Stupid things you've done to your PC.
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Well, I had two very old computers and one's video card didn't work and the other's motherboard didn't work. Me being the genius that I am decided to practice building PC's by putting the first video card in the second computer, unfortunately i touched the side of the card by accident (It was a Nvidia 5200) and when I tried to start the computer it broke my monitor. I later took them downstairs and made a selection of my trusty crowbars and hammers and proceeded to beat the shit out of everything electronic in the area.
Now with my new computer (Expensive, runs eveything i pop in at high) I leave it on and use it during the day. (I'm in Australia) It smells like burnt plastic but it's always just ten minutes more....... By the way, i have the stock fans + an industrial fan behind it now.
Now with my new computer (Expensive, runs eveything i pop in at high) I leave it on and use it during the day. (I'm in Australia) It smells like burnt plastic but it's always just ten minutes more....... By the way, i have the stock fans + an industrial fan behind it now.
installed vista...darn it someone already said that - actually my mum bought a new laptop and it came pre loaded with vista AND some kind of upgrade disk. What could their be to upgrade? So I assumed it was a patch disk of some kind, knowing how buggy vista had been. My mum installed it, the moment (and I mean litterally the instant that the progress bar reached the end) the laptop died, just died, it wouldnt boot up. The store that sold us that laptop wouldnt help "thats a microsoft issue" - microsoft weren't interested "you'll need to go back to your retailer" and both of them suggested that she SHOULDN'T have installed the upgrade disk that THEY PROVIDED!
In the end my husband rebuilt the machine and binned the upgrade disk - numpties.
In the end my husband rebuilt the machine and binned the upgrade disk - numpties.
Probably deleting almost the entire windows fonts folder boy did i get some strange messages ¬!"& you get the idea
I was a novice at overclocking at the time when I turned my voltage up extreamly high without even changing the FSB and I re-booted and I checked the temp in BIOS at 60C so I continued but it couldn't even start the OS due to the mistakes I made...so I pumped some other things up and it booted but my CPU was at 120C...I don't think I ever hit the reset button so fast.
Funniest thing I've read in a long time. To the guy in that article, you must be some kind of retarded to think that filling a ELECTRONIC DEVICE with WATER is EVER a good idea.cuddly_tomato said:
With an old pc i had, i put so many extra components in it that the motherboard completely melted..
I once put my bathrobe over my PC once to muffle the sound coming from it. It was very late, ok? Luckily all that happened was that the fan went up really high with it.
Also, something I didn't know was stupid at the time, but I tried to take DDR 1 Memory from my older PCs and boost my current PC's memory with it, which is DDR 2. I've been told that people have blown up computers like that before, so I'm lucky it survived.
Also, something I didn't know was stupid at the time, but I tried to take DDR 1 Memory from my older PCs and boost my current PC's memory with it, which is DDR 2. I've been told that people have blown up computers like that before, so I'm lucky it survived.
Tryied to put a fan back into place while the computer was on and running. This may not sound stupid, but I was also was wearing a silver ring and bumped a cpaciter on the motherboard, frying my finger and the Mobo, resulting in me getting really pissed.
Well, WAY back in the days of Window 3.1 and DOS, I found myself having a bit-o-fun with dos commands. I was young and learning, and my dad encouraged me to learn what I could from the massive DOS manual.
So I found a great command that would increase my hard drive space! Now, for those too young to remember, this computer I was using was a glorious Tandy 2500.
33 Mhz
2 MB of RAM
25 MB HDD
It was awesome.
Now the command I found was, get this, a compression command. Away I went and BAAM: I had way more HDD space and my drive was compressed (I didn't realize, at the time, the problems it would cause)! Well eventually things just didn't work anymore. Apparently a compressed HDD isn't very good! Had to take it in to get repaired, which ticked my dad off because computers were a LOT more expensive back then.
That Tandy? Over $2300.
Good times.
So I found a great command that would increase my hard drive space! Now, for those too young to remember, this computer I was using was a glorious Tandy 2500.
33 Mhz
2 MB of RAM
25 MB HDD
It was awesome.
Now the command I found was, get this, a compression command. Away I went and BAAM: I had way more HDD space and my drive was compressed (I didn't realize, at the time, the problems it would cause)! Well eventually things just didn't work anymore. Apparently a compressed HDD isn't very good! Had to take it in to get repaired, which ticked my dad off because computers were a LOT more expensive back then.
That Tandy? Over $2300.
Good times.
I'm usually pretty sensible when it comes to computers, nevertheless, sometimes my brain just shuts down for a critical few seconds:
- What might this strange button on the back of the PSU do? The one that says 220V and 230V? Oh, really, so it switches between voltages? Interesting... as well as the smell the PSU emits just seconds later.
- I-just-need-this-crack... oh what the hell, my AV software says it contains a virus? Can't be that bad, can it? Well. It was.
- When I decided to end my short, but rewarding Ubuntu adventure, I managed to pull off two really stupid things in short succession:
First, I just formatted the partition Ubuntu had been installed on from the Windows Disk Manager. Unfortunately, that of course killed the Boot Manager as well, leaving behind a useless Master Boot Record. While that could easily be fixed, it proved a little harder to recover all the data on the second Windows partition that got lost when I tried to merge it with the empty, fomerly-Ubuntu partition: They just formed a new and empty partition. My Windows didn't like it that much, too.
I still wonder why I did these things. In all instances, I SHOULD and in fact DID know better than I acted. What the hell was wrong with me?
- What might this strange button on the back of the PSU do? The one that says 220V and 230V? Oh, really, so it switches between voltages? Interesting... as well as the smell the PSU emits just seconds later.
- I-just-need-this-crack... oh what the hell, my AV software says it contains a virus? Can't be that bad, can it? Well. It was.
- When I decided to end my short, but rewarding Ubuntu adventure, I managed to pull off two really stupid things in short succession:
First, I just formatted the partition Ubuntu had been installed on from the Windows Disk Manager. Unfortunately, that of course killed the Boot Manager as well, leaving behind a useless Master Boot Record. While that could easily be fixed, it proved a little harder to recover all the data on the second Windows partition that got lost when I tried to merge it with the empty, fomerly-Ubuntu partition: They just formed a new and empty partition. My Windows didn't like it that much, too.
I still wonder why I did these things. In all instances, I SHOULD and in fact DID know better than I acted. What the hell was wrong with me?
I reinstalled Windows 98 thirty two-times at the request of Sony Support. They still didn't fix my Laptop's USB port that caused it to BSOD when I hot-swapped the mouse with the floppy (the notebook only has one USB port).
I think PC owners (myself included) accept rotten treatment because they assume they may be wrong about a "high-tech thing" being faulty.
PC manufacturers cynically capitalize on this, blaming Microsoft, who in turn blame the PC manufacturers.
It may not suit everyone, but this is what led me to get a cheap Mac mini and a 360 (as the Mac is rubbish at games).
I think PC owners (myself included) accept rotten treatment because they assume they may be wrong about a "high-tech thing" being faulty.
PC manufacturers cynically capitalize on this, blaming Microsoft, who in turn blame the PC manufacturers.
It may not suit everyone, but this is what led me to get a cheap Mac mini and a 360 (as the Mac is rubbish at games).
