yep it was the processor that had gone and took the mobo with it but I do have a 350watt spare power supply now.
biggest hardware i kakked was my brain ....................................joke i broke a p2 system, 30 gig ibm deathstar 7200 rpm, i was well and utterly piss*d when i did so, well upset as they had only just come out and nobody else had such a decent HDD
I've killed a Radeon 9100 128MB, changed cooling from original to an old P3 heatsink. Afterwards it got loads of graphical errors in 3d modes (worked fine in 2d though). Recently i killed the power adapter to my external Lite On USB cd-rw. The pins inside the plug got bent and snapped when i bent them back. And then i failed when trying to solder on a new plug, so the thing smoked. (The unit still works though) I (more or less intentionaly) killed a lot of old hardware (486 and such).
2 liteon 32x cd-rws one i took apart and managed to bork something inside, and one i fried by plugging it in while the pc was on an old asus mobo hmmph i think thats about it
i just borked a couple of LEDs, which isn't too expensive on the pocket, except that they were attached to a home made fan controoler/baybus that I'd just finished - so 5 hours of planning, soldering and vinyl dye later, and I've gotta take quite a bit of my new controller apart
while trying to transfer a huge amount of files.. ghetto style.. (comp open, hard drive connected but resting on its side) i accidentally set the hard drive down on a metal part of the case.. and then berrrrrrrrrr... ! berrrrrrr krruchhhh!! . oh well .. it was an old WD Caviar 2 Gb lol
I transfer files quite often like that, Krog!! Maybe I'll start slotting the extra drive into the drive cage from now on, eh??
I used to use those Iomega ZIP drives way back in the days of yore. And I happened to come upon the click of death. RMAed, the drive, slapped my back up disk in, worked first time, and then when I ejected the disk and popped in another disk, click... click.... click... So RMAed that drive, did the same thing... rinse and repeat... and then it finally hit me, man there must be something wrong with these disks! killed 5 Iomega Zip drives before realizing... well atleast I paid no shipping since Iomega paid for all 5 RMAs. More recently, I killed a 6 year old P2 system, but I don't think it was my fault, it was just too damn old (had a PCI error during POST and doesn't go any farther then the "you have this much ram" and "you have the following drives" thing). Mobo probably died, but where the heck am I gonna find a P2 mobo in this day and age? Ah well, I'll just add the chip to my growing collection, so far I have: 1 x 286, 2 x 386, 2 x 486SX, 1 x 486DX, 1 x 486DX2, 1 x Pentium 166mhz, and 1 x Pentium 3 466 mhz. They all work as far as I know... -Lemur 6
I have about 20 or 30 486 and 586 processors I'm saving to have the gold on the pins removed and make some sort of jewelry...
Let me see.... 10x dvdrom.... died a week after install 56k vfmodem.. Lightning strike popped the transisters but it still worked albeit like a 14.4 because of this strange static it generated on the phoneline 40 gig wd hdd... oops wrong jumpersettings... 60 gig wd hdd... servo control fried 20 gig maxtor... didn't like skipping across the sidewalk when I tripped over the curb 250 watt psu... I think I should have payed more attention to that irritatingly strange noise coming from the back of the pc... Soltek SL-75KAV funny sparks jumping from trace to trace (see 250watt psu) 5+ fdds... bad cable connection, sand filled diskettes, sparking psu's and a complete 850 athlon system in a fully modded ice blue case w/ rage fury max, scuzzy 2 card zip, jaz, scuzzy cd, hdd... The carefull shipping of the great american military (disgruntled Airforce Peons "Look Ma, I'm in the r-me!" ) total loss... they even managed to get the hdd cage to bounce around the full tower case taking out all the cards and whatever else doesn't take kindly to being draged cross country ralley style behind a humvee.. 1 IBM SinkPad.... they don't appreciate the care that goes into Juan Valdez's hand picked coffee. and uncountable resisters, led's gals, pals, diodes, transformers in my depraved quest for lurning how those little purdy parts wurhk.. they can't take 110v 60hz... no matter how kindly I wire them up..
dont get me started on this one.... aah ok 1x Hdd 1.2gigs (it was alot at the time in '97) 1x 133mhz pentium (i fried that one coz i absolutely wanted to get a new pc from my parents, i tryed to run it during 16hours straight full cpu load without a heatsink, and the case fan blocked, but it didnt work so i just fried it next to my eggs... I did get a new pc though ) a 386 40mhz labtop which was so slow it pissed me off and i hit on it as hard as i could... 1x TNT2 (overclocking) 2x 56k modems got struck by lightning... (got broadband now... no more 56k to **** up) 1x 6x DVD player (wanted to flash my CD writer, but forgot to select the right drive...) 1x 1Ghz AMD and the mobo (it sent it back, and it got replaced by waranty hehe) 1x 14'' screen 4x cold cathodes (stepped on em orsomething stupid) all those leds and blablabla... i must be forgetting somethingf now... what else... i did accidentaly stick a screwdriver in my mobo while putting on the heatsink on the cpu, but i guess i was lucky and it still works, I do get higher voltages now and I saw 1 of the usb controllers on the board go up in flames (yeh, i had to blow it out like birthday candles...) But the mobo still works fine.. I did get 220v on my case accidentaly when a power cable touched my case (it was during the testin of a mod) Lucky me it doesnt affect anything, but i still saw sparks flying ou my case, and it still shows the mark of some metal that got burnt away... and then there was that time it dropped right out of the trunk of the car (it was standing still but still...) It had some bios and hard drive problems but it fixed itself after a couble of hours.
lets see what ive fried/broken 1. I had the core of my Radeon 9100 PCI card...........FALL OFF! 2. my tnt2 card's memory shorted from a small drop of AS3, killed that card off. 3. broke a CD drive, but then put 12V onto the 5V line and KABOOM!.................it worked again......... 4. purposely put an 80mm fan onto 120V 5. fried an intel stock fan my running it at 24V 6. tore the core off of my gateway sound card 7. had my 51watt peltier crack from using alot of adhesive. 8. my floppy drive's motor thingy caught on fire by accidently putting the plug on wrong, leaving one pin off of the plug. i think thats it lol
My old cd-rom has been killed countless times by knocking the tray out... I had a P-III 733 and a Tyan mobo for about 3 days... then it toasted at a LAN party due to a screw falling between the mobo and mobo tray... 3 days later I ordered my current rig... Other than that... I don't think I can personally claim killing anything... pretty good record seeing that I've been building PC's for nearly 10 years...
Hmmm... Starting from the beginning, a 486 board bios died when i tried sticking a 4gig drive in it. A 15 gig IBM corrupted itself, got a new one 2 30 gig IBM drives got bad sectors, one in about 2 months, the second one in 9 days, when i brought the second one in i just put it on the counter and said "Western Digital, PLEASE" A 1 gig laptop drive... No, the 4 extra pins on the side of the power/IDE bus is not a jumper port. The monitor of a 400 MHz lappy, a 8x240 pixel area is black, another 8x240 has funny colours... the strap on the carrycase broke and it hit the street. A few floppy drives worn out it that era plus a few CD readers. That's about it i think... can't really think of anything i screwed up other than that. I am not even going to list the fried LEDs, other components or stuff i broke intentionally. What do people do to break their PSU's by shorting them? i have shorted all mine and none of them have ever died, they just shut down.
Some of you guys I've noticed seem to break hardware simply because the pc is on. Why don't you just switch it off ??? Unless it's a server or something does it really make that much of a different ? </rant>
Hmm broken stuff I have cooked: Amiga 2000 keyboard, it was dying slowly, so I took it apart and scrubbed it cleaner, it fixed some of the keys, but didn't save the board, it continued on it's slow demise Amiga 2000 joystick port, accidentally ripped it right of the mobo 1200 baud modem for my C64 56k modem A Voodoo 2 2000 - Overclocked to death (I had it so overclocked once that the computer wouldn't even boot, so I had to put a chunk of frozen chicken on it, boot up and then kill the OC program) a peltier, they don't work well without a cooling device on one end a creative 4x CD burner a MSI mobo, well the bios chip 512 megs of DDR ram and a power supply, I was building a comp for a friend and was using a recycled fan, but there was a little wire hanging out of the electrical tape where I had joined the leads to the molex connector, I started up the computer and it made a "pffft" sound and little puf of smoke. I was a foreman on a road construction project where a backhoe operator chopped a 2500 pair telephone cable in half. That was alot of fun, the phone company had been out to locate the cable, and they were wrong. That's all I can think of for now....
2500 pair telephone cable please explain (im interested in this stuff for some reason, am i the only one)
2500 pair 2500 pair is one of the big (around 13 cm across) underground telephone lines, it has 2500 back and forth telephone lines in it, quite expensive. I had the phone company come out and locate where their lines where, and then when we started digging with the excavator, chop. And since it was a small town out in the middle of nowhere (Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories, Canada, with a population of around1300), I had to drive out of town to find a phone that worked so I could call the phone company again and to call my boss, they had to fly a guy in from Whitehorse (around 1200 km away) to fix it. I am very glad that they took the bullet on that bill for improperly locating the cable.
