[Black Magic]

well, a couple of months ago i went and snapped a chip off my mobo while putting a CD drive back in the slot. Anyone able to beat that?

[Hybr!d]

I have loads. Most recently I managed to drop a business customers perfectly good hard drive rendering it totally useless. It cost me a lot.

[Bubba]

I dunno Dave, I can see how one could drop a hard drive, but how in the WORLD did he bust a chip off his MoBo putting a CD drive in? I just can't picture that lol. That's kind of like breaking your hand while making chicken noodle soup.................

[zerocool]

I once plugged in a usb adsl modem and blew the motherboard, memory and for some reason i could only read the whole of my hard drive after if it was divided into 3 seperate partitions

[Black Magic]

Originally Posted by Bubba

I dunno Dave, I can see how one could drop a hard drive, but how in the WORLD did he bust a chip off his MoBo putting a CD drive in? I just can't picture that lol. That's kind of like breaking your hand while making chicken noodle soup.................

think it was a manufacturing defect... but still, that was just stupid of me to not look in the hole :S

[mctw]

how about building your entire pc fully, going to install the hdd, and finding that to remove the caddy, you have to remove almost everything from the case.......

Perhaps not a big a fail as some, but its still teeth nashingly annoying!!

[katana]

Originally Posted by Bubba

I dunno Dave, I can see how one could drop a hard drive, but how in the WORLD did he bust a chip off his MoBo putting a CD drive in? I just can't picture that lol. That's kind of like breaking your hand while making chicken noodle soup.................

well, its possible... if you bash your hand over and over with a saucepan


and a food related fail, as i was making 'Easy Mac' i didnt put water in with the pasta, i put the bowl in the microwave for 30 minutes, instead of 3 and i left a metal spoon in the bowl.

needless to say, the microwave and the bowl no longer around...


and a PC fail, how about building a new PC, everything goes well until it won't turn on, one hour later and a lot of cursing later it becomes apparent that the power button jumper wasn't on properly. lovely.

[philthomas]

I'm ashamed to admit it, but in a moment of rushing & poor concentration, I hooked up a HDD temporarily, to pull off some data and let the circuit board of the drive touch the case.
A few moments later I smelt that famiiar electrical burning smell and managed to fry the drive.

The air was blue in more ways than one, I can tell ya

[evilfantasy]

I've been using a portable Xubuntu from Pendrivelinux. It wasn't working so well so I decided to go for Kubuntu instead. After downloading/copying etc I booted with the flash drive and Xubuntu loaded!!

I put the Xubuntu ISO back in the install instead of the new Kubuntu.

Be sure you copy the right files....

[KanoakaVirus]

I stripped my ex's laptop to clean it due to an over heating problem, put it back together and had 1 screw left over, so i took it apart , found where it went, re assembled it with 1 screw left over again... i gave up and a few days later she complained that her cd drive would fall out if she tilted her laptop to one side, i just said it was normal