Originally posted by psyk0path


i fried a second-hand, but according to my friend, functional AT motherboard by plugging in the power connection to it the wrong way.

thats all i remember for now although i know i have made uncountable mistakes with computers.

My latest mistake- Removed a heatsink and fan off a cpu. The pc was being used in a dusty environment and the heatsink/fan were COVERED in dust. Anyway, after a clean I stuck it all back together. I didn't use any thermal paste when re attaching the heatsink to the cpu. I just assumed it didn't really need it. What difference could it make, right?


It made a huge difference! Within ten minutes of uptime it crashed due to overheating. To make thing worse it crashed during a critical update install...