Worst thing(s) you ever done to your comp...

Mroni · Post by **Mroni** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 7:08 pm

Well I had just got a Vic 20 for christmas and I spilled hot cocao on it. I had that thing for about 3 years but after a few hours it would start to get all blurry and I would have to shut it off. The hot cocoa did it? Guess worse thing I ever did was run a 5x86 133 without a fan!!!! Don't ask I had to get a new board and chip.

Mr Oni

Rini210 · Post by **Rini210** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:19 pm

This computer I'm using right now fell out of a truck..

I put the Tranoble virus on my last computer...

And the computer before that was constantly overheated..

f~a~e~r~i~e · Post by **f~a~e~r~i~e** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:21 pm

tranoble virus? what's that supposed to do?

Mask of Destiny · Post by **Mask of Destiny** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 1:14 am

I've accidentally shorted my power supply a couple of times. I killed a hard drive and an SBLive that way. That'll teach me not to hook up my little electronics projects to my good desktop. Oh well.

Rini210 · Post by **Rini210** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 9:32 am

The Tranoble virus (spelling?) deletes everything on your computer and you have to start all over again. It's like buying a new computer and having to install Windows on it and stuff. I'm not too sure.. but I gave it to my brother's computer shortly after I got it so he could suffer too.

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 1:23 pm

I actually did that once, well not to that exent. i got mad when my ocmputer froze while downloading something i really wanted i got so mad i hit my monitor and it slamed against the wall, i had to wait 3 months to get a new one, i learned my lesson. Never eat while taking a shower.

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 7:30 pm

A friend of mine had made a utility in ASM. He inadvertently wrote a wrong code and it blew up his monitor.

Another friend had 'overclocked' a monitor at Internet cafe (he upped the refresh rate.) It caused the screen to go red, and then implode. Luckily we got away before the technicians came.

Lone_Monkey · Post by **Lone_Monkey** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 7:57 pm

My last computer was a piece-o-shit 286 Mhz with about 15 gigs of hard drive and less than 15 mb of ram. I took a nice new five pound sledge hammer to the case, hard drive and disk drive, used a butane torch to melt the cards together then turned it all into my art class as art in another media.

Actually that was the best use I got out of it.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 8:41 pm

Lone_Monkey wrote:My last computer was a piece-o-shit 286 Mhz with about 15 gigs of hard drive and less than 15 mb of ram. I took a nice new five pound sledge hammer to the case, hard drive and disk drive, used a butane torch to melt the cards together then turned it all into my art class as art in another media. Actually that was the best use I got out of it.

15GB is still a useful hard drive

A server perhaps?

Oh well if you got a A in the class then maybe it was worth it...

~klinky

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 9:00 pm

hopefully he meant 1.5 gigs
i cant imagine 15 gigs and 15 megs of ram going together