Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Our most DANGEROUS PC build experiences”.
A few years ago, i managed to make my hard drive burst into flames, despite having built multi, multiple computers. At that point, i’d never heard or assumed that psu sata cables were not cross-compatible. Do you have any other explosive stories? I’D say my best story, just like lighting something on fire was probably oh. I mean i had one recently. Actually, okay, i got a couple, never mind. I i tried to install a pci card.
Oh man. No, i, oh man. I don’t remember anymore exactly what i tried to do.
I wrote this out on the forum like back in the early, probably nine years ago, on the forum, so i might tell the story wrong, but in a nutshell, i tried to install a pci card into a uh. Oh no, i remember. Okay, i there was a pci card that had some kind of a four pin header on it, and probably it was for something to like some kind of breakout, cable or something like that. I mistook it for a four pin, floppy female connector for like auxiliary power for the card, so i plugged it in powered on the system and promptly released the magic smoke that was inside that card that made it work, um.
Somebody who sorry, i thought you did. No no go ahead. I had a buddy who was uh fairly aggressively overclocking a computer and shot some blue flames out of the back of the power supply.
I like it, but i have never, i think been in that scenario. I managed to scorch the back of a motherboard just uh. Just a couple weeks ago, nice yeah, i was helping the neighbor build their pc and uh young young, neighbor and um one of my son’s friends and i wasn’t paying close enough attention.
This is at least partially on me and he was trying to put it into the back of the i o shield spot and dragging it around on the standoffs knocked a couple caps off the back, so i made a clumsy attempt at putting them back on knowing That it was probably dead anyway and whether it was the scratches to the traces around it or whether it was something else. You know when you hear that sound it’s bad yeah. I haven’t killed anything with like fire, you know, but i’ve i’ve bricked some stuff, but i guess it doesn’t fit in this story. .