What's the dumbest way you ever fucked up a computer?

What's the dumbest way you ever fucked up a computer?

I fell asleep after forgetting to disable the windows 10 auto update

oh boy i ruined so many keyboards like that, but somehow i managed to ruined a motherboard when building a pc or at least thats what the guy with who i was working said, i still think it was a fabric failure

Threw my friend's backpack away on the floor.
His fault for not telling me there was a laptop inside.

Installed Windows 10 on it.

What a shit friend you are. Why are you not careful with your friends stuff?

Didn't use an anti-static strap.

Computer literally exploded.

Installed Windows

Installed linux on it.

I forgot I put it in my backpack on the ground next to my chair and I cracked the screen.
I replaced the screen though and it still works like a charm.

>Threw my friend's backpack away on the floor.
>His fault for not telling me there was a laptop inside.

Stop throwing other people's shit dickhead

Didn't install a power manager on my shitty consumer laptop when trying out Arch so I let my battery totally run out and after like 10 times shutting down abruptly, it never booted again.
Needed a new 300 euro mobo, fuck that shit I just bough a ThinkPad for 250.

when building a pc, kinda rushed it and i forgot to take one standoff away and i fried my mobo.

>things that never happened

I don't get the picture.

>Staying in hotel
>Have laptop hooked up to TV because fuck cable
>Charging cable is across the floor because outlets by TV are full
>You already know where this is going
>Get up in middle of night to piss
>Forget about cable
>Manage to trip over it with enough force to send it flying into the wall, hits the wall screen/keyboard first and flattens, makes god-awful slam and cracking sound
>Wake up girlfriend who is now freaking the fuck out
>Silently wait for someone to come banging on the door or cops to show up because that shit was loud
>Laptop is demolished, screen and keyboard totaled.
>Take it home, transfer files off hard drive to desktop, buy a new laptop off craigslist a couple weeks later, put files back
>This was like 5 years ago and I haven't tripped on a single cable ever since, I have a straight phobia now.

>spaz friend comes over
>have to warn him your laptop is in your bag so he doesn't throw it
>have to warn him you have your phone in your pocket so he doesn't throw you in a pool
>warn him you don't want to be picked up again
>ask him not to pick his nose in your room again

Keyboard pictured is an IBM model M. That would not ruin it.

That is a trap. You can grow long hair and makeup but facial structure and testosterone gives it away every time.

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I wish I could dunk your head in a toilet

I fucked up with usb drivers last night and now my kb+m won't work on windows side. No more vidya for me.

>girlfriend

Leave and never come back

lmao xdd

tried to overclock an intel celeron 700 mhz to 900 mhz with pins , it killed the motherboard somehow

Dropped a pot noodle i was eating near a pc i was working on without the side panel on, put my foot out to catch it, kick pot noodle all over the inside of the pc

It's a shame you guys don't have this

I have a corsair pc case with big useless round holes at the top and because I'm such a dipshit, I spilled cake onto my GTX970 :^)

We also don't have phallic objects lodged firmly up our anus.

>cake

>GTX970

Nothing of value was lost.

using internet explorer and watching porn when i was like 12 years old

Yeah, it's a ... shame.

i too came at the top of desktop case when screwing around with my gf, and she realized it a month later. (her pc) . Luckly it was a sealed top case.

What is up with normies and their girlfriends?

Girlfriends are not technology. Get out.

>high school IT room
>me and a friend were there to work on old computers
>one such a system comes up
>do some basic checks
>plug it in
>flip the PSU switch
>PSU explodes
>fuse breaks
>entire wing of school is devoid of power

Put my notebook on the side of the bed with my headphones plugged in. Then sat on the side of the bed, so it slid off and fell on the headphone connector, so that it partly broke. It still works, but it looks a little weird.

sudo rm -rf /

I used a blowdyer to remove dust and forgot to turn off the heat. melted my case filters

Switched power supply from one modular to the next.

Nothing in the new manual mentioned different pin-outs, so I kept the previous modular cords in with the new PSU.

Suffice to say all of my hard drives were instantly fried. (about 5TB of storage all-told)

At age 11 I installed two anti virus programs. It was glorious.

I didn't know it was 2008

I was adding some new RAM to my laptop, but to do so, I had to remove the motherboard (HP Sleekbook 15).

During disassembly, I got to the flex cable for the laptop's screen. Upon disconnecting the cable, I managed to rip the connector port clean from the motherboard.

I tried getting two replacement motherboards, but each one was defective, and had to be returned. I eventually just said "fuck this", so the laptop now sits in pieces in a box in my closet. Two weeks later, I bought myself a Thinkpad T420.

The PSU was probably set to 110v when it should have been 230v. Happened to me once

>implying you can disable windows 10 updates
nice try faggot

>LOL fucking europeans. You know what happens in the US when it's in the wrong position? nothing! Hahah!

they still use the same shitty cable design without bend-support so it it will still happen.

He meant upgrade

>Be my barely awake high school freshman self
>Try to turn on laptop
>It just blinks at me
>ohshit.jpg
>Google answer and decide to reseat CPU
>Attempt to open
>HP's quality construction
>Hear snaps
>Reseat CPU
>Put back together, hinge breaks
>More snaps
>Doesn't work afterwards

Who are you quoting?

Talking about normies isn't technology either. Out

>consumer HP laptop
why would you even do that

Myself, you faggot.

It was a time when I was less technologically inclined, and it was also a time when my dad saw a sweet deal at Costco.

Why?

>touched a gpu fan to see if its spinning
>vacuumed mobo and fried it along with gpu

Because I come from a country where we don't have to worry about blowing up our power supplies by having a switch in the wrong position

BTFO

Which country would that be you silly frog poster?

How did you manage to do that?

>I live in a country with an inferior national power system and I'm proud of this
Ok

Do what? Fry mobo or touch a fan like a retard?

Installed BOINC.

Installed windows

Yes. I touched spinning fans and nothing has happened and vacuumed lots of pc parts (including mobos) and nothing happened.

Have you got a qualification in being retarded?

Nice meme

After vacuuming the pc wouldnt post so i thought gpu died and touched fan to see if its working because room was dark as fuck. Pushed a bit too hard and instantly destroyed one of the blades.
Also static electricity. Weird thing is, i cant use my integrated graphics without dead graphics card plugged in.

That happened to me once. (Mountain Dew killed the laptop)

>disassemble my laptop to clean up dust
>assembling it back
>snap cables leading to speakers
>look up replacement
>one end is just soldered to the speakers and the other ends in some proprietary shit
Using headphones since.

>Using laptop, can't remember model
>Occasionally doesn't switch on because [???]
>One day, try to switch on
>Nothing
>Switch off, switch on
>More nothing
>...uh oh
>Open up, or try to
>Realise case isn't designed to be opened, because [???]
>Force open, fuck the case up with pliers and screwdriver
>Check all connections, nothing wrong
>Try switching on while in Frankenstein-esque mode
>...it works fine
>Keep case to store when not using
>Still works fine several years later, switch on occasionally for entertainment value

My story doesn't quite fit into the thread, I just find it stupid that it works better outside the case (and I enjoy posting pictures of it).

>his case is where soda could spill on it
>he's so spastic soda spilled on it in the first place

Dude, you got a perfect opportunity to make a pizza box laptop.

lol xDDD Apple iz sooo gay

jammed a pci card in the slot roughly causing a gold contact to come dislodged and touch another contact pin causing a tiny flame and stinky smoke when i booted up (back in the day when i was young also no harm done to anything but the junk pci card that added COM ports or something i didnt need)

Nice clock, Ahmed.

I could make a CheesePizza-top.
I just need to get a spare keyboard for it.

I don't know if I caused the fuck up, but
>have gaming laptop b/c high schooler who didn't know jack shit about anything
>eventually go to college
>laptop like 4 years old now
>starts turning off randomly immediately after booting up
>at first, it happens like once a month
>then, randomly turns off twice or three times a month
>then once a week
>then every other day
>then every day
>then multiple times a day

It would always turn off exactly 15 seconds after turning it on. Always 15 seconds. Ended up never turning back on, so I built my first desktop and haven't looked back since.

Our children don't die instantly when they come in contact with our power delivery system.

Inferior to child molestors and child killers, maybe?

I once ruined a Model M by spilling about a tablespoon of beer on it. The beer was partially frozen so it overflowed when I opened it and spilled.

You can uninstall 3 certain service pack updates, this completely removes the win 10 update garbage bootstrap

i fell asleep without cancelling the gentoo auto update

>Our children don't die instantly when they come in contact with our power delivery system.
>Inferior to child molestors and child killers, maybe?


try hitting it with contact cleaner, wait an hour for it to dry and try again.

Model Ms are extremely powerful and hardy.

Nice meme

Not me but my professor.

Bought a brand new 15 rMBP maxed out. Went to do some chemistry, forgot that he got some chemicals on his sleeves, burned the aluminum finish and stained it. Was only cosmetic, but wew lad

You mean this country? Very wow indeed.

Got pissed off last year and slammed my fist down on my desk launching a mug of Coke into the air and down on my rMBP keyboard. Then I tried to clean it with water and iso alcohol which got into my screen and left this weird effect on the lower left. I prayed to God that it would dry out and keep working, let it dry for a week and opened it up and cleaned it out thoroughly and it still works to do this day. I'm expecting it to randomly die one day but until then I'm going to keep using it. I've gotten my temper under control.

I installed arch linux on it.

I installed an AMD card and blew up my psu and mobo

>cmon little guy you can touch it ,it will only feel funny a little.
Your power lines are the literally child molestors.
Also enjoy having massive power losses.

when 110v gets made fun of by other countries

I haven't had a power outage in years, you?

this is awesome :D

I plugged the wrong plug on an psu that didn't have way to tell if it was the right plug.
Wasted an old AM2 mobo.

spilled hot soup all over laptop

i live in city where everyhing is cabled. why would i ?

Not a computer, but my cat knocked my arm and i dropped my phone in my tea.

>he doesn't have a robot waifu

Was drunk, got startle, punched the freaking screen!

installed a new nvidia driver

>somehow manage to fuck the occasional thing up with static
>mfw your post

I put a speaker element on my laptop where the hard drive was located while it was running.
All I heard where grinding noises, as the drive head was dancing the samba on the HD platters.

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