What's the dumbest way you ever fucked up a computer?
I fell asleep after forgetting to disable the windows 10 auto update
>>55190757
oh boy i ruined so many keyboards like that, but somehow i managed to ruined a motherboard when building a pc or at least thats what the guy with who i was working said, i still think it was a fabric failure
Threw my friend's backpack away on the floor.
His fault for not telling me there was a laptop inside.
>>55190757
Installed Windows 10 on it.
>>55190845
What a shit friend you are. Why are you not careful with your friends stuff?
>>55190757
Didn't use an anti-static strap.
Computer literally exploded.
Installed Windows
Installed linux on it.
I forgot I put it in my backpack on the ground next to my chair and I cracked the screen.
I replaced the screen though and it still works like a charm.
>>55190845
>Threw my friend's backpack away on the floor.
>His fault for not telling me there was a laptop inside.
Stop throwing other people's shit dickhead
>>55190757
Didn't install a power manager on my shitty consumer laptop when trying out Arch so I let my battery totally run out and after like 10 times shutting down abruptly, it never booted again.
Needed a new 300 euro mobo, fuck that shit I just bough a ThinkPad for 250.
>>55190757
when building a pc, kinda rushed it and i forgot to take one standoff away and i fried my mobo.
>>55190864
>things that never happened
>>55190870
I don't get the picture.
>>55190757
>Staying in hotel
>Have laptop hooked up to TV because fuck cable
>Charging cable is across the floor because outlets by TV are full
>You already know where this is going
>Get up in middle of night to piss
>Forget about cable
>Manage to trip over it with enough force to send it flying into the wall, hits the wall screen/keyboard first and flattens, makes god-awful slam and cracking sound
>Wake up girlfriend who is now freaking the fuck out
>Silently wait for someone to come banging on the door or cops to show up because that shit was loud
>Laptop is demolished, screen and keyboard totaled.
>Take it home, transfer files off hard drive to desktop, buy a new laptop off craigslist a couple weeks later, put files back
>This was like 5 years ago and I haven't tripped on a single cable ever since, I have a straight phobia now.
>>55190845
>spaz friend comes over
>have to warn him your laptop is in your bag so he doesn't throw it
>have to warn him you have your phone in your pocket so he doesn't throw you in a pool
>warn him you don't want to be picked up again
>ask him not to pick his nose in your room again
>>55190757
Keyboard pictured is an IBM model M. That would not ruin it.
>>55190870
That is a trap. You can grow long hair and makeup but facial structure and testosterone gives it away every time.
>>55190757
Deleted system32
>>55190930
I wish I could dunk your head in a toilet
I fucked up with usb drivers last night and now my kb+m won't work on windows side. No more vidya for me.
>>55190920
>girlfriend
Leave and never come back
>>55190865
>>55190866
lmao xdd
>>55190757
tried to overclock an intel celeron 700 mhz to 900 mhz with pins , it killed the motherboard somehow
Dropped a pot noodle i was eating near a pc i was working on without the side panel on, put my foot out to catch it, kick pot noodle all over the inside of the pc
>>55190920
It's a shame you guys don't have this
I have a corsair pc case with big useless round holes at the top and because I'm such a dipshit, I spilled cake onto my GTX970 :^)
>>55190979
We also don't have phallic objects lodged firmly up our anus.
>>55190983
>cake
>>55190983
>GTX970
Nothing of value was lost.
>>55190757
using internet explorer and watching porn when i was like 12 years old
>>55190979
Yeah, it's a ... shame.
>>55190983
i too came at the top of desktop case when screwing around with my gf, and she realized it a month later. (her pc) . Luckly it was a sealed top case.
>>55190920
>>55191023
What is up with normies and their girlfriends?
Girlfriends are not technology. Get out.
>high school IT room
>me and a friend were there to work on old computers
>one such a system comes up
>do some basic checks
>plug it in
>flip the PSU switch
>PSU explodes
>fuse breaks
>entire wing of school is devoid of power
>>55190757
Put my notebook on the side of the bed with my headphones plugged in. Then sat on the side of the bed, so it slid off and fell on the headphone connector, so that it partly broke. It still works, but it looks a little weird.
>>55190757
sudo rm -rf /
![oopswhoopsposing[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/Yq4pnma.gif "oopswhoopsposing[1].gif")
I used a blowdyer to remove dust and forgot to turn off the heat. melted my case filters
Switched power supply from one modular to the next.
Nothing in the new manual mentioned different pin-outs, so I kept the previous modular cords in with the new PSU.
Suffice to say all of my hard drives were instantly fried. (about 5TB of storage all-told)
>>55190757
At age 11 I installed two anti virus programs. It was glorious.
>>55191011
I didn't know it was 2008
>>55190757
I was adding some new RAM to my laptop, but to do so, I had to remove the motherboard (HP Sleekbook 15).
During disassembly, I got to the flex cable for the laptop's screen. Upon disconnecting the cable, I managed to rip the connector port clean from the motherboard.
I tried getting two replacement motherboards, but each one was defective, and had to be returned. I eventually just said "fuck this", so the laptop now sits in pieces in a box in my closet. Two weeks later, I bought myself a Thinkpad T420.
>>55191032
The PSU was probably set to 110v when it should have been 230v. Happened to me once
>>55190773
>implying you can disable windows 10 updates
nice try faggot
>>55191180
>LOL fucking europeans. You know what happens in the US when it's in the wrong position? nothing! Hahah!
>>55191133
they still use the same shitty cable design without bend-support so it it will still happen.
>>55191188
He meant upgrade
>>55190757
>Be my barely awake high school freshman self
>Try to turn on laptop
>It just blinks at me
>ohshit.jpg
>Google answer and decide to reseat CPU
>Attempt to open
>HP's quality construction
>Hear snaps
>Reseat CPU
>Put back together, hinge breaks
>More snaps
>Doesn't work afterwards
>>55191205
Who are you quoting?
>>55191031
Talking about normies isn't technology either. Out
>>55191212
>consumer HP laptop
why would you even do that
>>55191247
Myself, you faggot.
>>55191261
It was a time when I was less technologically inclined, and it was also a time when my dad saw a sweet deal at Costco.
>>55191274
Why?
>touched a gpu fan to see if its spinning
>vacuumed mobo and fried it along with gpu
>>55191298
Because I come from a country where we don't have to worry about blowing up our power supplies by having a switch in the wrong position
BTFO
>>55191339
Which country would that be you silly frog poster?
>>55191307
How did you manage to do that?
>>55191339
>I live in a country with an inferior national power system and I'm proud of this
Ok
>>55191373
Do what? Fry mobo or touch a fan like a retard?
Installed BOINC.
>>55190757
Installed windows
>>55191381
Yes. I touched spinning fans and nothing has happened and vacuumed lots of pc parts (including mobos) and nothing happened.
Have you got a qualification in being retarded?
>>55190864
Nice meme
>>55191408
After vacuuming the pc wouldnt post so i thought gpu died and touched fan to see if its working because room was dark as fuck. Pushed a bit too hard and instantly destroyed one of the blades.
Also static electricity. Weird thing is, i cant use my integrated graphics without dead graphics card plugged in.
>>55190757
That happened to me once. (Mountain Dew killed the laptop)
>disassemble my laptop to clean up dust
>assembling it back
>snap cables leading to speakers
>look up replacement
>one end is just soldered to the speakers and the other ends in some proprietary shit
Using headphones since.
>Using laptop, can't remember model
>Occasionally doesn't switch on because [???]
>One day, try to switch on
>Nothing
>Switch off, switch on
>More nothing
>...uh oh
>Open up, or try to
>Realise case isn't designed to be opened, because [???]
>Force open, fuck the case up with pliers and screwdriver
>Check all connections, nothing wrong
>Try switching on while in Frankenstein-esque mode
>...it works fine
>Keep case to store when not using
>Still works fine several years later, switch on occasionally for entertainment value
My story doesn't quite fit into the thread, I just find it stupid that it works better outside the case (and I enjoy posting pictures of it).
>>55190983
>his case is where soda could spill on it
>he's so spastic soda spilled on it in the first place
>>55191545
Dude, you got a perfect opportunity to make a pizza box laptop.
>>55190987
lol xDDD Apple iz sooo gay
>>55190757
jammed a pci card in the slot roughly causing a gold contact to come dislodged and touch another contact pin causing a tiny flame and stinky smoke when i booted up (back in the day when i was young also no harm done to anything but the junk pci card that added COM ports or something i didnt need)
>>55191545
Nice clock, Ahmed.
>>55191583
I could make a CheesePizza-top.
I just need to get a spare keyboard for it.
I don't know if I caused the fuck up, but
>have gaming laptop b/c high schooler who didn't know jack shit about anything
>eventually go to college
>laptop like 4 years old now
>starts turning off randomly immediately after booting up
>at first, it happens like once a month
>then, randomly turns off twice or three times a month
>then once a week
>then every other day
>then every day
>then multiple times a day
It would always turn off exactly 15 seconds after turning it on. Always 15 seconds. Ended up never turning back on, so I built my first desktop and haven't looked back since.
>>55191379
Our children don't die instantly when they come in contact with our power delivery system.
Inferior to child molestors and child killers, maybe?
I once ruined a Model M by spilling about a tablespoon of beer on it. The beer was partially frozen so it overflowed when I opened it and spilled.
>>55191210
You can uninstall 3 certain service pack updates, this completely removes the win 10 update garbage bootstrap
i fell asleep without cancelling the gentoo auto update
>>55191713
>Our children don't die instantly when they come in contact with our power delivery system.
>Inferior to child molestors and child killers, maybe?
try hitting it with contact cleaner, wait an hour for it to dry and try again.
Model Ms are extremely powerful and hardy.
>>55191746
Nice meme
>>55190757
Not me but my professor.
Bought a brand new 15 rMBP maxed out. Went to do some chemistry, forgot that he got some chemicals on his sleeves, burned the aluminum finish and stained it. Was only cosmetic, but wew lad
>>55191339
You mean this country? Very wow indeed.
Got pissed off last year and slammed my fist down on my desk launching a mug of Coke into the air and down on my rMBP keyboard. Then I tried to clean it with water and iso alcohol which got into my screen and left this weird effect on the lower left. I prayed to God that it would dry out and keep working, let it dry for a week and opened it up and cleaned it out thoroughly and it still works to do this day. I'm expecting it to randomly die one day but until then I'm going to keep using it. I've gotten my temper under control.
>>55190757
I installed arch linux on it.
I installed an AMD card and blew up my psu and mobo
>>55191712
>cmon little guy you can touch it ,it will only feel funny a little.
Your power lines are the literally child molestors.
Also enjoy having massive power losses.
>>55191967
when 110v gets made fun of by other countries
I haven't had a power outage in years, you?
>>55191545
this is awesome :D
>>55190757
I plugged the wrong plug on an psu that didn't have way to tell if it was the right plug.
Wasted an old AM2 mobo.
>>55190757
spilled hot soup all over laptop
>>55192082
i live in city where everyhing is cabled. why would i ?
>>55190757
Not a computer, but my cat knocked my arm and i dropped my phone in my tea.
>>55191031
>he doesn't have a robot waifu
>>55190757
Was drunk, got startle, punched the freaking screen!
installed a new nvidia driver
>>55191545
>somehow manage to fuck the occasional thing up with static
>mfw your post
>>55190757
I put a speaker element on my laptop where the hard drive was located while it was running.
All I heard where grinding noises, as the drive head was dancing the samba on the HD platters.
Letting other people use it for even a few minutes.
>>55190757
I had a laptop where the graphics card kept overheating and crashing whenever I played a game.
I thought it'd be pretty clever to put the laptop in the freezer for a bit so I'd get more use out of it before it crashed.
That laptop doesn't start anymore, presumably because freezers cause ice crystals (i.e. water) to condense onto things (i.e. the circuit boards).
>>55190987
You're missing out.
>>55191011
Should've just charged it in the microwave, with Apple's Wave™ technology. Cables are just too dangerous.
>>55192284
>>55190936
>you can grow makeup
>>55190757sudo chmod -R 777 /
I thought I could undo registry edits with ctrl+z.
I could not.
I was alone and drinking as usual and grabbed the vodka wrong and it spilled all over the mobo, the case was off at the time.
There was the time I got mad at mario kart and threw the wii at my monitor, which broke the monitor.
I forgot my passport drive in a backpack when I was travelling Europe by train, I was lucky to get it back because my name and email address were written in it and it was at the station I left it at.
I used to stick magnets all over my case until a friend told me it was retarded.
The first time I got wifi I threw away all of my ethernet cables, thinking I'd never need them ever again.
I bought a deathadder and threw my intellimouse in the bin. It worked fine I just liked how the deathadder looked.
I once never cleaned my machine and the mobo died because of what the company called "catastrophic dust" when I RMA'd it.
>>55190757
I overclocked my cpu and gpu a lot, started crysis (first one, those were the days) and my cheapass power supply exploded. Huge bang, a bunch of smoke, stench like fireworks.
My friend fell asleep WHILE replacing his motherboard. He did it on the floor, so he kneeled in front of his case and fell into it. Slept there for a good half an hour (it was at a LAN party, shit was hilarious)
>>55191001
WHAT? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU!
THIS COIL WHINE IS PRETTY LOUD Y'KNOW
>>55190845
Why the fuck would you throw his backpack in the first place.
>>55191188
u wot m8
>>55190757
When I built my first computer and used wrong and way too long screws to attatch my PSU onto the case.
The result? I pierced my PSU internals and got a nice firework show when I booted it.
>>55192523
lol , the first thing i asked myself after turning on my gtx 760 is "what is that noise?" i thought it was a faulty PSU or something.
i accidentally spilled a drink on my laptop and it got into the keyboard. my track/touchpad borked, at least my keyboard survived and is surprisingly still usable. i never paid for service/repair on my laptop after that except for a RAM upgrade.
>When I was a kid I was used to having shitty CRT monitors that occasionally required a whack to work
>Started whacking my box thinking it would help in the same way
>Harddrive dies after one particularly big whack
Installed a half-height mPCI card into a full-height slot without screwing it to the motherboard or otherwise fixing it in place. Few moments later it slipped out of the slot and killed that shitty netbook.
>>55190757
My dad got a mac laptop from his company once and when he was away from home I tried to use it to play games. Well, kiddie me couldnt figure out how to eject discs from macs after I was done playing (and was too stupid to use google). So in my panic to not get discovered I used a knife to try and kinda jimmy around inside the disc slot to try and trigger the disc to eject. As you can imagine the results were disastrous.
My colleague thought it would be a great idea to use compressed air to dust out some workstations, like £1k plus architecture CAD work stations with quadros,
>blew out workstations x3
>whilst they where on
>no more workstations
>>55192417
>he doesn't grow his own makeup
gtfo fag
In 2005 I had a dinky IDE RAID card and a pair of 120GB drives in RAID 1. I used Speedfan (I believe it was) to monitor my temperatures. The documentation said you shouldn't try to monitor HDD temperatures for drives in a RAID array. I tried it anyway, thinking the worst that could happen was that it wouldn't work.
I corrupted the drives' partition tables and spent two full days with DOS disks and Linux live CDs carefully poking the drives and eventually getting (most of) my stuff back, and learning that RAID is not a backup.
Didn't use spacers on my motherboard the first time I built a computer.
>>55192284
> watercooling
>>55190757
Stuck a screwdriver into the PSU through the fan to get a piece of paper out. It was mere milliseconds before I saw the arc that I understood what the fuck I was actually doing.
Luckily my brother's an electrician and I had borrowed one of his screwdrivers. Otherwise I'd be dead now.
>>55192781
>*fan shield
>Saved up on good boy points all year
>Get dank t450s
>Jew out and decide to buy my own SSD and DDR3
>Watch Lenovo repair instructional video
>Get baked as shit
>Insert paper clip into sim port
>nothing happens
>weneedtogodeeper.jpg
>I've got the entire clip unwound and stuck up my laptop like I'm nailing a terminator in some hot robot porno
>Push through something
>I think I just broke my laptop's hymen
>Turn it on
>Screen flickers
>"Yes mister, I think there's a factory defect. My laptop won't turn on"
>>55190757
Inserted the DOS disks at startup, just like the Macs at school. My mother had to call over some security guy that worked at NORAD to fix it.
>>55190973
Are you me?
>>55191551
>soda
he spilled cake on it m8, not coke
Connecting a fan the wrong way and killing motherboard + CPU. Yeah, I know.
>>55190845
Are you Australian or something?
I partially pulled the CPU out at an angle so only some pins were touching and then started the PC to see if it'll work. Don't why I did it.
Oc'd a pentium 4 from 2.7ghz to 4ghz and it insta killed the temp control, then melted the cpu fan
>>55192667
This is why I'll never have kids
![WP_20160529_011[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ozV3FiQ.jpg "WP_20160529_011[1].jpg")
Used the wrong size screw :(
>>55190845
What a shitty friend...
A drunk friend tried to cram a Genesis cartridge into my Sega Saturn's memory cart slot. Backwards.
>>55190757
Didn't change the thermal paste on my cpu for like 10 years and rekt it when I tried to get it off to clean it. It was a p4 2,8ghz. Bought a faster one as replacement lel
>>55191120
I did the same. I also attempted to reinstall Windows XP by myself and somehow fucked it up.
I plugged an Apple monitor into my PC's gameport. Port melted, monitor was trashed, PC still worked though. Told my dad I needed a new Mac monitor and he tossed my Performa
>>55190926
delet this
>>55190757
I bought a 8350 fx when i could have had an i5 for the same price
>Family had a 386 when I was 11
>I had some awesome bmp porn on it
>Randomly pc stops booting
>Parents says they'll take it the family IT friend
>Freak out, take the hard disk out and smash it >with a hammer for a few minutes and put back in
>Goes for repair
>Family friend says he couldn't fix it
Really didn't think through my actions at that age
>>55190983
Maybe if you didn't eat cake while gaming at your computer you wouldn't have diabetes spurges that cause you to spill it.
>>55190757
>connect laptop to a cord extension
>every metallic part of the laptop is giving me a small discharge wtf
>use it anyways lol
>connect it 20 times
>computer suddenly working like shit, can't find the cause. Waste days trying to find the cause
>buy another laptop
>my mom laptop also breaks
>ask her if she used the same power extension
>she did and also had small electric discharges on metal parts
>fucked 2 laptops for being a fucking retard
I still don't know what was wrong with the power cord, the earth connection was working but anything you connect to that power cord would give you those discharges.
set the jumper for BIOS reset, turned computer on
manual said
>DO NOT TURN ON THE COMPUTER WHEN THE JUMPER IS IN RESET MODE
whoops 50€ down the drain
>>55190757
>be 10
>buy diamond stealth s3 2mb graphics card
>to play tomb raider 2
>install card myself
>take all necessary precautions
>plug computer back in
>doesn't turn on anymore
>mom has to help me take computer in to compusa for repair
>i just needed to plug the monitor into the card instead of the motherboard vga port
>finally get home
>fire up tomb raider 2
>everything is just white polygons because 2mb isn't enough vram for textures and i'm too much of a retarded kid to know what system requirements are
Overclocked an Athlon from about 1.5 GHz to 2.1 GHz without proper cooling. I'm not sure what exactly broke.
Were messing around for fun. It did benches for about an hour before kaputt.
>>55190773
>Windows
It was already fucked up
Fried one of these bad boys when I was 10. It went *POOF* and there was a huge black spot inside the case.
Good times.
Nuked a cpu by trying to fit a heatsink to the rear of the vrms to handle my overclock. Silly me did this while it was running and said heatsink made contact with the chassis and shorted the chip. The mobo was also possibly killed but it was a piece of shit anyway.
To add insult to injury when pulling the cooler off the (believed dead) cpu I bent a pin. Sure I bent it back but by that point I simply wrote the lot off and replaced the parts.
Luckily it wasn't too expensive in the grand scheme of things (its not like I killed a brand spanking new i7 or anything) but still, taught me not to be stupid again.
>>55190757
Put a jumper in the wrong place.
You must reply if you did it.
>>55193523
you're an idiot, even in the context of this thread
>>55193539
Aww don't be so negative anon. It was only an 8320 on a cheapo 970 board.
>>55190757
Built new PCs for my parents who only use them for email, internet, and office and installed OSX.
>"Anon, these new computers you got us are nice but why does they look like kids toys?"
Wiped OSX same day.
>was watching a movie on laptop
>eating a bowl of ramen in a spherical bowl
>bowl is sitting on paper towels in front of laptop
>decide for some absolutely retarded reason to try to balance the bowl on the paper towels
>towel breaks
OSHIT.jpg
>entire bowl of ramen goes into the laptop
luckily its a thinkpad though so it survived. just had to buy a new keyboard and mop up the insides, good as new
>>55193538
Kids in school used to switch each other's PSUs from 120 to 240v whenever they'd leave the computer
>Windows 95
>wanna uninstall command & conquer because computer feels slow
>search: "command" on the window explorer
>delete every fucking single file
>dad mad as hell computer wont boot up again
>call technician and explain what I did
>realize how dumb I was
>based tech guy stays 1 hour teaching me how to uninstall programs, explains how he installed windows 95 again and how he recovered my dad's files, teached me about partitions and defragmentation, and also explained me why anti viruses are useless and slow down the computer.
>Become a wizzard kid repairing computers since then
He was probably a rapist but still
I haven't fucked up a computer ever. They're my friends, why would I harm my friends?
>>55193624
lol
>>55193636
>He was probably a rapist but still
kek
>>55190757
I took it from behind. Never again.
>>55193538
If I did what? isn't that the on/off switch?
spilled a milkshake onto my laptop because i slammed the table while watching anime
It didn't die, surprisingly, but the keyboard was never as fast as it used to
>be 12
>first pc, win 95
>10gb HDD iirc
>this thing needs more space for age of empires
>open the biggest files in various folders with wordpad
>cryptic symbols
>into the trash it goes
>computer does not boot anymore
>fuck you wordpad
And thats how I reinstalled my first OS
>>55193688
>all these spergs slamming their desks
kind of explains things
>>55192472
>There was the time I got mad at mario kart and threw the wii at my monitor, which broke the monitor.
to be fair mario kart wii is shit
> threw my intellimouse in the bin
REEEEE
>>55193683
Yes. Flip yours it unlocks a special sleep mode.
I tried to upgrade the RAM in my laptop when I was like 13 and managed to break one of the plastic holders.
>>55193775
That's not so bad.
>that pic
fuck
>bought a model m
>cleaned it up and made it nice
>left it at home because roommate at university couldn't stand the CLACK CLACK
>come back home at Christmas, my brother was using it
>take it back, the keys are sticky and the space bar is broken (the clips to hold onto the metal bracket)
>haven't used it in years because can't justify spending more money to fix it
>>55191136
Should've read reviews ahead of time, the first one I found mentions it's a pain in the ass to deal with.
>>55191261
I own two HP laptops, never had any issues. Just don't treat them like shit and they'll be fine.
>>55193804
At the time I was devastated that I ended up halving my RAM instead of doubling it.
I deleted system32 when I was like 14 cause 4chan told me it would make my computer faster.
I used a magnetic screwdriver on a computer at my high school. Now I always check like 4-5 times if it is or not.
>>55191180
>Ctrl'd+F 110
>Was not dissapointed
>>55191896
Retard.
Getting drunk and spilling a sticky sweet cocktail made out of vodka and raspberry syrup all over my laptop while trying to connect the external PSU.
> keys sticky for months depsite taking out keyboard and cleaning as best as I can
> randomly getting short circuits causing random letters to appear
> right trackpad button doesn't work anymore
> randomly thinks I'm making gestures when I'm nowhere near it, spazzes out
> randomly thinks I pressed the (still nonfunctional) right mouse button; left click now mutates into right click and I can't click normally
> eventually stops working completely (no clicking, no moving the mouse -- except for random ghost moves and ghost clicks)
> DVD drive does not respond anymore
The keys are pretty much unfucked apart from the numpad where the keys sometimes still stick after pressing them but I have to bring a mouse whereever I go and disable the trackpad every time I power it on before it goes into "ghost right click mode" where every left click (even on an external mouse) registers as a right click and actual right clicks don't register at all.
>laptop start behaving weird, 100% CPU and connects to random IPs in Russia.
>reformat and start new win7 installation
>install crashes and goes into a reboot crash reboot loop
>5th time it boots into GRUB in Russian
>NOPE
>put nail through harddrive and throw in lake
>sell laptop on ebay
So, whatever i did to be a part of the botnet.
>Was testing PC with the side off
> saw some misc wire dangling
> thought that it was out far enough to just grab it
> spazzed out and put finger in CPU fan
> was luck enough to escape only needing a new CPU fan.
I punched my computer , literally just face on to the front of the case while i was an angsty teenager .
i landed a critical strike + 3 ice damage and the HDD couldn't parry .
RIP
>>55193877
wat
I've been exclusively using magnetic screwdrivers to assemble computers for like 20 years, you can't kill anything except old floppies with those.
>>55193593
You built a fucking hackintosh for your parents to check email?
>>55192618
>Paying for RAM upgrade
GTFO
>be 10
>interested in computers, so I decide to take one apart
>trying to put the cpu back in
>why won't it go in
>jam it in
>pins face when
Once spilt a full can of coke all over my Mac laptop keyboard.
It still worked for years after that, just the keys were sticky at times.
>>55194107
Well, at least you now know how to enable StickyKeys on a Mac.
>>55194141
kek
>>55192119
And nothing of value was lost.
>>55192274
Good opportunity to upgrade to an SSD.
>>55192596
How fucking hard do you have to twist to get the screws in that deep? Isn't there something in the way that would let you know "Hey retard, stop screwing"?
>>55192714
This is why RAID is for idiots that love losing their data in all sorts of stupid ways.
>>55193433
What exactly happened there? Overwrites BIOS with 0's? Sounds like shitty mobo design.
>>55193924
BIOS infection?
>>Every retard that spilled/slammed/dunked/derped food/liquid into their laptops
You are all too stupid to live.
>Carrying laptop and large heavy box on shop floor at work
>Laptop is resting on top of box slides to one side
>Laptop is going to fall from like 5ft up on to that cement non slip, impact resistant hard as diamonds factory floor stuff
>Toss box to the side and try to stick my foot under laptop so it hits my foot and not the titanium battlebots tier hard floor and hopefully gets less damaged
>Throw my foot out way too hard in a panic, make contact with the laptop, screen explodes in to pieces, laptop flies in to space.
>Get called in to bosses office after picking up the keyboards/cables/software disks/manuals i was moving and laptop parts
>boss asks if im quitting
>Say no, ask why
>because i just had 2 shift leaders tell me you screamed fuck on the shop floor, slammed a box of computer parts in to a wall and punted your laptop like a football.
As a social retard, I contemplated quitting and hanging myself after that.
>Was 12
>Bought some of these magnets because they were the shit
>Put them in my front pocket
>Forget about them
>Take my laptop, sit on my bed with laptop on my laptop
>Everything seems really glitchy, gets more glitchy as time goes on
>restart
>Doesn't turn back on
>Spend 20 minutes trying to figure out what just happened
>Find magnets
>wellshit
>>55194176
>Isn't there something in the way that would let you know "Hey retard, stop screwing"?
I thought I just had angled the screws somehow which made it harder to screw, so I just forced it.
>age 10 or so
>mom and dad are out
>stay up all night surfing that there internet
>suddenly hear the door opening at 1am or so
>ohshitohshitohshit
>mom is gonna be pissed
>try to shut the computer down
>it isn't shutting down fast enough
>yank the cord out of the wall
>quickly scurry into my room before I get caught
>the next day the computer won't restart
>hard drive is fucked (read head crash?)
>parents don't know shit about computers so they spend like $300 sending it to some local repair shop
>>55194235
Angling the screws is also bad, but I guess since we're in retard land everything is A-OK.
>>55193467
>>i just needed to plug the monitor into the card instead of the motherboard vga port
>>everything is just white polygons because
Actually that particular videocard was not compatible with your motherboad. The whole system is fried. If youd like to come in tomarrow to discuss your options, I'd be more than happy to help you!
in early 2004, I discovered porn and didn't really care about spyware and malware. had pop-ups ads with porn show up so much, I got bsod. had to reformat the os (windows xp)
>>55194215
Gave me a good chuckle, thanks for that.
>>55190757
Quad booting my laptop with Windows 7, Windows XP, hackintosh, and Linux for the hell of it.
>mates are over after we have been out drinking
>continue drinking and fucking around in my bedroom
>computer has no sidepanel because i thoguht it looked cool
>feel urge to vomit, but I continue to drink and not look like a pussy
>sitting next to computer trying to not die from alcohol poisoning
>projectile vomited on my computer, mattress and amplifier
>computer was fucked and smelled really bad
>>55191107
Oh shit I've done this but nothing bad happened? What should I worry about if I use cables that didn't come with the psu?
I have a box of modular psu cables from various models. Are those not safe either?
i installed gentoo
>>55194216
I remember those loud pieces of shit.
Some faget almost got my phone and gba wiped because of them
Happened to my cousin
>uses lens
>accidentally spills a few drops of artificial tears on laptop touchpad
>this fries the motherboard
>>55194401
>phones and gameboys have hard disk drives
wew lad
>>55194362
I find this really funny.
>>55194401
lol
>>55194325
Was kinda funny in hindsight. In the moment it was life crushing.
That was the day I learned Lenovo T420 are not steel toe boot resistant. So next time you're at a gay pride coffee shop and some neckbeards starts making fun of your Apple facebook machine, you know how to handle his thinkpad.
>>55190757
that wouldn't necessarily kill the keyboard. i spilled some juice once on my keyboard and i just immediately unplugged. i then washed the whole thing with water in a bathtub and let it dry for a few days. still using the same keyboard with no problems.
I spilled a glass of milk over my case and it fried the motherboard and the gpu
>took apart my mom's phone to replace screen
>put it back together
>forgot home button
>took it apart again
>tore a ribbon connecting to mobo
>phone no longer works
I screamed
Mistyped a command on Arc install
Simply deleted Windows partition
>>55194216
I bought those 2.5cm diameter magnet balls the other day, waiting for them to arrive.
I know I am going to fuck something up with them.
>>55190757
>Accidentally spill some water
>Splashes phone
>ohshit.jpg
>Charging port now intermittently works
>Sensors are fucked, car mode turning off/on randomly
>Screen rotating completely upside-down despite auto-rotation disabled
>Turn off, disassemble entire phone and wipe it down with isopropyl
>Reassemble after it dries, thankfully it all works
Close call, there. Hopefully it doesn't start fucking up again, but so far zero issues.
>>55190757
>install linux
>it's shit
I wish the story stopped there
>kept a windows dual boot
>try to uninstall linux
>it fucks up
>can't do anything
>>55194591
>He fell for the lunix maymay
>>55194575
>Magnets
Nigga, don't even risk that shit. It's not worth the risk just for some measly entertainment.
>>55194216
>12
>laptop
>>55194608
BUT I BOUGHT THIRTY FIVE OF THEM
IT'S GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN
On my first install of linux I accidentally deleted the video drivers... I don't really know how, it wouldn't even boot into terminal afterwards.
installed pirated software on it
'the most seeded ones are safe' fuck my ass
>>55190878
>take one standoff away
What?
>>55194726
>'the most seeded ones are safe'
Said nobody ever.
I once installed an AMD A6 on an LGA 1150 motherboard.
>>55194624
>yfw someone who was 12 in 2010 is 18 years old now
>>55190757
Pulled the sticker from the front of a PC case fan and fucked up the bearings (rattled).
>>55194726
That was before malware distributors started using botnets to prop up seed numbers with hundreds of legitimate looking seeds that were all actually compromised PCs.
>>55193266
Did it still work?
I think I downloaded some sort of MSN Messenger l337 edition that had sound playback and increased emoticons(it was the tits), but it contained several virii.
Installed motherboard before bending case's pci slot off. When bending it off i hear it scraping the motherboard but continue, bare scraped circuits visible on motherboard and will not post, claimed doa and got new board.
>>55193411
Likely had MOV's across L-E-N but the earth connection wasn't connected, as such you ended up with a capacitive divider across the mains.
>>55190757
Installed a device driver for some legacy hardware in compatibility mode.
Everything looked fine until the next reboot.
>>55190757
When i was younger I salvaged an old windows 3.1 pc and had an old Pentium 1 with windows 98.
The old 3.1 pc had a dead motherboard battery and i decided to salvage the hdd to have a secondary hdd in my 98, especially since it only had a 1gb HDD. I assume i plugged it in backwards because it made the nastiest sound in the world when i booted my pc. HDD was toast.
>>55193538
In 115 country's this just caused a low voltage condition, in 240 country's it caused the PSU to overvolt and go pop.
>>55193636
>and also explained me why anti viruses are useless and slow down the computer.
Please share that knowledge with the group anon.
Tried downloading more ram.
Tried deleting system32.
Allowed a telemarketer to take remote control of my computer to sell me an antivirus software.
Tried cleaning the insides of the computer. Somehow broke a few fans.
Got angry after someone hacked my account for my rune scimmy, so I threw my tower out my window. Mom grounded me, and took the computer.
Bricked my friend's PSP while trying to mod it. I had already modded mine, but for some reason forgot to check if he had the same model of PSP as me before trying to use the exact same program I used. In our defense we were in ~10th grade so were stupid teenagers.
Only other thing I can think of is spilling milk into a $5 keyboard while eating cereal but that wasn't a very big loss
>>55194962
Downloaded everything too good to be true from limewire.
>>55191712
Not that guy; but electric shock hazard is proportional to current rather than voltage.
Plugged a PC directly into a wall with no grounding and with no surge protector. Ended up frying the PSU and mobo after a power surge. I was 10 and this was in 2000 and it was an old 486 (which at the time it was bought cost over $2,000, but at the time it died was pretty much a paperweight given to me by my parents to mess around with).
In 2002 I fried the 56k modem on that same PC by handling it in my room on a carpeted floor.
Made a bot for a game to do the grind for me.
Tried to get fancy and make it relaunch and relog if I got DC'd. Tested it a little bit. Seemed OK. Ran it over night.
The bot hit some sort of weird fringe case which caused an indefinite loop. Bot continually started new instances of the game client over and over.
When I woke up my ram (or something, never figured out exactly what was broken) was fucked. Works OK now, but not nearly as good as it used to.
i cum on my motherboard
>>55194997
Voltage directly determines the current, however 110v is already way above the safe threshold.
>>55195021
elaborate please
>>55190757
>duel boot Windows and a newly installed Debian on different HDDs
>boot Debian and try to format a flash drive
>haven't configured fstab yet by the way, so drive labels keep switching around
>accidentally wipe entire Windows hard disk that had years worth of data on it
I deserved it honestly.
>>55190914
>>im'a throw this iced crappashino onta my friends laptop
>>CAUSE THEY DINAE SAY NOT TO!!!
I installed this cheeky fuck one time
>>55195039
At this time my computer was under my desk, right in front of my feet, it was always open because i had to switch my hard drives and i was like "meh gonna keep it open"
>watching porn
>masturbate
>for some reason it's too good
>too much good
>forgot to have a tissue nearby
>nervermind gotta clean the floor after
>cum
>OHFUCKTHISSHIT.jpg
>screen goes black
>there's cum on my motherboard
And this is how i broke my computer.
I have a couple
>be 17 years old
>i7 2600k just released
>have a shitty prebuilt Hp family computer
>I installed a 660 on it so i think i'm hot shit
>computer has an amd cpu
>buy i7 3770
>rip out amd cpu thinking the socket is compatible
>it isnt
>force in i7, bewildered that it wont boot
actually ended up bending pins of amd cpu by being a fucking idiot
I have more if you guys want
>be a young computer rookie in 1990-2000
>use computer in all ways without thought of virus existence, necessary hdd space, ctrl alt delete and what not
>computer starts to slowly and probably painfully die
>panics because of shitloads and shitloads och stuff downloaded and saved
>eureka.. Antivirus software
>install Norton Antivirus that came with Windows
>doesn't magically fix everything immediately
>omg must save files
>blame Norton
>install panda Antivirus too
>computer now freezes ten seconds after starting windows
>format c:
>literally cry
lesson learned
>>55190757
Put metal vacuumcleaner tube in comp to clean and touched RAM modules, memory corruption all over the place after that.
>>55195087
iktf, I installed smiley central once because my friends had installed it on their computers despite knowing that sort of thing was sketchy.
>>55194763
Motherboard standoffs.
One in the wrong place will short the motherboard.
>>55195102
*2600k, not a 3770
>>55190757
>advising friend over phone
>telling him that he should ignore windows defender's warning about an .exe
>he reboots the pc
>now there are moar shortcuts on desktop
>ok click the one that says <desired program>
>nothing happenes.. wait there are new shirtcuts now
>ok, i'm tired - let's continue tomorrow
>no fucks were given
