How did your PC die? (Share your stories)

Seeing the motherboard failure post made me wanna create a topic where everyone can share all the wonderful ways in which there high end gaming rigs or piece of **** 25 year old computers have bit the dust. So feel free to share your story. Heres 1 of mine...

My 1st overclocking attempt was on a AMD Athlon 64 2800+ skt-754, many years ago, and I can remember researching on google for months prior to doing it but I never really looked into voltages and how to set them. So like an idiot I went ahead and changed some voltages (Cant remember exactly what the hell I did) but next thing I know my screen goes black and my entire system shuts down and I hear a slight hiss from my case, it was barely audible. I open it up and take off the cpu's heatink and fan and only to find the pins on the chip are black and the top of it smelled horribly and had a slight tint to it as well. Turns out I destroyed the RAM to. The video card was spared tho (9800 pro from ATI) but the entire PC failed to turn on period. I ended up having to buy a new motherboard, cpu and ram and I also replaced my 9800 pro with an x800GTO....the x800GTO also failed not long after I bought it.

i have a millenium edition compaq just put it in my closet. it has not failed yet

my dad's enlight power supply took his Soyo motherboard and it made the circuits glow orange like hot iron. Try and beat that ha!

a severe bios problem turned it into skynet. no joke.

the bios got very screwed up, so the power down command made it turn everything BUT the mobo (including all fans, everything) off, wait like 30 seconds, and turn back on. pretty awesome imo, i just took it to some IT guys, it took them like 4 days to even figure out how to make it stay off.

a severe bios problem turned it into skynet. no joke.

the bios got very screwed up, so the power down command made it turn everything BUT the mobo (including all fans, everything) off, wait like 30 seconds, and turn back on. pretty awesome imo, i just took it to some IT guys, it took them like 4 days to even figure out how to make it stay off.

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An old system of mine (AMD K6-2 500MHz, 64MB RAM, 3dfx Voodoo 3) crapped out on me after just 2 years. It mysteriously started gradually collapsing and dying (BSOD's all the time, crashes and lockups, very slow performance) and it eventually got to the stage where I was having to reinstall Windows 98 every two weeks. For some reason, no fresh Windows install would last longer than a fortnight until the errors would get too much. Looking back on it now, I'd guess it was probably the hard drive screwing up.

An old system of mine (AMD K6-2 500MHz, 64MB RAM, 3dfx Voodoo 3) crapped out on me after just 2 years. It mysteriously started gradually collapsing and dying (BSOD's all the time, crashes and lockups, very slow performance) and it eventually got to the stage where I was having to reinstall Windows 98 every two weeks. For some reason, no fresh Windows install would last longer than a fortnight until the errors would get too much. Looking back on it now, I'd guess it was probably the hard drive screwing up.

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Recently I took over a desktop from my inlaws that was not booting. Nothing worked, wouldn't even post. Eventually I reset the bios, pulled the mobo out and reformated it, and viola it worked... I assumed that a deep sector virus had affected the MBR of the hard drive causing it to not post, looking back I should have known better. A month later it did it again. I verified that the hard drive MBR was wiped, but the system would not start without a bios restart even with a clean version of XP on a different hard drive. I'm wondering if the PSU was spiking the CPU and effected the ROM and other essiental loaders. This time I tossed the heap, and rebuilt from the ground up.

My laptop cpu overheated at over 120C.

I actually haven't had any of my PCs die on me...then again I've only had 3. The dell I have now (or it was a dell...every part has been pretty much changed) is working wonderfully. My parents bought a Gateway 6-7 years ago and it runs fine, and the Geforce 4200 inside of it is still kicking!

Then we have an old Pentium 1 computer, 16 mb of RAM and a whopping 1 GB HDD that works perfectly. I actually keep it plugged in just to see if it will stay running, and well, it is...

My old crap Pentium 4 computer with 256mb, later 512mb ram, died of a diode leakage. By that time that computer wasn't even being used much.