Just looking through another forum and they were talking about the days when they first started out building there own pc's and mistakes made.

Just thought I would ask here what fuckup you've done over the years?


Thought I might add that when I first got into building pc's 1999 I didn't have a clue, first time round I screwed the mainboard onto the back plate without the brass pins in place to mount it and totally fried everything (myself included if I would have touched the case when I turned it on) its a shame really I took the tower unit to the guy in the shop and he just looked at me like an idiot when he saw what I had done. I was lucky he gave me a new board (cpu was fine)

2nd time I did it right only months later I tried to plug a cd writer in while the pc was switched on and the power cable sparked at the back of the cd rom and the pc shut down, it wouldn't start for about 10 minutes, after that it never worked right and it killed the graphics card as it never worked 100% after that.

Lesson learnt over the years.

Thought I might also add that not too long ago 2004 when AMD used to have shit CPU fans that you couldn't get off the mainboard and I had my brothers pc to build I needed to take the fan off I dont know why now.

So I used a screw driver to try and get it off slipped and slid across the board and damaged the circuits. cost me another £60 for a new board. even after that I paid for the proper tool to get the CPU fans off and managed to damage a board putting pressure on and cracked it.

messing with a 286 and dos I didn't do much bad, but when I built my 486 installed dos 6.22 and wfw 3.11I was constantly fucking things up and reinstalling.
when win95 came out that's when I went of a rampage of daily trashing the OS. never fried anything though. seen others fuck shit up real bad though.*LOL*

I remember the win 95 days my mates brother had a p75 was like the top of the range pc at the time that I remember and you had to go through dos to log into windows.

We were only about 11/12 at the time and his brother was like touch my shit and your all going to die. he was built like a brick shit house. So of course as soon as he left the house we had to try it and managed some how to fuck it up in the process.

So like the good old days we tried to fix the windows and it was the win 95 that was on floppy disks about 25 of them or something stupid. can safely say it didn't work. I never went round to his house for about 2 months after that.

one of my students I had hired on day 1 sated the cpu wrong and forced the clamps down bending most the pins. it was also his last day working for me.

working for a consulting company, this engineer who thought he knew it all was always fucking up.
once he put a static charged screwdriver on a 1K raid controller and fried it.
another time he striped some server drives and the drives were not compatiable and lost all the data.

another time at a large lawfirm he decided to clean out a production novell server bringing business to a complete halt and I had to go in that evening to fix his fuckup. he fried the board and cpu.

*LOL*

my daughter at the time was 6, I built her a pc and over time the cpu fan became loud so she decided to jam a pencil in it to stop the noise.*LOL* I ended up replacing the cpu and fanless heatsink.
I would come home and she would have her pc apart.I mean apart. she would jack my screwdriver and go to town on it. her excuse was it was sick and needed surgery.

First PC I built came together quickly. It was an XP3200+ based system. As the months went on, that thing started running pretty hot, I had to clean and regrease the block a couple times before it held respectable temps. What did it in was a surge overload from a storm (I did have a surge protector on it). The duplex I was living in had shoddy wiring that was anything but to code, so it probably didn't help.

Not PC build related, but I lost a file once while saving to an external disk (write caching related) when my house lost power. Turned out a teenage girl was driving on her way to work, swerved to avoid another car and hit the utility pole carrying power directly to my house. Though I lost some significant work I was glad the girl was okay, but... wtf are the odds of that happening?

I would have gone out and bitch slapped her just for hitting the post

I wasn't happy for sure, I lost a lot of work although I was stupid to keep saving to a single file. I did enter the scene thinking Who the fuck just crashed into my pole. xD But she was crying and her head was bleeding from hitting the windshield so I stayed with her until the ambulance came. She was fine but no doubt was sore for a couple days.

I still have the file. It's 0KB and of course won't do anything, but I'm hoping someday something will change *lol*