Worst/Weirdest Tech Experience You've Dealt With

[Lamboboy63]

Mac or PC,Tablet, Phone what ever tell us about the worst or craziest thing you ever dealt with when you were using tech

 

Ex: My Desktop caught on fire when I installed Minecraft < did not happen its a example lol

[zlolslavez]

Mac or PC,Tablet, Phone what ever tell us about the worst or craziest thing you ever dealt with when you were using tech

 

Ex: My Desktop caught on fire when i installed Minecraft kek

Don't you mean when you used an AMD cpu/gpu jk i have both

[Equilibrium_FOOL]

I thought I had killed my GPU when overclocking.  Luckily it just needed a break and a reset.

[Jodomcfrodo]

I spent a week trying to flash my bios on my GPU. When I went to do nothing happened at all. I eventually realized I had the ROM in the wrong folder. So that was fun. 

[DaedalusOS]

I owned an AMD 8350.

[KemoKa]

I owned an AMD 8350.

I owned an A10-5800K. Top that.

[Nutarama]

I had my SSD free-floating, hanging off the SATA power cable, for a while because my case doesn't have mounts and I didn't have an adapter.  Worked fine, just looked funny.

Friend was fixing a laptop when he realized the GPU literally wasn't touching the heatsink due to design error >.<

[TheSLSAMG]

Don't you mean when you used an AMD cpu/gpu jk i have both

Fun fact: The only PC component of mine that has ever caught on fire was my Radeon HD 7770.

[TheSLSAMG]

I owned an A10-5800K. Top that.

I owned an AMD Athlon 750K that was bad from the factory, and it took me three weeks to get a replacement, at which point I gave up on it and the motherboard and later ended up giving it to Lanoi.

 

Those were fun times.

[DaedalusOS]

Fun fact: The only PC component of mine that has ever caught on fire was my Radeon HD 7770.

[DaedalusOS]

the accidental double post awkwardness....

[GzeroD]

I owned an A10-5800K. Top that.

I at one point was in possession of a A8-3870k system build.

[Lamboboy63]

Had two

 

Lenovo H535 AMD A10-6700 3.7GHz - One day of ownership first thing i installed Java/Minecraft it Blue Screen non stop had to do a full restore and heatsink fell off. It had Windows Home Premium (Kek Edition)

 

iPhone 5C - Dropped on my leather jacket in class about 4 inches used it for five mins not hot at all battery at 75%, screen when black slowly put it in my pocket in disappointment that my phone was done for, next block i saw it was smoking and she put in in a plastic bag (idk how that helps). Bus ride home it was smoking like crazy still in the bag and it started stinking the bus, ran off the bus tossed in the snow full on lit on fire me and friends trying to let it out, 3 hours later when back to the location it was gone, Still to this day i am clueless if it got stolen and it got blown away since it was pretty much ash.

[KemoKa]

I owned an AMD Athlon 750K that was bad from the factory, and it took me three weeks to get a replacement, at which point I gave up on it and the motherboard and later ended up giving it to Lanoi.

 

Those were fun times.

I am defeated! >.<

[TheSLSAMG]

I at one point was in possession of a A8-3870k system build.

Sounds like POWER!

[RyomaSJibenG]

i actually delete system 32 when i was a kid, my logic is that, system 32 eats so much space

[KemoKa]

Sounds like POWER!

 

T^HE^R_MAL POWER!!!

 

I think that might be against the CoC. Not sure...

[KemoKa]

i actually delete system 32 when i was a kid, my logic is that, system 32 eats so much space

Don't worry, everyone and his grandma has done that at some point.

Well... Usually just the grandma...

[Kherm]

I currently have an FX-6350 (not that bad) with RADEON 3000 series GRAPHICS

 

i didn't even know the numbers went that low......

Not to mention i have an M-ATX motherboard in a 450D

 

I'm at my desk, using my Latitude e6410 (With E-port Replicator) with Intel HD graphics (Arrandale) hooked up to 2 monitors, because it's faster

[RyomaSJibenG]

Don't worry, everyone and his grandma has done that at some point.

Well... Usually just the grandma...

dammit i'm not unique :<

[DaedalusOS]

I currently have an FX-6350 (not that bad) with RADEON 3000 series GRAPHICS

 

i didn't even know the numbers went that low......

 

Can you even run minesweeper on that...?

[BOT Edward]

Working in a support desk environment I come across all sorts of weird scenarios.

 

Had a user infect a PC 5 times in a week after re-imaging everytime it got infected, I asked them if they were running anything out of the ordinary or suspicious to which they said 'no' (like all users do). Checked the logs, facebookhack.exe. I had to implement whitelisting so they didn't run it for the 6th time  :lol:

[dmanschramm]

I went into a Canada Computers and I asked for the 4-pin variant of the 3.5mm jack (as a splitter). They then proceeded to tell me that my Apple Earpods (ik im ashamed) were '3 pin' because you had to 'count the lines on the jack'. 3 insulating lines means 4 connections. I could never the guy to admit it otherwise and had to leave because he kept telling me what I was buying was wrong. Lol how to lose business.

[rayden54]

Worst experience I've had was at a 'local' tech store/repair place. Was having intermittant power on/power off problems. Got to the point in the troubleshooting where I needed to start swapping components in and out, and of course the only other computer around here is 11 years old.

 

So I took it in. Told them I'd already run a memory test and a stress test and had it pass. Specifically asked them to test it at the component level and had the sales guy tell me that's what they intended to do. Cost me $35. Told me to pick it up the next day.

 

Next day. Went to pick up the computer. Different person there that day. He told me they'd run a stress test (and that it had passed). That I could pay them another $35 and they'd do a component level diagnosis. I told the new sales guy that I'd been sold a component level diagnosis the first time and he laughed at me. But if I took it home and then decided to come back later the component level diagnosis would cost $70 instead AND I still didn't have any compatible parts to do the tests myself. Told them to do the test.

 

Next day. Picked up the computer. They told me they thought it was a "software issue" (never mind that it was a clean install). I asked for the test results. They didn't have any. I asked to talk to the technition. He wasn't in that day. Took the computer home. Complete waste of money.

 

When I got home, I found a piece of paper taped to the side of the computer. It was the results of a SMART harddrive test. As far as I know, that is the only test they did.

 

(after a bunch of RMAs and nearly three more months I did eventually narrow it down to a bad motherboard).

[a_block_of_wood]

Many many years ago, I was working as one of three "do-all" tech guy in a small company.

 

My cheapskate boss won some sort of contract to supply some office with computers, some 400++ in total. Being the lowest bidder with very limited budget, he decided to cheap out on just about everything - Cheapest part of every computer parts you need to put together a functioning PC.

 

I'd like to talk about the number of time we cut our hands on the cheap case, but that's not the worse so I'll leave it out. The worst part is those cheap PSU that doesn't even came in a box. They came shrinkwrapped and weight less than an empty tupperware lunch box.

 

When we put everything in the customer's office, one decide to catch fire and blow when we turn on the room's main switch, which shorted out the entire building's power, and my supervisor screams like a banshee (she was closest to the one that blows up). In the end we had to return about 10% of all the PSU because they either won't turn on or smokes, and of course, one blew up. So kids, don't ever cheap out on PSU.

 

TL;DR PSU blew, sparks flew, screaming ensue, I need a strong brew.