Dumb stuff people do on their computers

That's a good one! :haha: :haha:

installed a cpu without a heatsink thinking it take up space. 1 min later after booting up i can smell pancake hmmm pancake

One time I was super pi$$3d at my computer so instead of shutting down with the button or with start button, I just yanked the PSU cord out of the Motherboard . That was back in the day when I had a Pentium 4 1.7GHz, and D845PEBT2 Codename: Blue Mountain Motherboard.

one time i set the CPU jumpers on a 586 mobo (back when you had to configure the CPU with jumpers) on accident to a combination that wasnt listed in the manual. When I turned the power on the CPU caught fire

Another time my aunt brought over her old 486 that apparently wasnt turning on for some reason. I plugged it in and flipped the power switch (no button) and the power supply exploded in a shower of sparks and this black smoke just started billowing out. It actually blew the freakin circuit breaker in the house.

Two days ago, my computer booted w/o any mobo nor any connected device power, and I got upset, and I wanted to see if the dedicated video card PSU was the problem so I took it out with power going to the video card still.....thank God there was no damage :unch: !

One time in my dad's office a PSU blew out. They had flames coming out the back of the thing.

If only their surveillance cameras would have caught that...

"Smart people have intellegence, but no common sense"

Kitty, this isn't about your post, I'm just saying this in general :grinthumb

That's very true, cfitzarl! :haha:

my friend miswired his front panel USB headers once. immediately upon power-on, dense smoke filled the case. he had hooked up the ground to the voltage supply pin on the USB header, creating a short curcuit to his case. the wire's insulation was damaged, but once hooked up properly everything still worked. he didn't think it was very funny at the time, however.

My friends POS PC doesn't have the case cover on. So he was messing with a metal mouse ball and it dropped on his video card, killing it. So now he's using my eVGA e-GeForce 6200 128MB AGP!

I used to run XP on a 266mhz P2 with 32mb ram and office. Wasnt to bad after alot of tweaks but it did take ages to boot.

and people wonder why their stuff doesn't work or takes forever to load...

I remember once when I worked at a Dell call centre, someone, believe it or not, actually did this. The tech agent asked the customer, "Now, can the monitor see the printer?" The customer replied, "OK, I have the monitor turned facing the printer!" No word of a lie, he actually turned his monitor to face the printer.

Turn your monitor into a...

Speaking about monitors, anybody ever see this one.

http://wheatons16033.tripod.com/SONY_WEBCAM_T.pps

Right click and save target as

my cousin put a sticker on the northbridge cooler and it caught fire

I just had a customer who, believe it or not, actually said this. I had been working on her comp which was heavily infected with virus and spyware. She hadn't been using any anti-virus or anti-spyware, so no surprise. After 4 hours, I could not fix everything although I did get most of it working. Unfortunately, I could not recover her Internet which is very important to her. I booked a time to come back and perform a factory image restore. I called ahead and she said, "I've been thinking about it and I'm going to take it to the Dell service centre and get them to fix it!"

Scary as it is, I'm not sure thats so stupid......

As harsh as pulling the plug seems, I honestly believe it's a valuable recovery technique for a locked up box. Pull the plug, boot into safe mode, OK your way into "Boot into last known good configuration" and you're back in business. None the worse for wear, no harm, no foul and all that rubbish.

But straight from the motherboard?

Pulling the plug from the PSU is one thing, from the motherboard is a totally different matter....

Whoops......

Show some mercy, I screwed up. In my own defense I can only say, "Forgive me, I can't read, I used to work for the Post Office".

Can I get an AMEN??

This reminds me of a computer I had to send in for warranty work from my job. After a few days it was sent back via (wont mention courier name). Well it never showed up after repair to me. Four weeks rolled by when I get a call from the courier, they somehow shipped the computer to Isreal! We never got it back, the courrier had to pay a claim for losing the computer. Three more months roll by before it is all settled and we get a new computer at work to replace the lost one.