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Well, I opened an old IDE hard drive to see what it looks like on the inside and I played around with the interior, put it back together and expected it to work.

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Since my first computer at the age of around 6-7 I've been quite lucky, I'm very cautious so that might have helped because I think the worst thing I did was forgetting to apply thermal paste on a Pentium 4 3.73GHz and wondering why it was hitting something like 70 degrees about 10 years ago, but I've grown up since then and have never repeated that little piece of incompetance.

That is one fast Pentium!

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There's a list.

 

1. Having my first computer, a laptop that ran Vista. CRASHES. BLUESCREENS.

2. Second laptop died by a kneeing. I woke up in the middle of the night, slipped on my rug, and fell knee first onto my closed Acer laptop. 200lbs of crushing power, activate.

3. Dropped the third laptop off the side of my bed while trying to figure out a way to overclock it.

4. Dropped my 3570K into a Gigabyte Z77X UD3H

5. Having that motherboard kill my SSD

6. Returning the motherboard, of which my dad argued (correctly) that the retailer was breaking federal law because it is illegal to sell a product contingent on an extended service plan or warranty (he knows his stuff, worked on Wall Street and in numerous car dealerships)

7. Bending literally all of the pins on a Socket 939 processor

8. Taking apart my Razer BlackWidow Tournament (Razer won't send me the replacement part it needs to work properly)

9. Buying a $20 PSU. It never died or took anything with it, it was just plain cheap.

10. Buying an Intel Celeron.

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Installed Windows 8 on the wrong HDD. It was a lenovo one. Now it olny works with a Lenovo K410. Had to buy Windows 8 Twice

you can install it on a different computer.. But you will have to call microsoft to get them to activate it..

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Building my first PC and trying to put in the motherboard without standoffs, its so much more comfortable nowadays when theyre pre-installed. Also test booting the system with the stock Intel fan not correctly mounted.. Memories..

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I bought a Dell once.

Got an Alienware now, and its like wierd time to time, well what to say its a Dell..

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There's a list.

 

1. Having my first computer, a laptop that ran Vista. CRASHES. BLUESCREENS.

2. Second laptop died by a kneeing. I woke up in the middle of the night, slipped on my rug, and fell knee first onto my closed Acer laptop. 200lbs of crushing power, activate.

3. Dropped the third laptop off the side of my bed while trying to figure out a way to overclock it.

4. Dropped my 3570K into a Gigabyte Z77X UD3H

5. Having that motherboard kill my SSD

6. Returning the motherboard, of which my dad argued (correctly) that the retailer was breaking federal law because it is illegal to sell a product contingent on an extended service plan or warranty (he knows his stuff, worked on Wall Street and in numerous car dealerships)

7. Bending literally all of the pins on a Socket 939 processor

8. Taking apart my Razer BlackWidow Tournament (Razer won't send me the replacement part it needs to work properly)

9. Buying a $20 PSU. It never died or took anything with it, it was just plain cheap.

10. Buying an Intel Celeron.

10. WHY?!?!

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I once called a class main and I was wondering why the heck it kept saying I had no main method, but instead a constructor.

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Eh?

 

I bathed my G110 in the bath in red hot water, worked fine after 5 days drying.

 

I spilled stuff in it so...

Yea most electronics will work after being wet as long as they were not connected to power at the time and they have time to dry completely.

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3. Dropped the third laptop off the side of my bed while trying to figure out a way to overclock it.

 

I dropped my old ibm think pad off the desk one time. It was powered on and the hard drive retaining screw was missing. The hard drive came flying out. powered it off and put the hard drive back in and it booted right back up.It was a very sturdy laptop but it was painfully slow.

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I dropped my old ibm think pad off the desk one time. It was powered on and the hard drive retaining screw was missing. The hard drive came flying out. powered it off and put the hard drive back in and it booted right back up.It was a very sturdy laptop but it was painfully slow.

 

Thinkpads are beast as hell ;)

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replaced almost  my whole computer, it was my screen that was dead....

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Once I assembled the whole computer and only after that realized that I have forgotten to plug the 8-pin EPS connector so I basically had to everything out of the case again :D.  

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When I was young (7-9) I saw an ad about having this trip to like Hawaii or something and I won it because I was the 9999999 viewer or something like that, convinced my mother it was real (who literally never used a PC at the time) needless to say, she lost $1000 I still feel bad about it to this day :c

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

 

Girlfriend problems, she managed to download 4 sets of "Driver sofware"before she actually played the selected film. UGH. Also uses windows explorer.

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overclocking p4 to 4GHZ   well lets just say it didn't last too long

Heuehue did that too on stock cooling , after 30 seconds my chip was getting cooked alive in there :D

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I didn't screw in one of the hard drives properly, and in about a month it fell and one of the chips touched the corner of the hard drive below it. Smoke POURED out of the back of the computer.

eshhh D:

 

I feels you bro.

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What do people even put in these things?

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My worst mistake was my very first build. I finished installing everything into the case and I had everything plugged in and ready to go... or so i thought. Booted it up and the power led came on briefly then turned off. I heard a spark-like noise inside my computer case. Opened up the case and saw a very small puff of smoke and a burning parts smell. I ended up shorting the motherboard due to not completely plugging in my 24-pin power cable to the motherboard resulting in an electrical arc between the motherboard and the 24-pin cable. It wasn't until after I replaced the motherboard twice (thought the second board was faulty) that i figured out that I had also switched the PSU voltage to 240V rather than 120V. It was a very frustrating, yet enlightening first build. Lessons were learned.

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I just sold my 7970... Now I'm stuck with an old 6770.

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I just sold my 7970... Now I'm stuck with an old 6770.

I'll give you my 6570 for your 6770. :D

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I'll give you my 6570 for your 6770. :D

I'll give you my 5670 for your 6570

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