Scariest Thing That Happend To You With Your PC?

[tycheleto]

103°C? That pretty damn hot.

I used to have a graphics card(some super low end card that came in an HP) that regularly ran between 107 and 109 degrees celcius. Cannot imagine that was particularly good for the card, it died after about 2 years.

[LinusSwagTips]

Off topic

but it's not off topic...

[LinusSwagTips]

When I was about 11 years old I put a mini CD into a macbook... It took hours of upside down shaking to finally get it out.

[MiracleMan]

While installing a new cooler i dropped a 580 right on the floor, happily it didn't break

[Armored Code]

Milk shake thrown near my pc. (dont ask, was not on purpose)

Some drops made it through the top in take and landed the GPU and PSU.

 

I immediatly turned the pc off when I saw the milkshake drops go in my pc.

 

Everything was magically fine when I cleaned and booted up again.

[flibberdipper]

I had an old VelociRaptor (the 30-ish GB variant) and it died and something came loose and hit the lid and made a dent. It made this really loud and high pitched squealing and a loud bang. Scared the crap out of me.

[flibberdipper]

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 

I'm a n00b when it comes to the voltages on PSUs, what is the big difference between 240 and 120?

[tobben]

Nothing scary has ever happened, other than had my few friends and my little sister use them: back like few years ago when my little sister used my computer and raged at it being so slow (even it was the fastest PC in our house), she punched my computer a lot (luckily it was my old one, it's still alive though). And from few years ago to this day, whenever some of my friends use my PC, they won't just type normally and use mouse normally: they literally smash my keyboard and my mouse, because they aren't theirs, so they won't be losing anything even if they broke them. Even when I got my Attitude One Vintorez -mouse and had my one friend use it, he literally just smashed the buttons like he wanted it to get broken.

give them a good beating, your pc and peripherals are also your friends and need to be treated as such, can't let your friends bully your other friends, tell them this is how your pc feels when they abuse it .

[LOST TALE]

I took a few jumpers off.

 

Comp didnt start.

 

looked the same as the ''jumpers'' on DVI and hdmi outs on new graphic cards

[Lord_Kitty]

I saw a spark coming out of my old 9600GT while I was playing. I still have no idea why that happened. The card still works.

[Tro]

My PC once turned itself on in the middle of the night. Couldn't sleep afterwards....

[fallingpizza11]

Accidentally started my PC with 256MB of ram in msconfig. Couldn't find the problem until I realized what was happening, took 1 hour to turn on, 10 mins to start up explorer.exe, 5 mins from the time I clicked the start button to the start menu showing up, 15mins for me to type in 'msconfig' and it actually showing up, another 5-7 mins for ms config to start up, after I unchecked the 'Start with X amount of ram' box It took another hour to turn off

[FranBunnyFFXII]

Split a quart of milk on my M14X R2, it survived easily but still scared the shit outta me.

[Stephen]

building my brothers system, pressed the power button, and psu started sparking out the back. the breaker flipped and power went out in his room

[Slaeowulf]

lol A quart = 2 pints. Must've been spilling that milk for a while

[reckl3ss.21]

Do you mean computer instead of CPU? CPU = Central Processing Unit = the processor.

 

haha sorry ,  i meant my rig

[Madsabre]

Doing a bios flash using Bios Flashback feature then it taking a solid 5 minutes to boot, nothing happened for 5 minutes just black screen.

Then it came to life  :lol: I've not done it since...

[KingOFCruel]

This doesn't belong in general discussion and I am sure there are already several posts on this

There's no need to be so anal about it, Frankly the seriousness of people on the forum is getting annoying.

[Exyn0s]

Lots of randomly occurring BSOD's

[TymmVonD]

Motherboard tech support on phone recommended pulling cpu out  and try to post on dead board, which I RMA'd btw. Balancing phone while pulling heatsink, glued CPU, bent pins. Bent all pins back. Socketed, unsocketed, repeat. Trying to troubleshoot. Pins broke off. Told Amazon, Biostar tech recommended a CPU RMA. New FX 8350 next day. Close one...

 

On another note. Flying sparks are scary. Jumpers suck. period.

[coolgs10]

Once with my old pc I lost the front 5.25 inch bay covers and the front was just opened for few days and after few days I bought new covers and covered it. But after a month or so pc stopped working suddenly. Then I diagnosed it but still didn't found anything. Then finally I opened it and saw that a rat gave birth to its baby rats in it. And they have all eaten the sata and power cables inside it. 

Lol. 

[Slaeowulf]

On another note. Flying sparks are scary. Jumpers suck. period.

 

Correction: Flying sparks are AWESOME.

[Ruostunut kokis]

My PC once turned itself on in the middle of the night. Couldn't sleep afterwards....

Same happened with my previous PC (HP Compaq dc7600) like every 2 months. It just randomly started somewhere between 0.30 and 2.45 AM. Then I deleted Windows and it hasn't happened ever since.

[cokeyed]

Hmmm... where do i start?

 

1) It was my first time building a rig and I placed my brand new shiny 660ti direct CUII on the top of my tower while i did some stuff inside. I couldn't reach something in the case so I tilted it back, and I'm pretty sure you can guess what happened. Luckily only the metal piece of mount thingy got bent and I was able to bend it back with my hands, card worked perfectly fine after that. Still scary as hell.

 

 

2) 1st time setting up my watercooling loop, excited as balls!!! Flipped my shit when the jumper I was using for the 24-pin touched my case, thought it was gonna fry the PSU and the pump. *NOTHING HAPPENED*  :lol:

 

3) Just finished sleeving & customising cables for my PSU, installed everything, boot drive doesn't show up. So I figured it was the SATA cables, checked and re-plugged all the connections, still nothing. Boot drive does not show up in the BIOS. I'm thinking, maybe there is no power going to the drive, I can hear it spin up but lets just check to be sure. Since I had already put on the rear side panel & managed to wiggle the SATA cables out, I thought I could just pull the drive out and the power cable would come off, because I made it so the wires were tight between the drives and the connectors. (stupidest idea ever) Gave it a good yank, drive came out. Went to put back the drive & powered on.

 

*SPARKS AND SMOKE* Immediately shut off power, let it sit for a while (still pretty scared). Eventually pulled the drive out and looked around, found I had broken the SATA power connector when I pulled it out, the only thing left were the metal pins, the plastic support around it had been broken off. FUUUUUU..... bought a new board for the HDD and swapped the BIOS chip over, everything was dandy. Probably the worst and the most stupid thing I've done in PC building thus far.

 

Looking forward to making more expensive mistakes       

[iAsuno]

I was showing my friend my new loop that I made and he decided to wiggle around some of the acrylic tubing in there to see how hard it was and split a tube and water started gushing out everywhere.

did you punch him?