Once i was installing a 40Gb HDD in my computer while it was on When i inserted the power cable there was a loud *BANG* and the whole house went dark... After i've reset the power in the house i turned on my computer... Or tried to... When i tried to turn the computer on again after about two hours... It WORKED The HDD worked too... Guess if i was happy?
chop chop I had a keyboard sitting under a saw table, that had one of those slits so the saw blade could go deeper and thru the slit.... Well one day while cutting some aluminum, i heard a very weird sound, well weird compared to what you hear while cutting aluminum, and somethin hit me in the leg. Well turns out, the day before when I raised the shelf to put an old case under it, I didn't lower it again, and I cut the keyboard in half. lol, bye bye to wireless kb.
I blew up a pre-week 39 XP2500+ on Saturday. The positioning of the CPU socket on an NF7-S doesnt go well with a Lian Li PC60 and the heatsink wasnt making perfect contact.
A while back I wondered what would happen if I switched the voltage on a PSU from 230v to 110v while it was plugged in ... ...guess what happened - BANG and got a face full of smoke/dust, scared the **** out of me but then I saw the funny side Luckily all my components were OK and I only had to replace the PSU
Hi... Here is my little list... Abit BP6 dual socket ...Dead (cause of failure...PSU failure) MSI 6368 M-atx ...Dead (cause of failure...no idea) Gigabyte Simlp m-atx ...Dead (cause of failure...no idea) IBM 40GB HD ...Damaged sectors/Head (cause of damage...faulty powercontact) PC133 128ram ...Now only 64mb (cause of failure...too much voltage) Matrox Rainbow ...Dead (cause of failure...PSU failure) Intel Celeron 1200 ...Dead (cause of failure...too much voltage) Intel Celeron 1200 ...Dead (cause of failure...socket mod) too many keybords ...Dead (cause of failure...coffe,softdrink) 17" CRT ...Dead (cause of failure...no idea) 15" CRT ...Dead (cause of failure...no idea) and if we are talking about OLD hardware too so Couple of Commodore 64s including rare SX-1 Near-death experience Ati Radeon 9100 Clued socket370 H/S and removed it later... and my current hardware lives on the edge
before i built my new computer wich is pronly old now (900mhz) i had a 486sx lets just say i took it to work and went up to the 20th floor and chunked it out to the road it landed in the grass no damage so i tooka a crowbar to it man that sob was slow
Nice stories! I've got a couple electrical blunders that have happened reciently. Only yesterday a floppy drive actualy blew up on me! PSU must of surged it or something, because after I ripped it apart, I seen the cable that connects the two internal boards together, and it was completely fried! All but two wires we're missing (and theres like 7-8 normaly). Several other parts had actualy melted inside. Another good one I can remember happened about a year ago, it was with my old BenQ cd-rw drive, I had just inserted a blank cd-r to burn, and as it spun up, I heard this loud "crash" from inside the drive, and the door opened for no apparent reasion, and shards of the cd-r started flying everywhere! I have yet to explain this one, as the drive still works without any damage to anything.
The CD blowing up is all too common now days because of the high speeds which drives spin at; the centrifugal (yes I know its the wrong word but you all know what I mean) forces just rip the CD apart. I'm surprised that there was no damage to your drive (or yourself). some drives are now specially built to handle a CD shattering inside
Intersting, my case was the first I've heard of it. BTW, the drive's stats are: 32x10x40 and it wasn't anywhere near up to speed yet. So who knows. Was cool in anycase.
<flame>ehem, but thats centripetal you blank-idy blank blank...</flame> thats pretty cool how drives are built like that now. Hey, I wonder if someone has ever tried to overclock their burner... like put a higher speed moter in it and play with some cap/resistor vaalues to make for the increased revolution rate?
geez i said it was the wrong word didn't i? i only said SOME drives... don't try this at home, the shards of disc will take your eye(s) out overclocking a drive wouldn't work (at least not like that) cause if you could make the disc spin faster the drive couldnt read it that fast.
This thing is Neuclear powered. It's the only thing that can produce 1.21 jiggawatts! yes it could... just raise the voltage to the rom's chipset, change the timing circuit cap.. ad Nitrous.. and Viola! one high-speed smoking pile of.... Bit-Tech Bits! HAA HAA HAA! Welcome to my laah-bohr-a-tory! No! My Steupid Sister Dee Dee breaks everything!(Dexter's Lab)
Yeah, thats what I was thinking, except on a more serious note.. some planning would be required of course.
Most likely, whenever a faster drive comes out.. I was thinking of modding a 52x one. Or is their faster already?
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well one 80gb ibm hard drive one maxtor 40gb hard drive one all-in-wonder 8500dv one computer back when i was 15 or somethink DVD drive oooo and lots of fans and some cases but that not hardware
Hmmm......... Me wonders what might happen when me CD starts spinning in me drive at 10k.... The New HP 250k rpm burner... Now fortified with 2 scoops of Kevlar... For wholesome ripping goodness!
Actually, at 52x cd, and 16x dvd, the disk spins at speeds VERY close to 10k rpm - that's why they shatter.
