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Thought I'd start a new thread after something REALLY scary happened to me.

 

I dropped my 3tb external drive on the floor.. (still works)  :mellow:

 

So the obvious question here is: What's your biggest tech fear? 

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Not safely removing a USB drive. Nightmare stuff.

God those messages kill me every time i see it.

I am a happy wuffy

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Biggest tech company going broke. No rival and company that is left can set any prices they want since they are alone.

Other than that (if it counts) Linus and Slick killing me at my sleep.

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My biggest fear is the intake on my pc sucking up a fart and killing it

ahahahaha  :lol: It might just give you a sick overclock

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My biggest fear is the intake on my pc sucking up a fart and killing it

You got jumbojet engine as intake - damn boy.

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BIOS flashing fail (last time I had to deal with it, I almost pee'd myself and from then I was just scared of touching anything conserning this)

And something that fails after overclocking (never OCd but thats what is keeping me from doin it)

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My cheap power supply blowing up and destroying everything in my pc.

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Heat, I have an unhealthy obsession with keeping everything cool with fans and checking airflow. I have fans strapped to my router, switches, ect ect almost fans on everything.

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I have a couple fears, but the one I'm MOST worried about right now is the PC I built my girlfriend suddenly crashing.

 

I don't have the cash to replace the parts in her system right now, and it's been freezing and being generally unreliable right now. She's not exactly happy with her $800+ investment not working right, and it's hard trying to explain why I can't fix her PC when I can fix everyone else's just fine :[

 

It's probably a bad motherboard, I'll see if I can rebuild it when I have the cash to do it.

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My computer literally exploding. 

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Bios flash fail, happened on my laptop and made it forget it had a discrete GPU.

Drive failures, more of an annoyance than anything else as I don't keep anything on my PC that can't be easily re downloaded.

Hardware failure

Hardware being damaged in transit(I get my stuff exclusively online)

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Thought I'd start a new thread after something REALLY scary happened to me.

 

I dropped my 3tb external drive on the floor.. (still works)  :mellow:

 

So the obvious question here is: What's your biggest tech fear? 

some retard (a friend or family member) messing around on my computer and accidentally formatting one of my drives, I'd go ballistic and kill that guy, although everyone knows my pc is off limits and only accessible through the network or else...

 

or me deciding to see how far my cpu can go and just frying it (I've been thinking of doing so a lot lately)

 

Other than that I guess one of my hard drives just randomly failing is my biggest concern since I have way too much data to afford that.

 

The short version: My biggest fear is Data loss the rest are all just extras.

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Accidently killing all 3 phases to our companies server rack basically taking down the whole state, oh wait, did that, it was awesome! 

 

(no it wasn't not at all...)

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How is that possible?

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I'm pretty much living in fear of leaks with my build :unsure:

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How is that possible?

Leave the pc running at your grandma old room she dont go in anymore...

<p>Eryi's Action Rule#2 - "Dont jump on the green mushroom"

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