Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Cryptonite]

Belive me, I am not joking.

too stupid to close a word document but brave enough to open porn she wouldn't know how to close either >_> shesopro

[ThreePinkApples]

Disconecting one of the drives in a software RAID 0 while the computer was turned on

Glad I had backup

[antoainb]

too stupid to close a word document but brave enough to open porn she wouldn't know how to close either >_> shesopro

 

Yep. 

[SJBijzitter]

was in bed with my laptop, forgot it was on its charger, stood up, cable broke the bus and the bus broke the motherboard, gg.

[Patrick3D]

Installed a processor the wrong way once, I believe it was an Intel Pentium 120MHz, I thought I had aligned the notched pins with the corner of the heatsink/fan that the wires came out from. This was one of the one's where the CPU sat in a plastic holder that clipped onto the fan, i.e. you pre-installed the heatsink and fan before installing the CPU. Turned the systen on, pop/sizzle/magic-smoke. It killed the CPU, motherboard, and one memory stick.

 

I also installed a memory chip upside down once on an old Vesa Local Bus graphics card. If I remember correctly I was attempting to upgrade it from 4MB to 8MB. Pop/sizzle/magic-smoke.

[terrytek]

Buying a Geforce GT 610. Even my TNT64 gets better FPS than that piece of crap. I'm in the market for a new GPU, something under 100 USD and a better performer than a shitty GT610

[scaryjam823]

When I redone the wiring in my computer my hand slipped and bent some of the pins on the usb 3 header. Broke two of them. Fortunately there was an adapter I could run through the case to still get my front header usb working, but lost two in the back. One day I'm gonna get it fixed, but it's not a biggie right now. It sucks, but it's those things that make you learn to do better in the future

[CustardZeit]

I trusted Windows' built in backup with my hard drive... bad idea

[pummetje]

buying a motherboard before you finished your specs list and finalized it

 

did the same with my 890fxa-ud7 at the time

[Mistgrim]

Not taking time to remove front bezel on laptop and bursting wires connected to wifi switch *facepalm*

[TheTechGenius]

Trying to Re-Build a PC while really drunk.

 

Take it from me, please don't try to build a PC while your really drunk and can barely speak. You will hate your self for it in the morning. LOL

[lotheovian]

I was having an issue formatting a flashdrive with ext3. It was giving me a permissions issue so I ran "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb". After that the drive would not recognize in Windows, Linux or OSX.

[Yuval]

My first PC was a i5 2400 4gb ram I in a HAF 912 with a Matx motherboard... Also a Asus gtx 550 ti SLI when I first got it....

It costed me 1500$

[Gauzl]

Upgrading from a 3770K to a 4770K, also my 3770K was a hell of a lot better at over clocking.

[Snapy1]

Just some food for thought

 

Mine personally is Google+

 

[miyabwah]

Windows Vista, "PC MASTER RACE"

[Bloodyvalley]

Everything.

[nsyedhasan]

Games for Windows Live, UPlay, and Origin to some extent.

[SAV1OUR]

trying to use a mac 

[beebskadoo]

Windows 8/8.1

[antoainb]

School PCs. Need I say more?

[Evostatic343]

my custom loop leaked and it wrecked my 780ti and my sabertooth.

[Snapy1]

my custom loop leaked and it wrecked my 780ti and my sabertooth.

Oh man really, that really sucks 

[TheSLSAMG]

The AMD Athlon X4 750K that I bought which is currently in the RMA process.

[TheSLSAMG]

my custom loop leaked and it wrecked my 780ti and my sabertooth.

Was it covered under some sort of warranty?