Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[mkylem]

I once accidentally divided by zero.

[Mattyd]

Buying a Dell.

[Blade of Grass]

Buying adele.

:o  :P lol, that's how I read it.

[FireFox]

Blowing up my power supply when playing Sniper Ghost Warrior.

 

Jesus, what was the PSU and how much did it destroy when it went out?

[lieudusty]

Accidently selecting the wrong drive and end up formatting my main boot drive :/

[Midnight]

I didn't plug in my CPU fan once.

[Guest]

The one and only time I took a computer hardware class ONLINE.

I used my desktop to do the labs because I didn't want to drive an hour to school to do labs. 

It was a simple lab assignment, take all the components off the motherboard and place them back on. 

Too bad I forgot to place the CPU cooler back on.

I blame that on I didn't have a box of IC Diamond Thermal Compound laying around hint hint.

No harm was done, the PC shutdown itself and I was at frys the next morning bright and early at 8am to buy thermal paste.

[Samskip]

Lol, and you didn't damage the motherboard?

 

I continued using it for two years after that and never had any problems. Guess I got lucky.

[KIngAbdulla]

. : ) i could see me doing that too!

that was my first time at assembling a PC

atleast I didn't ruin anything :D

[Reconciliasion]

Thought I'd blown a PSU.

 

It was a fuse in the power cable :(

Spent $145 on new PSU's and then $1.30 on a 13A Fuse.

[crazy_104]

I have one of those Silverstone STF50F-230 modular PSUs that has an odd SATA modular cable that has 6 pins in one end. I accidentally plugged that into an identical plug which was supposedly for one of two PCIE 6 pin connectors. Needles to say it fried out my DVD drive the moment I powered on the system. Thankfully, my Hard Disks were plugged into the correct modular plug. I'm now afraid to use the second PCIE plug (where I mistakenly plugged the SATA power cable), and the SATA power cable which fried my DVD drive. For my other SATA devices, I'm using the molex plugs with a SATA power adapter.

[REDNINJA2012]

switching the red button on the back of power supply and then turning the computer on

[tom3297]

Really?

 

I've done that for years on the same USB drive without any problems (not the hard drives, just pendrives).

no not really i never safely remove it 

[RaVenBelgium]

Jesus, what was the PSU and how much did it destroy when it went out?

Well it was a 350 or 400, I was playing the game for like an hour when suddenly everything was shut down. At that moment I didn't know what was going on, but the first thing I did was looking if there was something wrong inside my case. As soon as I touched the case I felt that it was too warm, and I smelled something burned. I disconnected everything and came to the conclusion I blew up my PSU, luckily nothing else died!

[FireFox]

Well it was a 350 or 400, I was playing the game for like an hour when suddenly everything was shut down. At that moment I didn't know what was going on, but the first thing I did was looking if there was something wrong inside my case. As soon as I touched the case I felt that it was too warm, and I smelled something burned. I disconnected everything and came to the conclusion I blew up my PSU, luckily nothing else died!

 

Was it a cheap generic PSU or a decent one?

 

Also I've only come across a few PSU failures which nothing else was harmed, you're lucky :)

[Mrcrysis2000]

Encrypting my main HDD with all my stuff on it with a 256 bit key....Then forgetting the password. 

[Snickerzz]

Encrypting my main HDD with all my stuff on it with a 256 bit key....Then forgetting the password.

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[Mrcrysis2000]

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Required a full restore, Was a sad day years of work and pictures gone this was about 3 years ago

[hak4fun]

Letting someone who can't figure out which button is an ad and which is the real download use my computer.

Yeah i did that once.... lol I ended up spending a week getting all of the viruses off. Oh and what made it better was they tried to fix it because a fake virus scan popped up saying the computer was infected, so they let it do its scan. Well that scan was also a virus that almost totally messed up my computer!

[hak4fun]

Required a full restore, Was a sad day years of work and pictures gone this was about 3 years ago

 

 

Required a full restore, Was a sad day years of work and pictures gone this was about 3 years ago

You probably would of been able to get through the encryption key if you had help.... lol

[Missioncode]

Not mine but when building a PC a friend when building a PC he plugged up a 4 pin in the wrong way. When it wouldn't turn on we checked all the power  and wasn't in the right way was amazed that it didn't brake anything. 

[RaVenBelgium]

Was it a cheap generic PSU or a decent one?

 

Also I've only come across a few PSU failures which nothing else was harmed, you're lucky :)

It was a pretty cheap one, nothing worth  :D

[smjpl]

i was cleaning my PC and i accedently pushed it off a desk, didn't post after that luckily it was only the mobo that was messed up.

 

How? I got a good chuckle out of that one. Sorry but that's really funny. 

[legopc]

i broke the sata connector of of my ssd :L 

[FireFox]

It was a pretty cheap one, nothing worth  :D

 

lol well that's what happens when you don't invest in the most important part of the system :)