What's the Worst Thing You've Done to a Piece of Hardware?

[mike_jmg]

worst thing I've done to a piece of hardware.......

can't remember any except that when I was a kid, my parents bought us a "Family entertainment system" kind of the pirate version of a NES (I also had a NES).

I wanted to play but I couldn't find the AC cord, so I plugged in another one that was laying around in my room, as soon as I did the thing started so smoke, It became useles after that

[ian h]

mike jmg youve just reminded me of when i was young and had my first master system and i squirted a water pistol into it lmao and it broke of course!

[Eviltaco64]

Once I had a semi-broken CD-RW drive.
I got so frustrated with it that 10 minutes later is was in pieces on the ice outside! :rofl:

[jazzman1302]

Once i got so angry, i snapped a DS in two. Great Day

[gutbub]

Well, I've broken more than one piece of hardware, so I'll list the three worst.
3) Recently, my microsd was corrupted. I got mad and snapped it in two.
2) My niece had a video now. It needed to be charged, but I didn't have the right adapter, but I found one that fit. The screen lit up a bright color, and froze there forever.
1) When I was 12 or so, my brother and I found a bunch of computers and monitors in the alley behind our house. I don't think I need to explain the rest.

[kaferenza]

Chucked a copy of Streets of Rage III against my wall that ended up slamming into my friend's head before it shattered

[ian h]

Chucked a copy of Streets of Rage III against my wall that ended up slamming into my friend's head before it shattered

LMAO!!!

[watupgroupie]

I lit a broken motherboard on fire and jammed it down a mexicans throat.

[osgeld]

a pallet of ~1980's 20 inch hp rgb crt's, a dumpster and a forklift, it was a good day at work as we drove them ouside, raised that bugger as high as it would go and chunked these nearly 100lb monsters into the dumpster

i saved one to use at home, set it on my computer desk and it started to bow, ALOT, pretty impressive since its 3/4 inch mdf over a 2 foot span (i still have the same desk over a decade later)

took it back the next day it became target practice, the screen was so thick a .22 rifle couldn't penetrate it , even after multiple shots in the same area

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also shot a first gen ibook with that rifle, the back of the screen casing stopped the round, the front was a different story
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got drunk and droped my laptop in a fishtank
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hooked up an AT power switch wrong, fried 3 florescent ballets in the office
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threw my sega genesis controller down on concrete and the A button came flying out (repaired it with a paperclip and superglue)
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got pissed off at starfox, and yanked on the controller, riping the wire right out, soldered it back together and returned it to the video rental store
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seriously overclocked my geforce 2 GTS, its gotten so hot the card wont sit in the socket square anymore, but still works, i have it in my dev machine, you just need a small wedge of wood to hold it in so the AGP connector lines up with the goldfingers
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Intel pentium 3 vs AMD athalon endurance trials with no heatsinks, in the summer, in a non climate controlled wearhouse, overclocked
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half drunk decided that the memory in my beige powermac WAS infact the same as the PC66 SDRAM, if i dremeled another notch in it, that was alot of smoke and sparks, machine still worked tho (technically it still does but its in storage)
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dropped a skill saw on my ps2 while it was still brand new during a move, that machine never worked again .... with the screws in it, without them lasted another 4 years before i chucked it
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sold my dreamcast
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thats all i could come up with, im sure theres plenty more

[Aryn]

The worst thing I have done was leave a Sega Nomad in my backpack with hard objects that had sharp corners and then drop it. The next time I pulled the game system out of my backpack to play it the screen was smashed. Since Nintendo was still hocking those gameboy color systems and the Nomad was hard to find in my area I felt a sense of loss. But then, I got over it.