Your personal tech fuck ups - This can't possiblly go wrong.

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Not me, but one of my friends was programming some sort of externally-powered microcontroller connected to their laptop, which somehow or other burned out their laptop through the USB port. Ended up having to shell out $300 to get the SSD recovered in the middle of the night because the project was due the next day and all of their code was on that laptop.
 
A few months back, I dropped a cpu (fx-6300) while cleaning it. Luckily, it only bent the pins and I got it fixed after using a razor. Got it to post thank god.

Lost a bunch of data in the fall b/c I decided to move partitions around on a Linux Live CD. The damn thing goes to sleep. I can't wake it up. Luckily, I had a backup of the most important data, but lost a ton of screenshots and other things.
 
I better think this through. Multi-channel RAM works by... it's alternating... wait... they're color coded and that means... nah, screw the manual, I don't even know where it is and this makes sense *puts 64GB in RAM slots for empty CPU socket*
No need to test it, I'll just press the power button and go home.
 
2 years ago I installed a custom cooler on a GPU. All was good but when putting it in the cable connecting the fans got just tiny bit disconnected to make it not be able to regulate speed. (I put really thicc case fans on there, so considerable noise). It was in a cramped space and I didn't feel like using precise tools to get in there so I took the GPU out, it fell out of my hand, bonked on the side of the quite high table and flew itself on a stone floor.

Probably the most expensive component I ever had die on me, and thoroughly and undisputably my fault. *sigh*


And of course countless incidents where I spend hour+ troubleshooting something that ends up being something absurdly trivial like an unplugged cable that I didn't even bother to check because in my head I already saw a much more complicated issue. At least those don't really cost me money, just time and dignity.
 

I tried building a PC once and posted it in the MATI discord, I got laughed at and then they made this video
 
Road Work Ahead said:
Spent an hour trying to figure out why my PC wouldn't post when I realized I forgot to plug in the 24-pin power connector
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Same thing happened to me last week. PC would not turn on; fiddled with the power supply and cables. Motherboard powered on, but Pc would not post. More fiddling ensued, eventually motherboard would indicate that there was a memory failure or that the RAM was in an incorrect configuration. Bought 2 new stick of RAM and that didn't fix the issue. Finally took it to a shop, and all along it was a loose connection between the mother board and the 24-pin connector. This connector cable has never fit correctly; the plastic clip was a bit stripped but I didn't feel like raising an issue over it. Really should get around to replacing it; sometimes my entire PC shuts down when the cable jiggles too much.
 
Back when I was 15 or something I decided to take my PC apart and rebuild it to make it look nicer. When I plugged it in and tried to power it on it didn't work. I couldn't figure it out and had to take it to a computer shop. Turned out I had forgotten to plug in the power switch.
Just Some Other Guy said:
Back when I was younger and didn't know shit, I was stumped for days why a new gpu wouldn't work. Turns out it was PCIE 3.0, and ofc my mobo was PCIE 2.0
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PCI-E is designed to be backwards compatible. I doubt that was the reason.
Arachnophile said:
Same thing happened to me last week. PC would not turn on; fiddled with the power supply and cables. Motherboard powered on, but Pc would not post. More fiddling ensued, eventually motherboard would indicate that there was a memory failure or that the RAM was in an incorrect configuration. Bought 2 new stick of RAM and that didn't fix the issue. Finally took it to a shop, and all along it was a loose connection between the mother board and the 24-pin connector. This connector cable has never fit correctly; the plastic clip was a bit stripped but I didn't feel like raising an issue over it. Really should get around to replacing it; sometimes my entire PC shuts down when the cable jiggles too much.
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Those connectors are bastards. Usually they need to be pushed in with the strength of a thousand men to be properly seated.
 
Was replacing fans and a bunch of cables were ziptied to the case, decided the easier course was to snip the fan cable and pull it out because I didn't have zip ties. Accidentally snipped the cable to the power button. I ended up just splicing it because no one in town sells PC cases.

Was setting up a dual boot 2 weeks ago, was formatting drives and accidentally wiped my backup physical drive. Thankfully only lost all my pirated music and things that were backed up from my main SSD that I decided not to wipe until after i was done.
 
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