Scariest Thing That Happend To You With Your PC?

[Connor Bittick]

This is a friend's experience that I witnessed.

I was helping one of my friends build a new computer. We were screwing the motherboard into the case and I was joking about him dropping a screwdriver...

He dropped the screwdriver near the pci-e slots. He broke the f***ing chipset, the pci-e slots(kinda happens when you brake the chipset), and basically everything on the lower half of the board! He replaced the motherboard. Two days later i'm helping rebuild his computer and guess what?! Somehow, while he is tightening one of the standoff screws, he manages to f***ing chuck the screwdriver over the whole motherboard with so much force that it stabbed through the case! I have no idea how this happened, i'm pretty sure he had a stroke or something.

[Connor Bittick]

Something scary happened to me today. I opened up a game and suddenly the screen just started flipping out. That was the most dramatic gpu driver crash I have ever seen. Turns out that Windows Update caused it. F*** you Microsoft.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

scariest thing to get the faulty product for RMA during work

[X-System]

On my dual LGA2011-3 motherboard, I removed incorrectly the socket protection cover (I didn't put CPU first...) and I bent a few pins...  It takes a lot time to redress these pins with my tweezers and cutter.

 

And the result, all pins are 100% aligned (I checked many times for to sure) and it works 100%

[Automobili3XF]

Just a few days ago, nothing major but still gave me a little headache.

The roof started to leak next to where my PC was and i took it out in a hurry and forgot to turn the off the PSU, which sparked at the plug, when i reconnected it to the mains back at the table it refused to turn on for a couple of minutes (partly was due to me forgetting at which position i left the PSU power switch) and then it came back to life with the BIOS reseted.

 

[Guest]

Corsair Link stopped all my fans during a benchmarking session.

[Ardu]

PC turned off unexpectedly, when I turned it back on my graphics card set on fire....that was pretty scary.

[Giganthrax]

5 hours ago, Connor Bittick said:

he manages to f***ing chuck the screwdriver over the whole motherboard with so much force that it stabbed through the case!

Was the screwdriver actually a broadsword?  

 

I mean, it takes a whole lot of force to stab a screwdriver through a motherboard AND the metal plate of a case. 

[star_pilot475]

I had swapped cases, pushed the power button once I had everything ready. Fans revved for half a second and then the light went out on the PSU. I thought for sure I had just fried everything. Turns out the case just didn’t work with my motherboard (the mobo was from a pre-built) 

[Princess Twilight Sparkle]

The screen getting all fuzzy, off color, and full of artifacts due to the GPU going.

 

I've only experienced this with an HD Radeon 3480 before.

[Underi]

I swapped my parts to a new case, the PC didn't turn on anymore. I checked every single cable probably like 7 times before taking everything apart and immediately putting it back in. Then it started working. Never figured out what as wrong. Also I got a little scared when I was screwing on the stand-offs for the case, the tool that came with the case was almost round by the time I got to the last stand-off and I couldn't properly secure it and had to use a pair of pliers for it.

[kaiju_wars]

Two things

1. Pushed an overclock too far on my first PC... it wouldn't display anything on screen.  Fans and lights would come on for a few seconds and go out.  Scared the shit out of me, making me think I bricked something.  I just had to reset the CMOS.
2. This was a friend's PC.  He was having issues with it.  Plugged it in and started it up and everything was acting normal at first.  Fans were spinning, lights were on, things displaying on screen.  Suddenly I hear a, thunk, thud, clunk.  GPU wasn't ever screwed down.  The locking mechanism was one of those little sliders instead of a clip that.. well.. clips itself down, and it was never locked.  So I'm guessing the fans were causing enough vibrations that the GPU worked itself out of it's slot and fell to the bottom of his case.