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Computer wouldn't turn on 1 morning. This when I was novice and didn't know to instantly check the PSU

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I turn on my PC one morning and it greets me with "system disc not found",  first thing that pops in my head is "Uh oh..", second thing is I haven't backup in a long time, third is "Fffffffff....", Luckily I had burn a CD with a bootable system, I was so relief when I saw my files were still there, the only thing corrupted was the boot files, so I copied all my stuff and formated. Everything worked fine after that.

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My board got shock by ESD and fried one of the PCIe slots. Turn it on, no display. Thought my GPU was dead.

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LED's caught fire. While my PC was on. After that, well. I had to air out my room from smoke for a few hours

 

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I was a LAN party and I wanted a break from the multiplayer stuff so I started play Ammesia....I got startled and jumped back and my leg caught the table and almost tipped my tower and several others onto the floor. That scared the living crap out of me in more ways than one

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had a psu commit suicide, it wasnt plugged into anything, i was just testing it to see if it was still good. horrible sounds, smoke, bad smell... yeah it was dead...

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Idiot friend switched my PSU from 240v (which it was running at) to 120v and it blew up, i thought the whole system died luckly only the PSU failed 

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this was back when i was still an amateur about PC hw and stuff...   my CPU wont turn on at all and i freaked out bec i thought all my data and saved games are now gone.. then my friend laughed at me bec he said that  the only problem with my CPU  was my $10 generic PSU . lol

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I unplugged a calbe from sth. in a 5.25" bay which sit really tight. So i had to force it off and sure enough as soon as it releases i hit my hand against my CPU cooler at full speed. I checked my temps on prime 95 immediatly, nothing had changed. -.-

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I had a Corsair 600t with a 3960x & 2 way sli gtx 590s. It sat next to my desk and the 600t has a huge vent on the top. I set my glass of water down on the left side of my desk (right above my case) and didn't think it out. My cat knocked the cup over and my heart just stopped as I watched it fall. THANKYFULLY the water flew over the top of my case. Only a couple drops hit the top and wow I was so relieved and scared at same time.

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a beeping sound when i turned the PC on. turned out it was my phone....

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What screws with me the most... and thank god its seldom happening on old dried up machines and not new ones...

 

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i opend my bay res and then tilted my pc... water leaked out of the res but my pc still works 

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I removed the Linux partition which removed the GRUB bootloader. It wouldn't boot, so I had to re-install the Windows bootloader and then it worked fine :)

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1. When building my pc, I was awake for 50 hours already but couldn't wait, so I always had the feeling that I did stuff wrong, but it worked after all :D

2. Except for the fact that the pc wouldn't start the first time... (24pin cable got loose)

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When changing my case i droped my harddrive but it survived and has had no problems

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Turned off my computer because I had to leave the house for two days. Came back home and turned it back on.... and it turned on and off every second. on boom off, on boom off, on boom off. So I got all freaked out, opened it back up. reconnected everything from the PSU. and it did the same thing then fully it turned on fully but then it wouldnt POST. So I decided to take the CMOS battery out for 15 minutes and put it back in. then YAYAYA it worked. All my overclock settings are gone though :( I know I have a dying PSU on my hands.. I should order a new one in the next few days.

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After building my first computer I tried to install windows and nothing would work. I tried to figure out why it wasn't working for hours on end. It turned out that I forgot to plug the sata cable into the optical drive.

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Once I was testing my graphics card's heat output by having it do some Bitcoin mining, since that is extremely intensive. I decided to go upstairs and do something real quick. When I came back downstairs I was greeted to the smell of melting plastic. Needless to say I rushed over to my pc as fast as I humanly could I turned off the Bitcoin miner. Checked afterburner and my GPU topped at 103C. Luckily nothing was damaged and the graphics card was still in perfect working order with no signs of any defects. Scary stuff.

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my cpu waterblock started leaking onto the videocard, i didn't notice that until BSOD. I washed the pcb with alcohol and the videocard is still working:O

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Once I was testing my graphics card's heat output by having it do some Bitcoin mining, since that is extremely intensive. I decided to go upstairs and do something real quick. When I came back downstairs I was greeted to the smell of melting plastic. Needless to say I rushed over to my pc as fast as I humanly could I turned off the Bitcoin miner. Checked afterburner and my GPU topped at 103C. Luckily nothing was damaged and the graphics card was still in perfect working order with no signs of any defects. Scary stuff.

103°C? That pretty damn hot.

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this was back when i was still an amateur about PC hw and stuff...   my CPU wont turn on at all and i freaked out bec i thought all my data and saved games are now gone.. then my friend laughed at me bec he said that  the only problem with my CPU  was my $10 generic PSU . lol

 

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103°C? That pretty damn hot.

Yeah I had a freaking heart attack when I smelt the melting plastic. Apparently it had also been running at 103C for almost the entire time I was gone, according to afterburner. Scared the ever-living shit out of me.

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