I'll start off.......I tried to make the inside of my case look good so i taped foil just around the mobo on the backplate, not a good idea ladies and gentlemen
Well on my Second build with a 7800 GTX the power cable that plugs into the card from the PSU came unplugged when i moved after 2 months the card died..
Installed a Pentium II processor into an AMD K7 motherboard. Back then, AMD's K7 fit into a slot that looked identical to the Pentium II Slot 1 connector. I didn't know this; I thought AMD's K7used Socket 7, so mistakingly thought that my Slot A K7 board was a Slot 1 P2 board. I put the PII cartridge in backwards, somehow got the HSF on, and turned it on only to be greeted by...well, a dead board and CPU. **** that sucked.
I plugged a USB cable into the firewire pins on my motherboard, took me a two hours to figure out why it would scream when I turned it on. For some stupid reason they look exactly the same.:evil:
Way back when... the front power button on AT cases had cables that plugged into it from the power supply. It was very easy to not connect them properly and I did just that. The resulting fireworks and smoke was neat, though. And it taught me to always label or write down the cable locations and always double and triple check my wires BEFORE I hit the power button.
when i built my first pc i bought a 7900 gt 256 and a 7950 gt 512, and for some reason thought they wold work together(in SLI). after 8 hours of trouble shooting, ended up with 2 dead cards.
Toss up. Not periodically checking to see if the CPU fan on my old Pentium 1 was actually spinning, or the fact I was still piloting a Pentium 1 in 2001... Can't decide... ;)
Nah, I've done quite a few, installing a third party heatsink without putting on the backplate on the motherboard (just when I was to start the computer up, I just realised, and had to dissemble the whole computer :(), plugging in the front panel line in, line out and USB connectors on the wrong pins (so annoying) and cutting myself on the case and hardware (absolutely stupid..)
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