Whats is the worst thing you have ever done on a computer?

jonlg_uk · Post by **jonlg_uk** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:30 am

Me i accidently turned the voltage regulation on the back of my PSU from 230V to 120V and blew my computer up

how about you?

starfoxtj · Post by **starfoxtj** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:43 am

Connected an IBM hard drive with the power on, hehe sparkie!

jonlg_uk · Post by **jonlg_uk** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:53 am

when i was younger i accidently shut down my school server with about 100 people using it big mistake

romans1423 · Post by **romans1423** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:57 am

Nothing too major... while playing a game on my old Amiga, I touched the screen to wipe some dust off; the static electricity caused a shock between my other hand and the metal part of the joystick, which apparently fried the port the joystick was plugged into... My hand didn't feel too great for an hour or so either.

Post by **battye** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:59 am

Deleted config.php and didn't know how to recreate it..
I guess I'm going pretty well then if that's the worst

Fubonis · Post by **Fubonis** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:10 am

Plastered it with baby-batter.

Graphic · Post by **Graphic** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:12 am

Whats is the worst thing you have ever done on a computer?

Installed Windows.

sonyboy · Post by **sonyboy** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:05 am

Graphic wrote:
Whats is the worst thing you have ever done on a computer?

Installed Windows.

hahaha, for me would be deleting last copy of my forum with ton of MODs that I add to.

Ksilebo · Post by **Ksilebo** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:36 am

Installed RAM backwards.

The really really bad part is it was recently...and it was a stick of DDR266, and on an Abit NF7-S. It was not mine. I felt very dumb. Fried the board, RAM, however, was fine.

smithy_dll · Post by **smithy_dll** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:09 am

I thought most components in computers these days could only be installed one way (I thought RAM was one of them), not like 10 years ago

ZoliveR · Post by **ZoliveR** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:29 am

The worst that i've done in a computer? When i was younger (8 years ago), i was curious about a switch that was in the back of my computer... I switched and pssschhhht! So i went for changing my alimentation bloc.

Else, i had 2 magnets, and (always for curiosity), i tested them around a pin of a socket (the little metallic pin that you can see on an electric socket), and i was quite for a fear (i risked to be electrocuted)

Vic D'Elfant · Post by **Vic D'Elfant** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:56 am

Hm... the worst I've done at a computer... I accidentally formatted the hard disk partition which contained all data, instead of the partition which contained the OS. And, at that time, I didn't made backups

So there was about one year of scripts, office documents, and my dad's files gone.

But now I backup my data twice a week 8)

Vic

adamsmark · Post by **adamsmark** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:58 am

Let's see...

I once tried to rip out a CPU that was sodered to the motherboard. Used a screw driver (got part of it out)

Snapped a RAM chip in pieces to make it fit (it looked segmented).

Dropped a Mac SE down a flight of stairs (actually, apart from a scratch on the back, it wasn't damaged--I once saw a Mac Plus fly across a news room; it worked, too).

Ksilebo · Post by **Ksilebo** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:41 am

smithy_dll wrote: I thought most components in computers these days could only be installed one way (I thought RAM was one of them), not like 10 years ago

I somehow forced it in. I was distracted while I was doing it.

starfoxtj · Post by **starfoxtj** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:59 am

Oh yea a good one I forgot.

Hot swapping 486 chips! And it worked!!!

Although it did freeze the computer, but after a reset it was fine!

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