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Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

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Back when I was 11 ( I'm 16 just now) I tried upgrading my mother's computer's RAM, I was just getting interested in computers and wasn't really sure but I turned it off, unplugged the power cord, etc... Well I took one RAM stick out and then tried the other. It was stuck. I pulled and I pulled and ripped the dim slot off the mobo. Turns out I only undid one side. Luckily there was 4 slots and I only need two, but lesson learned. If it doesn't work with a little effort, check you've not done something stupid before doing something really stupid.

"Everybody wants a happy ending, right? But it doesn’t always roll that way." - TS

 

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Which makes it somewhat important, i hate dust in my case. I'm lazy and if my case can hold the dust out that's a really good thing! :D

It's not a life or death situation if you happen to not use it. But yes, dust is not a good thing. In fact, I have to clean out my rig on the floor.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

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Prepare for the most stupid thing you've ever heard.

This was back when I was fairly new at computers. I had just got a new motherboard, and I moved everything from an old HP case to a case that my dad had sitting around. Everything was in, but it wouldn't work, or so I thought. I had plugged the monitor cable into the motherboard input instead of the graphics card. .-.

 

I had turned it on and off over and over, tinkering and then starting it up, to no prevail. I go to unplug everything to look at it closer, and I see another monitor input where the graphics card is. Long story short, I plugged it in, turned it on, and it worked, I just had to reinstall my os. Talk about a blonde moment. xP

 

I helped a family member of mine to upgrade his PC - bought him a new Graphics Card and installed it, in the end I put the HDMI plug into the Motherboard instead of the new Video Card... (Do motherboards even come with HDMI?) anyway, it was in the wrong port so I called my brother and asked what I could have messed up, my nephew was all sad that it was broken and stuff, so my brother said, "Is it in the proper HDMI port? -_-"   So I look... "No kthxbaii"  - that's basically what happened ;) 

 

Protip: Check for stupid things before DOING stupid things. [basically what WackyAlex said]

So many things I could write here... things like this.

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While trying to remove someone's homemade modded hard drive cage from a scrapped PC( i used to fix up old computers for charity) and i broke it in two and caught the back of my hand on one of the pieces and had to get 8 stitches

The only difference between a politician and a criminal in patience . A criminal will try to take everything immediately where as a politician known to take it one small piece at a time

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I helped a family member of mine to upgrade his PC - bought him a new Graphics Card and installed it, in the end I put the HDMI plug into the Motherboard instead of the new Video Card... (Do motherboards even come with HDMI?) anyway, it was in the wrong port so I called my brother and asked what I could have messed up, my nephew was all sad that it was broken and stuff, so my brother said, "Is it in the proper HDMI port? -_-"   So I look... "No kthxbaii"  - that's basically what happened ;) 

 

Protip: Check for stupid things before DOING stupid things. [basically what WackyAlex said]

some high end mobos do i believe

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When building a rig for a friend I forgot to install the IO plate. It was lost shortly after in a move and still has never made it into his rig.

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Probably my worst computing mistake is when I was messing around with the cables (pluggin things in and out) when the computer was still on.
Managed to totally fry and smoke (fortunately) only one LED strip... I have no idea what I was thinking :(

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So i saw this picture and i had to ask you guys, What's your biggest PC failure?

 

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This is now a challenge!!

 

Whoever posts the best PC fail will win a few games!

The winner will be picked in 2 days, so get failing!

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I bought an iMac and couldn't use it probaby for the first 4 months

 

And this:  post-5244-0-33209300-1370603950.jpg

The danish railways decided to show a porn site on the screens used for the timetables

 

Edit: The picture isn't mine, but is taken from The Copenhagen Post

Nova doctrina terribilis sit perdere

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I bought an iMac and couldn't use it probaby for the first 4 month

 

And this:  attachicon.gifporn aarhus station.jpg

That is very funny!

 

Updating this to a challenge!

 

whoever posts the best PC fail will get some games i was going to giveaway!

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Bridging two solder points on the pcb of my gpu, while measuring clearance for a new gpu with a measure tape that has a short piece of metal on the tip. The pc was on and every single fan ramped up to full speed but i cut the power off instantly so nothing was harmed.

Why do i always get blue screens? Why not a red one for a change?

 

 

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Fucking hell, when I was 17 my Dad's PC was really slow, I took my DDR3 RAM out of my PC and replaced it and then fitted my old DDR3 memory into his DDR2 motherboard... ouch.

It didn't work  :lol: no shit. It destroyed the RAM.

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When i first learned about computers about 3 years ago i asked my brother if the radeon 5770 was the most powerful cpu in the world.

cpu: intel i5 4670k @ 4.5ghz Ram: G skill ares 2x4gb 2166mhz cl10 Gpu: GTX 680 liquid cooled cpu cooler: Raijintek ereboss Mobo: gigabyte z87x ud5h psu: cm gx650 bronze Case: Zalman Z9 plus


Listen if you care.

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buying a store built system

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i had an old spare pc a while ago

i installed as many audio synthesizers i could, just for testing trials

the pc got to the point where it was so laggy i couldnt uninstal or run anything

even with no programs running

*sigh*

those 10 year old white boxes of crap...

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This just happened to me recently , tried to plug my intake fan LED and plugged it into some random places avaliable on my board and on my first try ( I had no idea on where I should plug it in and everything is really cramped in the itx case ) , I killed my onboard audio .

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One time I had to replace the webcam in my laptop, which required me to completely take off the screen. When I put it back together, I forgot to plug in the video cable for the screen..

 

Took me an hour to figure out what I did and fix it...

i7 not perfectly stable at 4.4.. #firstworldproblems

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Broken BIOS due a bad overclocked hopefull my MoBo had DualBios from Gigabyte  :D

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This is sitting on top my power supply. has been since Christmas. need i say more?

 

You should see a doctor. I dont see anything on  top of the PSU...

Life is pain. Anyone who says any different is either selling something or the government.

 

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