What's the worst thing...

[mediaboy]

Dropped it down the stairs.

Worked fine though. The HDD is still a little bad though and it no longer shuts down. My laptop fails.

I'm far more careful with my actual computer... wouldn't dare to drop that down the stairs. Far too expensive..

[jim]

I've never personally managed to break a component on my PC as far as I know, although I did wilfully attempt to destroy my old Dell motherboard.

Seeing that I'd failed in my attempt, Hiper stepped up to the plate and produced a Type-R Modular 580W PSU which successfully destroyed itself, my motherboard, my processor and my RAM, although it did it quietly and unspectacularly, which was rather disappointing. All credit to Hiper then, I suppose

[tiggerai]

IBM Deathstar - click of death - 2nd year uni project and 40gb of music.

'nuff said.

[dave87]

Ouch tiggerai, that has got to hurt


Yet to have a hard disk fail on me whilst in use

[jonathan_phang]

Yet to have a hard disk fail on me whilst in use

Why would you jinx that!!! Huh???

[mike_w]

Having hard drives break is probably the most annoying - unfortunately, they seem to be most prone to breakage.

I have tendency to start bleeding for no apparent reason when fiddling around inside computers. There's probably a considerable amount of congealed blood inside my case.