I JUST HASD THE BIGGEST SCARE OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!

[Missing the point]

I was just playing around with my GlobalWin fan, and I decided to see how fast it would run at 5 Volts. So I hooked it up in one of the Hard Drive wires (dumb me, I did this while reading a post on this forum, so the computer was obviously running). I put it in, and the fan ran perfectly. THen, I let go, but the stinkin black and red wires touched while still sortof in the socket. There was a big fireworkshow, and my computer shutdown. I was jsut about to kill my self, but I decided to boot it up and see what happens, and YAAAAAY! It still works! Man, I would be DEAD if I smoked tis CPU, because my parents would kill me!


I definitly learned my lesson here.

[OuTpaTienT]

I'm gonna refrain from making any comments here, other than: I hope you learned your lesson.

[socalgal]

I bet that got your heart pumpin'

Glad to hear all is intact and you didn't get killed And now, you know how to spell R-E-L-I-E-F

[hd581]

Did something like that, tried to hook up a hard drive while the computer was on (we're not exactly talking hot swappable here ) Computer shuts itself off.

No fireworks though.

I'll have to touch it w/ the red wire (12v) instead of the yellow one (5v)....

[sparki]

yeah i've done that before sprks out the back of the hard dirve thought i'd lost it all.

[welsh wizard]

man has through out history learnt by his mistakes, or at least he should have, human nature to destroy in order to find out, at least this time no distruction.
WW

[BBA]

Although I have managed to burn up my share of electronic circuits in teh past, the biggest scare of my life is more related to doing 360's on I95 at over 160MPH.

So, the way I see it is, so what if I burn up a PC...I just sitback and laugh about it cause it really doesn't mean anything.

PS: I'm glad you did not screw up your PC though.

[jadinolf]

If that's the biggest scare of your life, you are one lucky person.

[Missing the point]

That was the biggest scare of my life, because thiis is my ONLY computer, and I can't afford to get another CPU or motherboard right now, and that would mean that I couldn't even poist stuff her!

[AuraEdge]

Lucky break for ya...
...reminds me of another one of out Sysopt members...w/ the sparks and all...if he reads my post he'd know im talkin about him.




[This message has been edited by AuraEdge (edited 04-04-2000).]

[socalgal]

AND you wouldn't be able to crack RC5 for Team Sysopt! (better be verrrrry careful!)

[Phantom]

Hopefully, this type of thing only happens ONCE!! I was working on my 'puter, had my tape drive pulled out setting on it's back on top of metal case, (still plugged in).
When I booted...Sparks AND smoke!
'Puter still OK...Tape drive?...Well?

[Szech]

I remember I tried installing a card without turning the computer off. Not too smart... fortunately (?) I suppose, my finger hit the CPU fan and the computer froze before I could put the card in. That might have been really bad. Anyway, the way I see it, you never really make a mistake if you learn from it. HA! That was pretty stupid of me though!

[alpha]

Yeah, I've had lots o' things like that happen to me - tightening a serial port thing, it slipped and shorted the board. I'm in the same boat as Missing The Point - couldn't afford new stuff. Worked though.

[Szech]

HAHAHAHAHA!!! That's funny... "misinterpreting plug and play"... anyway, I did that when I was 11 or 12 maybe, and it was because my sister was on AOL (Have since ridden ourselves of that demon), and she didn't want to log off. I should have waited, but my Sound Blaster Pro was hot in my hands. That was back in the day when computers didn't come with sound cards, the cheapest sound card you could get was around $70, AOL didn't have e-mail or internet access, and I was still typing CD\games\doom. Memories...