Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[ZmanFTW]

After much attention to detail...wondering why newly built PC wasn't working and then plugging it in.

[Pacioli]

I know a guy that bought either an AMD processor or an Intel processor (cannot remember which) and tried to use it in his older apposing type board.  He thought removing a few pins to make it fit was acceptable.  I fake helped him trouble shoot for 20 or so minutes knowing that shit was doomed but didn't have the guts to tell him.  He was a real hot head and was already in a fit of rage trying to figure it out.  

[Brendson]

Recently - "Our eyes are capped at 30 frames"

[Speedbird]

Bought a prebuilt PC with an i3, 4 gig of RAM and a GT330. 

[nick99n]

haven't done anything way too stupid bacause i have most of the time no money so i know i can't replace anything broken and i only did some software mistakes BUT

this is the heart breaking story of my 7850 dual-x 

i bought this card and i loved it ! i went from geforce 240(ddr3) to this baby and i was amazed 

a month later i encountered some problems because of the mobo so i unpluged everything and send the mobo where i bought it ,the gave me a working one and i went home to build the pc again

i plugged everything and left my beloved 7850 to be plugged last i grabbed the box where i had the gpu and i opened it SHIT i had the box upside down and i watched my gpu falling down to the floor 

i started sweating as  i saw the one fan popping out and the pcb was scratched and damaged a bit i rushed to put the gpu in and then booted what a relief! i was ok litle did i knew.....

the dvi port is damaged and gives flickering and i had to buy a new monitor to use the hdmi .Now one time per 3 days or something like this i will see a random white horizontal line that will go off after a sec 

this was my sad story of almost destroying my most loved part and i have to deal with the fact that some day it will need to get replaced and i wont have money to buy something like this again for some months 
hope you guys are more cautious after reading this because it is sort of heartbreaking for me 

[nick99n]

wondering why i can't see anything in the screen and then realising i forgot to plug the pci-e cable 

[loony979]

Bought a screen that said 7ms response time not knowing it really was 50+ never trust

Manufactures ,rely on truth . Know what input lag is .

[nick99n]

ohh another one 

a friend of mine got when he was young a pre-build pc and later he realised it was time to upgrade so he went to the shop and bought the exactly same gpu 
now i got the one just for a pc case i had lying down so i could use the gpu for our boring living room pc

[xmx1024]

IT guys put gum in USB ports to keep people from using them?!?!?!

 

 

EDIT: not like this

 

they chew it and then they stick it.

[FlamingMetalHorse]

When I first got into PCs, I went around blabbering about how the FX-8350 was superior to Intel's haswell processors because it had higher clockspeeds and more cores at a lesser price. Yeah... I was THAT guy... I still cringe to this day thinking about what I said.

[Judist]

Broke into my isp back when it was much easier to do (1995 or 96ish) to install some eggdrops on their servers for my irc botnet. The admin evidently logged on while I was digging around other peoples accounts and folders, including the local PD's account.

 

My dad got a call from the cops that day.

[Stadiz]

helping stupid people with PC-tech.
They call you every minute,
can I click here? what about here? oh I clicked
*hangs up the phone* <_<

[juretrn]

I dont think people realise how static resistant modern day tech is, i have a tesla coil which can produce several hundred thousand volts, i will do a video with my old iphone 3gs getting closer and possibly a strike if its survives the EMI

Ever heard of skin effect?

[Chuck Norris]

I bought an Nvidia Themed green case and built an amd system in it.

[max1220]

Friend got 12gig RAM, and installed an old, 32-bit cracked Win 8. He HAS BOUGHT A FUCKING PRO LICENSE, WITH A x64 BIT DVD WITH THE PC! Why would anyone install x32 cracked then?!

[ManWithBeard1990]

Used a K-series processor in a B-series motherboard.

[_wky]

I did this to reduce the noise created by the vibrations of the fan. Nothing bad has happened it's just kind of not recommended...

[maazster]

Put windows Vista on my laptop

[joenewbie]

Spent 2 months trying to figure out why there was a little red light on my motherboard, I knew I didn't have the front power led connected, yet I couldn't' figure out what was wrong with the MB.  I wrote to Gigabyte, I wrote to another tech site, I drove myself mad.  Then I wanted to make sure I had my SSD attached to the right Sata connector, the Intel one not the Marvell one, so I cracked it open to check.... corrected that error and put the CPU_LED leads in the right place.  Red light on motherboard fixed, SSD operating faster.  But I was a complete idiot for not realizing the mobo would pick up the fact that the CPU_LED wasn't connected properly.  Duh.  Live and learn.  

[IAmSkip]

Ubisoft.

[Bloodkil933]

Ubisoft.

Buying a crappy ported Ubisoft game.

[CowsGoRoar]

Bought a Dell Inspiron 580. Don't get fooled by the name, it's an ATI Radeon HD 5450 in there.

[Brendson]

-Snip-

 

Dude. What?

[Rashy]

INTEL STOCK COOLER

NOT ENOUGH SCREWS

THERMAL PASTE = TOOTH PASTE

THIS WAS PCIe 16x (HAS STOCK SLOT PENTIUM III HEATSINK ON IT)

[FIXED]

ANOTHER INTEL FAN

COMMING SOON...

WHATS WRONG WITH A TOOTHPASTE AS A THERMAL PASTE >:[

 

Heard: 8 Titan Black in SLI ftw

[Rashy]

I didn't say it's wrong, It's nice and smells like mint !

Is it me or is LTT getting smaller