I picked up a H55 corsair water-cooler kit for my self and was installing it. I was, removing the cpu and it was stuck to the cpu cooler and i pulled it straight out. At this moment you probably closing you eyes with astonishment of how a stupid moron I am but Its done And i feel even more fvcking stupid.I removed the cpu from the heat sink clean of the cpu with alcohol and checked over the pins with magnifying glass no pins are bent/broken off.So i continued with the installation that seemed to go fine, checked the wiring in-case something was loose.
turned it on and got a red light, stopped what i was doing turned everything of. Went off got some fresh thermal paste from my local computer shop.
Came home dissembled my computer completely and then resembled it. Checking the mobo and cpu very carefully. Reapplied thermal paste put the hole thing back together again switched it on and it worked :D
I screamed and jumped around like a girl... But any way got me thinking. What are the teks stupid mistakes that you made with computers?
Ultrflat.
Ps its supposed to be ultra flat but I'm that dyslexic with excitement of setting up my psn, I forgot to check i spelled it right a never noticed the missing "a"...
I think the worst thing I ever did was gouge my motherboard when trying to install a heatsink on an old amd athlon system. I was trying to push the clip on with a screwdriver and it slipped off. That was a $200 mistake I hope I never make again.
I work as a service manager and one day a customer brings in a computer which supposedly doesn't turn on. I start doing diagnostics and yep, it won't power on. So i check psu: Green+Black= No power. I switch out psu, reconnect everything, close the pc up, try to power on and... ...no power... For the next 40 minutes or so i struggle trying to find the fault, test every part in another "test" computer and every individual part works (including the original psu). So I sit down by my test bench and start thinking, what could be causing this. Only then i realize that I forgot to switch on the power cable extender... Apparently this client faced the exact same problem...
While OC'ing a 6350. I would start up my comp and it would turn off immediately. 5 seconds later it would start up for a few moments and die again without me touching it. 3rd times the charm it booted fine. I was clueless to what was happening. Then i roamed through my bios and noticed I fucked with some of the C power states while OC'ing thinking it would do something. Turned them off and i got not throttling/changes.
I have pulled the CPU out on AMD motherboards before when you take off the heatsink I dont think there is much avoiding it when the thermal paste cures and AMDS cpus are not held down very well. Other then a minor mistake I have not had anything broken or doa in the 9 computers I have built in the last 2 years
sigh, i tried to plug in a usb3 front port header into the motherboard and i bent some pins, now i have to take out the heatsink if i wana get at those pins to straighten them.