What's the worst thing that happened to your computer?

The worst that I had is... I captured a virus once and kept it there just in case so after a few weeks i forgot what it was and opened it, 5 seconds later... SYSTEM32 is GONE....

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Permalink Reply by kpslover007 on June 30, 2009 at 3:10pm: I got a BSOD after closing Skype in Vista. More worse, I installed updates and after the restart, Vista was gone!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brian Buckley on June 30, 2009 at 3:14pm: my mouse got out dated; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by VMAN on June 30, 2009 at 3:16pm: Thats it? Lol, thats nothing.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by BrettApple on June 30, 2009 at 3:21pm: My friend threw a snowball at his brother but his brother opend the door at the same time and the snowball missed and nailed my macbooks screen dead center, then it fell onto the keyboard. Not to worry though, I turned it upside down (yes it was still on but it has an SMS sudden motion sensor) and put some paper towels on it. Still works fine. Love the fact that the screen is covered by glass.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by BrettApple on June 30, 2009 at 3:25pm: And just now I dropped my PS2 controller right on my MacBook's palm rest. Made a nice little dent. :(; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by VMAN on June 30, 2009 at 3:30pm: And that's exactly why I buy monitors with glass cover.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ali Cizmar on June 30, 2009 at 3:31pm: Nothing beats powering on your perfectly-working machine one day only to have it beep loudly at you in that wonderful BIOS code. Darn mobo. :(; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by VMAN on June 30, 2009 at 3:33pm: Lol, sorry did you ever fix it or did you have to replace it?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by macman1293 on June 30, 2009 at 3:44pm: My hard drive just crapped out with almost no warning to transfer all my files off it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lui Wallentin Gøttler on June 30, 2009 at 4:14pm: Well I have the typical one:

One day sitting enjoying some good YouTube fun videos on my Toshiba Laptop, drinking a nice cool Coca Cola light drink........ And yes. In an attempt to reach for some kind of snack, I knocked my drink right onto the laptop.

I removed power and the battery ASAP, and crossed everything that can be crossed and hoped for the best. 2 days of drying. And everything worked except the monitor. And I actually think it happened when I turned the laptop upside down to get the battery out.

Anyhow ... luckily all my data was still there. I normally remember to back my stuff up, but when this happened I had used my external drive for something else. DOOOOH!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Warstrong on June 30, 2009 at 4:20pm: I built a nice system in 2007 ($150 CPU, $100 mobo, $80 in RAM, $90 graphics) and didn't have the money for a hard drive at the time. Nobody was kind enough to spare a hard drive, so I took the nicest one I could find and used it for 3 months. It was a 4GB drive from a '99 Dell, and I killed it with a screwdriver.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gavin Roskamp on June 30, 2009 at 4:40pm: I've got too many to count, but my most recent one is accidentally snapping the spacebar on my Apple keyboard in half. Now I'm stuck using the page up key as a spacebar.

Of course there are better ones. For example, when I was about 3 years old (we had just gotten a Windows 95 PC) I took a magnet and was having fun with the CRT screen seeing all the colors go crazy. So I put the magnet on the side of it and like the CRT sorta like exploded in my face and I was banned from the computer (and magnets) for a year.; ▶ Reply to This