What is you first loss in computer equipment? Mine was a ASUS P4S8X-X motherboard. And I think I accidentally messed up some traces installing a bigger heat sink on my north bridge because it was getting to hot. Or it was probably because I put in a cpu that was running a 3ghz and it was a single core getting read as a dual core cpu. Or I installed one of those visiontek graphics cards that did dx 11 on agp 8x. Was able to play fear really well with that graphics card. But it blue screend on me cause the damn cooling on the gpu was crap. And those where the days when I started upping my master race game.
I don´t remember what my first loss was. I remember one floppy drive dying on me...
Most recent loss was a faulty PSU that took the ASRock N68C-S UCC and AMD Sempron with it. Rust in pieces!
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i was 7 years old at the time, my compaq computer caught fire. i dont remember the specs :/
well i went through like 3 inland 500w PSU's before the 3rd killed my asus ma597 motherboard all within the same week, Inland is basically Microcenter brand. they finally just gave me a 600w for free when they saw that it killed my MB.
i eventually got a 900w antec, thing still works =)
but after that week an my corsair 120gb SSD was the first thing to go.
Not really something that I owned, but I guess it can still be considered a loss.
About 2 years ago, while working in a computer store, I was instructed to replace a Nexus 5 screen. I had done it previously, so it shouldn't have been a hard job. Anyway, many hours later, after constantly taking apart the phone and putting it back together, I hand back the Nexus 5 back to the customer. Instead of him just having a broken screen, now he had a broken screen and LCD connector. RIP
TBH, I don't think I've ever broken something electronic of mine. I've spilt water on RAM, dropped running HDD's, broke CPU caps, but then re-soldered them back on and got it to work.
Cheapass PSU fried the motherboard to my Core 2 Duo E4500.
Rule of thumb. Don't cheap out on the PSU.
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ATI Radeon 4850. The fan kept knocking against the chassis enclosure. Eventually it was too annoying, so I got a different card.
Two RAM sticks that for burned under a faulty gigabyte motherboard. Long time ago that though...I did not realize when the PC was not working that it was the motherboard. Bought new RAM sticks, slid them in and they died immediately. The silicon aroma stayed for a while...
The true smell of death.
My $275 X99 Mobo that had to get RMD for $130 cause of bent pins, that Hyper 212 EVO is getting out of my system one of these days, was a nightmare to install. Seems like it was far easier to install an AMD Stock Cooler on an AMD CPU and Mobo compared to the aftermarket cooler on an Intel Mobo. At least it was the only thing I lost, and I got it back in a way.
RIP HyperX 3k 120GB
It's my only part death
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When I was new with computers, I sprayed WD 40 on 1 of my system fans. When I powered it on, it ignited and started smoking... lol
Not a terrible loss... lol
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You think that's a nightmare. You should try installing a Zalman cpu cooler on a intel 1150 socket.
Yeah, wasn't too bad, just a few flames and smoke.
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Did you have marshmallows?
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hahaha, yeah I threw a towel over it and took it outside. Just fried the fan and the wires, so I got pretty lucky :P. I guess I wasn't thinking at the time and I was a complete novice with computers at the time. I should have realized, spraying a flammable lubricant that gets gunked up frequently, was about the dumbest thing I could do. Even if it didn't ignite, it would have collected dust and ruined the bearings.
humm dont think ive "lost" any hardware yet most have just had to be replaced due to old age but they were still functioning
my parents stole my south park rally cartridge when i was five... and they lost it
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I have a Gigabyte P35W which is in a varying state of broken. I opened it once to replace a drive, closed it up and it just wouldn't turn on afterwards. No power lights, no charging lights, no nothing. Then I plugged it in one day nearly a year later and O.O the power lights turned on. Pressed button and it booted straight to BIOS.
O.o.O.o.O.o
Did this multiple times until I decided to open it up, install a drive and see if it would boot into Windows. Stopped working again.
Welp, now I have to wait another year... :3