What hardware have you killed?

[playafly187]

Ive fried a few pieces of hardware in my days...

the first was a Slot A Athlon. i dont really know if you could call it fried, as it ran great highly overclocked for a year or so. it just kinda quit working one day.

next up was a 1 ghz, i believe, AMD chip. i tried using the "pencil trick" to unlock the bridges... did the work, put the chip back inside, nothing...

i killed a sony 8x burner by not shutting down the system before i removed the power and ide cable from it.

i also managed to kill the AGP slot on an MSI kt3 ultra board. i removed the AGP card while the monitor was still turned on and plugged in.

non-computer related... i dropped my sprint flip-top cell phone into the toilet.... dead as a mofo... i hated sprint anyway.

im sure there are a few others that i cant remember right now... lol

[jurtje]

I was pushed into a pool once with my old ericcson t28w, it wouldn't work for a week, then suddenly some buttons worked again. It has been working normally ever since.

On an old fujitsu system (PI 166 I think), I punched in the wrong pw three times to see what would happen...
Changing your mobo, that's what has to happen!

On my old PIII 550 I tore one of the pins in one of the sd ram slots, that computer had some weird beeping going on!

I also horribly broke 2 minidisc players in a fairly short amount of time.

A slot A athlon 900 I once fried because I was trying different heatsinks, because the original had broke, and at one moment I turned on the power forgetting to mount the HSF properly.

Took it back to the store, blamed it on the original hsf and got a new one :wink:

Can't think of more for now 8)

[KryoNexus]

mine are mostly hard drives. i've cooked/broke 3-4 that i remember.

never a fried cpu or vid card

i did break a 16x slot load pioneer dvd-rom. took it out to do some work on the pc, put it back in and it just grinds

i burnt a 12x plextor burner to a crisp. it was loyal to me, but was doing a review and just suddenly saw smoke....RIP.

i've also killed a stick or two of memory, but just from normal usage, and i've had 2 motherboards fail on me.

the only things that i take to be my fault are 2 hard drives (one i just flat out ran to death downloading and defragging it constantly, the other i flopped the 12v and 5v on the molex). the rest just seemed to happen on it's own accord

[techniq]

4 CPUs (2 AMD 1800+ XP, AMD Athlon Socket A 1ghz, AMD Athlong Slot A 700mhz)

256mb Crucial DDR memory

450w Power Supply (don't remeber the brand)

A7A266 Motherboard (cut into the capacitors with a heat sink that was supposed to fit)


Thats all I can think of right now, although I'm sure more will come to me.

[Beemer]

Nothing important really, bent a pin on my monitor plug one time, gave everything a red tint on the screen. That really sucked.....

[playafly187]

i had one pc that had several bent pins on the monitor connector. i just bent em back straight and it worked fine

[siq]

i have a ps on my list now... but i think it just got old and quit on me. my fan on it stopped working and ironically about the same time the fan on my vid card ran out on me.

[techniq]

remember, you still owe me for that ;)

[silenze]

I've had good luck so far. *knocks on some wood*

Abit softmenu III broke on my BE6-II after 9 months of use..

Had a couple western digital 13.6gb drives fail due to bad sectors..

xp1700+ mysteriously stopped working after testing another cpu in my board.. then I manually made sure it was broken and bought a 2400+. :P

Had a 15" monitor that I got from the Goodwill back in the day... anyway, I had located the broken solder joint, it was unplugged, cover was off, I leaned over it, completed the circuit, and lets just say it held a little bit of a charge. :shock:

[playafly187]

i had a water kit break on my during installation. one of the hoses going to the cpu block came off and liquid went everywhere. thankfully everything was able to dry out and no damage was done.

[CoffeeShark]

had my first actual smoker, i hadn't changed anything, but as soon as i flipped it on, i could smell burning, so i flip it off real quick, but smoke already coming out.

The AGP slot was toasted, fused my video card (luckily just a geforce440) and the slot itself.

did the static shock to the first motherboard I ever touched, luckily that was in a hardware class, so i didn't have to pay for it. it really does kill the entire motherboard, i found out. :twisted:

[jurtje]

You go to a hardware class?

[playafly187]

i wouldnt mind taking a hardware course but all they offer here is software stuff...

[CoffeeShark]

You go to a hardware class?

long time ago (1995), hardware class was part of a programming course.

[Beemer]

We have a hardware class here, but the professor SUCKS!

[KryoNexus]

We have a hardware class here, but the professor SUCKS!

if you're talkin about Jeff....he's actually pretty good

[Beemer]

No, its charyar (SP)

[phire]

My IBM HardDrive died on my like a year ago (I guess that isn't much of a feat, cuz it IS IBM....)

One day when I was out, my PSU decided to blow and and fry my CPU and mobo with it, leaving a pleasant burning circuit smell in my basement..

....and that's about it so far!

[SlipSand]

7 hard drives...1 Segate and all rest Western Digital...I didnt do it!
The segate just died of abuse...And the Western Digitals...lets just say they die before the warranty runs out. :D

[Iceman!]

Tried modding a powersupply... while the power was still on. Alcohol was involved...

Smashed old hard drives for fun. The insides are pretty.

Accidentally dropped a vantec tornado fan on an shuttle (athlonXP2500+) mobo and killed some capacitors and whatnot (couldnt really figure out what was going on when i dropped it in there, it just bounced around pinging off of stuff.

Killed some ram by accidentally opening one of the slots and popping it out while the computer was on (was adjusting cables and stuff)

Stepped on my laptop's DVD drive, broke that. Stole a replacement dvd drive from an unused laptop of a family member. They'll never know. Funny how they all come with their very own adaptors to fit an exact laptop, when they all really use the same interface thats in the exact same spot. Marketing technique.

Ran a Duron 900mhz for a day and didnt realize the fan was not working (this was before I discovered MBM5). Wondered why it was running so silent. I still have a burn mark from touching that heatsink.

Dropped and broke a FX5200. It was a POS anyway.

Broken laptop mobo, had to shell out 700$ to dell for a replacement mobo. Wish I could have bought the part myself and replaced it.

This IBM travelstar in this laptop is about to go to the dogs...

Killed 2 Ipods. One was a sotware issue that wasnt my problem. The other was my ipod slipping out of its case, bouncing 5 times on my driveway, and sliding on its face about 10 feet *SHOCKING TO WATCH*.
Both incidents happened within days of each other. Got them replaced for free with some social engineering at the Apple Store. Retards...

Installed Folding@home on 30 public library machines. Not allowed there again.

Killed two xbox's. Both of them not mine, and I didnt directly kill them. But it was because of me they died...

I have more. A box of old dead hardware, some of it my fault, at my dad's house.


Accident-Free for 90 days!!!

[techniq]

Tried modding a powersupply... while the power was still on. Alcohol was involved...

Smashed old hard drives for fun. The insides are pretty.

Accidentally dropped a vantec tornado fan on an shuttle (athlonXP2500+) mobo and killed some capacitors and whatnot (couldnt really figure out what was going on when i dropped it in there, it just bounced around pinging off of stuff.

Killed some ram by accidentally opening one of the slots and popping it out while the computer was on (was adjusting cables and stuff)

Stepped on my laptop's DVD drive, broke that. Stole a replacement dvd drive from an unused laptop of a family member. They'll never know. Funny how they all come with their very own adaptors to fit an exact laptop, when they all really use the same interface thats in the exact same spot. Marketing technique.

Ran a Duron 900mhz for a day and didnt realize the fan was not working (this was before I discovered MBM5). Wondered why it was running so silent. I still have a burn mark from touching that heatsink.

Dropped and broke a FX5200. It was a POS anyway.

Broken laptop mobo, had to shell out 700$ to dell for a replacement mobo. Wish I could have bought the part myself and replaced it.

This IBM travelstar in this laptop is about to go to the dogs...

Killed 2 Ipods. One was a sotware issue that wasnt my problem. The other was my ipod slipping out of its case, bouncing 5 times on my driveway, and sliding on its face about 10 feet *SHOCKING TO WATCH*.
Both incidents happened within days of each other. Got them replaced for free with some social engineering at the Apple Store. Retards...

Installed Folding@home on 30 public library machines. Not allowed there again.

Killed two xbox's. Both of them not mine, and I didnt directly kill them. But it was because of me they died...

I have more. A box of old dead hardware, some of it my fault, at my dad's house.


Accident-Free for 90 days!!!

Your a menace to hardware as we know it.

Oh.. to add to my list is a laptop nvidia fx5200 go video card (well, still haven't received the verdict from Toshiba, but since its visibly a probably outside the OS(es), including the toshiba splash screen, theres not alot it could be otherwise.

[playafly187]

wow... looks like XPTB has been surpassed as the king of killing hardware :lol:

[siq]

Nvidia GeForce Ti4200 128mb. it was my baby

[G2]

i killed my mobo fan controller. it was made for max. 1 watt and the fan was 5 watt's. A bang and some smoke came from the fried controller chip but the rest of the mobo still works :D

[G2]

wow... looks like XPTB has been surpassed as the king of killing hardware :lol:

Iceman! also knows how to kill :mrgreen:

[SlipSand]

4 Fans...3x80mm, 1x92mm.

[raulbog]

Fried my laptop mobo after a dime snuck in through the floppy opening.

And now I learn that you don't even need to feed it change to play games. :lol:

[SlipSand]

Damn sneaky dimes... :lol: :wink:

[G2]

another piece of hardware that i've killed (yesterday) My Club3D Ati 9200SE 128 videocard [smilie=crybaby2.gif] overclocked it whit the wrong bios, and the backup isn't working [smilie=angry4.gif]

[undergroundtech]

another piece of hardware that i've killed (yesterday) My Club3D Ati 9200SE 128 videocard [smilie=crybaby2.gif] overclocked it whit the wrong bios, and the backup isn't working [smilie=angry4.gif]


Yeah, the 9200's have a locked bios, and don't seem to like being flashed.
Sorry for your loss, just the same.

[mdw906]

Here's my list so far of hardware gone bad
2 processors fried
1 monitor overheated
1 hard drive went bad
1 cd rom drive failed
1 floppy disk drive failed

[siq]

wow... so do you have any luck with computers?

[mdw906]

some..

[SAMSAMHA]

I have killed a intel slot 1 cpu.
Then there's a mobo, another cpu, a ram, modem card, hd. Basically I killed most of my computer when I tried to add another stick of ram. I think the power just couldn't handle it, but I kept turn it on, finally it just burned to whole system.

[Caj Darkmoon]

2 WesternDigital Drives, but I refuse to take responsibility, because they died during normal use.

1 mobo, a long time ago

1 CDRom, bumped the tray w/ my knee.

14 copies of windows, from 3.1 to XP Pro. :)

[TenaciousPD]

1 monitor
2 keyboards (Ima sore loser)
1 processor
1 motherboard
1 vid card
1 hard drive

[siq]

2 keyboards (Ima sore loser)


you should see his playstation controllers.

[KryoNexus]

2 keyboards (Ima sore loser)


you should see his playstation controllers.

i witnessed quite a few of those

[Caj Darkmoon]

Gah... don't abuse the controllers. Abuse yourself, the couch, the floor, or the guy who beat you, but please, respect the controller. :)

[mdw906]

speaking of keyboards, went through 24 at the minimum with at leat 8 reasons.

[G2]

[quote="Caj Darkmoon"]1 CDRom, bumped the tray w/ my knee.
quote]

it happend me also :mrgreen:

[G2]

[quote="Caj Darkmoon"]1 CDRom, bumped the tray w/ my knee.
quote]

it happend me also :mrgreen:

[Caj Darkmoon]

[quote=Caj Darkmoon]1 CDRom, bumped the tray w/ my knee.
quote]

it happend me also :mrgreen:

But I'll bet yours wasnt at work. :)

[MnKy]

I just killed my liteon LTD163D :(

wouldnt read past a certain scene on the dvd and was always choppy,

now it doesnt read any cd's at all, its only 1 yearold too :/

[playafly187]

the DVD drive I had in my main computer died a few months back. it would run choppy and sometimes freeze totally. POS

[silenze]

My 6X Toshiba DVD rom I bought back when it was $148.00 is starting to do that once in a great while.. think I bought it in 2000.. it's still kickin'!! :lol:

[Fallout]

I killed a mobo. Don't really know how but it wont boot up anymore.

[playafly187]

add an eliminx keyboard to my list. i took it apart last night to clean it. ive never seen so many screws in a keyboard. id bet over 50 tiny black screws.

anyway, i get it apart, clean it as best as i can, then reassemble it.

i then realize that several keys are not working. i leave it at that and go to bed. this morning, another 10 or so keys are broken. blah, i loved that keyboard.

having to use a spare now until i can pick up a suitable replacement.

[GigaHz]

I killed these items :-

Intel Pentium 4 2.6c GHz "Northwood" [ 800 FSB + HT Enabled ] CPU
DFI Lan Party 875PRO Motherboard rev 1.0

Pics are on my site http://www.geocities.com/antiscrewcrewuk/BuildPC.htm

Broke the CPU , and then the CPU broke the motherboard :oops:

[SAMSAMHA]

how did you killed it? man, that's pretty expensive thing that you have killed.

[GigaHz]

I was being very stupid , watching bits and pieces of a soccer game when i was changing my CPU HSF on the P4 .

The CPU got stuck to the bottom of the old HSF and i put it on the table quite hard and bent about 75% of the pins . :oops:

Then i thought i had managed to fix the pins with the exception of 2 that snapped [ They looked back the way they were ] So i pushed it into the motherboard with force and bashed all the little copper fins under the White socket door.

Then trying to take the socket door of to fix the little copper fins , as you can see in the picture i totally mashed the socket slider door .

btw ... I had had a few that day while watching the game . [smilie=bduh.gif]

[SAMSAMHA]

yeah, I have never seen thing broken like this. I guess you really need the new Socket T, where the pins are on the mobo:).

[deadly-app]

the socket T's are even worse, put the cpu down a little hard, and off center and poof, mobo = screwed.

I personally havent destroyed anything, oh a few AT psu's, and i have no idea how either...
Im amazed my test 90 watt micro PSU hasnt died on me yet, its gone through so many metal shavings on my workbench downstairs.

[Beemer]

I thought I had fried some ram - turns out its ok, then I though it was my 120GB seagate sata drive, but with kryonexus's help we brought her back from the brink. Its under stable condition right now, we are monitoring it and hope to release it within the next couple days. :wink: :lol:

[SAV}{VAS]

I just murdered my MSI GeForce FX5900.

I overclocked it too high a week ago but since then i had no major problems . Yesterday I had to restart , the monitor would go blank at the point where the windows screen goes to 32bit . I decided to change the bios back to FX5900 (did I forget to tell i changed the bios to FX5950 :roll: ) . I run the bios utility and "there is a conflict between bios and rom" . I finally (after ALOT of tries ) flash the bios and.... total darkness (doesn't even work in dos mode)

Today I tried using a pci graphics card to flash the bios and (again after ALOT of tries) when the utility worked the keyboard didn't :evil:


P/S: Matrox sux

[silenze]

Um, wasn't there a '-nm' flag to force it to flash the conflicting bios...

[SAV}{VAS]

I believe I owe you a THOUSAND THANKS!

I remember that thats what i did the last time (that unfortuntely the procedure got stopped in the middle) and my bios got deleted. I however thought it was supposed to save the old bios and as there was no bios in the card i didn't use it today.

After seeing your post i re-tried and this time everything worked like clockwork, everything is back to normal (i hope)


THANKS :wink:

[Beemer]

2 points for silenze

[silenze]

I believe I owe you a THOUSAND THANKS!

I remember that thats what i did the last time (that unfortuntely the procedure got stopped in the middle) and my bios got deleted. I however thought it was supposed to save the old bios and as there was no bios in the card i didn't use it today.

After seeing your post i re-tried and this time everything worked like clockwork, everything is back to normal (i hope)


THANKS :wink:

Sure. 8)

[El_Seano]

I havn't killed much.

-->An old Asus PB3 motherboard a several years back. But the final verdict was a power surge fried it

--> One of my old cd roms just up and died one hour....but it gave me a legitimate reason to go out and buy an LG 52x (it was top notch at the time)

--> But my fav story is from one my friends. One her 1st day working at Staples a guy came in demanding that they give him a new computer with a stronger cup holder....PRICELESS. Its happend to many other people...but never ceases to be freak'in hillarious!

[XPTB]

I doubt this page will allow me to type enough text required to share my kill list. but I'll try. :mrgreen:

Geforce FX5700 Ultra
Gateway 17" Monitor
Asus A7N8x
Epox 8RDA2+ (I think that's the model number)
about 3 Hard Drives
52x CD Rom
I think a burner of some kind
Some form of RAM, can't remember what kind
AMD 2400+
Couple of fans
Microsoft optical mouse
old HP keyboard

That's all I can remember. I'm sure there is more from way back in the day. I'm a freakin' n00b when it comes to computers, but I try anyway.

Oh, I also killed an old 200w PSU. But it almost killed me in the process when my fingers found something inside to touch after it had been cut off. Those jokers still hold one hell of a charge.

<----- [smilie=newbie.gif]

[G2]

But it almost killed me in the process when my fingers found something inside to touch after it had been cut off. Those jokers still hold one hell of a charge

damn thats big list. Your story reminds me on last summer. I was working on a strobe light when it discharged on me [smilie=new_Eyecrazy.gif] [smilie=5shocking.gif]

[jester]

Well looks like abit mobo died on me tonight. Hit the power button and everything comes on, hd's, cdrw, fans etc but thats about it. The monitor never kicks on and the hd led just stays lit, so much for that P.O.S [smilie=eusa_boohoo.gif]

[mdw906]

I am debating to perform tests on a possible hard drive failure or just to lay it to rest in the busted computer parts junk pile. this would be the 2nd one that pretty much shown signs that it is missing in action.

[veedubgti]

I blew up a pentium 60 in fourth grade working on my first computer build.

My power supply shorted and created a huge energy surge causing the CPU to catch on fire.

[evilgenius]

Just yesterday... I screwed up a Microsoft IntelliMouse (the old ball kind) because I was too lazy to look for the damn screw. So I took a drill and tried to make the hole wide enough to take the screws from my spiked bracelet... I accidentally drilled out the little plastic circle that the screw presses against.

Last Thursday I fried a Socket 370 866MHz Pentium 3. The damn heatsink fell off.

[werty316]

The only thing I have killed would be 3 cheap PSU.

[Silent|305|]

One time me and my boy were bored in computer class and it wuz a free day...the computers were obviously cramp but good 4 school computers.. but we werent using those... lol we were on sum old POS with those PC,s that sit under the monitor ... w/e it wuz beige..
it wuz so laggy that the mouse would lag on the damn desktop.. so he overclocked it 2 maximum!!!!! i dont remember the numbers but just for note that mouse wuznt lagging lol...
but in like 5 min we could smell it... so we left.... but we left it running.. b/c we didnt like that class... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
we came back like 20 min later and the monitor wuz slowly sinking into the PC!!!!!!!!! it wuz actually melting the plastic case!!!
good times... good times.........

[silenze]

One time me and my boy were bored in computer class and it wuz a free day...the computers were obviously cramp but good 4 school computers.. but we werent using those... lol we were on sum old POS with those PC,s that sit under the monitor ... w/e it wuz beige..
it wuz so laggy that the mouse would lag on the damn desktop.. so he overclocked it 2 maximum!!!!! i dont remember the numbers but just for note that mouse wuznt lagging lol...
but in like 5 min we could smell it... so we left.... but we left it running.. b/c we didnt like that class... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
we came back like 20 min later and the monitor wuz slowly sinking into the PC!!!!!!!!! it wuz actually melting the plastic case!!!
good times... good times.........

Put the crack pipe down.

[jurtje]

Was there an actual English wurd in that post?

[XPTB]

I can now officially add another part to my kill list. My Gigabyte GA-K8NS motherboard is croaking. Memtest performs 276,000 errors and was still counting when i turned it off. I RMA'ed the RAM, then I RMA'ed the processor thinking the memory controller was bad. Get that back and I'll be damned if it's not worse.

I was in the process of removing one stick of ram when I burned my finger it was so hot. Not good... I then proceeded to touch the northbridge, which was not a good idea either. I left a nice callus on my finger. SMOKIN'!!!!

The voltages appear normal and the temps are fine that I can see. I decided to RMA the board from Gigabyte since its only 2 months old. So no computer for me for another 2-3 weeks. That will put my computer downtime to around a month and a half. I suck... [smilie=angry7.gif]

[Neo_Bui]

My old slot A mobo died everthing comes on but the monitor and i no the monitor works guess i gotta get another mobo.
i also killed to socket 754 mobos fried with usb connections read the manual backwards [smilie=hiding.gif] and poof smoke came out but the companies both gave me new ones :twisted: they were an Asus K8V-X and a Biostar K8 Grand.

[dnangel]

I remember a motherboard that i blew a while back ago where the board and the transistors had burn marks everywhere...dont know what happend but :lol: ok

[reanimation_LP]

Lets see, hmm :

A TON of HDs, mainly WD. (Stay away from WD drives) x.x
A Pentium 166 that I had OC'ed to 233 MHz :P
The mobo holding the P166
The Power supply for the P166

(It all fried at once)

A Acer 15" monitor that I OC'ed (Kicked the resolution up to 1600x1024, after a few months, the thing just stopped x.x, I believe max res was 1280x1024, but XP allowed me to stretch)

A AMD Duron 950 and a Shuttle Mainboard along with 128MB of PC100 DIMMs (Beats the hell out of me how this happened. I was just surfing the net then all of a sudden POOF.)

A buttload of Dreamcasts
CD-ROM drives
My DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives (Gave me a great excuse to get my dad to buy me a 16x DVD-ROM and a 52x CD-RW though :P) Was able to get another matching CD-RW to the one I broke (broke the tray part) and was able to fix it up, where it resides in my PowerMac G4.

I'm not even gonna f***in count all the printers in my basement. >.> That'd take too long :)

Funny thing is, that I sold off the Duron, the board and the RAM on Ebay as as-is. People bought them, and got them all to work again. Hmm... I guess they just got tired of each other.

[achilles]

I'm happy I killed (i guess) my first peice of hardware the other day.
The Asus Mobo in one of the newer P4 in the Hardware lab at school. All the capacitors started leaking and were all bowed up after I reassembled the computer, not sure what happened since I was grounded to the case. the damn thing still worked afterwards. since it is also the instructors linux box, he was using it for a demo the next day in my linux course.

[El_Seano]

I'm happy I killed (i guess) my first peice of hardware the other day.
The Asus Mobo in one of the newer P4 in the Hardware lab at school. All the capacitors started leaking and were all bowed up after I reassembled the computer, not sure what happened since I was grounded to the case. the damn thing still worked afterwards. since it is also the instructors linux box, he was using it for a demo the next day in my linux course.


I thought the mobo was blown before you started working on the box?

[achilles]

I thought the mobo was blown before you started working on the box?

Well I didn't look at it before I took it apart so I'll take credit for it, unless gord asks. :P

[SDX]

Broke 5 little resistors off my FX5200, /shrug

It still works with AS5 in the place of the resistors but when i play call of duty scenery flashes and disappears, things also lock up. FPS in games has dropped majorly =\

[siq]

well i just slaughtered another power supply. that makes my ps count up to two. for some reason i don't kill anything other than power supplies...

[Skypilot]

I killed my 40gb external hard drive that had 8gigs of music and all of my games on it a while ago. I pulled it out of our family computer cuz I was afraid my brother's were gonna delete all of my games(the were threatening to). I ran to my room and sat on it(bad move) so they couldnt grab it. Apparently sitting on it wrecked the USB input on it. So we have a tech come over(I told mom I could do it, but nooooooooooooooooooo)he pull out the whole USB deal and takes of its case, and turns it into a normal HD. Why didnt I think of that? LOL

[ZeroLogic]

i floppy drive so far

forgot which way a floppy disk went in :lol:

[playafly187]

add a lite-on dvd burner to my list... recently crapped out

[mdw906]

I killed another mouse...luckily I have my spare mice bank

[playafly187]

add a 400 xpr dremel to my list.. :???:

[FunkZ]

2 power supplies, one a 350w ChannelWell, one a 600w Powmax, before I wised up and realized you can't go cheap or 9 times out of 10 use the power supply that came with the case.

[silenze]

Co-worker complains his system does nothing but power cycle over and over, cd-rom drive resetting.. sounds like his cpu is fried so I have him bring it in for me to test..

A close inspection... [smilie=5magnify.gif]

http://www.fawkit.org/cpu.jpg

Yes, that is arctic silver 5.

Bye bye 3200+ Venice...

[FunkZ]

Yes, that is arctic silver 5. Bye bye 3200+ Venice...

Geesh, did he put the entire syringe of AS5 on the core?

[silenze]

lol no idea.. I guess he pulled off his xp90 to clean off white thermal grease and apply arctic silver 5.. and this is what he ended up with.. must've gotten it all over the place :lol:

[fastedie]

Its called did not follow direction, and if he cleans the chip back to the cleaniest stage as he recived it with a cotton balls and rubbing alcohol .
You may get lucky and beable to use the chip. In witch case be sure to put 2 two drops and spread it out and use nomore ar5! very important! Too much Too HOT not enought too hot thin is best ! And besure to get all the old off...

[silenze]

rubbing alcohol + soft toothbrush made it nice and clean :mrgreen:

still doesn't work for him though..

[ZeroLogic]

keyboard :cry: worked at nite woke up and then didnt work that god for the on-screen keyboard

[Phil]

i borrowed some huge speakers from my parents... but they were like 50w, i figured the size constituted 2-300 and blew them out pretty quickly... i just put them back and never told them hahaha...

thenn.... first time i installed an ATX mobo i forgot to put risers in the case and then broke off the pci shield of my soundcard so it would go in. hehe found the bag of screws in the box and went "what are these long nuts for with screwholes in the middle?" i figured it out before booting but after breaking the pci shield.
used the soundcard for some months, but the soundcard wasnt screwed in and i was changing from speakers to headphones and it popped out of the pci slot a little bit, yknow the sparking and the freezing... i did taht on accident about 4 or 5 times before the card crapped... the slot and the mobo still work tho, in fact i use both still hehe.

heh yeah that first install was sketch... i totally had NO IDEA what i was doing, hell i didnt know pci from ide or heatsink from chipset, i just wanted the cool looking window on my case. all worked out though

[zachig]

Once, when I was a noob in PC hardware, I killed a Pentium2 Mobo after I tried to plug (using a lot of force) two SDRAM sticks in the opposite direction. The result was: A defective slot (the main one, Bank 0), resulting in a defective motherboard, which had to be replaced.

This one I call, OOPS!!!

[GriMo]

update, on fx5700 officially fried, thats 2 ive done it to now. and im onto my third. thankyou ebay for supplying me with vid cards no1 wants, and who i have finally found a way to get rid of.

p.s. this is the last one, when i accidently on purpose break it ill step up to something a wee bit newer

[NadeChaser]

update, on fx5700 officially fried, thats 2 ive done it to now. and im onto my third. thankyou ebay for supplying me with vid cards no1 wants, and who i have finally found a way to get rid of.

p.s. this is the last one, when i accidently on purpose break it ill step up to something a wee bit newer

rofl ... ebay

[naokaji]

my radeon x800pro@x800xt just decided to die [smilie=crybaby2.gif]

[El_Seano]

Well, my main harddrive in my computer just died, so while Im waiting for a replacment I decided too use my backup server. Which hasn't been booted in over 9 months... I get through the post fine than BAM! Power supply blew up!!!! Lots of smoke too, scared the crap out of my girlfriend. Good times, good times

[Bio-Hazard]

Better be careful, bad news comes in sets of three................... :mrgreen:

[El_Seano]

i hope not

[tomato]

I've killed a few different HD's... one Maxtor, and one (surprisingly) Seagate. I had never owned a Maxtor before, and swear by Seagate HD's, so to have 2 of them die on me within 6-8 mths was odd, to say the least...

In the end, it was my stupid PSU :cry:

[mrzombie]

Killed a couple of RAM sticks and HD's. PSU shorted and kill my board, RAM, and optical drives

[mrzombie]

Guy blows up AMD Duron http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5393904704265757054

[Zenphic]

LOL omg their voices are so funny
BOOM! :twisted:

[zachig]

I've recently killed 2 Floppy Drives. :lol: I accidently conntected the Data Bus the opposite direction and that's it, they are both NOT working anymore. :lol:

[zip]

Once, when I was a noob in PC hardware, I killed a Pentium2 Mobo after I tried to plug (using a lot of force) two SDRAM sticks in the opposite direction. The result was: A defective slot (the main one, Bank 0), resulting in a defective motherboard, which had to be replaced.

This one I call, OOPS!!!

I did the same but with DDRAM, the bad thing was that , the PC was brand new and I had some money spend on it.Luckily the company was not able to detect the "malfunction" of the MOBO.They returned another new one.Since then I look always twice...... :mrgreen:

[robaita]

well today i got back from work, turned on my pc, and well what ya know... there's green water on my floor, and my 7800GTX 512MB is dead, along with its buddy Mr x-fi fatal1ty and my mobo. good news is now i have a reason to buy the 7900 when they come out ^^ bad news is i had just gotten that damn card lol, i even took pics and i was about to post them this week ><

[zachig]

Holy Sh*t!!! I'm sorry to hear that, I can understand your feelings. :cry:

Sending my condolences...Cheer up, man!!! :wink:

[playafly187]

wow, thats horrible! what watercooling system were you using?

and do you have any pics of the liquid-soaked hardware?

[Bio-Hazard]

That really does suck,............... :cry: Was it the Swifty kit you have in your specs that sprung a leak??????????And do you know where the leak came from? I've had nothing but the best of luck with Swiftech parts.

[El_Seano]

is there any warrantee for damaged parts if the leak was from a manufactuers defect? Or is it all use at your own risk?

[robaita]

it leaked out from the treads where the hose barbs go, i should have used teflon tape, but oh well, i didnt get any pics, i do have some from me trying to dry the cards while theyre apart, ill be sure to post those.

[zachig]

Yeah, please share with us these "horrible" pictures when you manage to dry out the cards. :???:

[zip]

I'm now on the list with my latest kill....my HDD! :cry:

[captses]

I love to get inside my computers and tinker just for the fun of it. I will swap components from from one to the other just to do it. It seems that no matter how careful I am (Static strap an all) some boards just won't boot up. Just this year alone I am on 2 boards. Last year was 5. My last board was from messing around in the bios nothing serious, F10 nothing. The only thing in common was that they were all MSI.

[kcaverly]

Brand spanking new EVGA 7600GT. Tried to volt mod it while comp was on (I know, retarded), shorted something and it no longer works. I am RMA'ing it and hope to get it replaced.

A couple years ago, basically my whole comp died.

Celeron 166 and mobo.
Cheapo 150W PSU
Maxtor 16GB HD
Samsung PC2100
Pentium 133
Cheapo 200W PSU

The PSU went, spiked voltage when it died which fried CPU, mobo was OK, put a new PSU in without replacing proc (didnt know it was dead yet) killed mobo, HD, CD ROM, 256mb's of value PC2100. Got new Proc, popped it in dead mobo, using dead RAM and tried to reformat my dead harddrive = dead proc + PSU

[zip]

Thats sad kcaverly.Such a good Videocard......hope you'll get a new one!
GOOD LUCK

[zachig]

I'm really sorry for your lost, Kevin (for your Video Card) and Zip (for your HD)... :cry:

[my77stang]

recently burned out a ultra x2 uv 550w PS by pluging in a wall a/c unit to the same outlet as the PC. i read the tag on the a/c cord that says it needs its own outlet all to itself, and i think...... yeah ok - well, them bastards were right LOL. burned out the 12v rail on the sata connectors, and the lights in the PS.

RMA'd directly to ultra as i am a authorized reseller.... they even sent me a free ultra PS tester =) they didnt even want the old one back, but i volentiered to send to their r&d dept for eval. if it can help make a better product im all for it :wink:

about 2 weeks later i was doing something (i cant remember what) and burned the 12v sata rails on the new supply. surprizingly enough, the HD's have survived both PS nukes, as did everything else in the system.... moral of the story would be follow directions and turn the damn thing off before you start mucking around in the case :mrgreen:

[mdw906]

I just murdered another keyboard, not sure how, but it's gonners. on a used cheap keyboard right now. a good buddy of mine got a new one and I got his old one moreso he wanted a few more features on his keyboard, and heard about my fried keyboard.

[Overclocked Dirtbike]

I dropped my phone in the toilet and it still worked.

Also fried a mobo. Well, i pushed the ram in so hard that the mobo snapped. Turns out that the technitian that removed it dropped a toothpick in the slot, sucker wouldn't go in.

[privatedonut21]

Can somebody get rid of that? I don't want ugly spam ruining our gleaming boards. :evil:

[upd]

I have had my fair share of blowing up stuff. My 80 Gb WD HDD is pretty messed up right now, because I didnt plug in the IDE cable all the way :evil: .

I also burned out a 1.66 Ghz AMD Athlon when the fan on the top of the thing that was plugged in burned out. That is a first. Good-bye Linux box.

[robaita]

not sure if this counts as my fault, but my dvd burner died on my laptop, i blame poor design on sony's side, if i sit the laptop on my lap, it applies pressure onto the drive itself, the tray door is bigger than regular slim drive ones, and wraps downward, result: dead drive... hopefully ill be more careful with the replacement i put in today... :eat this:

[theblackmages]

a xfx fx 5200 128mb.... mmmmmm what else....

err a couple of old like 500mb hard drives that i shoved out of my window for fun. thats all i think

oh! and my chaintech skt600.

[Overclocked Dirtbike]

Bout a week ago I had a junk computer at my work given to us by CBET (Alternative Education Program teaching overpopulated communities how to handle their 9 babies.) It was a tosser and had an old BIOS that had no restrictions. I wanted to see how many volts I could pump through it. Suprisingly, it reached 2.67 volts on that old, $8 dollar Celeron. Then I removed the heatsink.

Also, an old IBM desktop layout computer was chained to the table, given to us by the school district. Had my son pry out the lock on the case. I then took the DVD ROM reader, that cost $350 dollars alone in 2000, out. I use it currently. 12x speed. Not really hardware kill, just a case kill. The case has a large tear in it. My son cut himself on the edge.

[Enigmachine]

My son cut himself on the edge.

Do children qualify as "hardware" for this topic? :lol:

[Overclocked Dirtbike]

No, I thought I would just throw that detail in, smart ass.

[my77stang]

while troubleshooting a dead syntax mobo / amd xp2600 i was swapping dead cpu onto a good board and good cpu onto dead board to see which of the two components was bad. after not getting anywhere i went ahead and put the good cpu back in the good motherboard and upon hitting the power button i actually saw smoke come from the cpu. after shutting her down immediatelty and removing cpu i saw that it had gotten black and crispy next to the die, and actually blistered thru to the bottom of the chip...... wow

now its a keychain =)

[privatedonut21]

now its a keychain =)

Way to think positive! Silver lining, stiff upper lip and all that.

[kcaverly]

My son cut himself on the edge.

Do children qualify as "hardware" for this topic? :lol:

lol, then i better ad to my list :twisted:

Kevin

[slugbug]

Plaster dust and hard drives are not compatible :roll:
I was sanding drywall joints and heard my PC in the next room making ticking sounds. I even had plastic sheeting covering the doorway to block the dust.
I must have had a dozen hard drives fail over the years, but only that one was my fault.

[playafly187]

does an iPhone count?

http://shawn-knight.net/photos/hotphone.jpg

Just a little toasty heh

[GavinW]

My failed mod attempt is a case I think I'll enter in the contest. :D