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Ok on saw this on another site but I thought it was a great topic, so my apologies to the guy whose idea I stole.
Topic here is to recount the worst horror story in building or repairing your PC.
I get a Asus motherboard, its blows almost the moment I install it I hear an electrical *CRACK*. The Thing is fried. Thinking I had a defective board I exchanged it. The new one last about 20 seconds longer than the first. *CRACK* its dead too. Since I cannot exchange it again I go out and buy an EPOX I put it into my second machine IT WORKS! But it back into my main PC *CRACK* It dies again. Change the PSU buy a new ABIT and sure enough it bites the dust. So I'm down 4 motherboards, one PSU, and a Duron I fried because somewhere between my 1st and 404th rebuild of this computer. 3 weeks still cannot figure out whats wrong. In addition to the MB I also had swapped out RAM, CPUs and other components I KNOW worked, trying to track the culprit. I even called an electrician to double check the wiring of my apartment (I had problems before) no go.
I am at a total loss...
I work in Europe but I live in NYC, I go home and most of my vacation I am thinking what possible could be going on. It finally hits me. The only component I didn't check was the case. Up until that point I thought a case was just a case, a simple metal box and mine was the cheapest money could buy. Who gives a damn, right?
Wrong. Dead Wrong.
One odd thing about the case, everything unplugged the case a warm vibration to it. I could feel my fingers slightly vibrating when I touched it. I had noticed this before but it never tilted. Ditched the case bought my first Lian-li case with a new board and ta-da It worked!
After describing what had happened to a friend he told me that I had probably reversed the polarity of the case, so that it was carrying a positive charge instead of a negative one. This occurence is rare, but is usually caused by a faulty PSU.
Of course the real victim was my wallet, which also died forcing me to spend the next 3 months eating cheap noodles.
Topic here is to recount the worst horror story in building or repairing your PC.
I get a Asus motherboard, its blows almost the moment I install it I hear an electrical *CRACK*. The Thing is fried. Thinking I had a defective board I exchanged it. The new one last about 20 seconds longer than the first. *CRACK* its dead too. Since I cannot exchange it again I go out and buy an EPOX I put it into my second machine IT WORKS! But it back into my main PC *CRACK* It dies again. Change the PSU buy a new ABIT and sure enough it bites the dust. So I'm down 4 motherboards, one PSU, and a Duron I fried because somewhere between my 1st and 404th rebuild of this computer. 3 weeks still cannot figure out whats wrong. In addition to the MB I also had swapped out RAM, CPUs and other components I KNOW worked, trying to track the culprit. I even called an electrician to double check the wiring of my apartment (I had problems before) no go.
I am at a total loss...
I work in Europe but I live in NYC, I go home and most of my vacation I am thinking what possible could be going on. It finally hits me. The only component I didn't check was the case. Up until that point I thought a case was just a case, a simple metal box and mine was the cheapest money could buy. Who gives a damn, right?
Wrong. Dead Wrong.
One odd thing about the case, everything unplugged the case a warm vibration to it. I could feel my fingers slightly vibrating when I touched it. I had noticed this before but it never tilted. Ditched the case bought my first Lian-li case with a new board and ta-da It worked!
After describing what had happened to a friend he told me that I had probably reversed the polarity of the case, so that it was carrying a positive charge instead of a negative one. This occurence is rare, but is usually caused by a faulty PSU.
Of course the real victim was my wallet, which also died forcing me to spend the next 3 months eating cheap noodles.