Robert Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Have you managed to blow up your computer through a stupid mistake? I did it just once and hopefully never again. There was this ancient Kaypro II business computer running CP/M andwith a Z80 processor and a whopping 64k of ram, 2 x 5 1/4" floppies and no hard drive. It worked fine - except that sometimes the floppies would suddenly stop reading, the diskswould just spin endlessly. After about 2 years of this, I decided to see if I could fix it. The cause was quite simple - the plugs where the floppy drives got their power had loosepins and sometimes the connection would be lost. Ok, so I cleaned and tightened up thepins, and did a really nice job. Put it all together, turned it on - and some smoke escapedfrom a couple of chips. Oh noes! One of the plugs had been plugged back in but out of positionby one pin! Well, most of the chips are ordinary common ones, can't be too hard to fix. And I wasright - only 2 chips were killed. Unfortunately, one of them was the Z80SIO chip whichdrives the keyboard. This chip was completely unavailable even back then. Oh well, scrap one Kaypro. Now tell us your embarrasing computer blunders! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floopy Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 My first computer, I was low on hard drive space (only 10 gig hard drive) so I went looking for things to delete. Big mistake. Never delete NTUSER.DAT. It is quite important. Also, never click on a strange file with the extension .scr, .exe, or .zlq. Such as "Pam ANDErson NAKED.scr" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooney Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Well, I didn't blow it up, but when I put in new RAM, I accidentally unplugged my hd from the power source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymnist1026 Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 ive had a computer stop reading a hard drive after installing a cd drive. It would boot up to the XP start screen and then all of the user accounts would read "Cannot find Drive"...what a sad month that i couldnt even log onto the computer. Then, one this was fixed, my speakers made a really loud popping sound because the cound card refuised to accept the new drivers for it and killed the speakers... The list goes on for miles...just ask disoblige...he has seen the worst problems over the past decade from me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iq_132 Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I've never done anything to destroy a pc honestly. However, I have wrecked a couple dozen windows installs on my pc lol. You live, you learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted September 15, 2006 Author Share Posted September 15, 2006 NTUSER.DAT is the "Current User" part of the registry, deleting it will blow away your settings, and windows will make a new, default one. At least it's not a fatal error. Unlike some noob at work, he thought he would do a cleanup of his laptop's C drive, and deleted "ntldr" which is in the root. Unknown to him, that file is required when booting! No surprise to receive a panicky phone call at the helpdesk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diso Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 I have a few. One was an Aim message saying "Check out this photo of me". I knew it was a virus and such, but I clicked it anyways and downloaded and ran it for no reason at all. Next thing I know, I'm sending this virus Link to everyone in my buddy list and I'm trying to say not to open it. Took me a good 2 hours just to clean it out. (Sorry fatal) Another was Installing the wrong video drivers for the family computer. I couldn't get it to run and finally somehow got it to go in safe mode, and with a system restore point, I was able to make it so I didn't install the video drivers in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emuedict Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 well i beleive it ornot during my first computer repair job which was at one of my class's girl she was reallycute while taking to her i didnt notice that i spilled coke all over her motherboard too bad i had to buy a new motherboard for her incident 2: i touched a super hot cpu while taking to my friends got second degreee burns on my palm it was painfull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaman_zer0 Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 downloading a 534kb file thats supoesd to be 100s of MB and actually clicking on it o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Doing into Safe Mode and trying to fix DirectX by deleting critical DX files. I was hoping that deleting them and then reinstalling would fix it. I had to reinstall Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 my first PC, an old 166MHz Pentium, 3GB HDD, either 32 or 64MB of RAM lol, we smashed it with sledgehammers then there was this crappy compaq presario i got from somewhere that wasnt even worth fixing, so we sped up really fast on the road and threw it out of the window Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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