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Ok, I spent all day installing my stuff, I had 3 or 4 diffrent partitions for everything, my Battlefield2 partition, though, needed more space, so I downloaded Partition magic, tell it to give it more space, reboot.... GONE ALL MY PARTITIONS GONE AFTER partition E(Battlfield2)
So cheer me up, whats your stupidest thuing you have done?
 

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let my wife play with my computer

i let my wife use my computer and she deleted some windows files.really fucked things up.
 
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never let a woman into the windows folder :p
 

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got that right

bikr692002 said:
never let a woman into the windows folder :p

that is why i gave her my old pc ..so far she has not screwed it up.
 
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lol, in time
 

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Hmm I havent ever really fucked anything up big time :toast:
 

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Well I converted all my MP3 files to WMA about 4 years ago and deleted all the original MP3's before I checked the quality of the WMA files. It was over 1,000 songs, all perfectly customized to me and took about a year to build the collection. Little did I know that WMA is literally about 1000000000000000 times less quality than MP3, and it had those nice "sparkle" sounds throughout all the songs. Plus I've had to reformat my RAID 0 about 3 times and NEVER once backed up my files
 

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I overclocked the ass off my old 9800Pro 128mb (I cant remember the figures but it was VERY HIGH!) and blew my shitty 300W PSU, which fried the card also on its way out :D
 

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newmodder said:
i let my wife use my computer and she deleted some windows files.really fucked things up.

lol that should go into a signature :)

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Stupidest thing you have ever done:
I let my wife use my computer and she deleted some Windows files. Really fucked things up.
 

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ah wait .. i dont have a wife :D
 
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i cut a fan wire about 1 year ago with the computer powered on and the naked wire touched the case.zzzzzzzz bam........burn baby.......
 
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About 4 years ago when i didn't know anything about overclocking, we got a new computer from some company that doesn't exist now... Anyway, i figured out how to go into the bios and decided to try this thing called 'overclocking' that's i'd only just heard about.

Anyway, i have a poke around and see the fsb section, and thinking that is the actual speed of the processor, i stick it up at 3000 thinking it would give me 3ghz.

Restarted pc... BANG... beep beep beep beep beep beep... etc etc.

:p
 
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ouch to both of you, I got my files back XD
 
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another wife thing !!

my wife usually doesnt mess with my pc , and she never does cause i bought her a laptop !
anyways she loves to sit on my desk and drink her coffee on that spot , well u guys can guess what happened , she spilled it while reading a damn book , and the coffee was all over my keyboard , and case , and leaked into my case too , fortunately my pc was not ON ......... she did tell me what happened and ( my heart SANK at 1000miles/hr)

i didnt turn my pc on till i knew the coffee had dried up and all the visible area of my MOBO and Graphic card , i cleaned the coffee off with Isopropyl alchohol ........... left my PC untouched for a whole day with a fan blowing in it ................. but it worked and it was still alive .

the stupidest thing i did to accomodate this situation was i bought her a coffee maker for home ! :D
 

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infrared said:
About 4 years ago when i didn't know anything about overclocking, we got a new computer from some company that doesn't exist now... Anyway, i figured out how to go into the bios and decided to try this thing called 'overclocking' that's i'd only just heard about.

Anyway, i have a poke around and see the fsb section, and thinking that is the actual speed of the processor, i stick it up at 3000 thinking it would give me 3ghz.

Restarted pc... BANG... beep beep beep beep beep beep... etc etc.

:p




AWWWW Infrared that's HORRIBLE. I almost did that with my PC a couple years ago too. I literally did just burn out my Athlon XP a couple months ago because my thermal paste wasn't all over the core, just one small spot so I slowly killed the poor guy. But oh my god man that SUCKS, sorry to hear that.
 
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lol, thanks.

I thought it was most amusing after a couple of days though! And we got a full refund, which kinda worked out to be good since the company went bust about 2 weeks after.

I think i'm gonna resit the HSF on my cpu tonight since temps seem to be up a lot after taking it out on a cold night!... I think my pc cought a cold out there :(

One of my m8's decided to be a jackass and fit loads of aftermarket cooling to his dell thinking it would make it "just as good as mine", and i nearly pissed myself when his zalman copy no-named heatsink fell off his cpu and it burnt! (I know there are some pretty good replicas out there, but the one he was using was not one of them!)
 

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now that is horrible. Speaking of no heatsink, the first build I made (an old Athlon T-Bird) I forgot to install the heatsink on because I was so excited about turning it on for the first time. Somehow it wasn't hurt but I was scared to death when I realized what I did.
 

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lets see... doing some wire management on my computer a year ago. un plugged everything, stuffed wires, pluged everything in, no power. hit the button again and it flicks on for a second. i overrode the monitor block and that was a bad idea. the floppy connector wasnt on right shorting the 5v to ground directly. lets just say smoke and fire go hand in hand. first time i needed to use a fire extinguisher. it ended up melting one lead to the psu but it kept running! i used the psu for another six months and then... the fan died, shorted, and melted the other lead tot he psu. everything is still alive though i just had to replace the psu with a tt420 watter
 
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i cant remember anyone of mine, when i remember ill tell ya... But your guy's mistakes are freaking Hilarious!!!
 
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i had a dual operating systems.. 98se and win xp.. i used to have the habit of useing one system to make the odd back up of the other windows folder on a spare drive.. one day while tidying up old files i came across this winxp folder and forgetting which drive i was on simply deleted the entirety of it..

one wrecked operating system with just the click of mouse.. he he he.. i never realized what i had done at the time only a few days later when i went to boot XP and got the obviouse cant find xxx file.. he he

still took me a while to figure out why it couldnt find xxx file.. he he he

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While having a bad day and in a rush inserted some RAM arse about tit and rebooted the PC but went to answer the door, next thing I could smell burning....

Ran to PC and noticed smoke coming from it.

The RAM that was upside down was fucked and the RAM port was fried also. MOBO still worked fine though.
 
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lol, damn =/
 
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