HOW-TO: not to kill hardware - Page 2

piotke · 3rd March 2004, 08:05

in that case only PSU blows up, correct ?

3rd March 2004, 08:56

- Never place a cooler on a CPU WITHOUT clipping it on at the same time.
- Don't use loose molex connectors to power up your drives. A small nudge against them has a large chance of causing at least data corruption.
- Test a new harddrive before putting any critical data on it.

187(V)URD@ · 3rd March 2004, 10:55

Quote:

Originally posted by massy
don't connect a hard drive while computer is on (short circuited a hd - 200mb - when I was 12 years old)

I did that to with my CDwriter and he still works

3rd March 2004, 11:11

Quote:

Originally posted by 187(V)URD@

I did that to with my CDwriter and he still works when

I did it with a cd rom drive and it died to. I pushed something in the hole, so the drive would open (i forgot a cd in it). the drive didn't open, I connected it to the PSU of my machine. the drive opened immediately when it got power, but a chip inside the drive burnt

DUR0N · 3rd March 2004, 11:26

Quote:

Originally posted by piotke
in that case only PSU blows up, correct ?

screen and switches do. PC worked normally for about 2 min, then turned it of. Still works

BlackRabbit · 3rd March 2004, 13:27

Quote:

Originally posted by piotke
in that case only PSU blows up, correct ?

I hope so

(it was a switch btw, *kaboem*... not funny)

3rd March 2004, 16:39

Don't be to lazy to reset the bios when changing cpu's

3rd March 2004, 21:28

don't put a floppy without the metal protection on it in a drive....
the floppy drive of my LC II died because of that when I was 13 :-)

4th March 2004, 22:30

- Make sure that the red wire of your inverter makes contact with the red wire of your molex conector. The same for the black one.

And NOT the red one with the black wire and the black one with the red wire of your molex. Some of you may remember the big bang @ MM8..

- Due this little edge make sure that your volcano 7 isn't mounted upside down. Fried an Athlon 1800xp by doing that.

4th March 2004, 22:34

Quote:

Originally posted by B|oweFish
And NOT the red one with the black wire and the black one with the red wire of your molex. Some of you may remember the big bang @ MM8..

yeah I've also done it, I didn't have the proper inverter connector so I didn't know what was + and -.

pretty scary, I was just awake, and suddenly it goes BANG :wtf:

3rd March 2004, 08:05	#11
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3rd March 2004, 08:56	#12
FreeStyler Posts: n/a	- Never place a cooler on a CPU WITHOUT clipping it on at the same time. - Don't use loose molex connectors to power up your drives. A small nudge against them has a large chance of causing at least data corruption. - Test a new harddrive before putting any critical data on it.

3rd March 2004, 16:39	#17
Tum0r Posts: n/a	Don't be to lazy to reset the bios when changing cpu's

3rd March 2004, 21:28	#18
stijnsmets Posts: n/a	don't put a floppy without the metal protection on it in a drive.... the floppy drive of my LC II died because of that when I was 13 :-)

4th March 2004, 22:30	#19
B\|oweFish Posts: n/a	- Make sure that the red wire of your inverter makes contact with the red wire of your molex conector. The same for the black one. And NOT the red one with the black wire and the black one with the red wire of your molex. Some of you may remember the big bang @ MM8.. - Due this little edge make sure that your volcano 7 isn't mounted upside down. Fried an Athlon 1800xp by doing that.