Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[TheNinjaNextDor]

You seriously just almost fried your 290X that you just got last week or so ?????? For that, I plan to shun you for a week. In fact, the entire community should.

Yep, it got to about 100C, maybe more. lolololololol

[pit5000]

somebody needed a laptop reformatted, so i formatted EVERYTHING, even the restore partition..... oops... no wifi drivers

[AllstaRawR]

Losing files because of a lack of back ups - definitely this.

 

RAID1. It's painful to see your storage half, but it is so nice not having to worry, "Will I lose this file...? I need to put this on my flash drive. And my external. And my etc."

 

Took me a while to cave and RAID1 my Red's... but I regret nothing. <3

[jtrier1]

Mine has to be tinkering about with my bios and accidentally saving over my overclock profile!! What a doosher!

 

oh yeah and playing at 1080p and not realising that the screen I was using was 720p lol. bye bye graphics card!

 

I was showing off too, I was like "yeah look, duke nukems running at like 5'000'000'000 frames a second"..............................power off!

 

I once tried to upgrade the memory in my old Dell desktop....on carpet....in socks. Yeah, $400 mistake.

[Tda62]

Putting a And 7450 in a computer with an I7-4770 bottlenecking

[Maslofski]

Being a Pc newbie and trusting a pc shop guy to put together a pc in 2011, and the result is in my signature. that case is just badly overpriced for the shit it lacks

[elecxonica]

Being a Pc newbie and trusting a pc shop guy to put together a pc in 2011, and the result is in my signature. that case is just badly overpriced for the shit it lacks

Thermaltake's cases are ridiculous.

[salah2000]

Hey I have no monitor for my PC and also want channels should I buy a TV and use as a tv/monitor or buy a monitor and install a TV tuner card in my pc

[shiftberry]

this one is idiotic.. well i tried to run a GPU without a heatsink, it was actually a Gigabyte Geforce 8400GS then boom.. I started smelling burnt sausage and i knew that the graphics processor overheats excessively and it needs a heatsink to reflect the heat off the computer through the fans thus it was a successful experiment.. dearie me :lol:

Worst GPU i've ever had!

[jakebackman]

I was building a gaming desktop (the one I'm actually using right now). When doing the test build (when you put the motherboard on it's box and you test your core components), I tripped over the 24 pin power connector and my motherboard fell off of the desk I was working on  and actually scratched the paint on my case on the floor. Suprisingly, the motherboard still worked.

[HappyChubbs]

Had a blunder here.  Was working on installing a UPS for a server room.  Dropped something on the "off" switch for a Surge Protector.  Needless to say, 4 servers were killed bringing down the WiFi, PoS, and Advertising.  Thankfully everything worked on the first try and came back up in 15 or so minutes.  Stayed in the server room longer than needed to avoid the higher ups...

[Robi_g]

My first go at overclocking my GPU went tits up. I moved the slider up too far without noticing (god knows how), clicked apply and it just kept crashing. Put it back at factory speeds but it was still unstable, I guess I must've damaged it. It's now running at stock (the card was factory overclocked so it's technically underclocked).

[Sousuke]

Buying my mother a Laptop .... sold it and got her an iPhone something she could learn to use :lol:

[Fgtfv567]

I dropped a magnet on my harddrive

"Magnets are basically magic"- Linus Sebastian. Magic, that will kill hard drives

[Fgtfv567]

I read on the forums that someone (as a pretty young kid), forgot to install the motherboard standoffs, powered on the PC, and then completely fried the whole thing.

[Norwegiantweaker]

I installed a Cooler Master Hyper Evo with the plastic cover still on it.

did you turn it on LOL ?!?!

[killers993]

Shocked a hdd wile powered on. At least it still works.

[Osiris199]

Today in a electronics supermarket (these were the only specs listed)

HP desktop: I7 4770 + GTX 680 + 128 GB SSD + 2 TB hard drive

Acer Desktop: I7 4770 + GTX 770 m ("m"->don't know how that's possible) + 128 GB SSD + 2 TB HDD

HP= 1999 euros
Acer = 1599 euros

[DSD27]

did you turn it on LOL ?!?!

I realized my mistake when I was still tighten the screws 

 

aha xp

[Recon-UK]

GT 210 6GB.

[Nickolas47]

I almost buy an imac

[Faa]

I read on the forums that someone (as a pretty young kid), forgot to install the motherboard standoffs, powered on the PC, and then completely fried the whole thing.

I ran a board for 3 years without standoffs. Often a bsod but that was it

[miniME_2011]

Bought a prebuilt, upgrading it part by part when I can.

[yuh25]

Messed up the order of the 24-pin cable after sleeving it, PC wouldn't turn on and I had no idea why

[TetraSky]

A client put Vicks vaporub in his disk drive to make it slide better. Needless to say, didn't work too well and it gave the computer a very strong scent.