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Who has destroyed their computer equipment before???
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I screwed up my Mac mini's logic board trying to upgrade the RAM. (It's running on "disability" for the time being thanks to a quick fix)
I have a few dents on my HP from me getting frusterated at it a few too many times. (And sometimes I wonder why my knuckles hurt these days
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Also, I once chunked an old HDD as far as I could when it died, just for fun. (I never actually found it haha.)
I have a few dents on my HP from me getting frusterated at it a few too many times. (And sometimes I wonder why my knuckles hurt these days
)Also, I once chunked an old HDD as far as I could when it died, just for fun. (I never actually found it haha.)
Where do I begin? I have a nasty habit of totally destroying electronics once they've given up the ghost. Dads old laptop when it broke -- bits are still missing (we tidied up as much as we could) and an old desktop I had -- I have it, but its a little melted...
I have a nasty habit of totally destroying electronics once they've given up the ghost. Dads old laptop when it broke -- bits are still missing (we tidied up as much as we could) and an old desktop I had -- I have it, but its a little melted...
Accidentally broke the battery connector on my Macbook during one of my many disassemblies. Cost about $35 to replace, so not too bad.
are you serious!? Thanks for the tip! I got a microsoft mouse that doesn't work. maybe I should drive over it (hope the animal cruelty ppl won't show up lol), but I don't want the plastic pieces to be jabbing the tyres... won't worth flattening them
(excuse both the puns)I kinda felt guilty having chucked my printer out the window... i could probably have fixed it in err... a whole weekend (opening it up is a real challenge as it's clipped together, no screws -- cost cutting...). so it was quicker getting a new one. I got a new 1 today, finally I can print something. the good part is that it is compatible with the old cartridge (different printer model), so I'm glad I saved some money there. I therefore recommend Canon. Good to print and also to throw out the window when it no longer works.
you guys and your shooting laws... we don't get so much freedom.
I built an AMD gaming rig back in the day. 900mhz Athlon, 256mb ram, GeForce 2 - it was rad! After a few years, I upgraded. I sold the Asus motherboard, re-used the RAM, sold the graphics card, and made the AMD Athlon 900 into keychain (drilled a hole in it). It lasted about 2 years then sort of fell apart...
I'd had a generic box full drives, chips and boards that I'd swapped in and out over time. Started to get successive boot failures and mentioned to my sister who was visiting with my young nephew that I felt like throwing it out the window.
When it came time to leave little TJ said he didn't want to go yet. Why? He wanted to see his uncle throw the computer out of the apartment window.
I looked down, said sorry, but there was a car in the way. Ended up in the dumpster.
When it came time to leave little TJ said he didn't want to go yet. Why? He wanted to see his uncle throw the computer out of the apartment window.
I looked down, said sorry, but there was a car in the way. Ended up in the dumpster.
I had a pile of about 25 old PCI cards. I pulled off all of the capacitors and all that and spread them on my little sisters bed the day she got peanut butter all over my homework
i switched the PSU from my family's old, old computer from 240V to 110V while on and booted and it blew up and fried everything haha! oh well we were going to throw it out anyway and no one wanted it.
LOL i dun that before, i was at the bad plugging it in and i saw the switch flicked her over fired it up BANG right in my face - i was only 8! my dads 286
I tied an old mouse to my bike once and rode it while the mouse was dangling and getting smashed up. Great fun.
Great fun.
Alright as promised the Destruction of the mice - These are videos i filmed and edited.
They are hosted below i hope you like em! If u have any videos you want hosted PM me i can put em there
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They are hosted below i hope you like em! If u have any videos you want hosted PM me i can put em there
http://noidea.homeftp.net/
Well, I was trying to replace the screen on my iPhone. (the touch and everything still worked perfectly, but the glass was shattered) I got about halfway done, and turned it on, and everything still worked great. I should have gave it a break there, and picked it up again the next day. But nooooo, not me. I turned off the iPhone, and went back to work, carefully scraping off the glass. Well, long story short, I got a little excited just thinking about how much money I was saving, and I pried a little too hard on the glass, and broke the digitizer. I turned on the iPhone again, and none of the touch worked and there was a hairline crack in the LCD. I was like, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I was so ticked at myself, that I commenced a very rigorous scraping on the LCD and glass, and completely destroyed the rest of the digitizer, glass, and screen.
I guess I won't be doing that again any time soon.
I guess I won't be doing that again any time soon.
I smashed an old computer when I was in high school. It was getting tossed anyway, so I figured why not?
A few weeks ago I threw an old printer in the dumpster. It was just out of warranty and took a dive for no apparent reason. I hated that thing. I didn't "destroy" it, but just knowing it got taken to the dump and run over by a bull dozer or something makes me feel good. Quite cathartic.
A few weeks ago I threw an old printer in the dumpster. It was just out of warranty and took a dive for no apparent reason. I hated that thing. I didn't "destroy" it, but just knowing it got taken to the dump and run over by a bull dozer or something makes me feel good. Quite cathartic.
i had my ipod earphones messed up by driving my car and they were hanging out the door bouncing off the street lol
still works though
still works though
I very nearly got to film a friend's broken G3 iMac being thrown out a window, but we got a bit worried about the glass/nasty chemicals in the CRT going everywhere. Later that same day, another friend put the G3's empty case over his head and got stuck
I'm probably the only person whose been hit by keyboard shrapnel.
My old roommate in college, and now good friend, absolutely hated his old computer and Windows even more. One night it froze for the umteenth time and he went ballistic. Because of the stream of obscenities coming from his mouth I was laughing so hard that I didn't see it coming.
He picked up his keyboard, swung it like a bat and hit one of the thickly painted white concrete block walls in our dorm. Half of the keys flew off from the force and several of them pegged me hard while the rest flew out the open window. That made me laugh even harder and I promptly fell out of my chair holding my sides to keep them from splitting.
Of course that pissed him off even more so he grabbed his beige box ripping the cords from it and walked outside. I got up and saw him holding it over the second story banister daring me to give him "one good reason" he shouldn't drop it. With glee I told him to do it, for I wanted the CD burner if it survived. Unfortunately I never saw him drop it because he came to his senses and brought it back inside.
The next morning we got up and found some of the missing keys on the ground outside of the dorm around one of the old trees. The keyboard was dangling from one of its limbs.
My old roommate in college, and now good friend, absolutely hated his old computer and Windows even more. One night it froze for the umteenth time and he went ballistic. Because of the stream of obscenities coming from his mouth I was laughing so hard that I didn't see it coming.
He picked up his keyboard, swung it like a bat and hit one of the thickly painted white concrete block walls in our dorm. Half of the keys flew off from the force and several of them pegged me hard while the rest flew out the open window. That made me laugh even harder and I promptly fell out of my chair holding my sides to keep them from splitting.
Of course that pissed him off even more so he grabbed his beige box ripping the cords from it and walked outside. I got up and saw him holding it over the second story banister daring me to give him "one good reason" he shouldn't drop it. With glee I told him to do it, for I wanted the CD burner if it survived. Unfortunately I never saw him drop it because he came to his senses and brought it back inside.
The next morning we got up and found some of the missing keys on the ground outside of the dorm around one of the old trees. The keyboard was dangling from one of its limbs.
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I've taken my anger out on a number of computers I've owned, but I haven't broken one yet!
A long time ago I bought my grandfather's wife a nice little cheap Lexmark printer.
Two weeks later my grandfather took a fit an smashed the printer on the floor. The whole thing was wrecked.
I've taken my anger out on a number of computers I've owned, but I haven't broken one yet!
A long time ago I bought my grandfather's wife a nice little cheap Lexmark printer.
Two weeks later my grandfather took a fit an smashed the printer on the floor. The whole thing was wrecked.
After many frustrating years on a Dell 8200 workstation that never worked right (EVER), I was looking into a problem for work at 3AM in my underwear when it froze on me for the last time.
I was on speaker phone with Operations and they heard the commotion. I opened my Attic Window (I have an attic office at home) and literally picked it up and chucked it out the window. I had a 21 inch CRT that followed it down.
My neighbors were looking out the window / door trying to figure out what all the noise was about.
I never got more satisfaction out of that computer than I did that day.
The next day I went and bought an iMac.
I was on speaker phone with Operations and they heard the commotion. I opened my Attic Window (I have an attic office at home) and literally picked it up and chucked it out the window. I had a 21 inch CRT that followed it down.
My neighbors were looking out the window / door trying to figure out what all the noise was about.
I never got more satisfaction out of that computer than I did that day.
The next day I went and bought an iMac.
"Never trust a computer that you can't throw out of a window"
It's nowhere near the levels people on here have achieved but I had an old PCI modem (if I remember rightly it was my first ADSL modem) for my PC and it was a PAIN. Can't remember the brand, I think my brain denies it ever happened, but it used to connect and disconnect with gleeful abandon. When I got a replacement that worked I took the offending card into the back garden and set about it with my dad's sledgehammer. That felt so GOOOOOOOOD
Otherwise I recycle all my electronics. The local council have a tip where you can take almost anything- old paint, oil, carpets, textiles, batteries, electronics, wood, old chemicals, plastics, metals- you name it. They have a HUGE 15 foot tall skip (I s'pose in the US you'd call it a dumpster) and you go up a little catwalk to put things in. There's always an array of battered old TV's, hi-fi's etc and it's quite satisfying dropping stuff in I remember when I took my old PC case there- that made a lovely loud bang! If ever the guys who work there offer to chuck stuff in for me I always say no- I enjoy dropping stuff in myself! Kind of like a plastic and aluminium wishing well!
It's nowhere near the levels people on here have achieved but I had an old PCI modem (if I remember rightly it was my first ADSL modem) for my PC and it was a PAIN. Can't remember the brand, I think my brain denies it ever happened, but it used to connect and disconnect with gleeful abandon. When I got a replacement that worked I took the offending card into the back garden and set about it with my dad's sledgehammer. That felt so GOOOOOOOOD
Otherwise I recycle all my electronics. The local council have a tip where you can take almost anything- old paint, oil, carpets, textiles, batteries, electronics, wood, old chemicals, plastics, metals- you name it. They have a HUGE 15 foot tall skip (I s'pose in the US you'd call it a dumpster) and you go up a little catwalk to put things in. There's always an array of battered old TV's, hi-fi's etc and it's quite satisfying dropping stuff in
I remember when I took my old PC case there- that made a lovely loud bang! If ever the guys who work there offer to chuck stuff in for me I always say no- I enjoy dropping stuff in myself! Kind of like a plastic and aluminium wishing well!