Stupidest SH** you have ever done

[KennyT772]

*10 minutes ago* i was running atitool .25b13 on my new 9600xt right. moved the core up 50mhz and the ram up 100mhz and let atitool work out exactly which clocks were best for ram.
bad idea.. i didnt know that the scanning was down and i come back to my mem running at 1ghz (521mhz really) and the cube is a solid artifact. my screens 7 shades of green and i cant even soft pwr down. i force reboot. no post. this is where the "FUCKIN A" stange comes in. i check all the ram sinks and put the card back in. boots fine and temp monitors say its at a healthy 57 degrees c.

 

[OOTay]

The other day i was cutting up an old case of mine to do some mods witha dremel, After i got this corner of metal cut 75% off my cutting blade broke off. So i naturally reached over to it and forgot that metal is hot when your cutting it and i burned the hell out of my left index finger... errg lesson learned lol

 

[Aevum]

3) reversed fan connector becuase i thought the fan was spining in the wrong direction, killing a 9800SE@9800Pro
2) pushing a Artic cooling VGA silencer on a 9550 when it clearly didnt fit, crushed a capacitor, killed the card,
1) and the winner is > ripped a MPX220 in to 2 pieces in an attack of blind rage, (windows mobile powered cellphone worth +/- around 200 euros/240 bucks)

my brother managed to put it back togather by getting a replacment casing and the interconnection cable between screen module and keyboard module (clamshell phone) from a chinese shop, but he kept it, and i spent a mad amount of money on a K750 i dont really like.

 

[Aevum]

but then again, i have tons of fun stories,

QDI motherboard, Advance 9 (pos board, cmos flash rom badly soldred, couldnt update bios), but thats not the story, i put in a extra stick of pc133 SDram, didnt notice one of the hooks on the ends of the slot was loose, the hooks grabbed on to the memory module, but one was not connected to the motherboard on the other side of the plastic hook,

no boot, rotten smell, 64meg keychain,

a friend of mine guy as a gift a 2.4ghz P4 socket 478, he gut it becuase it was missing a pin, the guy grabbed a copper wire, inserted it in to the hole in the socket where the missing pin was supposed to go, first intel LGA processor on the market (joke), served him well at well above those 2.4ghz for quite a while,

the first computer i gut, a druon 650, 2nd hand, i was applying thermal paste for the first time, splatter all over the processor, next time i took off the heatsink, the white thermal paste (jizz) cooked in to a rubbery pancake like thing, it was brown and everything,


and as a little boy, i put a credit card in to a 3.5inch floppy drive, an hour and pair of plaiers later, it was out, and the floopy drive worked, not as fun as i put a pog in to the CD drive (a pog for those who dont know, is a small cardboard circle which you stack up and then play to see who turns over more using a larger plastick pog as a ballistic weapon)

but the most fun, rewiring the TV power socket connector, without discharging the tube cathode or the capacitors, i smelled of KFC for a week.

that was the fun part, but the most stupid thing ever,

i bought a minidisk player, without the USB interface, so i bought a sound card with a SDPIF optic connector to be able to record music to the minidisc without hearing the sea in the background, well, i connected a pair of busted up spearkers to it, and then it stopped sounding, well, actually sounded a bit but very weak, i thought that the speakers shorted the DAC, that would explain why i could only get sound out of the digital fibre optic connection, so i used the integrated motherboard audio for the speakers (new ones) and kept the card to use with the minidisk,

a year later i noticed i it was a 4.1 sound card and that i kept connecting the speakers in to the back speaker connector, the soundcard works great, hehe, a year on integrated audio becuase i didnt read the manual.

were all idiots, just one step at a time

 

[DR.Death]

bought a 9250 128MB

 

[Solaris17]

bought a 9250 128MB

i dk my 9250 was gold compaired to my 7500.

 

[Aevum]

bought a psp,

for every 5 minutes i´ve put in playing on the psp, i´ve put in around 5 hours on the DS

 

[incognito666]

The worst thing i have ever done was to flick a switch on the back of my psu. There was a massive bang and smoke. It destroyed my amd system, lucky it was one that was given to me. That is the only amd i have ever had.

 

[AsphyxiA]

back in the day when i had Windows ME, (thats just stupidity right there) I accidently left my computer on while going on a trip. When I came back after the week long trip, Windows ME had broke itself!

 

[AsphyxiA]

I installed heat spreaders on my ram the wrong way, over the slot pins! Thats for not paying attention.

 

[CjStaal]

I installed heat spreaders on my ram the wrong way, over the slot pins! Thats for not paying attention.

thats priceless... I pwnd a 3700+ with a razor xD

 

[wazzledoozle]

I had forgotten about something, I had a Mac at one time. OS 8.something, and it was really fucked up. Crashing constantly, running slow etc. All I had was the OS disk, and no internet connection. I undertook reinstalling MacOS 8 by myself, and I failed horribly. A few angry days later, all it would boot up to was a little mac icon with a X through it.

I think I was only 9 at the time.

 

[Thad]

Well ladies and gentlemen, while I am too ashamed to state the worst, I guess I can tell you about my latest one, which was early this morning and I just now have gotten it straightened out.

I have two computers and my most favorite, is not my most powerful one (although I hide this fact from my great-grandson), and I was having a graphics problem. In order to see if it was memory related or not, I disabled all of my start up and services. I don't think I have to tell you what happened to my graphics and my Internet connection. All right -- but at least I have the excuse that I am older than dirt, so my ability to think well has gone to the dogs . This computer that I am speaking of has an 2.8 Intel Pentium D. processor, with 1000 MB of memory and a 1900 (can't remember all the x's on the nomenclature) ATI graphics card. By the way, it really helped with my graphics, for windows XP was using 480 MB of memory at idle.

 

[OOTay]

Well ladies and gentlemen, while I am too ashamed to state the worst, I guess I can tell you about my latest one, which was early this morning and I just now have gotten it straightened out.

I have two computers and my most favorite, is not my most powerful one (although I hide this fact from my great-grandson), and I was having a graphics problem. In order to see if it was memory related or not, I disabled all of my start up and services. I don't think I have to tell you what happened to my graphics and my Internet connection. All right -- but at least I have the excuse that I am older than dirt, so my ability to think well has gone to the dogs . This computer that I am speaking of has an 2.8 Intel Pentium D. processor, with 1000 MB of memory and a 1900 (can't remember all the x's on the nomenclature) ATI graphics card. By the way, it really helped with my graphics, for windows XP was using 480 MB of memory at idle.

You should try and do a fresh install of windows to get everything cleaned out. Then put back the essentials. Only use that method if you still continue to have the problems.

 

[Alec§taar]

Ok, since you asked:

Around 1992, I was trying to splice in a high-speed fan into my electrical system on my then PC (486 Dx/2 66mhz I ended up updating to a Dx/4 133mhz eventually).

Well, apparently, I didn't do such a good job, because when I plugged the s.o.b. in, ALL of the power in my home went OUT... ZZZzzzAAAaaaPPPpp!



* I got lucky - nothing on the mobo or peripherals "fried", & all I had to do was flip a breaker switch on the fusebox...

APK

P.S.=> Turned out what happened was, some of the electrical tape I used to take the frayed end of an electrical cord I spliced the fan power wires into were exposed, & made contact w/ something when I powered up & that was what caused it (last time I ever used electrical tape, & instead switched over to heatshrink wraps for wire connections)... apk

 

[Azn Tr14dZ]

Once about two years ago, I was helping my cousin build a comp in Cali. He was done installing everything except for the graphics card. He said that he was taking a break and wanted me to install the nVidia GeForce FX 5200. So, I took the card out of the box, and right when I was about to install it, I could feel a pis coming on. I though that I could install it before I pissed but I couldn't. I ran to the bathroom and the nVidia came with me (I was more worried about pssing than installing it at the moment). I accidentaly dropped the card in the toilet, and since it was a SFF card, it went down.

 

[gR3iF]

so far rofl
really roll on floor laughing^^ xD

my freakiest thing ever was, that i put a cpu into a socket without opening the socket and so the cpu, the mobo, the cooler and the psu dies

 

[zekrahminator]

Now why haven't I noticed this thread before? . I've done all sorts of stupid things. Aside from overclocking, I've nearly fried my computer TONS of times. Something involving what happens when all your fan wires don't have a plug anymore and you're trying to wire them to the power supply and mess up...sparks are pretty . My little brother hit the button at the back of the power supply at the WORST time and corrupted the page file, took me a good three hours to fix it. And there is of course "I forgot the risers and screwed my motherboard to the case my first build" lol. I've gotten really lucky with windows, whenever I screw up, all I have to do is let it run chkdsk and it's all repaired . I keep hearing stories on how people have to reformat every month, and I laugh. Aegis has been running a copy of windows that was originally on Darth Flatulence, all I had to do was press "repair" when I booted onto the windows XP disk. And Darth Flatulence absolutely loves windows XP (at least, a lot more then she loved windows ME ). Well, that's all the stupid stuff I can think of off the top of my head, I'll keep you posted if I do anything else .

 

[zekrahminator]

You should try and do a fresh install of windows to get everything cleaned out.

Double posting is fun! . Aegis usually uses about 300MB of memory when windows starts. Good thing Darth Flatulence only uses about 170MB . I'm too lazy to reinstall windows XP, and there really isn't a big need .

 

[Demon_82]

PC related catastrophic happenings... I must have some to tell here

My first PC meltdown was when I had... let's say 8 - 10 years? I had one of this old Amstrad/Joyce PCW8256 with a part of the motherboard acting as expansion connector in the back, wich fitted perfectly the cartridge slot of one Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) cartridge, that Sonic and Knuckles wich was able to get another Sonic catridge into itself. And I naturally trid to plug the Amstrad into the cartridge, and then powered it on. And then it powered off itself with some fried smell around. I never played again that Mega Drive game, but my father was able to revive the Amstrad. The Asmtrad is still teorically operative stored in a big box and I think I have the damaged cartridge around... but not the Mega Drive

Also, one more recent (months ago) when I decided to cool a bit my case for the Prescott toaster inside, placing four 8cm Sharkoon fans more appart from the two that came preinstalled. They all had this molex in and out to not loose one of them by just pluging a fan, so I just did optimistically a 'train' with all them, the six connected in line. And then I powered it on. And then it powered off itself with some fried smell around. Again. It was pretty obious that the fan cables didn't support that amount of current, so I splitted it in two groups of three and repeated the operation. I repeated it completely, with fried smell also. I even saw the plastic around some fan cables melting. So I once more rearranged it to groups of two fans... with the same results. The cables were starting to be all black. I endend making a spider web of cables running through the case to plug each fan into a single other component... and still they appear to to be hot.

I have also a Mac related one. One friend of mine bought one PowerMac G5 for the music recording studio that he was planning to open, and we of course did a meeting to get the Mac working, and to try to guess how it was used, as none of us had used one before. We get to the point of testing the DVD... and we were about to check ourselves for being blind... but no, the DVD didn't had the typical open button we used for years in the PCs.. so we ended using things ranging from his home keys to a screwdriver to lower the protection of the DVD and then to reach the inner case open button. We had searched through all the applications we saw one function to open it by software failing to. One month later he realised that the keyboard had the DVD open key in the upper right corner As a side note, I was all the time doing ghost right clicks with the single button mouse

Now a savage one. One day that my previous Pentium III decided to go on a BSOD and hangs rampage, giving one each 5 minutes or so, I ended being that angry that I hitted the case front heavily, and the PC hanged immediatly... but it got unable to power on again. So I did the standard procedure, pressed the power on button like fifty times more, and when I got convinced that it woudl not work I opened the case... to find out that my previous hit had got loose one memory module. Happily all worked perfectly when I reinserted the RAM module.

Also I've been using a old Pentium II PSU for half a year with that Pentium III, wich ended immolating itself, and I've done all sorts of plug and unplug PC parts with the PC turned on with high good luck to not having lost anything.

 

[celidee]

never let a woman into the windows folder

Not all woman are fuck ups....sheesh!

:shadedshu