Mishaps of Computing

[SuperShermanTanker]

So I'm trying to get a spare PC ready for a LAN party and I had the thing sitting on the side for a good 2-3 weeks and the first time I booted it after putting the hard drive and GPU back in 2-3 weeks ago I get this...

 

 

So the PCI power cable for the GPU was unplugged for 2-3 weeks

 

FACEPALM...

 

So what kind of mishaps, stupidity, forgetfulness, and faceplam moments have you guys had in the past few weeks

[Oswin]

almost forgot to put the I/O shield.

[Mohenjo]

that does not look like a windows boot error 

[Space Reptile]

man atleast it GIVES you a warning , but yea sometimes i forget the 4/8pin cpu power plug and end up being confused by the pc dosnt boot 

 

[Bittenfleax]

1 minute ago, Oswin said:

almost forgot to put the I/O shield.

Done that before, hahah.

 

I have not attached storage devices, CPU fans and about 2 hours ago I recently wiped a 1TB external hard drive by accident trying to install VMWare ESXi... hahaha.

[ChillyPepperGuy]

Didnt install ram once .  It took me way to long to figure it out

 

[Mello]

Forgot to plug the rear fan, but only for about 2 days until I realized.

[Mello]

Daaaaamn look at that keyboard! so yellow much ancient.

[Thunderpup]

this past weekend i swapped out my PSU for a new one and when it came time to booting it up  it would boot straight into bios. 

 

Took it apart and found one of my SSDs had come unplugged while i was doing cable management. 

[TheRandomness]

Friend once put in EPS cable upside down and it wouldn't boot (we're both 'experienced' techies :P). It's a miracle nothing died.

[Joey1100]

One sunny afternoon my laptop decided to fall off the table.
Hard drive broke.

Mishap no.1 part 1
Trying to open the hard drive to fix something. after a while of messing with it i gave up.

 

Mishap no.1 part 2

I decided to take out the magnetic disks out of it, and dissasemble a perfectly working hard drive

Why ? Well i didnt want to download all the programs again... so i just figured to take out the discs from the working one and put the old discs in..
It didnt end well...

Rip 2 hard drives.....

 

Mishap no 2.
A few months later i decide to order a new hard drive....
I know very little about hard drives at that point and accidently order a 3.5 one..

i still go and try plugging it in.. wondering why it doesnt work...

 

Mishap no.3

After returning the 3.5 one and replacing it with a 2.5 one
I try installing it.
Knowing little about electronics i dont give a f'''k about static electricity i just go in it like i dont give a damn..
I accidently short a bunch of pins many times, once or twice the screen would go all humming and blinking.... wow i was so dumb...

But it all ended up well...
Hey im even typing this on the same laptop

[SLAYR]

I spent two hours disassembling, and reassembling a laptop, and then realized once the OS booted I forgot to reattach the wifi antennas.

[SuperShermanTanker]

54 minutes ago, Bittenfleax said:

Done that before, hahah.

 

I have not attached storage devices, CPU fans and about 2 hours ago I recently wiped a 1TB external hard drive by accident trying to install VMWare ESXi... hahaha.

Right now reinstalling my game drive on a machine I keep at a family member's house after I accidently wiped the game drive when I ment to wipe the boot drive

[SuperShermanTanker]

51 minutes ago, Mello said:

Forgot to plug the rear fan, but only for about 2 days until I realized.

Well it's a good thing most ATX cases come with multiple fans

[SuperShermanTanker]

50 minutes ago, Mello said:

Daaaaamn look at that keyboard! so yellow much ancient.

Yah it still works too I keep it as a spare keyboard that usually flys between multiple computers depending on what machine is on the workbench

[SuperShermanTanker]

35 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Friend once put in EPS cable upside down and it wouldn't boot (we're both 'experienced' techies :P). It's a miracle nothing died.

yah don't plug somthing in wrong or somthing will go kaput

[SuperShermanTanker]

23 minutes ago, Joey1100 said:

One sunny afternoon my laptop decided to fall off the table.
Hard drive broke.

Mishap no.1 part 1
Trying to open the hard drive to fix something. after a while of messing with it i gave up.

 

Mishap no.1 part 2

I decided to take out the magnetic disks out of it, and dissasemble a perfectly working hard drive

Why ? Well i didnt want to download all the programs again... so i just figured to take out the discs from the working one and put the old discs in..
It didnt end well...

Rip 2 hard drives.....

 

Mishap no 2.
A few months later i decide to order a new hard drive....
I know very little about hard drives at that point and accidently order a 3.5 one..

i still go and try plugging it in.. wondering why it doesnt work...

 

Mishap no.3

After returning the 3.5 one and replacing it with a 2.5 one
I try installing it.
Knowing little about electronics i dont give a f'''k about static electricity i just go in it like i dont give a damn..
I accidently short a bunch of pins many times, once or twice the screen would go all humming and blinking.... wow i was so dumb...

But it all ended up well...
Hey im even typing this on the same laptop

It's a miricle the laptop didn't completely brake

[Clanscorpia]

Wiped windows installing Deepin