stupid things you have done to your computer

made a 20 GB HDD into ram, it made a horrible clunking noise and it sounded like it was slowly ripping itself to pieces.

running a dell optiplex with an i3 processor when it did not fit (dont judge)

 

what

Can you explain what you did? Neither of them make any sense.

 

Like this?

 

I have lots of spare computers. i dont know why i tried this on a ddr3 machine, but i pulled the ram out while it was running in windows. no damage, just black screen. i have also removed the hdd while running windows. OHHHHH i also cooked a pepperoni on a lga 775 cpu. no heatsink either.

 

oh there is a feature of windows 7 machines called ready-boost, it is so you can turn usb sicks and hard drives into ram
it failed miserably BC it was an old hard drive, it made a horrible noise
and i had no idea there were different slots for different cpus, yeah, i do not need to go into detail

 

I played Fallout 4 on a, 2014 HP 110, 4th Gen intel I-3 processor with Intel HD 4400 graphics card.
It crashed... alot... but I was able to finish the story!, after that the save got corrupted so I couldn't continue.

But the side-effects from playing fallout 4 is my GPU crashes when ever I play any game now.
Sure some people say "games don't break computers" which sure I do believe some but I seriously think Fallout 4 broke my PC.

 

I kicked my computer (I blame this on a lack of legroom) causing it to unplug from the power adaptor, and I heard a loud noise from my hard drive. After that I had a couple of issues with my steam client but that was it, really (not sure if I can even blame that on forcing it off).

 

I once dropped a heavy punch onto my old and crappy PSU. It bent the power input out and when my father came in and saw it, he almost went under the rooftop. He tried solving the problem with a soldering iron, but in the end we had to put another old and crappy PSU in.
Imagine if that'd happened with a 120€ part. I would've commited Harakiri right on the spot.

 

That's not how that works. ReadyBoost does not touch the paging file (what you think it is). It is simply caches commonly used data, and data that an algorithm thinks will be used next, for faster read times, reading it from the flash drive (doing it on a HDD defeats the point), rather than a HDD. What you're thinking of is a paging file, which basically acts as RAM for stuff that needs data in RAM, but doesn't care if it is incredibly slow, or isn't going to use it for a while. It is possible to have a paging file on a flash drive, but don't remove it while the computer is running, otherwise programs will get extremely unhappy.

 

The stupid thing I've done is try to use my computer. It's 6+ years old and takes 5 min to boot up. Somehow I'm barely able to run the techdemo though. I really need a new computer.

 

I accidentally tried running my i5 6600K at 4.9Ghz at 1.35V, needless to say I couldn't get into Windows.

I once didn't reattach the stock cooler all of the way and got a thermal shutdown.

I once killed a PSU via a paperclip and successfully managed to RMA it.

 

I decided to remove a dead fly from my dell e- series monitor screen (it died dead in the centre of the lcd) anyway, I had it all apart and I removed the fly from the lcd. I put it all back together and picked it up and then guess what I did? I dropped it! the screen went grey and that was the last life I ever saw of that monitor. I have a new on coming from eBay thank god though.

 

watching memes

 

well my story is
i was recently overclocking my pc and i F@*!ed up so i had to flash the bios
my pc then for some reason told me to unplug a HDD
And to this day the sata cable from that HDD is still making a clanging noise on my gpu fan,slowly tearing itself to peices
because i didnt bother plugging it back in

It only contained some errr.. "Pictures" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

Um....cleaning out my radiator while my computer was turned on and running a stress test.....that was a few days ago....I have way more things like blowing up a power supply unit causing a motherboard to blow all from accidentally cutting a power cable...and I have more....

 

cutting a power cable with iron siccors while it was still plugged in fun times man

 

Bullshit. Nobody older than 8 is that idiotic, and people younger just haven't been told.

 

if you have a mess of cables and if your at 11 pm then mistakes where made lets say luckly no 5 foot flames where shooting everywhere

 

Haven't you read "I'd like to say something" thread? You should
Cheers

 

I suggest you read @wim kool's other posts. He's part of the problem. Constantly spewing bullshit and attempting to troll people. For example, a while back, he claimed to be an expert in all things computers. Then he asked if a 17 year old computer would play BeamNG. He's part of the problem, and I'm simply calling him out on it.