Started early, and fried my old 486, tried to oc, and forgott to secure the cooler, moved it, booted it, everythings good, bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiipppppp. dead Wasted some hdd's a couple of mobos (mainly p3's and early amd ones) One XP2200+ (core break), one Xp2500+ (again forgott to secure the cooler, fried) one Hydor L20, ran dry becasue of a leak (over-weekend leak test ) One Abit IS7-e, managed to short somethin, think its the power regulators with a screwdriver And ofcourse, my P4 2,8Ghz... Riped of a bunch of legs, trying to remove the damn heatsing that was stuck \\Balder
Sounds like you short-circuited something.... power supplies make you wait 5 mins (or just flip the switch on the back) before they turn on again after a short.
Once, I was at a tech group, as system administrator. The wireless (802.11g) router was right next to the servers I'm supposed to work with. However, as soon as I get too close to the router (which is a problem, since I have to be next to the servers (and the router) to do my work), some users who are on the side of the router that I'm on get dropped off the network. At the same time, some other users on the opposite side have reported that the signal actually got stronger! I thought that my body was blocking the radio waves so the network doesn't work (logical enough, water blocks 2.4GHz waves and the human body is mostly water), but that doesn't explain why the other side gets a stronger signal (it could be that my body is also blocking some interference and improving the SNR, but that's quite unlikely). The next day, the problem disappeared! The problem was gone for many days (I thought it was some quirk), only to reappear another day! It turns out that some of the clothing I'm wearing contains a small amount of metal at just the right length to reflect the radio waves! Well, it looks like I can't wear that bra when I go to the tech group or else I would disrupt the wireless network. On the bright side, I now found out how to increase the range of my own wireless network (not that I need to, the range is already about 400 feet in a less than optimum environment!). No hardware damage, but it did annoy a lot of users (one reported that Word crashed when the signal was lost), and it could cause data corruption.
this one time i was playing with an old XT desktop, yes thats right XT. anyway long story short i hooked up an AT kb not knowing any difference, powered the computer on and pressed a key. then about 4 cereamic caps went boom, and there was smoke, it was so cool. btw i only paid about 4 bucks cdn for the xt.
I'm just really unlucky with my hd's... been through at leat 15 in 3 years, and had to reformatt my screwed up ones at least twice as many times
I've been pretty lucky I guess, I have been upgrading and playing with computers for about 4 years and i have only blown an old 1 gig drive from forgetting to power off and then plugging it in. I'm overly cautious when playing with other peoples hardware, cause i cant afford to replace it
a7v8x deluxe mobo by stick SDram into it, i was pissed off at a mate and when i was puttin it bak 2gether i grabbed the closest looking ram that lookd like it fits, had 2 force it in, mobo now refuses to POST but the ram still works?
ohh, heres a list of what me mates have done, software included. 1700+ kept destroying mobo, a drill made a really expensive keychain, 1 set a mobo on fire when working on the bench? deleted all there registry keys? stopped all there services tried forcing a PCI gfx card into AGP port. fishing line in HSF? god only knows how that got there, 3 sets of cordlessk/b and mouse at lans 2x17" trinatrons, 6x15" and a 23"LCD got run over by a car. just for fun i poured kerosine on a p1 when it was on and my cat got to close to the side 150mm on my case, RIP lucky and all our combined attempts at modding. only 1 was succesful and that was wrapping the thing with a poster and glue.
2 questions 1) how does one run over a crt monitor with a car, or even a lcd for that matter? and 2) how the f*** did your cat get killed by a fan? i swear to god, ive seen all these people talk about cutting themselves on fans and small animals getting hurt by fans, i stick my finger in my cpu fan for fun and ive never drawn blood. what the hell am i doing wrong? and also, get a better grill so your cats dont die at the hands of your case fans!! back on topic, ive just today killed a 40 GB hdd by dropping my dvd rom drive on it during the boot sequence. somehow i killed the ethernet port on my computer. i killed my first optical mouse in maybe april or may (got it in september, lasted maybe6 months or so) it was an intellimouse 5 button. i somehow killed my floppy drive, but i dont think it was my fault, it just randomly died after i painted it. i was working on killing my cell phone to get a replacement when it got a bit dodgy one night when my mom wanted to get ahold of me while i was out with friends. she freaked out a bit. once she stopped screaming that i didnt pick up my phone, she decided to boil it. it was really really cool. it blinked a few times, beeped, the screen went black, then the screen faded, and the backlight went. i wish i had gotten pictures of it. *Edit* i also killed a panasonic portable cd player by spray painting it *Edit*
to answer that question stick your fan in a vantec tornado at full speed or a high speed thermaltake.
a brand new athlon 1.1ghz , pc chips 810LMR + 128mb PC133 (screw driver sliped of the heatsink into the board and RAM), P3 1ghz motherboard and 512 pc133 ram due to a few stand offs in the wrong places and a few old graphics cards due to me being a Noooob all is well now as ive learnt from my mistakes
2 anwer ppls question coz they didnt under stand me post is the 23" LCD was run over, the CRT got thrown at a lan LCD fell out the door when the car was moving in reverse and bounced under, not pretty when u got a big ass 4WD and no my cat did not get killd by the fan but she lost a bit off her nose. i only added that 2 c ppl reaction
well i never broke hardware but my brother tried to flash the bios and upgrade the bios of my OLD P3 800mhz and he ended F*K*ing it up and we had to stay without a computer for a year. and now he dosnt let me take the north bridg cooler from it so i put it on my south bridg coz he wants to frame his first computer. i think he is overly opsessed. can somone plz give me your oppinion on his bizzar opsession maybe he lets me take the north bridg cooler plz.
Just in the past year... 3x AMD A64 FX53 4x AMD A64 FX51 8x Other AMD A64's 2x Opterons 2x P4 Northwood 4x P4 Canterwood 4x P4 Prescott 1x Xeon On one hard drive, the platters separated from the rest of the hard drive base and took out everything inside. So you can count that as a whole computer. Counless mobos Even more hdd's 1 or 2 optical drives A few sticks of memory 4 sound cards 3 gfx cards and those are just the greatest hits
Only a Geforce2 MMX and a 20g Maxtor HDD so far . The HDD wasnt strictly my fault - power surge fried the PSU, mobo and HDD, but its my fault for having (a) a crappy PSU and (b) no surge protectors.
Broke my ASUS CUSL-2C P3 mobo and 256MB stick of Kingston yesterday. Unpluged everything, pulled out the ram and cleaned the slot's, put the ram back in and I was greeted with a little spark and a electric shock that sent my jumping up and down waving my hand Cheers, Mike
lol, thats pretty funny. i kinda wish my computer would scare my cats off, they constantly walk across my keyboard making the mobo beep.
i believe ill pass on that one. oh, an additional thing ive broken. i was carrying the printer (hp 920c) a while ago and dropped it. after that it couldnt handle having more than one page in the tray at a time, once a page printed you had to grab it or the whole thing would jam. (replaced it with lexmark z605, the $50 one from best buy )
