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#1 Neon

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 04:36 PM

I spilt hot tea on it once, all on my keyboard and desk :) so i had to pull it all apart and dry it all...my spare keyboards at the time were a bit scruffy looking.

Today i just spilt sticky cough syrup on my keyboard :D

- Had a computer powersupply explode

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Damage to myself?

Electric shock off an old 3.11 pc.

#2 tnctx02

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 05:15 PM

Had a short in my mb that burned up my cpu. I lost 2 cpu's before I figured it out though! Multiple power supplies burned up too!!

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Posted 08 January 2006 - 06:54 AM

hmm I umm dropped a computer down a story of stairs and it still worked, the hard drive was a bit iffy, but the rest was okay.

Once I got schocked by a TV that was plugged in and turned on... I don't like TV's anymore and I watch it around electronics

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Posted 08 January 2006 - 11:03 AM

i tried to screw a fan into the back of the case w/o turning it off coz i was lazy and accidently stuck my pinky in the AMD cpu fan *loses 3 fan blades - one going accross the room*

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Posted 08 January 2006 - 09:31 PM

neva damaged my pc. but once I plugged a scanner in the socket and it started smokin until i unplugged it. i'm glad it wasn't mine. lol!

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 02:36 AM

hmm I remember a time I stuck a car subwoofer in a box and put an amp on the back and incorporated it into my computer sound system and sat it on the monitor... the monitor didn't last long O.o... So young, so niave, that day I learned the forces of magnets on computers, a lesson I'll never forget :)

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 03:24 AM

ice chunks falling off a wonderful pint of newcastle into my new deck ($120) keyboard, and "toasting" it :)

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 03:42 PM

It wasn't mine, but a friend put his laptop on his bed so the thing overheated and pretty much died

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Posted 09 January 2006 - 03:53 PM

hmm red I was waiting to read someone came in and sat on it cause it was under a cover... it would have been more dramatic :P

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Posted 11 January 2006 - 01:55 AM

Tried to Modify an Athlon XP Barton Core to unlock the multiplier, i killed the chip.

I Dropped a 40GB hdd, it died a few days later, Sadly it was mine.

Thats about it :P !

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Posted 11 January 2006 - 02:06 AM

My littler 7 year old cousin deliberately put her foot through the keyboard on our older laptop that we don't have anymore for that reason, it was unrepairable! This was a couple years ago, but I still hate her for it.

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 01:35 PM

Wasnt mine (thank god) but when I was doing work experience and me and the guy I was with were bored, We switched a K6 machine on and whilst it was on we took off the CPU fan and heatsink, then poured applejuice onto the CPU and watched it boil :P The smell was gr8!

And ofcourse we were throwing the K6 out anyways :)

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 07:11 PM

about 6 years ago i was hocking up my computer, i accidently switched the switch on the back of the power back from 120 to 210 or what ever it is..lol and when i went to turn it on all i heard was boom, it belw the back of my power back out and there was small peaces inside the computer, and boy the smell it stunk. thank god it didnt mess any of the stuff inside the computer, i was lucky, but i did have to get a new power pack

other then that my friend spilt soda on my cpu and it was open on the side, it got a little on some of the internbal parts, i imeditly turned it off and cleaned it up, thank god agian nothing got messed up, but i never let my frined have a drink around my computer agian.. :)

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 08:42 PM

Off topic alert, "Many years ago I put a potato in a microwave and when I came back the potato had cought fire and damaged the microwave"

Back on topic aleart "Put in a disc into my old Cd-RW drive and next minute the disc shattered into many tiny pieces end of my drive"

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 12:45 AM

How did that happen? :)




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