Dumb stuff people do on their computers

That thing went out into the back yard for a little while, till I was sure it wouldn't catch fire

I bet, yikes. Actually, I managed to do something like that, but not quiet with a psu I was trying to mod. I was trying to set it up so I could just switch it on by itself ( for testing fans and such). I managed to cut the power in at least my room (woops).

Ha, how did you do that? Didn't you just short the green pin with a black pin?

once i went on a website that was obviously gonna anihlate my computer if it didnt have protection, but my a/v and fire wall wouldnt let me click on a link so i turned them both off and there went my old computer.

had to format it

haha, see , that's the simple way to do things ( and the way I do that now), but I was trying to hook up a button so I could just switch it on.....apparently........I wired something wrong.

:knock: :grinthumb Haha, that's great!

Remember about 5 years ago when that link was getting passed around via email that said "Click this link for your free cup holder"? Anyways, for those that missed it, you would click the link and it would eject your cdrom tray.

It was a good little harmless joke. Well the Rednecks in the facilities dept. logically deduced that while funny, the email showed them the second of two uses for a computer (The first pretty much being a $1200 deck of cards).

Wouldnt you know it, I get a trouble call for a cdrom that isnt working and the first thing I notice are brown rings in the cdrom tray. I also notice that other employees not at their desks some of them have open cdrom trays. So I am installing a new cdrom and some of the facilities guys come back and one of them sets his coffee mug in the open cdrom tray!!!

I relate this information to my boss who becomes other worldly pissed off (I think hes had two heart attacks) and calls the head of the facilities dept and they have a nice little chat.

Ultimately I had to write a company wide email prohibiting the use of cdrom trays as coffee cup holders!

I opened my friends dead PSU to jack the LED fans inside. Opened it no problem. One the fans already had a 2-pin connector so I could hook it right up! The other I had to add a connector on. So I found my dead AC Cooler. Took the plug of stripped the wires. Taped them togethor, then I accidently tore the wires out of the fan, they touched the PCs HDD and killed it.

The other I I cut the 2-pin connector of and sttacted the 3-pin. That one works good. To bad I lost a 40GB HDD.

Hey Tedster, remember Kid Icarus??

Betterr yet, Moon Rover!!

when I was just a younger alpha version of my current self I'd always try to get PC games to work on my commodore Amiga and vice versa.

why not, that sounds like it'd work just fine... for a pentium

Me Too

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I thought I was special! I did the same thing, on a different site!

today's dumb-*** award goes to: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic73994.html

for putting a metal rod in a computer while powered.

i ran xp on a 660 mhz 64 mb of ram 250 gig drive

My cousin ran it on a 600MHz, oh yeah!! Top that! :unch:

I remember I saw a post on hardforumz about a guy crying that his motherboard temp was 65C and his cpu temp was 75C. His pc ran on fans and guess what...he lived in an unairconditioned house in Arizona

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Ahh, I remember when I was a n00b like that . Nothing like plugging in the power cord for a hard drive when the computer is on....it started smoking .

Xp

I ran XP a few years back on a K6 233mhz machine with 256mb of ram.

The thing didnt actually do to terribly bad but it was slow. I think the 256 of memory did helped it the most. It was a special board that used SDRAM PC66 memory dimms although it did have IDO SIMM slots also.

I ran Win XP Pro on a 500 hz Intel p3 from 1999 with 64 mb and a 10 gb hdd and thn before on an amd k6 with 256mb+ ram and a 20 gb hdd, this computer was from 1999 as well

That is quite a feat. Or did you mean 500 mhz?