Biggest Damage

[DuallyKickass]

Hello..

I was just wondering if its just me that keeps physicly breaking stuff in my computer, i have gone through lists of repairs from broken parts and i was wondering what the biggest break someone has done. It might well reassure me that im not the only fool around

My latest one is crushing an mp 2400+ under a waterblock
My scariest one was snapping a capacitor from my £185 SMP mobo. :bang head

Comone tell me what u have done...

[termin@tor]

I, thankfully, haven't broken anything yet. The "biggest" thing I have damaged is to brake a small piece of plastic off my mobo's socket. But that piece is about 4mm long and 2mm wide and it's just the corner, so I have no problems and the socket lock keeps the cpu right in place :)

I guess I'm just really careful with my stuff. I prefer to take all day to make a small mod and take my time and be very careful than just do it in 30mins and then have to buy a new comp.

[Frozen Shadow]

I havent broken anything yet. I hope I dont break anything either. Just need to be extra carefull with expensive pieces.

[Ben721]

When I was an extreme newb I stupidly took the cpu out of the socket and dropped it and the pins bent beyond repair. It was a 500mhz compaq, which forced me to build a computer myself.

[Frozen Shadow]

HOw far did the CPU fall? I wouldnt think they would bend THAT easy. I have dropped a few CPUs and none have ever gotten bent pins as a result.

[don256us]

I pulled the molex out of a fan from a machine that was running. I dhon't know what touched what but the end result was :mad: *poof*. New MB, RAM and CPU. I don't what what anyone has to say about fans and power after that. I turn off the machine I'm working on.

[hawk072]

I pulled the molex out of a fan from a machine that was running. I dhon't know what touched what but the end result was :mad: *poof*. New MB, RAM and CPU. I don't what what anyone has to say about fans and power after that. I turn off the machine I'm working on.
I did that recently and heard a loud snap and the monitor went black. Turned the power off and booted back up and everything was fine. I guess I was lucky. I swore to never touch anything inside while the computer was running.

Only other thing I did was break a heatsink clip but I emailed the company, Vantec, and they sent me 3 replacements for free.

[bru]

I've broken all kinds of stuff, in computers that I was salvaging!!! I've yet to break anything in any of my computers that I' actully using.

My fav thing that broke was a K6-2 chip, there were about 1/2 of the pins missing when I found it soooo I riped the cool metal thingy off the top, in doing so I crushed the sh*t out of the chip!!!

[Hexnan]

Best thing i broke was my hot new smokin' Geforce mx440. i went to push it into the AGP slot it slipped and broke off where it slides into agp slot.

another time i unplugged a floppy drive while the power was on....thank god all i burnt up was the floppy drive (it didnt work anyway)

hex

[DuallyKickass]

Lol guys keep it coming...

[Mr.Radar]

I've never broken anything but theres a huge thread in GCRD on this topic.

[Sophisticated]

thankfully i havent broke anything but iv'e replaced things that broke it's self

[da-gokesta]

i modded a mobo, and it worked. Then while being careless with my foot proceeded to rip the newly soldered wire from the board. *poof* new mobo needed. Also touched some bare wires from a modded psu. That sent my whole room into blackness until i reset the Breaker. Luckily i didnt kill anything but the PSU

[TheMightyBuck]

one time i broke a fingernail.

it was laying patio brick, and i think my computer was running inside my house at the time.... so i guess that's computer related.

[Agent_Mull]

Lol, the biggest thing i "broke" was a mobo, and i didnt really break it, i had jstu changed the fsb in the bios (this was b4 i knew what i knew now). So i get the company to rma it. But now i just realize i could have taken the battery out and it would have been all ok.

[-=Ambush=-]

Ugh..bad memories coming back.

This christmas break after modding my Xaser III a whole bunch and sleaving My PSU, I was testing to make sure everything worked.

Everything was fine, and I tested the UV lights and the case lit up and I was like, YES!!!

So I then was putting my case cover on and I had to move some wires I had stealthed to get it on.

Then after about a week of modding, the heatshrink on one of the floppy power connectirs came off and touched the side of my case!!!

It sparked and the machine shut off.

Naturally I paniced and taped the thing with electrial tape an turned it on. Nothing, just fans.

Turns out I fried BOTH hard drives, lost everything....

Luckily mobo, RAM CPU and everything else were fine. But I lost like 20GB of legit music. :bang head

[pwner_1337]

I was turning my rig round to its side last night while it was on and that heavy as monitor cable pulled my 9600XT right out the slot and I started hearing the BIOS speaker beeping its arse off. I switched it off right away, took a deep breath, pushed it and no problems but jesus I was **** scared I had buggered it. Also I was leeving my PSU and got the damn negatives on one of my molexs round the wrong wat and fried my HDD, in my surprise I tried it on my CD-RW so that effed as well.

[Flanagun]

I've killed many parts including my Epox 8k3a+, abit nf7-s, Xp2100+, 512 megs of Mushkin ram. The house I lives in had a lot of static. Never put parts on the floor. :/

[Agent_Mull]

I was turning my rig round to its side last night while it was on and that heavy as monitor cable pulled my 9600XT right out the slot and I started hearing the BIOS speaker beeping its arse off. I switched it off right away, took a deep breath, pushed it and no problems but jesus I was **** scared I had buggered it. Also I was leeving my PSU and got the damn negatives on one of my molexs round the wrong wat and fried my HDD, in my surprise I tried it on my CD-RW so that effed as well.
Uhh, havent you heard of an invention called screws?? :D. That might solve that little problem from happening again. and WELCOME TO THE FORUMS

[Easybeat]

I spilt a can of coke through the vents on a computer at work and it short the whole system, fortunately no-one was around so I opened up, cleaned it and told the IT department it just went off.

[Como]

i dropped my computer, weighing in at 75 lbs at the time, 3 feet, onto a cement floor.

torin blower knocked loose, SP-79 tnakfully diddnt kill my cpu, heatsinks came off video, case will never be the same.

busted the crap out of my lite-on 48/24/48/16 drive. after 3 weeks i managed to get it reading, but past 11X on a CD the disk drags. 1.6X dvd.

the case door is so broken its not even funny...but it was busted beofre i dropped it.

for 6 months, thats not bad :)

(edit)
i just busted the back of my computer chair. thought i'd come back and share.
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[DuallyKickass]

cool keep them coming i still read this they are funny.

I like the coke can one thats kinda cool :)

[Cyrix_2k]

I killed five AT PSU's and 2 Socket 7 mobos with 1 stand-off. It shorted the first mobo. I thought it was the psu, so I replaced it, twice. At this point, I knew it wasn't the PSU, so I replaced the mobo with a spare. Same problem. So I replaced the PSU twice more before realizing the stand-off was shorting out on the mobo. BTW, I was 10 years old at the time...

Also, the caps in the PSU's blew up every time. It was kinda cool. Free fireworks display...

[Lejend]

I pulled the molex out of a fan from a machine that was running. I dhon't know what touched what but the end result was :mad: *poof*. New MB, RAM and CPU. I don't what what anyone has to say about fans and power after that. I turn off the machine I'm working on.

Eeek. I guess I should stop doing that on mine. The biggest thing I broke was put an IDE cable into a hard drive the wrong way. Fried that hard drive good. It was cool though because Western Digital replaced it for free, no questions asked.

Another time, I was trying to reset the cmos on my BH6 mobo. I tried to get the battery out, and I ripped the whole socket off the board. Doh.

[9mmCensor]

I lost they key to my Antec Sonata, so I broke the thing open, and the plastic door opener is busted open now.

[Disputant]

Tucking the wires on an old Athlon, powered it up...zap! One of the plugs on the power supply had a lose connector and come in contact with something. Lost the board and the chip, kept everything else if I remember.

I remember it was after mid-night, I dug through my closet and found enough parts to build another computer so I could jump on NewEgg and take the plung for more parts.

[Drop-Top]

I was drinking coffee one morning after a 8 am final and it was sitting next to my phone. My buddy called me, and since my phone was on vibrate it knocked the coffee over onto the desk, dripping directly into my 120mm blowhole which sprayed coffee throughout my entire case. I was able to pull the power cord in time, and thankfully didn't loose but a motherboard. I had to spend about 5 bucks on isopropyl alcohol to clean it, but I got it running. IT wasn't good though.