Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[The Unholy King]

I plugged a fan LED on/ off switch into a fan a power connector. It burnt some of the plastic and was pretty scared, still works fine though!

[2chriswy]

forgot to plug in sata power and took apart computer and put it back together because i could not figure it out 

[flibberdipper]

I somehow bent my CPU.

 

Yeah.

... You're special.

[bob345]

I dropped my brand new cpu on a carpet covered in dog hair. The hair stuck to the cpu like a magnet lol

[JamGorby]

Bench tested a motherboard on an anti-static bag. 

[JinKagekiyo]

I forgot standoffs once, thank god for surge protection. Another instance, I forgot to ground myself and a static shock happened and I cursed out loud. Luckily nothing was damaged.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Getting it all working right.... and on the finishing touch's,as everything is installed,...... you pull the front panel connectors out and with such a small space to use its a pain in the arse for fatty fingers to put them back in order in quick fashion, often rage inducing.

[ThePcMasterRace]

Durring my first build i thought cpu fan power counted as the main cpu power, thought it was the gpu so i rmad my gigabyte 4gb 270x and due to complications financially i had to buy a 7790 :C

[Jade]

This wasn't mine, but another person, however I feel it's still relevant.

>Built a computer on carpet, ungrounded.

 

I lost the part that actually clips onto metal two days after getting my anti static wrist/ankle strap. For what that's worth.

[Giddyguy]

I installed my ghetto CPU Cooler (some passive tower from an HP workstation with a fan attached with twist-ties) on the wrong way. Basically made it so the fans went up an down not horizontal towards rear exhaust (i put fan on afterwards). It was a pain to take out and put back in because i don't have a backplate so i have to use 4 nuts and screws and tighten each corner individually on my lga 775 socket.....yea

[Norwegiantweaker]

Water + PC parts = single most expensive paper weight ever.

[GzeroD]

When I was building my first pc from scratch with components I had chosen my ram arrived about a month after the rest of the system so I "Liberated" a 64 mb DIMM from the family pc to build it and install windows, When my ram came in I hit the power switch while removing ram and fried a 1 month old Athlon 2800+. at which point the CompUSA rep who helped me order my parts called the best buy I bought it from told and told them it was defective and got them to give me a Sempron 3000 as a replacement.

 

(The good old days where if you just had to get a new processor or motherboard that day you could go walk into best buy or compUSA and the rep in the PC components section has a clue about what he was selling)

[theroflcopta]

getting an FX 8120 when the new 8-cores launched. (It was their entry level 8-core) I wanted to upgrade from like an old sempron or something I can't remember. But yeah should of just got a phenom II x4 or something. That thing was a joke.

[Phage]

my roccat isku keyboard. wtf was i thinking when i bought this.

[matin94]

oppo find 7 hopefully

[matin94]

OH this is regret

okay then i think i regret the PS4

[Legion]

Friend tapped my on the shoulder and I dropped a D14 on a motherboard.

[Paralectic]

I remember back in 2011 purchasing these trash earphones for over 200 f*cking dollars. they broke in a week and they were real and not fake lol..

[HybridB]

finishing up my first build, i took my gpu out of the box and tried to put it in. Everything was lined out but it wouldn't go in. I was getting worried something was wrong. But i took it out of the case and saw i forgot to take the plastic protector off the pins

[peaking duck]

Mechanical Keyboards!

after hearing and watching so much hype, i bought one.

didnt like it, so i bought another with a different switch.

now ihave two i dont like and wish to try a third.

 

chasing a loose end i reckon... BAD BAD BAD.. elicit drug

[peaking duck]

Oh Yeah.. also Corsair H100.

 

if you're Australian, think twice about buying corsair AIO

 

cost me $140 to buy. its faulty now and Corsair requires me to ship it back to China, costing $60+

fuck off! despite australian consumer law outlining that the consumer has the right to request the reseller (store) to handle all warranty claims

[Coconut Money Affiliates]

My Samsung Galaxy Player. 

[Osiris199]

I meyself haven't done anything bad to my pc. But my friend who built his a few weeks ago, put the front panel usb connector in the wrong socket of the motherboard (Don't know which one since I was only listening through skype what he was doing) and probably because of the different voltages and wattages, he fried 2 usb sticks trying to update the BIOS and fried his Razer keyboard.
The first usb stick became really hot, the keyboard just didn't work at all on his old and new pc(even though it worked 2 seconds before the accident and apparently he saw sparks when he put the second usb stick in.

[DLM_012]

I have concluded that after reading this thread, everyone hates standoffs as do I.

 

Burn it with fire!!!

 

When upgrading my case and MB many moons ago, I didn't use them. The board kept intermittently turning off and not want to turn back on. I was convinced that I was on a string of DOAs till I finally realized what I was doing wrong. It always usually takes a fresh set of eyes to get your head back on straight with stuff like this.

[GeTecknics]

nothing i have done has messed up a computer yet

 

used the extra standoffs to screw in the motherboard

 

plugged a floppy power connector into a pwm header  (to be fair my friend who helped me build it had it close by so i thought after i was cleaning i must of knocked it out) this was 2 yrs ago when i didnt know much about building 

 

accidentally pulled out the pin housing for the fan controller on a h100i

 

turned on computer without plugging in gpu power (fast fans are fast)

 

and recently turned on my computer after doing some better cable management and forgot to plug in the power to the h100i for a little over a minute until i motherboard started beeping and shut off

 

also i do build most of my computers on carpet havent had a big problem yet hopefully never do