Confession Time

[BionicSniper]

droped my cpu in the sink (empty and dry) chiped the corner slghtly

sadly it overclocks better

 

stuck my finger in a fan it hurt

 

 

shot old monitors with a .22 log rifle (mag hollow point rounds) at 4200 feet... another reason my name is bionicsniper

[contra33]

ok here goes mine...

 

i look at naked women on the internet

[aaronamd]

i have to add one, we went to my freinds wedding reception and I came home so drunk that I got got frushstrated with losing in HL-DM that I broke my keyboard, it was A nice MX duo too....then I got another one

 

 

don't ask how I got the boos.....

Edited April 2, 2005 by aaronamd

[cybergrunt69]

Doing some backups when I was really tired, I told my incremental backup (~2mb) to do an 'over-write' instead of 'append' on my backup file. My 4gb backup covering about 3 years of work now only covered about a week...

 

 

I thought it was totally gone until I got lucky and found about 1/2 of it on backup tapes and CDs.

[Bleeble]

Dropped my P4 Northwood trying to get it out of the retail box and had to bend more than a couple pins back with a knife.

[Wayway]

i really love andrew stanifer, lol

[crash]

Got drunk while building a computer, (at 9:00 at night,) that was supposed to be delivered the next day and didn't realize that I was installing a 400MHZ FSB max board and using a 533 FSB 2.4. I had already hooked up all the usb/firewire, stuff to the board, installed all the drives ect. Then I had to grab the only board available, (worth about $100 more,) and use it.

 

THEN I had just got everything working great but because I had cloned a drive the boot drive was D instead of C so I used powerquest drive mapper to try and change the drive letter back to C and when it rebooted I got "Boot disk failure please insert system disk and press enter."

 

Crap.

[red930]

back a few years ago. i broke my parents gateway computer by trying to overclock it. and i blamed it on a virus. and the funny thing is they believed me.. so yea thats a little thing thats been sitting over my head....whew

[bigred]

oh boy, I'm in trouble here

 

while putting a larger HSF on a TI 4600 I slipped and sheared 2 large capacitors off. thankfully they were both fixable.

 

proudly ordered my FX-51, got it in, opened the box, and let if fall out of the little plastic clamshell. 30+ pins bent (god it sucks to have to play fix the pins with a socket 940 chip).

 

dropped a raptor hard drive... dead.

 

bought an Asus athlon 64 motherboard... more than once

[ccokeman]

My most embarassing moment was taking a mobo and cpu back to the place i got it thinking the were bad because they would not even start up. Moral of the story .... check to make sure the CMOS jumper is not on the clear CMOS pins. Felt like an idiot after taking it back.

[bigred]

seen that one MANY times cokeman. mostly with boards in the ECS family. it's SUCH a stupid thing on the mobo makers part... I think they should be responsible for that one, not the user.

 

some other's that I've seen rank WAY past what anyone here could ever do (at least I hope that's the case).

 

1: Athlon FX-51 with no thermal compound = toast (newegg refused the idiots RMA)

 

2: system had been to 4 other tech shops, and none could figure it out. put system on bench, long beep. check all components, remove heatsink to see what cpu is in system... no cpu ever installed. customer thought the socket was the heatsink.

 

3: forgot to plug in the 12v 4 pin power connector, return 7 motherboards for this

 

4: put a socket 940 cpu into a socket 939 motherboard... you don't need that last pin

 

5: battery won't charge in CBW laptop. diagnosis, cookie crumbs blocking contacts

 

6: remove pins from socket 478 cpu to fit socket 775 socket (thank god it was only a celeron D)

 

7: install socket A (462 pin) cpu in socket 370 motherboard. threaten to sue because cpu fried motherboard

 

8: brass standoffs.... brass standoffs... god I could write a book on how NOT to install them. use them to screw the motheroard to the case, not use them at all, spinkle them about the case then mount the motherboard to the case, put them in every whole in the case, especially where there are no holes in the motherboard... it is just so painful to think of all the idiots that did it wrong

 

9: Athlon XP heatsinks on backwards... cracked cores galore

 

10: 10,000+ spyware entries and 800+ viruses on ONE machine... seen that more than once

 

11: athlon 64 3500+, x800pro, 4 74gb raptors, MSI K8N neo2, sb audigy 2ZS plat, 4 DVD burners, 8 fans, 250w power supply. wonder why the system is unstable.

 

12: take a computer to Best Buy for service

 

13: plug printer into the scsi port on the back of an old LC series mac. wonder why the mac is unable to find a boot device when it assigns first scsi address to an LPT printer. **** bonus material: printer has HP label on front... "820CXI for windows" ****

 

14: wire 120v fan direct to power supply, fan runs when system is off but plugged in. installing hard drive in system, drop screw in fan... with system plugged in, get hit in face with screw, stop bleeding

 

15: opt to wire fan from #14 to AC adapter. cut and splice with wire nuts. eventually move computer, and abandon fan (due to great bodily injury). leave wire still plugged in under desk. durring cleaning find ac adapter plugged into wall. trace wire back to bare end... by touch.

 

16: allow graduating seniors to update the school district website as final project in Web Design class. don't change the password back. wonder why ALL pictures on the website are changed to porn.

 

17: hook up those old LC575 mac's analog modems to the NEW digital phone system... while the tech (me) is working on the patch pannel, with the PBX 3" from the family jewels... wonder why tech has burnt dockers and wonder why he wants to kill the staff member who did this.

 

18: Run cable from switch at lan party, 100' around the basement from port 1 on the switch, BACK to port 24 on the switch.

 

19: if it doesn't fit you're not using enough force! PCI cards in AGP slots, AGP cards in PCI slots, SDR in DDR slots, DDR in SDR slots, tear the AGP slot off the board with a video card.

 

20: don't take a CRT apart unless you KNOW what the hell you're doing. I did this 11 years ago... my dad stood there laughing at his 13 yr old son trying to "fix" that 14" crt. just as he told me "and what ever you do, don't touch..." I hit the wall 3 feet away.

 

21: any statement that starts with "we could have" will lead to HORRIBLE things. if you hear this in a meeting, hit the person who said it. but that's it for now. #21 really needs it's own thread

[suchuwato]

well, once i overloaded the power at a friends house when we were testing some new speakers (very loud ones) anyway, all the fuses blew and most of the lightbulbs aswell...

the pre-cut spike fried my hdd and the ide bus on the mobo...

 

 

helps to use a surge protector!