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TIFU; Most Embarasing moment in my PC history

Shally
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So I've been working on a build for my friend, it was a budget build but he needed a pc to use for school and he liked being able to upgrade.

I built it with him and taught him the basics while doing it and telling him some of the times I messed up which was common.

He was nervous as he didn't want to spend his only money on a heap of metal that he wasn't sure would even start but I assured him it would.

After maybe 50-70 minutes of building and cable managing we decided to plug it in, and to his amazement everything inside turned on. I placed it on the desk beside the monitor, pulled the hdmi that went from my pc into it out from the monitor and into his. Meaning I had my pc connected to his through hdmi meaning a no signal error appearing on the monitor. I acted calm but really I had no idea what was wrong, everything seemed okay. After a hour of research on APU's and hdmi's I came to no conclusion, and was prepared to tell him the harsh reality. I leaned back in my chair and it finally hit me what had happened and I started crying in laughter. He did not find it as funny as I did. 

 

I feel like a idiot.

 

TL;DR: I plugged my pc into my friends pc after building it for him by hdmi instead of the monitor thinking it was the monitor, we panicked and thought his new build broke, he nearly cried.

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Are, are you kidding me. 

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Dw, I was delidding my 4770k earlier and dropped it on the floor lol.

 

All good doe, works great, 20c temp drop as well :]

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Dw, I was delidding my 4770k earlier and dropped it on the floor lol.

 

All good doe, works great, 20c temp drop as well :]

Damn that thing survived a drop? Those things seem a lot more delicate than that...

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In my entire life, I have touched 4 AMD cpus, and manage to brake every single one of them. ( Don't worry I paid my friends back)
1st - The previous person overloaded the CPU with thermal paste and upon picking it up, the thermal paste slipped out of my fingers and on to the mobo, bending a few pins
2nd-  1st time building an AMD based computer and literally placed the cpu on the socket wrong..
3rd - Dropped it while taking off the thermal paste ...
4th - When I picked up my friends CPU, I noticed a little dent in one of the pins so I took a toothpick, a magnifying glass and flashlight. After 30 minutes of rough and intense work, the pin snapped.
Till this day I'm still scared when I touch an AMD cpu even if these incidents happened 2-3 years ago.

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1. I jammed a 478 P4 into a socket not realizing it was an AMD socket.

2. Restarted a PC doing an OS upgrade

3. Touched 2 wires into a PSU cap

4. Magnified the screen like 300 percent

5. Tripped over my brother and accidentally sent my pc crashing 2 stories out the window (non-techie thread people know)

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In my entire life, I have touched 4 AMD cpus, and manage to brake every single one of them. ( Don't worry I paid my friends back)

1st - The previous person overloaded the CPU with thermal paste and upon picking it up, the thermal paste slipped out of my fingers and on to the mobo, bending a few pins

2nd-  1st time building an AMD based computer and literally placed the cpu on the socket wrong..

3rd - Dropped it while taking off the thermal paste ...

4th - When I picked up my friends CPU, I noticed a little dent in one of the pins so I took a toothpick, a magnifying glass and flashlight. After 30 minutes of rough and intense work, the pin snapped.

Till this day I'm still scared when I touch an AMD cpu even if these incidents happened 2-3 years ago.

number 3, dont you put the paste on after you put it into the socket?

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number 3, dont you put the paste on after you put it into the socket?

I was not applying the paste, I was taking it off because it was like 5 years old and almost gone.

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Once I got my Xbox One about 5 months ago, I plugged an HDMI cord from my Xbox One to my TV, no problem. Then, I turned on my TV and noticed that it would not give a signal. I tried everything on the Internet and I thought it was DOA. Turns out I pugged it into the HDMI In port after talking with an Xbox Ambassador. You know how more embarrassing that was :P 

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my first error was forgetting the bottom fitting on my watercoling reservoir....

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Oh my. Some of your fails here are epic. I think my worst was plugging in a floppy cable wrong (since the little flip bit needs to be at the drive for some stupid ass reason).

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Damn that thing survived a drop? Those things seem a lot more delicate than that...

I hope it was on carpet..

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The worst I've done so far is not align my heatsink properly when I installed it the first time. When I was little I broke a computer's power button, though.

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Um well the old d15 connector on some older network cards did look like a joystick connector.

Used a text editer on an .exe file.

Peeled of the sticker on an eprom chip and took it out on a sunny day cause I was curious what was in that lil window. 386 above board. Put it back together and the BIOS was gone.

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Wow guys

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Um well the old d15 connector on some older network cards did look like a joystick connector.

Used a text editer on an .exe file.

Peeled of the sticker on an eprom chip and took it out on a sunny day cause I was curious what was in that lil window. 386 above board. Put it back together and the BIOS was gone.

Early 90s and I bought some computer books from a small web site. Told my wife what a great idea the guy had selling books over the internet. She told me "youre not investing in something you find on the internet". It was amazon.com.

Oh man, that last one was a really really big fail. But I guess how would you know it'd get big. 

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Damn that thing survived a drop? Those things seem a lot more delicate than that...

cant be that fragile :P

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cant be that fragile :P

Wow it worked...

Irish in Vancouver, what's new?

 

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Damn that thing survived a drop? Those things seem a lot more delicate than that...

CPUs are basically invincible. The only risk is damaging pins on the AMD side

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