookmarks at 75

[ionbasa]

This I would never recommend to do... ever. 

Technically speaking, RAM can be hot plugged as it is part of the standard. It just can't be hot swapped or removed once an operating system has allocated the memory.

Certain Linux and Unix operating systems will allocate memory that has been hot plugged, Windows on the other hand will only allocate the amount of memory present at boot time.

Some servers even advertise hot pluggable ram.

[xjohnny3589]

Most "gaming" marketed prebuilts. Seriously a i7 with integrated graphics shouldn't be 1,000$

[Cryptonite]

well, this is more of a fail / win story.. A friend of mine broke his stepfather's vodafone dongle (3g dongle)  he broke one of the pins where the USB connects to the pc and the USB head would come off entirely (just the shell) I fixed it with some copper wire I broke off a piece of cable and gently forced it into the slide of the "shell" of the usb where the original pin was located. it worked for 4 years after that and then broke because of other retarded reasons, My friend's stepfather still has no idea he broke it back then.

 

stupidest thing I've done was open a hard drive to see what's up on the inside (I taught myself everything I know about pc's and had no internet) and expected it to work again after closing it back up. I still have that hdd as a memento, but I'm glad I opened that 40 gig beast, I learned a lot from the experience.

[Pzych0]

Buying a PC in a store from a bigger brand then building it myself or make someone assemble it for me. That PC didn't last long and you couldn't upgrade anything in it.

[eldergeek]

I have to say that the biggest mistake I'd ever made was messing with GRUB. I can't overstate enough how much you do not want to fuck with grub  if you don't know what you're doing. I was very inexperienced at the time, didn't know what I was doing, and the result cost me a bunch of family photos.

[TotemSP2]

Not my fault, but I was once given the task of seeing why a CPU was overheating, and upon removing the stock AMD cooler, found that the plastic cover was still on the bottom.

 

 

Something that was my fault, while I was being told careful instructions on fixing some guy's registry, I must of misheard or went ahead and wound up deleting... something. poor guy I was working with went into shock.

 

Fixed the problem though. 

[Stadiz]

The 1000 Dollar benchmark on graphic cards. goes also the titan z

Yeah one giant FU for Nvidia.

 

OT on PC: Person asked me once should he buy a good PSU or a cheap one, I said a good psu from seasonic or others.

He bought a € 35,- a something something brand - 600 Watt, I repeat € 35,-!!

(I did not build his PC he did all by himself *cough* no respect for cable management *cough*.) 

So you could guess wjhat happend?

Yep is whole shit got burned to the ground mobo, cpu, gpu. hdd all dead, who is to blame?

me  :huh: he says.

The hipster bought a new Macbook and still says its my fault.  <_<

 

P.S.

If this continues I will smite the with a knuckle sandwhich and a broken macbook in his rectum.

[ttam]

Technically speaking, RAM can be hot plugged as it is part of the standard. It just can't be hot swapped or removed once an operating system has allocated the memory.

Certain Linux and Unix operating systems will allocate memory that has been hot plugged, Windows on the other hand will only allocate the amount of memory present at boot time.

Some servers even advertise hot pluggable ram.

The hot swappable servers were a joke. I remember when HP introduced it back in 2001/2002 and it worked on some, rarely but on most it would just fry the chips. This works best on the older Tandem servers where you could basically tell the command prompt, hey I'm changing a CPU right now so you have to move all the load to the other cpu's while I change it. But on a consumer grade board and most server applications it's a quick way to breaking something lol