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Whats your biggest computer fail?

While trying to replace a hard drive in an ancient machine we were going to throw out, I forgot to turn off the main system power and fried the motherboard, the power supply, and a hard drive. I failed pretty badly that day.
 
A few years back, I took a PCIe video card out of my mom's old computer because she got a new one. I had a crappy Dell with a Pentium 4 and was eager to replace it. I did not know there was a difference between AGP and PCIe, and ended up frying the card and the motherboard's video slot. I felt like a total moron. :/
 
Not me, but my dad. He force a ram into a wrong socket and that socket won't work anymore.
Second is me and my dad, we go shop for a motherboard and forgot to check if the motherboard has a on board graphic. We found it out after we got home and we used the old one. the pc is for my aunt.
 
i have one, a long time ago i didn't know the diffrentce from SATA and IDE, so i bought a brand new 160GB HDD for my pc, not knowing it was a sata and my old computer did not support sata only ide. the next thing i did was the graphics card. i bought a PCI EX graphics card and my computer supported AGP. now thats screwed up. now i don't make mistakes like that anymore since i build pc's for people.
 
Back in secondary school, we were asked to build a computer tower from scratch, so I went and got all the different parts from the front, PSU, RAM so on so on.
Got to my bench and started to put it together, then realised I was missing something.

I stood there for about a minute before going. "DAM IT, MOTHERBOARD!"
I have never laughed so hard at myself. Just wasn't my day.
 
Clicking on a link that fooled me into thinking it was about Pokemon when in fact it was a link that involved porn. Was recorded on my history and saw by a school administrator. D:
 
My mom has a nasty habit of infecting the family computer that's in the kitchen. Twice, it was Smiley Central adware and another time, it was a rogue antivirus called Peak Protection. She's the whole reason why I password protected my own laptop.
 
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I'd have to say for about three whole months my internet went out and we couldn't fix it then one day I spilled coke on it and fried it afterwords it worked better than ever
 
My mom got totally mad once at the family computer because it had a virus and she couldnt fix it so instead of taking it to the tech she totally tossed it out on the street and broke it. I thought it was funny because I knew once she realized what she had done she would be soo mad at herself.

I have my own now lol.
 
So, for the life of me, I could not get my Wi-Fi connection to work. I tried repairing and troubleshooting and what-have-you. Then I realized the adapter was turned off.

... What's sad is that this has happened more than once. x3
 
1) 2005: Plugged my computer into an outlet the day after a major thunderstorm and shorted out the motherboard.
2) 2007: Busted the screen while transporting it from my dorm to a hotel. Took three weeks to get it fixed then I had a hellish time dealing with Best Buy/Geek Squad when it supposedly was ready.
 
After writing an essay I had been working on all day (without saving ><), I got up to get a glass of juice, returned to my computer and it had turned off. I don't know if I accidentially bashed the power button on my way up or if it just didn't want me to carry on with the essay.
 
In a fit of rage over my internet being so stubborn, I picked up some sissors and cut the internet wire, and when my parents found out, I had to get another telephone line, and had to rewire it. (As in taking 5 wires and putting it into a clear box that plugs into the modem.
 
I've had lots of fails, the best one I can remember recnely: I was configuring the MAC filtering setting on my router for the home network. After adding all the MAC address from the DHCP client list I clicked enable, but forgot to switch from block to allow... So I kicked everything off of my network and had to reset the router back to factory defaults. Nothing major but still a "douh" momnet.
 
Two biggest fails:

When I was a kid I wanted to see what the little red switch on the back of the computer would do.

It started fuming and never turned on ever again. 8D

A couple of months ago when I was building my computer, I had to take out my hard drive for something and pulled the sata power cable DOWNWARDS.

Now the clip on the harddrive is broken and I have no idea what to do with this 2TB mother-slapping bastard D:
 
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