What's your biggest computer disaster?
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jseber1982
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I have one that i witnessed about a week ago. We were putting together a new database server. My friend and i were putting the blade servers up into the rack. incase you dont know what a blade is,, its an entire server that is about the size of a laptop, and them being small lets you fit like 10 of them into a few rack spaces. well, we were up on ladders because we were putting them in the top of the rack, of course his stupid self didnt have a good grip on it, and didnt tell me, we got up to the top.. he let go and rack of about 10 blades hit the floor from 6 feet up. half of them did not boot, and some motherboards got cracked lol. lots of wasted money.
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loooooooooooooool
jseber1982
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only thing remotely bad to that that iv done, i was working in the wiring closet one day, and me not watchign what i was doing, i accidentally yanked out the fiber lines from the switch, leaving that entire building of about 300 people offline. i realized it an hour later when the district manager contacted me.
jseber1982
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im in the talkative mood. I also decided to mod my r9800 a while back. i pulled the heatsink off, and mounted a full size solid copper thermaltake cpu heatsink, thing weighed way too much lol. i drilled holes in the hsf so that they would match up with the holes in the board. i used heavy guage wire and wrapped it rhough to the back of the card, twisted it up real tight to secure it. worked super duper. a few months later i decided to add ram sinks. so i mixed arctic silver and 5 minute epoxy for them. i plugged it in, and saw lots of funny chars on the screen. i was like hmmm oh yea i forgot to connect the power connector to it.. i did it, bam, toasted video card, psu, mobo. lol and i still dont know what the heck happend........ back befor the case modding days, i wanted a light in my pc. so i got a car headlight bulb, wired it into a molex connector..... man those bulbs draw a lot of amperage, because it fried that whole power circuit on the psu......................................................My wifes pc had a crappy 5400rpm HD, so while she was away in boston, i decided to put a new drive in it, and ghost all the data over and do a swap out, while i was ghosting, our house had a power outage. I rebooted to find a reboot loop. When she got back, she saw it, i told her that she must of gotten the blaster virus and that she should have listened to me when i wanted to put a firewall on her pc lol
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rofl alvin hahhahah
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There are metal plates in some cases that need to be removed when installing a DVD/CD drive, they basically just twist and pull right out. But they are really really sharp.
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bigtimeballer50
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the worst disastear i had was when i was changing my prossesor into my new mobo and i put in the pins wrong so one of them got bent a little and then i locked it while 1 pin was sitcknig out cuz it was put wrong and then i put the heatsink on it locked it ni place put it in turned that bad boy on and smoke started coming out from the sides of the heatsinks so i turned it off for about a day then the next day i took it out and i noticed the pin was bent and i put it in wrong so my hands got some thermal compound on it cuz of the one on the cpu and then my hand was on the pin so the thermal compound got all over the pin and i had 2 wipe it off gently i put it back in turned it on and it worked!! thank god it worked
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