Moral of the story: Don't let your Dad take PC's apart...

Background: My dad has been seeing someone for a while, and she needed a pc. I scrounged around for some parts out of my old PC and got a pc together that had an old mobo with a 733mhz C3 in it, and old 350W psu, and a case. I got the rest of the parts together.
Zoom to last week: I got the whole thing put together, and loaded XP... everything is A-OK.. and my dad takes it to his gf's house. But apperantley, it doesnt work, and my dad takes it to his house, where i can work on it later.
Zoom to yesterday: My dad plugs it in, and says he can't get it to turn on, is the switch on the back right? yes... ok i'll have a look at it later...
Zoom to this morning: My dad calls and says: he did something bad. I ask him what..? He says he found a connecter that was unplugged, so he plugged it in, turned it on, a big spark and lots of smoke came out of the mother board. My face= .. I ask him where did the connector come from, he said the power supply... i ask him what does it look like.. and i quote : "2 Black, and two yellow wires"... If you dont understand.. he plugged the AUX P4 12V connector into a mobo that runs the equivelent of a p3.. IT DIDNT HAVE A PLACE TO PLUG THAT CONNECTOR IN ... needless to say i put down the phone and lauged my ****ing head off... well he's dropping it off tomorow.. and hopefully i wont be too busy to post some pics...

sorry about the long read :d

So....where did he manage to plug it into?

I think, I've read something like that, on this forum. Where someone had a computer, and they plugged in every wire.

lmao!!! sounds like my dad

luta, i have no clue where he plugged it in.. when he drops it off tomorow, ill post some pics

wow thats rediculous...

wow.... holy smokes.

Its just so hilarious when people do this kinda stuff and we make fun of them.

i dunno what happened... my dad's a smart guy.. he must have been having an old person- moment

lol thats funny but it also sucks. my dad would bring it to me without even touching it.

Hmm, the only place that it would fit would *probably* be on the main ATX (P1) connector...and how he managed to do that with the P1 connector in place is a mystery to me.

sorry guys, ive been uber busy lately, my grandma's house just closed today... apperantley he found some way to plug it into a 3-pin fan plug on the motherboard... im hoping it will still work... i promise ill post pics tomorow or saturday, or you can get felinusez to come beat me up

A fan plug? Like, the pin header things? How in the world did he manage that??? And why? They dont even look remotely similar!

"If the shoe fits..."

He may have thought that plug seemed to fit there somehow. My suggestion for that PC after fixing it, snip off unused plugs and tape them off.

maybe shrinkwrap the ends or somethin? or tell him dont go pluggin stuff in lol.

i would post pics, but nothing really happened
apperantley, it somehow only killed the power supply, and not the mobo! :-|
the mobo is fine, no burnt traces at all, but the PSU wont work at all... it's kinda weird

Hypocrites..
If I had started a thread about how never let kids take apart a pc you would all be jumping down my throat...

Please dont generalize, I am probably your dad's age can probably tshoot and assemble a pc faster than 99% of people under 21.

Perhaps this thread should be renamed "Don't let Joe (or Jane) Sixpacks take PC's apart..."

subtotal said:

Perhaps this thread should be renamed "Don't let Joe (or Jane) Sixpacks take PC's apart..."

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I agree. Just because we are dads does not mean we trade in the overclocking card for the diaper changing card. Ever thought about trying to teach your dad something about computers. (I tried and failed, but it was funning watching my balding father scratch his head that way)