Dumest thing done wile working on a Computer

[tracker]

1: Have ghosted several blank HDD's to the full ones ...not good! Have since learned to hook up destination as a slave device somewhere.

2: APC power backup units - them batteries come CHARGED!!! was hooking one up, using needlenose to tighen screws down, ground hooked up fine, positive wire when I was tightening it down and the pliers hit the case, BZZZZT!! Made a good notch in the pliers.....kinda like an arc welder... <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

[Jediab]

For those who may have seen my post in Windows 2000, you would have known what I had done a few days ago. I killed my wife's partition on her drive that housed all of her MP3s by accident when I wasnt paying attention trying to install Win2K. Needless to say, I was in DEEEEEPPPP doo-doo!

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by SpudBud:
<STRONG>Dumest thing ... sat and watch smoke roll out of the back of a monitor for 30 seconds, evelually the thing blew up inside, sending plastic and parts all over my office. Should have stopped and turned it off.
</STRONG>

LOL!!!!

[Binomag]

Dumbest thing? Well i was rebuilding a old pc, one of those with the power button directly attached to the power unit.
Well the button is attached with four fastons, i smartly overlooked the colors of the cables, after changing the dead one with a new i press the damn button to see if it works and then KABBBOOOOOOOOOM!!! My whole company is Black Out. ops!

[Papa Smurf]

Dumbest thing? Well i was rebuilding a old pc, one of those with the power button directly attached to the power unit.
Well the button is attached with four fastons, i smartly overlooked the colors of the cables, after changing the dead one with a new i press the damn button to see if it works and then KABBBOOOOOOOOOM!!! My whole company is Black Out. ops!

Done much the same but I switched the PC off to replace the switch forgetting that even though the switch was off the wires were still live. I took my trusty pliers out and removed 2 cables ok, but when I touched the 3rd cable there was an almight crack, the lights went off and I was left sitting there with a smoking piece of wire.

Could of been a crispy tech if I used my hand to remove the PSU spades instead of pliers.

Cheers
Papa "Takes a kick but keeps on ticking" Smurf

[YoungGeek]

I sneezed once while I was looking in the case and it was on.... Snot is obviously a conductor of electricity cuase the whole thing started smoking and sparking and then died. It was only a Pentium Pro 266 with some crappy specs luckily. I just built the person a new system and gave em free labor (almost free labor).

[Poseidon]

Originally posted by Bracius:
<STRONG>I think the most retared thing I have ever done was when I ws moving computer around (at night) and setting up the network upgrades. Well I had the puter' and the monitor on a chair and I was doing about 30 in 2 M.P.H. zone and I saw a extention cord. "I can roll over it", yeah-NOPE! Chair makes a 90 degree roll over, monitor shoot off and rolls down the hall way, puter hits corner over corner and embeds itself into the wall and I go flying over the chair and skid to a stop. Since then I walk, very slowly</STRONG>

ROFLMAO! That sounds like something I would have done (10 years ago). Too bad it was not captured on video.

[mahdi]

I had the pleasure of finding out what happens when you put the LCD wires on backwards (ground to live and live to ground)...
Amazingly enough I was able to turn to power off as soon as I saw the black smoke spewing out from the fan (this was an old AT system). A little electrical tape to replace the burnt off insolation and a quick reverse of the cable and everything was fine! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Also (last month <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> ) at work I accedently did a hotswap with some memory <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">. And again 'Amazingly enough' they system didn't even flinch! I noticed it was on and restarted it, wondering the whole time what Windows would of said once it tried to access that memory I pulled out <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">
The thing worked fine after that too, no problems <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

[grosas9]

I once formatted a customers HDD for no aparent reason, a good customer, a business customer. I was in deep crap. Luckely Lost and FOund recovered most of the files