My current motherboad's PCIE latch broke when inserting my GPU a while back. I needed to take pliers to it and just rip it off entirely. It was an exceptionally nerve wracking procedure.

>>106137810 (OP)
>the absolute state of nu-/g/ can't even play adult lego

>>106137863
It was actually the release that failed now that I think about it more. Pressing it down wouldn't release the GPU properly. Shitty cheap plastic bits. Had to remove the entire release mechanism because of that.

>>106137810 (OP)
I completely smoked a ups with a pc power supply set to the wrong voltage. In my defense, I ordered this shit from another country where the default setting would have worked correctly, but forgot about this very detail due 3 or 4 years having passed since the delivery.

> Be me
> Get 32 MB USB stick for programming class
> USB stick case cracks
> Curious, open up the case all the way
> Oh look, circuits n shit, what was I expecting
> Curious, plug into computer
> Let out the smoke
> Computer ded
> Learn to how to replace a motherboard
> That's it?
> Built my own computers ever since
This is the kind of thing they mean when they say let kids make mistakes.

accidentally scraped the surface of a mobo with a screwdriver cutting a solder trace, because the previous owner had left a stuck screw on it. i managed to fix it tho

>>106137810 (OP)
put it back Jamal

>>106137863
thats a reddit post

>>106138434
He's replying to the OP's comment field dumb anon

I actually built something with an Arduino once and I accidentally overvolted the stepper controller and blew the caps.

>>106138338
Haven't we all anon?

>>106137863
fpbp

Years ago, trying to fix my friend's computer, I didn't set the master/slave pins correctly on his old and new hard drives. This effectively bricked it and he had to get an external disk reader cause we were poor, retarded, and couldn't download windows repair tool to USB

>>106137810 (OP)
Replacing the battery on my laptop... :( Shit's beyond tiny. This is a macro shot takem from a couple of cm away.

do pet hamsters count as technology?

>>106137810 (OP)
Proudly replaced a keyboard on a laptop 20 years ago, removing all the components and then putting them back together without cleaning and reapplying the thermal paste on the CPU
I believe the laptop lasted another 3 or 4 hours before killing itself

>>106137810 (OP)
You can probably desolder the legs one at a time and replace it with a new pcie. 15 minutes of work

>>106137810 (OP)
>Something stupid
>Black hand
Like pottery.

>>106137810 (OP)
I once got blackout drunk and pissed on my maxed out macbook pro

>>106139607
It's technically possible to bend that back but I do realize that is much smaller than the image makes it appear. It's probably not doable without a magnifying optic and a very steady hand

>>106139986
Yes. I will attempt some day, before I'll probably just send it to a repair centre.

my wireless keyboard. Was an older model with batteries you had to change. Now it wouldn't turn on anymore despite new batteries.
I opened it up and measured the power rails, they all show the required 3v, the MC VCC seem ok, the Mosfet too has the voltages needed, the keyboard matrix shows voltages on the rails where they are needed, but it still doesn't turn on. Technically I didn't destroy it, because I did nothing else than changing the batteries. But it is bothering me as much as if I had destroyed it because I am usually pretty good at fixing such things however here I have no fucking clue what might be wrong.

>>106137810 (OP)
>mouse has some gunk stuck in the wheel
>open it up to clean the mouse wheel from the inside
>ribbon cable that connects to the board just fucking snaps
>try to solder it back to no avail
Waste of a mouse

>>106139607
>all those pin number designators in the silkscreen because the industry can't settle on sane first-pin standards
>probably blames production and changes the SOP every two weeks

>>106137810 (OP)
I accidentally scratched my handcrafted artisanal $400 case with a screwdriver.
Absolutely idiotic purchase in the first place but then to scratch it? LMAO
Anyway it still looks cool

>>106137810 (OP)
Probably millions of kids when they first got this thing(me as well). I still say the UMD was a neat concept that would have worked better during 5th gen, back when loaning out and borrowing CD's was a common practice. Where you never know how your shit would turn out after getting it back.

>buy $150 laptop from aliexpress
>logs into Google
>10 minutes later
>access from India
>access from China
>tries to reinstall everything
>computer won't boot
>into the trash

>>106139946
The PCIE slot isn't broken, literally just the locking mechanism that holds the intert lock-piece of the GPU. I. E. The thing that keeps the GPU in place. Everything still functions fine.
>> 106139985
When I was going to university near a decade ago I got black out drunk and puked on my laptop keyboard. The laptop still worked but the keyboard was fucked. Got a ride from a friend to future shop the next morning. She laughs and says
> hey anon, tell the employee what happened.
Tell him my story. He laughs and de ides to take pity on me and covers the repair under warranty. Thanks Future Shop man, I'll never forget your kindness.

>>106138338
Had a similar thing happen to me except when I dropped the screwdriver it knocked out one of the capacitors. Had to order a bag of capacitors to undo my do-do.

>>106140176
Literally I don't understand how you fuck this up.
There's a literally opening for the PSP to read the disk, how do decide to crack it open?

>>106137810 (OP)
I bricked a Radeon 9600 XT after repasting because I didn't press the fan+heatsink combo down hard enough to get the clips to latch into the board. I turned on the PC, heard a loud CLUNK, looked in the case to see the cooler flopping around next to the GPU. This all happened within 5 seconds, which was enough to completely toast the die on the card.

I also had a close call when I soft-modded my Xbox and my dumb ass didn't backup the EEPROM despite seeing the multiple warnings to do so. Shut off the Xbox after "successfully" installing the mod, rebooted it only to be greeted with an error 5 message. I had to crack the thing open again and learn the hard way how to dump the EEPROM from the board itself. Man, was that a pain in the ass.

>>106137810 (OP)
Everytime I mess with something internal and stupid fragile I fuck it up apparently. I had to buy like 3 power button cable ribbons because of each time I had to go into my laptop for various reason.
I learned my lesson and when I changed the screen on my nexus 7, I bought 2 of the connector ribbons when i ordered the parts. The first one didn't work for whatever reason but I had the second.

>>106140176
>>106143247
every single PSP game I had as a kid got totally destroyed

>>106146345
I've never broken one of those