I remember being scared about applying thermal paste the first time so I used a card to spread the paste across my CPU. Later I found that method was awful and probably wouldn't last long :v:
I was doing last minute double checks to make sure I didn't mess anything up and the last thing I checked, forgot to connect the 4 pin power for the cpu. That's the closest I've been to accidently doing anything bad to my computer, other than the time I got a free 2tb harddrive from work that had a 50/50 chance of a cryptolocker on it.
My friend needed help because his "power-supply keeps being bad". He ordered like 6 different power supplies and "none of them worked". I found out he screwed the motherboard directly to the case... metal to metal.
I had to try really hard to stifle some laughter as I asked him "So you know metal is conductive, right?".
In the end we installed some standoffs and it worked great, he was lucky it didn't blow any components or electrify the case.
May not be related, but here we go...
Bought a PC from a former friend which he had built himself at a bargain price, for £400-£500... Broke down within a week. He didn't answer my calls or FB messages asking him to fix it, so I phoned a trusted professional locally. Ended up having to have it fixed 5 or 6 times over the course of two years, spending nearly a grand altogether overall. It's still broken, so I've saved up and bought a gaming laptop from PC World instead :v:
My first pc, bought a graphics card but couldn't get it to work. Spent a lot of time on various forums before I discovered I just didn't push it in the slot far enough, I was being too gentle.
PC repair shop:
Once opened a case that had so much dust in it that covered all of the insides,
you could have sworn I would have just found an old ancient tomb in a PC case.
When I was in college for my cis degree we did a lab to put a cpu in a motherboard and one of the students put thermal paste on the cpu pins.
Building a new PC, put it all together, won't POST.
After some debugging, including part-swapping with another PC, came to the conclusion that the mobo, freshly brought, was dead on arrival.
RMA the mobo, wait about a week for the new mobo to come in. Put it all together with the new mobo, won't POST.
After some debugging, determine that the brand new mobo, that replaced the DOA mobo, is also DOA. So RMA it [b]again[/b], wait [b]another[/b] week for [b]another[/b] new mobo to come in. Put it all together with the new mobo, yay it finally works.
Getting two DOA mobos in a row. Really bad luck.
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