Miphee wrote on 2020-07-16, 16:29:I just remembered two, I once "gleeked" on a mainboard and short-circuited it.
I gleek randomly all the time and it happened whe […]
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I just remembered two, I once "gleeked" on a mainboard and short-circuited it.
I gleek randomly all the time and it happened when I was testing my Soyo slot1 system.
There wasn't any permanent damage but I learned to keep my mouth shut when I'm working with electronics.
I used to store my spare parts in the attic and it gets really cold there during the winter.
I needed a PSU replacement so I took one down but neglected to wait for it to actually warm up to room temp.
I turned it on and the PWM IC instantly blew up because of the condensation.
I remember I working on an old Power Macintosh G3 Blue & White and I had just washed my hands, and "thought" I had dried them good, well a drop of water from the hair on my arms/wrists fell onto one of the RAM chips and "poof" there it went, thankfully it was just normal PC100 memory, and no damage happened computer.
I seem to remember in the late 1990s trying to put a very large motherboard into a very small computer case and one of the brass standoffs scratched the motherboard cutting a trace on the bottom of the motherboard and killing it.
Another time when I was at college taking a computer class, I got distracted when working on a computer because I was talking to my classmates, and I closed up the computer case pinching the power/reset/led wires going to the motherboard and the computer caught fire, this happened in the early 2000s and it was an old white box Pentium 100.