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I got a fan wire stuck behind the IO shield, and that meant i had to removed the gpu, which i couldnt get the release switch, the mobo- 1 screw got stuck, and the IO shield was a bitch to move

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Also this happened after I spent an hour putting a customer's laptop back together.  Hardly my first time working on a computer, but it was still horrible.

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Didn't really make any mistakes from memory, then again we're back over 10 years ago so. But plenty of times i've forgotten the 4 pin EPS for the CPU or turning the PSU on or sata power for a drive, just minor stupid shit.

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Made only one small mistake that was enough to make me sweat for a day....... I wired the front panel wrongly....

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bought a lighting kit cuz it was cheap only to realize that my case didn't have a clear side panel

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I just didn't turn in on. Also the AMD stock cooler was too tight for the CPU so yeahhhhhhhhh.

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On 08/10/2017 at 10:21 PM, minervx said:

Not downloading an anti-virus as soon as I booted up Windows 10

Do people still download anti-virus software?

I am quite happy with Windows Defender + common sense.

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Paid 800$ for a a10 6800k, 8gb of ram, wd 1tb blue, and a 750ti in 2013, the 750ti needed a 6pin and i needed an adapter. Ew.

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I forgot to plug the power cables to the GPU and spent 35 minuets freaking out, then felt really dumb.

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Everything was smooth sailing on the first PC I built. Though there was an issue with the power supply I had that made me do some sort of ghetto hack job.

 

It's usually things after that that screw things up. Like this one time I didn't apply enough pressure to my video card when getting a new heat sink for it and nearly melted the darn thing.

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2 hours ago, Eibe said:

Do people still download anti-virus software?

I am quite happy with Windows Defender + common sense.

windows defender is bad.  it blocked several of my safe programs and none of my viruses

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Didn't account for ram clearance vs my Noctua cooler. Its this one thing that is making me consider going to water cooling on my next rig.

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On ‎10‎/‎6‎/‎2017 at 2:38 PM, GamingMemeKing said:

What mistakes or issues did you encounter (if any) when building your first PC?

Buying everything the cheapest so computer looked like a rainbow of colors.

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Forgot a hard drive so I had to quickly run and grab an old NAS drive to load Linux onto for testing while I got a drive. And putting the I/O shield on backwards...

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1. got a fan lead stuck between i/o shield and mobo. 

2. that caused mt to force the graphics card into it, I thought I would break it

3. connected the power button to the reset button and freaked out

4. forgot to turn on psu and flipped out

 

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Pretty proud i didn't make any mistakes other than bending cpu pins because i couldnt find the directional arrow on the socket so i had to bend them back into place with tweezers and that was it 

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Screwing in a motherboard screw, screwdriver slipped, broke a chip off the board.  Dead board.

 

At some point managed to flip the power switch on the power supply to 110v.  It went BANG.  Dead power supply.

 

Stanley knife slipped when de-lidding a CPU.  Dead CPU.

 

This is over many years and are the highlights of my disasters.

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Haha  so many memories i really don't know about the biggest because they have been many mistakes that i have made but the one that i have done severally is getting needlessly expensive CPUs- like the i7 for a mid-range gaming PC. 

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I still don't know where, but on my first system i had a short somewhere which would shut it down. I ended up laying it down to take everything out ( I didn't test beforehand either) and after taking out 2 screws i for some reason tried to boot it, it booted, and i put the 2 screws back in and it still works to this day

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Installed motherboard without installing stand offs first luckily no permanent damage...

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6 minutes ago, Caleb SF said:

- Bought an APU and a GPU.

 

- Cross-fired

I nearly did that, except I never got a crossfire compatible GPU lol

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On 10/6/2017 at 8:44 PM, Firecheetah13 said:

Forgot to turn on PSU.

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Installed standoffs on a case (In-Win 703 black/red) that had a sort of raised portion of the plate where the mobo goes, so the standoffs were unnecessary.

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The thing freaking sparked lol...it was totally unexpected lol. i actually ran 

 

and that was the end of my ram slot r.i.p

 

 

any of you ever did something as stupid as that ? lol

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