PCs - Ever done anything really stupid to or with them?

[iranu]

I did this a few minutes ago. I was wanting to compress a file with winrar but needed the individual files to be less than 100mb. Instead of choosing that limit I choose 100k. Que 48577 files on my desktop! Arrrgh! Help! Damn machine has gone bananas. lol. It's gonna take a while to get rid of them all because the recycle bin just will not play ball.

Anyone else care to share and laugh at the stupid things we do to and with PCs?

[this_is_gav]

I think most of us will have at some point formatted the wrong partition/drive or deleted a large and important folder and not been able to recover them. I know I have.

Stepping up a notch, I've also managed to suppress my monitors thirst with a healthy glass of red. It was an old CRT, sat next to my old tower. In my rather small work area I had the glass stood on the tower, perfectly in the centre (I'd taken all of 2 sups from it ), but I'd imagine the fans or something caused the glass to gradually creep towards the edge. Once there it gleefully toppled right on to and into the monitor. Large crack and sizzle, instant tripping of the electric and a lasting smell of burnt red wine (a not altogether an unpleasant smell to be honest). I left the monitor a week or 5 days or something then switched it on, from a up the back garden path via an extension lead, and remarkably it worked... for about 6 months until it started developing continual sizzling and buzzing noises, and I decided it was time to throw it.

[shelley bda]

I think most of us will have at some point formatted the wrong partition/drive or deleted a large and important folder and not been able to recover them. I know I have.

Stepping up a notch, I've also managed to suppress my monitors thirst with a healthy glass of red. It was an old CRT, sat next to my old tower. In my rather small work area I had the glass stood on the tower, perfectly in the centre (I'd taken all of 2 sups from it ), but I'd imagine the fans or something caused the glass to gradually creep towards the edge. Once there it gleefully toppled right on to and into the monitor. Large crack and sizzle, instant tripping of the electric and a lasting smell of burnt red wine (a not altogether an unpleasant smell to be honest). I left the monitor a week or 5 days or something then switched it on, from a up the back garden path via an extension lead, and remarkably it worked... for about 6 months until it started developing continual sizzling and buzzing noises, and I decided it was time to throw it.

At least you got a bit more use out of it! shame about the wine though, i'd of been gutted!

I did a similar thing with me new Laptop Jon had bought me for Christmas... had it a couple of months before knocking a whole bottle of Stella Artios into it! ( what a waste! wouldn't of minded if it were Carlsberg ) it kinda of all fizzled up over the keyboard and then the screen went all sorts of pretty colours before going black..... and black it stayed, Jon took it apart and the whole lot was drenched

Did claim a nice new one on the House Insurance... had to send the old one back to see if they could repair it first, dread to think what it stank like after festering around the Post Office for a few days stank bad enough after 1 night

[Agent]

It's gonna take a while to get rid of them all because the recycle bin just will not play ball.

Hold shift and then press delete. This will delete them without sending them to the recycle bin

[Stoo]

I've done the delete the wrong partition/format a couple of times, that's pretty much it really

[rox0r]

I once blew (bang, sparks, smoke the whole shooting match) a brand spanking new 9800Pro up by being a clod with a screwdriver whilst it was turned on. This is when they very first came out too, costly screwup.

Also, I remember in my youth I flipped the 240v/110v switch on the back of my uncle's IBM XT, while it was on ......slight kerboom.

[this_is_gav]

At least you got a bit more use out of it! shame about the wine though, i'd of been gutted!

Well the rest of the bottle was consumed rather rapidly after that

You've reminded me of another one though. Logitech DiNovo Media Desktop 2.0 (the main keyboard only) was killed off when a mug of coffee went all over it. Wouldn't care if it was a cheapy keyboard, but these things cost the earth... normally some careful cleaning would be enough to fix it, but this was dead. Perhaps went a touch hyper with the sudden caffine fix and blew itself to bits.

[Nick]

I did deltree in DOS once.... on C:

[Jay]

type a large document

click exit

"Do you want to save?" "yes" "no"

My mind says yes but my hand clicks no....

[streetster]

I did this a few minutes ago. I was wanting to compress a file with winrar but needed the individual files to be less than 100mb.... etc

lol i did this the other day, except i chose 1K... dunno how, but after a few mins i realised my mistake - i was only compressing 300mb worth of stuff!

simple solution, fire up command prompt browse to the desktop, and 'del *.rar', assuming you dont have any other important rar files on the desktop


... other stupid things include flashing the wrong bios to a motherboard. twice. it was in the days of gigabyte dual-bios so not a severe screwup, but doing it twice was pretty thick

[behappier]

Stepping on my closed laptop I carefully put out of the way next to the sofa on the floor was pretty stupid. Screen went but the rest was ok.
Problem was that it was a very rare Jap import and the screen could not be repaired, ended up with a boring Dell that the house insurance paid for!

[jackvdbuk]

I once blew (bang, sparks, smoke the whole shooting match) a brand spanking new 9800Pro up by being a clod with a screwdriver whilst it was turned on. This is when they very first came out too, costly screwup.

Also, I remember in my youth I flipped the 240v/110v switch on the back of my uncle's IBM XT, while it was on ......slight kerboom.

OMG!! i did that too on the same card it was on and one of the molex pins on the card was loose and i used a screwdriver to push it back in... screen went black, a scary spark come from it and the pin went black... i got scared luckily (god knows how) it still worked :

type a large document

click exit

"Do you want to save?" "yes" "no"

My mind says yes but my hand clicks no....

uhhh thats one of the most annoying i have done.... especially when it is for college and theres due by dates and work you dont specifically understand!

[Behemoth]

I killed a bran new GeForce 2 MX, I decided that the passive cooler wasn't man enough for it so spent the day modding on a beefy CPU cooler to do a better job of the stock passive job, I was using super glue to fix it on (silly idea I know) and I must have gotten some glue on some of the components on the card, because when I plugged it in, it never worked again But stack did replace it under RMA

[iranu]

Hold shift and then press delete. This will delete them without sending them to the recycle bin

Yes I'm aware of that shortcut but having been burnt by that one in the past aswell I keep well away from it. Can't remember what I lost it was that long ago.

I once actually witnessed a bloke at work merrily typing away, head down, really getting on with his report when he turned the PC off from the front panel with his little finger! He used to type in the same way some people hold a tea cup, with his little finger kind of extended and it was this fingure that contacted the off button. I laughed so hard but he didn't see the funny side until a few months later.

[EvilWeevil]

Worrying about and desperately trying to troubleshoot a new HDD for around a half hour before realising I hadn't plugged in the SATA cable?

I also recently received a text from a friend saying "What does the 240/115 switch on the back of a computer do...it blew up"

[Spud1]

I have a habit of pouring various drinks over my computer..but I am normally quick enough to pull the power before anything happens Recently I knocked a glass of water over my macbook..battery was out in 2 seconds and all was well, luckily.

Worst thing i've done tho? Well I did accidentally play an indie MP3 a friend had sent me once while I had my audioscrobbler plugin enabled..completely ruined my online music profile