ok i officially am stupid..

[bryanf445]

This should be in hardware, but the situation is funny so i care to tell...

Well recently my one mother board fried in my backup computer causing me to have to order a new one. well last night i finally order it. well i was taking out the motherboard and while holding the processor i accidentally banged it on the case...bent all the fkn pins, and as i tried straigtening it one fell off!Needless to say thats a dead processor, immediatley canceled the order. I havent been this pissed off in awhile.

Oh well gives me an excuse to upgrade.

Do any of you have any rediculous stories about computer hardware failure that you would care to discuss?

 

[Steven]

wow...

 

[Danimal]

My brother thought his computer had water-cooling once.

Long story short, it didn't, which equalled a ****ed computer and a pissed father. :|

 

[Shippi]

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[Remus]

Oooh I got one:

A friend of mine didn't have his CD writer bolted in there so one time while pushing too hard for the CD to enter he managed to push it all the way inside. it fell right on the mother board and smashed everything. Another time he wrecked another mother board while trying to install the video card needless to say that he was going about it all wrong. So he pushed like a mad man to get the video card attached in the wrong place and broke another mother board. LOL what a dumb ass .

 

[Dumb Dude]

My motherboard chipset fan died on me today. I should buy a replacement cooler for it but my money goes to a headcrab plush first. Got to have priorities.

 

[Revisedsoul]

when i was a kid, i used a processor as an comb, not knowing at the time it had caragins. and now i have cancer on my scalp

 

[Naudian]

^ ???

One time these two people I know were at the one's house, and the other was there to swap hard drives or something...well after they did, the one's PC wouldn't start up, and somehow these goofs decided something was wrong with the CPU. They took it out and three pins had been magically bent.
I'm thinking they became bent when they were taking the CPU out, but the guy thought that the other had accidentally broken the CPU when he wasn't in the room and wasn't telling him the truth...
I'm just wondering why the hell they would take the CPU out in the first place :rolling:
So anyway the one guy ordered some P4 and an Asrock board for it, which is working out for him now.

Another weird hardware problem of my own was when I installed the heatsink for my new A64 3700 setup, some metal part that held the two clips for the heatsink was bent, and it was such a pain to clip it on. I fear that there may be a lot of pressure on the plastic stubs of the motherboard that the clips slide over, and that it might eventually snap off That would really suck...but so far so good.

 

[JNightshade]

Well, this isn't funny, but last summer, I was too lazy to plug my computer into a UPS. I just had it plugged straight into the wall. Well, there was a power surge. A bad one. That single surge managed to take out my PSU, motherboard and processor. Of course, I was looking to upgrade to Athlon 64 at the time, so it was a blessing in disguise, but still.

 

[Jangle]

My wireless network adapter wasn't working very well, so I tried to take it out and put it in another slot, and in doing so knocked off the arial and had to buy a new one.

 

[giant384]

Oooh I got one:

A friend of mine didn't have his CD writer bolted in there so one time while pushing too hard for the CD to enter he managed to push it all the way inside. it fell right on the mother board and smashed everything. Another time he wrecked another mother board while trying to install the video card needless to say that he was going about it all wrong. So he pushed like a mad man to get the video card attached in the wrong place and broke another mother board. LOL what a dumb ass .

LOL thats the best

 

[WhiteZero]

Overclocked my frist video card and fried it...
:<

 

[Krynn72]

I bought a SATA drive for a computer that cant use sata.

 

[Adrien C]

Man, I don't know how I do it, but, my comp is still alive after 2 years. The case is open, it over heats, I put my hands into the procesor,put my heat sink into the refrigerator then into the comp, and it still alive.

 

[giant384]

Man, I don't know how I do it, but, my comp is still alive after 2 years. The case is open, it over heats, I put my hands into the procesor,put my heat sink into the refrigerator then into the comp, and it still alive.

LOL you seriously put your heatsink in the fridge?? no fan cooler for it??

 

[Steven]

Once I cut my fingers badly on all that excessive metal shit they put in PC's, then I dropped a CRT on my bleeding hand (now my hand is squirting blood all over the inside of the PC) so I patched up my hand and all, I woke up in the morning and there were maggots crawling in and out of the PC through the air holes. :|

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I ordered 3 different mobos for my computer, and all of them wouldn't boot.

On the last attempt, I managed to find out it was a setting on my HDD that would cause problems with it starting. I gave the other two motherboards to a few friends

 

[bryanf445]

Once I cut my fingers badly on all that excessive metal shit they put in PC's, then I dropped a CRT on my bleeding hand (now my hand is squirting blood all over the inside of the PC) so I patched up my hand and all, I woke up in the morning and there were maggots crawling in and out of the PC through the air holes. :|

wow that had to be the worst experience ever

 

[$kelet0r]

Once I cut my fingers badly on all that excessive metal shit they put in PC's, then I dropped a CRT on my bleeding hand (now my hand is squirting blood all over the inside of the PC) so I patched up my hand and all, I woke up in the morning and there were maggots crawling in and out of the PC through the air holes. :|

woah woah woah
now that's a scary story
what did you do?

 

[giant384]

woah woah woah
now that's a scary story
what did you do?

what do you mean what did he do??? it says it all right there

 

[$kelet0r]

no i meant with his new pets

 

[Adrien C]

LOL you seriously put your heatsink in the fridge?? no fan cooler for it??

Yep, I take out the heat sink, put into the fridge for about 30 minutes, when its ice cold I take it out, put back on the fan, and voila, works like a charm.

 

[bryanf445]

Yep, I take out the heat sink, put into the fridge for about 30 minutes, when its ice cold I take it out, put back on the fan, and voila, works like a charm.

hahah for maybe .00001 seconds, and the condesation cant be too good for it either

 

[hungryduck]

My motherboard chipset fan died on me today. I should buy a replacement cooler for it but my money goes to a headcrab plush first. Got to have priorities.

Don't melt anything!

 

[Barney Fife]

When I first started to build, my very first MB, I didn't plug the 12v, and I thought MB was dead on arrival, I had to change two MB before I knew how much dumb-ass I really was.

I kept calling myself Dumb-ass for three whole days.


Now top that.

 

[sinkoman]

This should be in hardware, but the situation is funny so i care to tell...

Well recently my one mother board fried in my backup computer causing me to have to order a new one. well last night i finally order it. well i was taking out the motherboard and while holding the processor i accidentally banged it on the case...bent all the fkn pins, and as i tried straigtening it one fell off!Needless to say thats a dead processor, immediatley canceled the order. I havent been this pissed off in awhile.

Oh well gives me an excuse to upgrade.

Do any of you have any rediculous stories about computer hardware failure that you would care to discuss?

No need to upgrade.

Take a .5 lead mechanical pencil and empty out all the "lead" (really carbon, but I wont anal right now).

Now, stick a pin in your new "tool", and straighten the pencil. Voila.

The .5mm hole should caress the pin perfectly. I used it a few times to bend back F plug and S-Video pins back into place.

 

[Steven]

I threw out the PC it was extremly crappy to start with.

 

[naaier]

I decided to overclock my proccessor once (amd athlon 2600), did the pencil lead trick, put it back in, closed the case, started the pc, went to make coffee, came back and smelled the sweet smell of a roasted proccessor. why? well, I forgot, in my gleefull rush to see if would be faster, to put the heatsink and fan back on it. :dozey:

 

[$kelet0r]

nice work!

 

[3ssence]

I decided to overclock my proccessor once (amd athlon 2600), did the pencil lead trick, put it back in, closed the case, started the pc, went to make coffee, came back and smelled the sweet smell of a roasted proccessor. why? well, I forgot, in my gleefull rush to see if would be faster, to put the heatsink and fan back on it. :dozey:

Haha, that's classic !! Unlucky mate. Nevertheless an amusing story !!!

 

[The Brick]

This remembers me of this guy:

"It doesn't work!! I am using enough thermal paste, right?"

~edit: ;( no more hotlinking to images?


Personal mistakes -
I bought a new mobo + cpu + ram because the pc wasn't booting. Turned out my monitor was set to the wrong input signal. [before you respond with 'wtf you should've heard the boot-up-beep', this mistake was in combination with the first mistake of my dad]

Mistakes of my dad -
He managed to push a memory module into place when it was the other way around.

He hit the mobo of his old pc with a screwdriver once, knocking off 1 single resistor, causing the mobo to fry the ram modules. He bought a new mobo (an identical one; he needed the same IDE controller for his data) and used a new memory module. Everything worked, so he wanted to check if the new stick of ram would work in the old mobo. I warned him not to do it cause it could damage the other ram module too. Guess what, RIP RAM.. surprise surprise.

 

[Cole]

Wow...you make me look smart.

 

[Kamikazie]

This remembers me of this guy:

"It doesn't work!! I am using enough thermal paste, right?"

~edit: ;( no more hotlinking to images?

When xlostx's friend (or him can't remember) cut a 7800 to fit in place.

 

[giant384]

When xlostx's friend (or him can't remember) cut a 7800 to fit in place.

wasnt that just a photoshop mishap

 

[Glirk Dient]

Hmm, my biggest mistake was probally when my comp wouldn't boot and I thought my HD was bad cause it kept saying couldnt read boot sector. it turns out I had to install raid drivers and change a setting in BIOS so it could read SATA/raid 0. Took me about a week too...