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popltree2
10-04-2006, 10:46 PM
What is the biggest computer mistake you have made and how much damage was caused by it? I accidently fried mine by plugging it into a switched outlet without a surge protector. Smoke came out of the computer. Time for a replacement.
treeninja
10-04-2006, 10:47 PM
My mother tripping my old laptop's power cable while flashing the BIOS.
Talk about a, "You fat *****" moment.
bird603568
10-04-2006, 10:47 PM
my roommate broken my laptop screen last year and since toshiba doesnt sell screens i had to get one from them and it ran me 850$ and my roommate only paid 1/2
qtraven
10-04-2006, 10:53 PM
paying for windows
umm installing linux wrong, ended up installing it over windows, which I had all my data and information, music etc , which was collected up for over 8 years :(
thequestion
10-04-2006, 11:29 PM
Two but they are related a bit:
1) Installing a power supply wrong in an older dell. You can guess what happened.
2) With that same dell buying a smaller model with a smaller case instead of a bigger model with a bigger case.
klitzy
10-04-2006, 11:31 PM
Dropping an iBook G4 down the steps!!
Not good...not good at all
ironroute
10-04-2006, 11:38 PM
Haha, well let me think about this one i suppose that it was 2 years ago or less than that where i had a external hard-drive packed with 300GB overheated because i accidently plugged it into a different PC that had the wrong voltage and burnt me hard-drive.
Haha there were terrible casualties....! :rolleyes:
noonebutme
10-04-2006, 11:54 PM
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda1 instead of dd if dev=/hda1 of=/dev/hda3.
Overwrote windows partition with linux swap by accident. whoops.
popltree2
10-05-2006, 12:00 AM
One of my co-workers backed over his brand new iBook a few years ago.
paying for windows
rofl, i havnt made that mistake yet =o
point5o
10-05-2006, 12:12 AM
I fried a motherboard by turning on the PC without a heatsink over the CPU.
I fried a motherboard by turning on the PC without a heatsink over the CPU.
silly silly, my biggest mistake would have to be using IE6 and nuking my computer with spyare on accident. like 120extra processes were running, it was horrible and couldnt remove it all.
popltree2
10-05-2006, 02:55 AM
silly silly, my biggest mistake would have to be using IE6 and nuking my computer with spyare on accident. like 120extra processes were running, it was horrible and couldnt remove it all.
I used to deal with that s*** on a daily basis. Damn the spyware! Damn it all!
kowgod
10-05-2006, 02:59 AM
Dropping an iBook G4 down the steps!!
Not good...not good at all
Yeah. I dropped a 20" monitor down a flight of stairs. Yeah.
cloud890
10-05-2006, 03:40 AM
Installing a new vid card and not knowing how to activate it and the fact that it also offset my monitor a good 100 pixels (oh yeah that was fun to figure out).
Yeah. I dropped a 20" monitor down a flight of stairs. Yeah.
omg that sucks, did it work still?
digger_please
10-05-2006, 03:52 AM
I deleted all of my porn off my HD. I vowed I would no longer watch it after having a religous expierence. That didn't last long, I regretted it every day since.
Not sure if it's a computer blunder, but its blunder.
wastern
10-05-2006, 04:15 AM
Not really something I did wrong, but
While at work in college I was running some sort of scan off my USB drive on a kids computer I was working on. After a while he decided without notice that he didn't want to be there anymore and rather then tell me he wanted to leave, he just pulled out the USB key and took off.
I went and look at the thing back in my computer. Corrupted. All data was gone.......my whole semester of work was gone in an instant.
I guess I did wrong, but not backing it up though. Its easier to blame that dipsh*t though
avcabob
10-05-2006, 04:56 AM
Back in my DOS days, I accidently ran "del *.*" on the C:\ directory. At least it was easy to recover as everything important was in a sub folder.
ariastar
10-05-2006, 05:35 AM
paying for windows
Haven't done that yet.
Actually, my biggest blunder is lame compared to whats been said already. When I was in eight grade I shoved a floppy into a drive that already have one in it. It just squished things and didn't cause any permanent damage. The school's computer guy got it out.
I had an ex who INTENTIONALLY installed ad-ware. Yeah, he actually out some spyware programs on the compter. On purpose. And he told me it would make the computer safer. What. A. Moron.
popltree2
10-05-2006, 03:12 PM
Haven't done that yet.
Actually, my biggest blunder is lame compared to whats been said already. When I was in eight grade I shoved a floppy into a drive that already have one in it. It just squished things and didn't cause any permanent damage. The school's computer guy got it out.
I had an ex who INTENTIONALLY installed ad-ware. Yeah, he actually out some spyware programs on the compter. On purpose. And he told me it would make the computer safer. What. A. Moron.
Yeah, didn't you know? Tracking your browsing habits and send that info to some unknown 3rd party makes your computer safer. :D
synack
10-07-2006, 04:27 PM
Sup,
chernobyled a production mail server. Stupid mistake really.
synack
jjallday
10-07-2006, 04:30 PM
Pulling a modem out of a PCI slot with the phone cord still attached.
*BUZZ*
You'd be surprised how much current runs through an RJ11 line.
duster88
10-07-2006, 06:39 PM
I guess I have been lucky as I haven't had a very large number of problems with my computers... this happened though when I tried to print something and Firefox crased... luckily I caught it 20 pages in :mad:
(Look at the amount of pages :D )
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