Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[drake6651]

cut the traces on my motherboard screwing something in.

[digitalnav]

Good ole' days when I built my first PC.... somehow plugged the USB front header into the Firewire on the motherboard, Needless to say, there was smoke.

[flibberdipper]

Good ole' days when I built my first PC.... somehow plugged the USB front header into the Firewire on the motherboard, Needless to say, there was smoke.

... You're special.

[The_Evenger]

on my 2nd build i forgot the IO shild

and on my new build, i decided to try to re-use my old powersupply, nope, one month later it blowes out and takes my RAM with it (don't know how that happened o.e)

[Guest]

Cooler Master Elite 430. Worst case ever

Mine was awful, had to cut lots of it out so I could put my h55 in it

[BeyondEvolution]

It supports crossfire but not SLI according to the MSI website.

Pretty sure it does support SLI, just that they can't say that/ put it on paper or the box. This has always been a 'thing' with their lower end boards.

[wilkinsonvt]

[flibberdipper]

My Samsung Galaxy Player. 

... Those are a thing? My condolences.

[spwath]

When planning a build I had an i5(did not know what one) a mb that said "supports i5" and a cheap GPU ( like it was 30$ on amazon) b/c "who needs a good GPU in a having computer as long as you have good CPU" and 16 GB ram

[Cwazywazy]

I have bent pins, but only on old P4s that no one even cared about since they were lower clock speeds. On my current computer I did break a SATA connector off the motherboard trying to unplug the HDD. (Other 5 still work fine.) Also, I've never had static issues and the only time I've used one of those wrist/ankle things was when I was building a computer at school in like 6th grade.

 

I did try to delid the chip on one of my Geforce 8800GTS cards the other day and I literally sliced into the chip itself. It's broken for good now. (At least it was worth like $20 and I still have the other one.)

 

I don't know how, but I managed to make my old Presario 2100 laptop smoke. I don't know why it did that but it worked for another month after that. (I replaced the AMD motherboard with a faster and better Intel P4 Mobile motherboard. I still have the thing, just with a flat battery and no screen.)

 

One time when I still had my Presario R3000 laptop (That thing was awesome. It had a 3.2GHz P4 that was made for the desktop PCs) that was fully loaded. (2GB RAM, 1920x1200 screen, 64MB Radeon, etc.) I took it apart to fix the DC jack which kept corroding and losing connection but when I put it back together I mismatched a couple screws and ended up with two holes in the palmrest. Still worked and I sold it. (Wish I didn't, actually.)

[sand0oski]

broke off the connectors on my old Corsair Force GT ssd trying to plug it back in in a hurry.    

[PINKmonster325]

when i put in my motherboard, I forgot the standoffs and almost broke my motherboard

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

While building my dads PC (which never worked thanks to low end parts (looks at biostar)) I didn't raise the retention arm on the CPU socket, them forced the cooler on. Nothing broke, RMA'd the CPU and Mobo and nothing happened again

[ace2k8]

Put the motherboard in without the standoffs.

Did the same thing when I built my first PC. Had no idea when hit the power button for the first time I killed that motherboard lol.

[waxbytes]

I bricked a BIOS once back when Vista was new. I decided to update my BIOS and I made the mistake of trying to update the BIOS from within Windows.

Too bad I didn't read the description of the Updater utility as it was designed for XP 32 bit and I was running Vista 64 bit in all of it's original funkiness.

The update with the new BIOS failed, the update with the saved old BIOS failed, and then Vista locked up. Live and learn, as they say.

[Lord Gaben]

HTC Wildfire S, What a piece of shit, but then again was my first phone. 

[Lord Gaben]

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..

You spent $200 dollars on BEATS, ohh god

[Ringtail Jax]

My first android phone, Samsung gravity smart. Damn thing sucked right out of the box, mostly due to Samsung's HEAVILY modded version of android at the time...

[YouRezz]

my sharkoon t28 case.. its just a piece of shit

[Cryptonite]

buying ADATA RAM because it was $5 cheaper than kingston's luckily I was able to swap it and it was just a single stick of 4 gig.

(ADATA's 1333 MHz is exactly that while Kingston's is overclockable to 1600 MHz)

[idipss]

I don't even know why....

 

[Unhelpful]

My Logitech G930's. If I had only known the other options back then :'(

[Xquisite]

Well, I regret buying a Razer Deathadder 2013 gaming mouse.. It fails to perform as advertised. It's microswitches double click everytime I click once. It's a common

double-click fault. Well the ironic side of it is that, have you ever seen a $2 mouse used in offices? If you mash those keys and even if you use it straight for 4 years it never gets that dreadful double click problem.. And yet I got it on my $60 mouse by just 2 months. And I can't even RMA it because Razer does not honor any warranty here in Pakistan. SERIOUSLY RAZER?  :angry:

[qwertywarrior]

htc one s

it was a great phone but their were issues with the radio(modem)

[qwertywarrior]

I don't even know why....

 

omg and this

i bought this little POS