Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Vader]

Spent 500$ on a prebuilt PC. It's powered by a laptop charger with a CPU That's sodered down to the motherboard.

[ShiverMePenguins]

Hi! I'm gonna try to start a thread just for fun.

Here you can post the stupidest, most embarrassing thing you've done that is PC related.

EDIT: Let's make it 'The most stupidest thing you've said, heard, or seen that is PC related'

Please dictate if you've heard it, seen it, or done it.

FIRE!

took 246 school computers and used them all to do some encoding work for myself.

[sezir]

allaowed my friend to buy a mac just for plaing an online game and using email

[Det]

I bought a mac... and an iMac at that..

[_wky]

Puledl a RAM module out while the computer was on, the computer in question was a netbook, and I was 8. 

[montyrule]

saw someone use a sata 2 750gb hard drive with 8350 and 680!!!!

[Guest]

Some "professional" guy from Samsung was showing speed of their ssd's, he defraged it... OUCH!

[Hans Christian | Teri]

saw someone use a sata 2 750gb hard drive with 8350 and 680!!!!

 

As in he had no SSD, or as in he used it for storage? In the last case it really isn't stupid at all.

[tezza192]

My friend stripped the thread taking a screw out of a GTX 680 to put a waterblock on, Tried to drill out the screw and slipped running the drill down most of the pcb pulling off resistors, contacts and traces as he went

 

Needless to say one £400 graphics card went down the drain. 

[criso8]

Somebody told me today that there is no tab key on windows

[Razarza]

A friend last night told me he was going to trade in some PC games.

[Guest Nathanised]

Accidentally did one of those "open all tabs" on my browser. My browser was frozen for about 5 minutes. I have a lot of bookmarks  :unsure:

[Yuval]

Someone i know bought a prebuild PC with a I7 3930X and a ....

GTX 650

("hardc0re gamerz")

[Youbetternot]

defragging a ssd

[Matman24]

While I was building my first PC, I plugged in my CPU power cable incorrectly, and spent about half an hour swearing incessantly at my computer trying to figure out what the hell I did wrong.

[TheBLOODYTOXIC]

I installed windows7 a thousand times because i went to grab some dinner and left the disc inside D:

[Xorbot]

 

The Ghetto nVidia Shield, which costs more than an nVidia Shield.

 

"BUT WAIT!" proclaims Linus.  "This presumes you already have a phone!"

 

I suppose I can make a ghetto laptop as long as I buy or use a pre-existing monitor, tape an mITX board to the back or an Intel NUC, and have terrible battery life with a rigged system?  Seriously, this Ghetto Shield is an incredibly stupid idea.  Even more stupid of an idea as the nVidia Shield itself!  (I kid, I kid..) :P

[LinusTech]

 

The Ghetto nVidia Shield, which costs more than an nVidia Shield.

 

"BUT WAIT!" proclaims Linus.  "This presumes you already have a phone!"

 

I suppose I can make a ghetto laptop as long as I buy or use a pre-existing monitor, tape an mITX board to the back or an Intel NUC, and have terrible battery life with a rigged system?  Seriously, this Ghetto Shield is an incredibly stupid idea.  Even more stupid of an idea as the nVidia Shield itself!  (I kid, I kid..) :P

 

ouch.

[JAKEBAB]

i asked my friend what his friends pc specs were and he replied i dont know but its probably got one in it.

[Xorbot]

ouch.

 

I am just happy that you read my Twitch.tv comment from the last stream on air, proclaiming that this idea is "full of fail".

[Kuzma]

Someone told me that CDs can only hold MP3s....

Someone told my AAC is superior to FLAC....

Someone told my 192kbps is max bitrate for mp3....

[Ruostunut kokis]

Not sure... Either getting a GTX 550 Ti used (a year ago) for 100€ or getting an used 60 GB SSD (OCZ Vertex 2) for another 100€.

[Pingypoker]

I used a 30GB SSD for a boot drive...

 

How is that stupid?

[Cryptonite]

saw someone use a sata 2 750gb hard drive with 8350 and 680!!!!

if he is really on a budget he can get an SSD later, who cares.

one of the worst things I've done is taking a computer apart around 5 times and rebuilding it because nothing I do will make it turn on in the slightest, turned out I forgot to put the power on at the wall, this was a few years back though. another is continuously buying Asus to the extend of not liking them at all anymore.

[Cryptonite]

How is that stupid?

people dislike using secondary drives for storage or something, like I care, complaining about an SSD just screams having too much cash.