post your computer blunder, hahahahah, im laughing already in anticipation

ok i just had one so stupid i had to laugh

im installing xp on a clients pc, but his cd rom doesnt work, so i use the network to install it, but all the xp copies i have dont work, so i decide to download a new one
i do and put it on an external drive that i store everthing on and plug that to the laptop and install
but the XP i downloaded is in danish
but i figure i can change the language later so i continue with the installation
so the installation starts with the normal questions except its in danish
i remeber what they are in english and it looks the same so i guess the buttons and set it to format the hard drive and install a fresh xp

later when its finished i restart the pc but when it comes up its the same xp, not the new one
puzzled i go to download another copy of xp, english this time
i take my external back, hook it up to the pc and open it

when i do the hundreds of folders i used to have are gone and all i see is one folder
and it says "windows"



ok now complain about how you want your 5 minutes back

7/8/2008 2:33:19 PM

Carpet+sound card
Carpet+mobo
Carpet+hard drive
etc

Also, I hot swapped keyboards one time and bricked a motherboard.

7/8/2008 2:49:41 PM

haha, i'm glad i have all hardwood floors, but i have to be extra careful about static as well as i have a long-haired dog and live in a climate of ~15% relative humidity... static is horrible in the winter.

i think the worst thing i've done is snapped a sata connection off the back of a hard drive.

[Edited on July 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM. Reason : .]

7/8/2008 3:05:51 PM

Assumed it couldn't possibly be the 1.5 year old processor that died.

After buying a non-refundable mobo-- oh, wait.

7/8/2008 3:16:37 PM

i do computer stuff on carpet all the time, i just touch the casing first

[Edited on July 8, 2008 at 3:42 PM. Reason : HARDY HAR HAR]

7/8/2008 3:18:24 PM

that's pretty disgusting.

7/8/2008 3:20:21 PM

i dont shit on my carpet, ever

7/8/2008 3:21:38 PM

i bought 4gigs of ram when i built my computer (about two months ago), not realizing that 32bit windows is incapable of utilizing this memory

7/8/2008 3:46:09 PM

^ I would just take that as an excuse to demo a 64bit OS.

7/8/2008 3:54:24 PM

Left my computer plugged in when I put in a new ethernet card. Went to pull off the little metal cover they put over the PCI slots and dropped it onto the motherboard. Made a pretty good spark and a loud pop. Pulled it out of there quickly, unplugged the computer, finished installing the card. The cover had a significant burn mark where the spark occurred. Prayed a little bit, turned the computer on. Everything worked fine. (And has continued to work for the last 4 years.)

7/8/2008 4:22:27 PM

still classic

7/8/2008 4:47:06 PM

Quote :

"i do computer stuff on carpet all the time, i just touch the casing first"

7/8/2008 4:47:18 PM

Quote :

"when i do the hundreds of folders i used to have are gone and all i see is one folder and it says "windows""

haha. oops.

7/8/2008 4:53:14 PM

Jesus wants his 5 minutes back.

7/8/2008 7:57:11 PM

Quote :

"i do computer stuff on carpet all the time, i just touch the casing first"

Same here, but if you work on carpet long enough, it will eventually catch up with you. The handful of things I bricked is actually pretty good considering.

7/8/2008 8:22:38 PM

I put a floppy disc into a zip drive one time in a computer lab on campus.

7/8/2008 8:45:09 PM

I installed RAM onto my old 3.0 ghz comp about 4 years ago and cracked the mobo

[Edited on July 8, 2008 at 9:08 PM. Reason : ]

7/8/2008 9:07:40 PM

In highschool, I was installing a heatsink on an old AMD athlon processor and I thought I secured the latch, so when I turned the computer upright, the heat sink falls down hitting the back of the graphics card. I heard a clunk and was like "OH SHIT". But everything worked fine. I was more afraid of cracking the CPU as it was pretty common with the old AMD and heatsinks.

7/8/2008 11:55:35 PM

ok this is not a blunder but a WTF

i picked up this laptop from a lady to fix
im fixing it at my bro-in laws house, and the laptop is on screensaver, cycling though the pictures in mypicture

i look over and see a naked body, on closer look its like an 10 year old boy naked on his back with everything showing

WTF!!!!!!

i have no idea what that could be for, i think its her kid though

8/7/2008 2:17:35 PM

^ A mother's love knows no bounds.

:/

8/7/2008 5:52:22 PM

When I built my first computer, I screwed the motherboard directly to the tray instead of using standoffs.

That bitch is still working to this day.

8/7/2008 6:03:10 PM

years ago i was working on a laptop, and couldn't figure out why the U key would make a 4, and I key a 5 and so on. took me like 10 minutes until i figured out i had the num lock key pressed. yeah, i felt pretty damn stupid.

8/8/2008 8:43:36 AM

^^ I did that too, but with less success.

8/8/2008 6:33:16 PM