ITT: Fucking dumbass shit you did
>keyboard is super dirty
>wipe it with disinfecting wipe
>kb fucks itself in the ass
>soap probably got into the membrane contacts
What dumb shit have you done?
One more question, /g/. Is this fucking soap gonna leak into my laptop's mobo?
>>51653510
>Is this fucking soap gonna leak into my laptop's mobo?
...yes
>>51653550
fuck
as a young child I was obsessed with taking things apart, I took apart a CRT monitor and played with what was inside.
I should be dead.
>>51655630
what terrible things are in them?
>>51655649
Cathode ray tube
google that shit m8
>>51655649
>what terrible things are in them?
24 kilovolts
>>51653510
>finally finished building PC
>leave casing screw in CPU cooler cos it was almost impossible to get out of the heatsink
>nudge PC whilst in-game
>casing screw falls out of heatsink
>onto GPU
>shorts it
>fucks my mobo too as a side project
>hard drive also corrupted
One screw cost me about £400.
>>51655742
Being retarded is what cost you £400
>>51655781
Yeah is was fucking stupid in hindsight
I spent 10 mins trying to shake it out and just assumed it would stay stuck forever
>>51653510
>be 8
>playan with little 12V light bulbs and wires and shit
>wonder what would happen if I stuck the wires connected to the bulb in the wall outlet
>shorts out, sparks flying everywhere, main fuse blows
>parents ask wtf just happened
>dunno lol
>>51653510
>Smash 4 just came out
>Best friend and I get the last GC adapter in town
>Brand new Smash 4 controller too
>Get KFC on the way home
>Friend and I 1v1
>He uses the new controller
>Doesn't wash his fucking hands after KFC
>Scrub it with a hand wipe
>Dry it off
>It's permanently sticky
I'd have been better off doing nothing
>>51655649
The components in a CRT monitor hold a very powerful charge (thousands of volts) for a very long time, even after being unplugged.
Also, the components that make up the Cathode Ray Tube are hazardous. If it breaks while you're fucking with it and you breathe the dust in, you're fucked.
couple years ago
>laptop not working properly
>"i know, the ram must be bad"
>open up ram cover, jiggle things around
>fuzzy socks
>fuzzy carpet
>no humidity
>didn't discharge or wear a strap or anything
>laptop no post
oh well you live you learn, needed a new one anyway
>buy AMD K6-2+
>buy AMD Athlon 900MHz
>buy Sapphire Radeon 9550
>buy Samsung Moment
>buy PNY Verto 8500GT
>buy AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE
>buy Blue Yeti
>buy PowerColor HD7870 GHz
I've made so many mistakes.
ZFS with RAID-Z on a single core Athlon 64 with 1 GB RAM on FreeBSD over top of 3 disks running GELI encryption on each device.
It seemed like a cool thing to try at the time as an experiment but it mostly just wastes disk space and crashes and hangs whenever I try to copy something larger than 200MB off my file server.
>>51653510
jerked off in front of my entire algebra class I was teaching, get semen onto little grill, tell her not to tell anyone or I'd kill her family.
>everythingseemsok.jpg
>>51656113
Volts aren't charge you dingus
>attempting to repair speaker part in a smartphone
>unscrewing some fucking screws
>one absolutely won't fucking budge
>keep trying until it's practically stripped and give up
>put screws back in, turn device back on
>device works for a few days then goes dead
>metal shavings from the stripped screw worked their way into the device and fucked it sideways
It takes a special kind of stupid, and I'm definitely that special.
>>51655893
I did this in school when I was maybe 9 or 10 years old.
>>51653510
>Game starts lagging
>Hit my Desktop tower
>Game continues as normal
>Think that the PC is just getting rusty and needs to be hit sometimes like an appliance to jump start it again
>Think this for three PCs that I owned
>>51657418
If you didn't permanently damage anything, it's not dumb enough.
>>51657545
I did, how do you think i went through 3 PCs?
>open up computer
>who needs an anti-static wristband lawl
>motherboard dies
>>51657571
Carry on, anon.
>put copper wire in microwave
>watch cool sparks
>hide it in the woods
I think i was autistic
>>51657578
Same desu.
>Set mobo and cpu on carpet
>Both are broked
>>51656686
being poor is a mistake :^)?
>>51657653
Tbh
Why does desu correct to weeb shit
>>51657638
>was
>>51657578
>>51657653
How does static break motherboard and cpu?
I know it does, just not the physics of it.
>>51657680
Because it's electricity magic
>>51656686
>>buy Blue Yeti
Whats wrong with it? I've heard it shilled before
>>51657680
Static electricity and shorting i think
>>51657700
Nothing at all. Good quality and $50
>>51655649
if you crack the glass inside you're fucked. tiny parts will spray everywhere in every direction and just inhaling it is pure poison
shit, crt's used to even be made of lead
I tried to take a cooler off my CPU not that long ago and I made the smart decision to just pull it straight back towards me, without loosening it up with lateral movement first. As a result the arm that locked the socket burst open and the CPU flew right out, still attached to the cooler. Miraculously the CPU had no bent pins and motherboard still worked after that, but it was still really dumb.
Used a hoover to try to clean dust off my graphics card not realisong that they create static and forgetting about static completely. Needless to say my GPU didn't work after that
>>51657897
kek'd, how could you even do that
>>51657930
I'm retarded and I'd never done anything to my PC before and forgot about static lol. I managed to wire everything up to a new PSU, put everything into a new case and put a new GPU in after though so I'm not completely retarded kek
>laptop, bday gift
>really new to 4chan
>see 'computer virus removal' app on /b/
>download it
>run it, gets blocked
>run it as admin
>laptop never turns back on
apparently it fried the motherboard somehow, i dont even know how a software can do that. had to get it warranty replaced
>Bought a single-component CPU water cooler.
>Radiator sticks out the side of case
>side of case won't go back on
>Mice/Gecko/Bugs piss on my $600 GPU
>It corrodes and dies
I never even though to just turn the radiator around so I could put my case on
Installed windows 10
>>51658094
What went wrong?
>>51656113
>>51655718
>>51655740
>>51655630
CRTs have barium and cadmium, both toxic elements
>>51658006
Same way "system tuner" apps can overclock your CPU/mobo to the point it damages hardware if you're dumb enough to let it. Except this time it was intentional/malicious.
as a kid i used to get toast out of the toaster with a knife all the time
>>51659112
Same here except with forks. I can't believe we're not dead
>>51657700
Big, heavy, proprietary mount, usb port worn out in 8 months, it's only a good deal now because it's $50. I paid $150 four years ago for the damn thing.
>>51659112
>>51659439
There's literally nothing dangerous about using utensils to remove toast if the toaster isn't toasting.
>>51653510
Yes
>>51657897
I did the exact same thing, but while it was in the case. I hoovered the fans
It still works fine.
My PSU cable wiggled loose and completely fried my mobo. Ordering a new mobo tomorrow.
>be in computer class in school
>checking old donated desktops to see if they still worked
>all the school workstations are desktops sat on their sides with monitors on top
>set the first old desktop up next to a school desktop to use its monitor
>plug all wires in, power it on
>monitor shows nothing
>check vga cable, everything's fine
>oh well computer's fucked, salvaged the components, moved onto the next
>same thing, lights on front but nothing on the monitor
>more components for me
>3rd computer, still nothing on the screen.
>Decide to flip the voltage switch on the PSU while powered on to see what would happen
>looking at the back of the old computer
>...
>... wait
and then it hit me
I had plugged the vga cable into the vga port on the desktop I was borrowing the monitor from, rather than into the monitor itself
I still haven't lived this down
>Be 8yo
>Mom throws old bender away
>Ive always been curious, so i take i pick it up without her knowing and take it apart
>Take motor out, i think its super cool so i take it to school
>Lot of kids surrounding me, they think its cool so i feel cool
>To make it even cooler, i plug it in, but i put it on the ground first since "it spins so fast so it may hurt me" (withouth even fucking realizing that shit didnt have any kind of insulator)
>BANG
>Sounds like something explodes, ceiling fan turns off
>Get scared of the sound, so i unplug that shit and put it back in my backpack
>Days later, hear my mom complaining
>Apparently, something happened in my school which fucked up the electrical wiring, as well as a few bulbs and computers
>Mom complains about parents having to pay for something which is "obviously not their fault"
At first i didnt realize it was me, however i remember i was scared of my mom finding out that i took the blender apart... shit, i was scared of being grounded when i could have fucking died/killed another kid.
>>51655834
The heat sink got hot and expanded, so the screw was no longer stuck.
Physics is a bitch.
>>51656084
Sand it
>>51656113
Ham radio guys that work on vintage tube transceivers, usually make a simple device to discharge high voltage equipment that may still hold a charge.
A length of PVC pipe (the handle), with a metal contact on the end and a wire connected to a reliable ground.
It's know as a "Jesus Stick."
>Build first computer
>MSI 970
>On the fucking carpet
>turn it on
>everythingseemsalright.jpg
>besidesthesmokecomingoutoftheheatsink.wav
> panic unplug that shit
> turn it on again
>somehow works
> has a stable OC
>>51653510
>spilled some root beer on my newly-made computer with an open top for a large fan
>computer shut downs
>panic
>paper towel the fuck out of everything with a dab of water for stains
>blow on shit
>give it an hour to dry
>good as new
>find some brown stains 5 years later
>put together pc
>finally done
>forgot i/o plate that goes on the back of case
when i was 17 i bought an alienware laptop
>>51653510
> in the fifth grade
> crazy mexican kid, Marcos, comes to school with some batteries
> and a power transformer from some old stereo
> two nails as handles
> "you guys want to play a game?"
> grab the nails, one in each hand
> Marcos holds one wire on the battery, quickly opens and closes the circuit with the other
> electricity zaps through body, straight through heart
> "Yikes!" I drop the handles, heart pounding
> for the next week, this was the big game at school
> who could hold on the longest
> take the most batteries at once
> or the dreaded 9 volt battery!
> we would all hold hands in a circle, we all get zapped at once
> one kid did it for three minutes straight, just to prove a point
> his hands shook for the rest of the day
fucking Marcos...
As a child my dad pranked me by telling me to lick the prongs of one of those little 9v batteries to shock me unexpectedly. Obviously that was harmless but I got the wise idea to try and replicate it with an electrical outlit. I couldn't figure out how to touch the prongs so I ended just plugging some kind of charger and licking the end of it. Luckily there was a transformer which lowered the voltage to something nonlethal.
I still think about that shit sometimes at night, how close I was to dying.
>>51657418
I had an old ass dell dimension 8300 or some shit in the early-mid 2000s that you had to kick on boot to get it to spin up the HDD on post. Worked for 3 years in that state.
>>51659976
How did you not notice the tower was one even without the monitor?
>>51661155
probably wouldn't died, your tongue would complete the circuit. You definitely would've lost the tongue tho
>>51653510
I cleaned my keyboard yesterday. You're meant to take it apart and separate the circuit board from the keyboard. I washed and scrubbed the keyboard, and then pulled out a few keys and using a knife scraped away just about all the gunk. The main gunk that was in it, was about a handful of cat fur. Now the keyboard is as good as new and has the new typing sound.
>>51660822
No, it's known as a chicken stick. And they're not supposed to be black, like your pic related, and are usually longer.
And any professional will use HV silicone wire, not regular wire like your pic related.
0/10
>>51661275
Nah. The tongue is wet, he wouldn't have lost the tongue unless he got an infection.
Wouldn't have been able to use his tongue properly for the rest of his life though. Might have a speech disorder because of it and have trouble eating.
It wouldn't explode his tongue it'd give it a really nasty burn.
It's like how in lightning being wet increases the chance of being hit but it also makes it so the electricity passes around the outside of your skin rather than through your heart
>>51661358
Yeh, meant lost use of and possibly list the tip due to burns, not exploded and missing tongue.
>>51661155
>some kind of charger
>probably 5 volts at like 1 amp
>how close I was to dying
>licking
breh
5 volts can't break-down anything further than the liquids on your tongue.
1 amp at your tongue won't dindu nuffin
The real issue comes when current passes through your heart, which disrupts it and that's the most common way of dying from shocks. Current passes from your heart after the voltage is enough to break-down all the matter in between and then you only need 30 ma to disrupt the heart, and then you'll probably die.
50 ma will stop it with probably a lot less pain.
Anything more than that and the death probability is like 95%
>>51661421
So then why is only one hole of a socket dangerous?
The path of least resistance probably doesn't go through the heart
>>51661349
>any professional
>talking about ham radio
Son, do you know what ham radio is?
>>51661497
because the other hole is ~= ground so the potential is ~0. (kinda sorta not really but close enough)
And the path of least resistance is blood, since its a nice electrolyte filled liquid. Blood generally passes through the heart. If the voltage is > the breakdown to get to your circulatory system, and the heart is two points making contact, you die.
I turned my PC on about an hour after I spilled water through the top vent, onto the motherboard and onto the GPU. It kept shorting and then I dried out the RAM slots and it worked again. Then I put WD40 on the back of the GPU to stop it from rusting. I dabbed it on. Then I checked on the internet to see if it was OK....5 mins later I am trying to get all the WD40 off of the GPU (thankfully I only applied it lightly). My PC is still working even after all the water. Thank God for short protection.
>>51661504
Yes. I should have replaced professional with "someone who knows what they're doing"
but instead let's replace it with
"amateurs pretending hard to be professionals"
>Installing fan into case
>fan and PSU both have female connecters
>have to strip wires on fan
>have computer on to test output voltages
>go to install fan forget to turn off computer
> while placing the fan in case the exposed exposed wires run across top of GPU
>rip gtx 960
>>51661647
It could have been worse. It could have not been a gtx 960.
>dodgy cracked win7 keeps waking from sleep despite correct settings
>have comodo
>use 'block all' before sleeping PC. Fixes problem
>Came home one day. PC can't connect at all to internet.
>Troubleshooting for hours. Find old laptop. Connect it to Wi-Fi and download mobo and network card drivers again.
>transfer with USB drive
>install...
>no progress
>5 hours in. Head in hands, stressing the Fuck out because my PC broke. On the verge of just doing a fresh install of win7.
>check comodo if there is malware.
>...
>block all mode is still on...
>all five family members try to restrain me as I attempt sepuku with a kitchen knife
>>51661647
So thats what backplates are for, i get it now
>>51658119
Installing Windows 10
>Be literal hikikomori NEET
>Spend all day at my computer because there is literally nothing else in my life.
>Computer is an old POS because very poor.
>Never been cleaned so always overheating and extra slow, but I left it untouched because I was afraid I would break it and lose the only thing that kept me sane.
>After many attempts, mom finally convinces me to clean it.
>"Ok, but vacuum cleaners are knonw to break computers, so we have to be very careful".
>Vacuum it very carefully so it doesn't break.
>WRONG!
>Never turned on again.
>Had to use my father's work computer during the night while he slept because unable to buy another one.
>For the next 4 years.
>>51661930
I've been vacuuming computers successfuly for years now, never fucked up anything.
>>51657072
>little girl
>algebra class
Something doesn't add up
>>51656686
>AMD
Sounds like you made the same mistake many many times.
Can't remember much of this but when I was 5 I found my Dad's ZX spectrum and I beat the shit out of it. I don't exactly remember a lot of it so I couldn't exactly recall the damage but my Dad has used it as blackmail many a time.
>>51662141
>I beat the shit out of it
You mean literally?
Like pic related?
using python
using ruby
>Had an amd 1gb graphics card 5-6 years ago.
>playing nfs most wanted like a champ at 3 in the afternoon in summer vacations.
>too poor in a designated country for an AC.
>fan melts but stays in place.
>done with gaming, i shut down the computer.
>doesn't start back in the evening.
>open the case, see the fan dangling barely.
>fuck!
removed the card, relied on the motherboard for basic computing.
haven't gamed much since.
ah, well, at least there's always been porn and 4chan.
>all those stories about static
I am regularly hoovering entrails of my PC and also touching everything with bare hands.
Doing this for 10+ years, didn't break nothing all this time.
How do I start breaking stuff like you guys, please teach.
>laptop gets BSOD
>think that once it gets, the computer becomes useless
>punch it in the screen out of rage and crack the screen
>end up breaking it completely and getting a new one
>>51662418
luck plays a major part.
>>51657578
>>51656613
>>51657653
I have never ever used a anti-static wristband and Ive built, repaired and taken apart dozens of PCs and laptops. Not one piece of dead hardware yet (except one Laptops WLan card that could have been dead from the beginning as far as I know). If you touch your case and/or PSU from time to time to get rid of static charge you are totally fine even without the wristband placebo.
Also, Ive shorted out an Asus mobo with a broken casefan but it still works.
>>51653510
>dumbass shit you did
>bought a 780 when it came out.
>HAFX (though its kinda cool to be able to fit basically a whole car into your case)
>both of my PCs running ivy bridge
>E-ATX mobo because "muh overclock"
I could have achieved the 1Ghz OC (bumping my 3770k from 3.5 to 4.5 @0.08V offset) with a smaller mobo aswell. If I didnt buy this Asus board, I wouldn't really need the HAFx.
Oh well.
>>51662102
Clearly some Asian country where they learn that shit in primary school.
>>51653510
>>51661336
>keyboard is dirty
>heard about people washing keyboards in dishwasher
>didn't realise it was mechanical keyboards and/or presumably after removing the circuit board
>put my keyboard through the dishwasher
>doesn't work
I don't know what I was thinking would happen.
My old pc was getting very slow, so I tried to take out the cpu heatsink and clean the dust off. The fucking cooler was glued to the cpu, so when I took it out, the cpu came out aswell. I tried putting it back, BUT THOSE FUCKING PINS, HOLY SHIT, I'M SCARED TO EVEN TOUCH A CPU NOW. The cpu died that day.
>>51662418
>>51662441
This. I never ever had a problem with static. I heard people sometimes mention humidity - does the climate have an effect on how dangerous static is?
>>51662575
cpus don't have pins anymore nigga
>>51662636
It was an old intel core2duo
>>51662598
i live in a very humid place and i have the windows open sometimes when it's cool and I've never had ESD damage anything
>>51658085
where the fuck are you living
>>51653510
>laptop keyboard
>soap
kek
>>51661038
oh man, i feel with you
>be me prob 15
>bathroom light switch flickering
>open it up to see if loose wires
>stick a fucking metal butter knife in there
>shocked me to hell and back
>laugh it off and put everything back together
>tfw I could have died
God I was stupid
>>51662655
I said that so you wouldn't be scared to touch a cpu again.
>>51661000
HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO FIT THAT SHIT ON THERE??????
MINE HAD THESE RETARDED PINS THAT WOULDN'T SNAP ON AND INSTEAD WOULD GET IN THE WAY
>>51662856
amps arent high enough to kill you. volt mightve been enough to burn you had you been stuck long enough, however.
>>51662735
>>51662598
The more humid it is the less static you would have. Static is more prevalent in dry hot environments.
Things like carpet and dust will also increase static.
>>51661038
It's OK.
I bought a hp 17 inch laptop.
At least your Alienware housing and keyboard isn't made out of saran wrap. Shits so fucking weak.
Can't get this to greentext so my apologies
Be me around age 14 or so
Built my very first computer without my dad's help
Sweet 386-33
Carefully screwed in, hooked up, and plugged in everything
Quadrillion checked all cables
Gazillion checked the jumpers
Plugged it in and turned it on
Nothing
Hour or so later give up and ask dad for help
He looks
He laughs
I had carefully reversed every single ribbon cable in the damn thing.
I corrected it and it ran like a champ
Still
Fuck ribbon cables and their little red stripe too.
>>51663712
>Can't get this to greentext so my apologies
>Be me around age 14 or so
>Built my very first computer without my dad's help
>Sweet 386-33
>Carefully screwed in, hooked up, and plugged in everything
>Quadrillion checked all cables
>Gazillion checked the jumpers
>Plugged it in and turned it on
>Nothing
>Hour or so later give up and ask dad for help
>He looks
>He laughs
>I had carefully reversed every single ribbon cable in the damn thing.
>I corrected it and it ran like a champ
>Still
>Fuck ribbon cables and their little red stripe too.
Add a > to the beginning of the line
>>51653510
I've cleaned my keyboard with disinfecting wipes like a billion times and still works fine
>>51657418
Actually works sometimes and is the quickest best fix.
