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

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Not really much of a fuck up, but at a cost planning POV then a bit ridiculous. Did my new machine build, over compensated for the amount of RAM that the DMM could handle. Now the board was designed for 64GB of RAM and had certain compatibility in mega hashes. Now my board is compatible with this my RAM allotment, but only one of the sticks I bought. I figured I could put 2 of the same 32GB stick into it, but it turns out that on my RAM configuration if I would of spent the extra $40 bucks I could of ran 64GB. Though it made one of my sticks completely useless, because when I would try to boot it in the BIOS. It would not recognize one of the RAM slots. A bit disappointing I am only running on half the random access memory I wanted to run on, and realistically. If I would of ended up getting the same 128GB variant of MB, it would of still be the same cost point wise, so this is just my lack of reading the datasheet on this specific board. Though everything else worked flawlessly, surprising for my first build. I'll probably just repurpose this extra stick for another build that I am going to look to overload obviously. So at least I saved myself a couple of hundred bucks in RAM for that machine I guess...
 
Old system of mine liked to randomly turn on and off at times. My friend at the time wanted to do some work in the case and despite me telling him to unplug it he did not, so while he was doing his thing it randomly powered on. Luckily neither him nor my PC died at the time.
 
Finally starting work on salvaging my old rig

Some screws corroded to the point of being complete losses and had me sweating as I extracted them, the Antec Lanboy case is pretty much a loss and the PSU is probably fucked. The desiccants and all that I packed it away with did FUCKALL. Mobo might be salvageable, one of the spacers for the heatsink on one of the mobo chips is slightly rusty and worries me. Hoping the CMOS battery didn't get so fucked that it damaged the battery socket. The audio riser for the mobo looks like it might be fucked. CPU seems fine. RAM sticks seem fine. GPU will need a little cleaning, but should be fine. CPU cooler may or may not be salvageable. I'm seeing damage to some components and cables that was not the result of anything I did, it looks like some fucking retard got in there and tried to rip things out. I can imagine who, but can't do shit about it now.

But to my real fuckup - not wearing some kind of face covering while using the air duster. Oh my god. Fuck you, tweakers, for getting that bitter shit added to these damned things. I caught a little backblast while trying to get some of the crud off the mobo and I think I'm gonna be sick.
 
Zippocat's Revenge said:
Finally starting work on salvaging my old rig

Some screws corroded to the point of being complete losses and had me sweating as I extracted them, the Antec Lanboy case is pretty much a loss and the PSU is probably fucked. The desiccants and all that I packed it away with did FUCKALL. Mobo might be salvageable, one of the spacers for the heatsink on one of the mobo chips is slightly rusty and worries me. Hoping the CMOS battery didn't get so fucked that it damaged the battery socket. The audio riser for the mobo looks like it might be fucked. CPU seems fine. RAM sticks seem fine. GPU will need a little cleaning, but should be fine. CPU cooler may or may not be salvageable. I'm seeing damage to some components and cables that was not the result of anything I did, it looks like some fucking retard got in there and tried to rip things out. I can imagine who, but can't do shit about it now.

But to my real fuckup - not wearing some kind of face covering while using the air duster. Oh my god. Fuck you, tweakers, for getting that bitter shit added to these damned things. I caught a little backblast while trying to get some of the crud off the mobo and I think I'm gonna be sick.
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Pics?
Story?
 
serious n00b said:
Pics?
Story?
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Might have pics later, but story is this is my old circa 2010 gaming rig.

ASUS ROG Crosshair III Formula Motherboard
AMD Phenom II CPU (pretty sure it's an X4)
ASUS Radeon RX5770
16 GB Kingston DDR3 (4x4GB)?

I had been keeping it set aside in a box, wrapped in protective static-free shit with desiccants to protect it until I could finish fixing it back up (the HDD ate shit and it was having reboot loop issues before that that I could never completely resolve). Something must have happened during the course of the last year or so to fuck shit up. Didn't see any holes but it's not like it was perfectly airtight. This is a computer that had been parked at a now ex-friend's for a little while at one point and I think they fucked with shit or let someone else fuck with shit.

I think the mobo, ram, CPU, GPU are def fine but I don't want to find out the hard way that the PSU's compromised, and the Antec Lanboy case is in terrible shape. The cooler is a Cooler Master V8 and it might be a loss. I have no fucking idea how it would have gotten this filthy unless some dumbfuck got in there to fuck with shit and didn't make sure the damn thing was closed back up properly.
 
serious n00b said:
I used to use a Phenom II X4 955 until a couple of years ago.
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Confirmed, it's an X4, a 965 to be exact

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These are all vast improvements. That spotting on the mobo's keyboard/USB risers is worrisome though. Holy fuck I'm so angry.
 
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serious n00b said:
werent all of these rootkitted out the ass
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Ohh yes. Those same people will now sell you a "Win 10 NO BLOAT AUPER PRIVACY TOOL" ..... Same rootkit shit, new package.

Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I worked at a place that used tape backup. They had fourteen tapes that they rotated through, a secretary stuck a tape into the server each day before leaving and it was scheduled to back up everything at 10pm or so. She also left with the previous tape every day so there was an off-site backup in a way, then returned with it the next day. Rinse and repeat. For a small firm many years ago it was a decent system.

Then their server shit the bed and it turns out that the tape backup job broke and stopped running several years ago.
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Loollll, that system sounds like it was never tested.
 
I once accidentally downloaded 7 terabytes of child porn over a two year period. Even though I explained that it was just a tech fuck up, the judge still ordered that I have to spend the rest of my life on the sex offender registry.
 
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My first PC build was loaded with tech fuckups:
  1. FedEx dented my case in shipping, and instead of RMAing it for something else, I just decided to build the rig with a giant crack in the acrylic side panel.
  2. I accidentally bent one of the pins on my CPU; couldn't get a refund, so I had to buy a whole new CPU altogether
  3. I used a screwdriver for thumb screws without realising they were thumb screws, and I overtorqued them to a point where they no longer fit properly in the case
  4. I bent the IO shield of my motherboard because I sat on it.
  5. I took off the wrong back plates for my case, so now there's a little gap above my graphics card that's a permanent reminder of my failure
  6. When I upgraded the CPU, GPU, RAM, and installed new case fans, I had to redo the wiring several times so that my system could post properly since there was always something wrong with my cabling.
 
Zippocat's Revenge said:
Might have pics later, but story is this is my old circa 2010 gaming rig.

ASUS ROG Crosshair III Formula Motherboard
AMD Phenom II CPU (pretty sure it's an X4)
ASUS Radeon RX5770
16 GB Kingston DDR3 (4x4GB)?

I had been keeping it set aside in a box, wrapped in protective static-free shit with desiccants to protect it until I could finish fixing it back up (the HDD ate shit and it was having reboot loop issues before that that I could never completely resolve). Something must have happened during the course of the last year or so to fuck shit up. Didn't see any holes but it's not like it was perfectly airtight. This is a computer that had been parked at a now ex-friend's for a little while at one point and I think they fucked with shit or let someone else fuck with shit.

I think the mobo, ram, CPU, GPU are def fine but I don't want to find out the hard way that the PSU's compromised, and the Antec Lanboy case is in terrible shape. The cooler is a Cooler Master V8 and it might be a loss. I have no fucking idea how it would have gotten this filthy unless some dumbfuck got in there to fuck with shit and didn't make sure the damn thing was closed back up properly.
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Do you live in the Amazon or something? What kind of fucked up climate does that? I've had electronics lying around in the loft unprotected for literal decades and they still work.
 
If we're talking PC building fuckups I was building several machines at once around 2017 and accidentally clipped the barcode off the box of a motherboard that hadn't been tested yet and turned out to be DOA. It invalidated my return.

Happy ending to that story, though. The board wound up in my closet and I found it cleaning a month or two back and spotted a single tiny bent pin on the edge of the 1150 socket. Pushed it back in place with a needle and a razor and it works now and is now chugging along as an ESXi host/testbench machine built entirely with old crap from said closet.
 
-Accidentally removed a usb while booting up a laptop which meant reformatting it.

-accidentally got thermal paste on a cpu pin. Also bent said pin when I tried to get it off. All because I tried to switch motherboards.

-forgot to screw in the second screw on the gpu I own which explained why shit would freeze until it was properly seated.

Pretty much all my known tech fuck ups.
 
On my first self built PC I didn't put a cooler on the CPU (AMD Duron) because I didn't think it was necessary and it would come equipped with one if it needed it. I got a refund though by lying about it.
My PC before that was a Pentium 2 Slot 1 with a built in cooling system, that is probably one of the reasons why I fucked up this badly.

That was twenty years ago, I've gotten a bit smarter since then.
 
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