How *not* to mod a console

hehe..... fool...

notice he doesn't come back onto that thread :LOL:

EDIT: My friend put a pickaxe through a spray paint can? Does that count as stupid? (his wall was blue for quite a while)
 
He kinda deserves it if he though putting his whole Xbox in the freezer was a good idea.
 
bliink said:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=363325

Quite a funny event, read the first few posts.
Kinda feel sorry for the guy hehe.

EDIT:
Has anyone got any stories of their own encounters with hardware related stupidity they might grace the forum with? :)
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I am not sure which forum it was but there was a guy that tried to convince everyone that his computer wouldn't turn on after he had built his water cooled computer, he described how he had done it and the steps he had taken. He had bought some foam sealant from a diy store, filled in the gaps in the pc case with it, and then pour water into a hole in the top of his pc case and turn it on, turning his pc case into a water tank. Of course, anyone would know this is stupid, but for abut 3 days, the guy managed to convince half the forum that he wasn't joking and had indeed mistaken the whole concept of water cooling.

It doesn't bode well for the average iq of an Xbox user... :dozey:
 
I am not sure which forum it was but there was a guy that tried to convince everyone that his computer wouldn't turn on after he had built his water cooled computer, he described how he had done it and the steps he had taken. He had bought some foam sealant from a diy store, filled in the gaps in the pc case with it, and then pour water into a hole in the top of his pc case and turn it on, turning his pc case into a water tank. Of course, anyone would know this is stupid, but for abut 3 days, the guy managed to convince half the forum that he wasn't joking and had indeed mistaken the whole concept of water cooling.
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what an awesome idea! :D *starts planning*

...fizzle...
 
i saw on tv this program where they taped a pc help call center. It was hilarious. this guy phoned up and said he couldnt get the arrow on his screen to move, so the call center guy went through all these solutions before he realised the customer hadnt been using the mouse. :|
 
A friend of my grandmother had just got the internet started, but since she was new to internet, she clicked everywhere where it said "your computer may be infected with virus", "you have three new messages" etc. So it didn't take long before the computer was full with virus. So what to do? She took to computer to the bathtub and tried to wash the viruses away. :LOL:
 
Wanna talk about stupid? When I was a kid... I took a lighter, and put it on a flat rock. Then smashed the rock with another rock causing a spark.

I also threw a couple small river rocks in a fire, causing them to explode and they threw tiny rock shrapnel everywhere. ;(
 
Jangle said:
i saw on tv this program where they taped a pc help call center. It was hilarious. this guy phoned up and said he couldnt get the arrow on his screen to move, so the call center guy went through all these solutions before he realised the customer hadnt been using the mouse. :|
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Lol, there was one recorded phone message from a technical support centre about a woman who was picking up the mouse and waving it about infront of the monitor and was wanting to know why the cursor wasn't moving.
 
Jangle said:
i saw on tv this program where they taped a pc help call center. It was hilarious. this guy phoned up and said he couldnt get the arrow on his screen to move, so the call center guy went through all these solutions before he realised the customer hadnt been using the mouse. :|
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There was also someone calling and said "The mug-holder was broken". "What mug-holder", the support guy asked. "One that came with". "What, was it attached to the computer?". "Yes, I pressed a button on the computer, and it came out from the computer"
 
Sorry you can't beat the guy that drilled a big hole in his s2000's valve cover and was shooting nitrous into the head. But nice try none-the-less.
 
Thats probably the most hilarous thing I've read this week.
 
hahaha i don't believe he did it though.

I remeber someone ask on these forums, what 'system idle process' was in their windows task manager...it was sucking like 99% of his CPU and thought it was some virus or something, that was funny. Someone linked him to dictionary.com with the meaning of 'idle' :LOL: good times
 
Damn that's funny! Hahaha... damn that is funny. I'm gonna mod my Gamecube somehow... I'll post about it when I do, and it's not gonna be taping a rubber duck to the controller...
 
Haha, that's some funny stuff.

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

That site has hundreds upon hundreds of stupid things people have done, all catagorised. I found myself reading these for like 3 hours non-stop, so be careful if you get addicted easily. ;)
 
Two friends and I were standing around one day. One of them was fiddling around with his computer, playing a game. He recommended the game to us. But my other friend said that he couldn't install it, because installing it would take up all of his memory, and he'd need to get a new computer.


Me: "What?"
Friend: "It would take up all of my memory."
Me: "Do you mean hard drive space? It won't take up any of your memory to install it."
Friend: "Yeah it would. I only have three gigabytes left."
Me: "Oh. You mean drive space. But three gigabytes is plenty of room."
Friend: "But it'll take it all up!"
Me: "Trust me. If it comes on one CD, it won't take up all of your drive space."
Several hours later, I overheard him having a conversation with his roommate. This conversation contained the phrase, "I'd get it, but if I installed it it would take up all of my memory, and I'd have to get a new computer." I just closed my eyes and sighed.
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OMFG LOOOOOL!
 
i attached some 9 volt batteries to a radio that uses 1.5 volt bateries.

the transistors inside exploded along with the chip thingys.
 
my uncle is a tech guy and he was talking to someone who said they couldn't print. He spent a while b4 the person told him that the reason he couldn't print was because he had no printer.
 
have to post this one too funny
tech guy said:
The lady was using a power strip to plug her computer and other devices into. Windows was completely frozen, and she was unable to shut down the machine by using the power button. She mentioned the power strip, so I told her to flip it off. She said, "Ok, I gave it the finger. I feel better."
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vegeta897 said:
Haha, that's some funny stuff.

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

That site has hundreds upon hundreds of stupid things people have done, all catagorised. I found myself reading these for like 3 hours non-stop, so be careful if you get addicted easily. ;)
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Thats some funny ish!

* Customer: "When my computer boots up, all I get is a black screen that says, 'boot2/'."
* Tech Support: "What operating system are you using?"
* Customer: "I'm using Windows 98 and NT 4.0."
* Tech Support: "Ok, I'm the Mac tech. The Windows tech is gone, but I can try to help you."
* Customer: "Ok, what should I do? I've reformatted the hard drive and have fresh installs of both operating systems."
* Tech Support: "Sir, have you put any cheese or mustard in your a drive?"
* Customer: "What? Did you just ask me if I put cheese or mustard in my floppy drive?"
* Tech Support: "Yeah, we've had that happen a lot lately."
* Customer: (staring blankly at roommate, who was laughing uncontrollably on the floor) "I think I'll wait for the PC tech to get back. Thanks for the help." (click)

heh.
 
Hmmm Im not sure if he actually did that, I mean can anyone be that STUPID? Oh well I guess Ive seen worse.

How about the time I was like 14 and I wanted to turn up the volume wich u had to do at the back of the soundcard on the 486, and in stead I switched the psu from 220 volt to 110 and fried the psu and HDD... :D
 
This isnt a stupid mistake as such... well, i didnt know better.

One of my ex-friends had pokemon red and blue on roms and he put them on a random floppy he found for me. What i didnt know when i moved ALL the files over to my windows 95 machine was that on the disc was Command.com (or something) and ths was a windows 98 version which screwed up my pc completely. Had to reformat because we couldnt find the windows disc, and then we did, but by that time we'd formatted.


Also, to get more space my uncle on his pc deleted random .dll's from the windows folder :p the thing blew up
 
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