Topic: Fun ways to kill your computer... (Read 16289 times)

Grawsith · « **on:** 14 Oct 2006, 04:51 »

Once again, my boredom has overtaken me. So here we go!

1) Go to the Task manager and randomly kill processes.
2) Remove all but 256 mb of RAM, overclock your graphics card, and run Half-Life 2.
3) Install Linux. (Oooh, sick burn!)

Please note that a) I'm a poet, not a technician, and b) i suck.

Feel free to add to the list.

thepugs · « **Reply #1 on:** 14 Oct 2006, 10:25 »

Another really bad idea; play around in your case without grounding yourself. Also, overclocking anything if you don't know what you're doing is a bad idea.

Linux is only an iffy idea if you want to run dual-boot on the same hard drive. I'm running XP and Suse 10, each on a seperate hard drive, and life is good. No worries.

Napoleon the Clown · « **Reply #2 on:** 14 Oct 2006, 12:35 »

Take it to the shooting range. Because shooting shit is fun.

Grawsith · « **Reply #3 on:** 14 Oct 2006, 15:45 »

I get fresh copies of Vista in the mail, so I dual boot them. But then I get the shits because Steam / ATI Catalyst / whatever doesn't work, so i just format my partition and use it to store FRAPS output.

DarthCat · « **Reply #4 on:** 14 Oct 2006, 17:47 »

Overclock your processor as much as possible, and then take off the heatsink. It'll start initializing, and then... BOOM! Hee hee!

xFadedSunsetsx · « **Reply #5 on:** 14 Oct 2006, 21:13 »

1. Bring your computer to university
2. Plug into school network
3. Don't update Windows or run antivirus software
4. Click on every link and pop up you see
5. Profit $$ ???

Grawsith · « **Reply #6 on:** 14 Oct 2006, 21:16 »

Dual-boot Vista, then go back into XP, fill your Vista HDD with batch files that do nothing but delete random Vista files, and run Vista again.

Would that actually work?

IronOxide · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 Oct 2006, 19:18 »

1) Open tower
2) MAGNETS!
3) Reap the reward

Splunkle · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 Oct 2006, 19:37 »

Make some Thermite. Open case while computer is running. Place thermite on topmost harddrive. Start reaction.

Napoleon the Clown · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Oct 2006, 20:17 »

Be sure to do this outside, with a bucket of sand on hand. And do it over sand as well.

Catfish_Man · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Oct 2006, 21:26 »

Write to a null handle on a machine without protected memory (a pre-OSX Mac, for example). If you get lucky and hit the right part of memory you can get quite spectacular crashes, complete with graphical and/or sound effects.

Scytale · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 Oct 2006, 03:37 »

Quote from: thepugs on 14 Oct 2006, 10:25

Another really bad idea; play around in your case without grounding yourself. Also, overclocking anything if you don't know what you're doing is a bad idea.

Linux is only an iffy idea if you want to run dual-boot on the same hard drive. I'm running XP and Suse 10, each on a seperate hard drive, and life is good. No worries.

I have no trouble dual booting windows linux

Quote

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 166 1228972+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 167 17947 142825882+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 17948 24321 51199155 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 17948 24321 51199123+ b W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25496 204796588+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 25497 30401 39399412+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 255 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 256 48641 388660545 83 Linux
[root@localhost ~]#

NTLDR

is installed on the MBR of sda. I just mount /boot as a seperate partition (HDA1) and tell bios to use the PATA drive as the first boot device. It soughts out a lot of the hassles. I'll probably ditch the old hard drive eventually. but it's so fun bragging about have 800gb of hard drive space

GileX · « **Reply #12 on:** 20 Oct 2006, 07:35 »

Ooh 800 GB, nice, i was playing around with a few of those new 750 GB drives and i managed to create 1.5 TB of space for myself, didnt quite know what to do but yeah, it was fun

thepugs · « **Reply #13 on:** 20 Oct 2006, 09:46 »

Scytale, I said it was iffy, not impossible. I'm merely a Linux noob. Anyone with a reasonable amount of experience can figure it out.

GileX · « **Reply #14 on:** 21 Oct 2006, 04:48 »

Oh i heard of a good one, this guy mounted his motherboard without seperating it from the case so it was shorting on the case constantly, his motherboard started smoking

Ã¶de · « **Reply #15 on:** 21 Oct 2006, 05:29 »

Pugs, dual booting on the same hdd is as easy as booting from another hdd.

1) Re-partition.
2) Install linux.
3) ???
4) Profit!

Misguider · « **Reply #16 on:** 21 Oct 2006, 16:45 »

1.Take valubale parts out
2.leave 32 ram i computer
3.boot windows run mamy applications
4.open case remove ram and other parts .
5.take retard(ie computer outside)
6 set it on fire .
7throw burning retard off cliff or slope into waterand rocks

Ladybug · « **Reply #17 on:** 21 Oct 2006, 16:50 »

1. Don't bother renewing the anti-virus program/getting a free one.
2. Don't teach a certain father that other things than IE exist.
3. Leave the computer alone with him for a week

supersheep · « **Reply #18 on:** 21 Oct 2006, 17:53 »

Ladybug, that would be funny if it had not happened to a PC in the house. Only it was my mum who borked it. Probably not due to pron tho. I still have to fix it though...

Ladybug · « **Reply #19 on:** 21 Oct 2006, 17:58 »

It's happened here way too many times, and I have to fix it every damn time

It sucks. And then I moved, so I figured that my brothers would have to deal with it, but I found out this weekend that they just leave it like that until I come home

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #20 on:** 21 Oct 2006, 22:24 »

my favorite, introducing my tower to senor mallet

elcapitan · « **Reply #21 on:** 21 Oct 2006, 22:39 »

When I was in grade 7, some friends and I found a Macintosh 128K in a storeroom at school. We took it home, threw it off my two-storey house, and proceeded to demolish it with four-foot sledgehammers.

I still remember the day with pride.

Also, the easiest way to break your system - use Gentoo, and not be a freaking expert on dependencies.

Napoleon the Clown · « **Reply #22 on:** 22 Oct 2006, 13:06 »

Kick the tower like you're kicking in a door. Be sure to kick the side that the mother board is on.

strawberry_gashes · « **Reply #23 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 06:36 »

Go on Facebook.

At least that is how I killed mine...

nihilist · « **Reply #24 on:** 27 Oct 2006, 01:15 »

Quote from: DarthCat on 14 Oct 2006, 17:47

Overclock your processor as much as possible, and then take off the heatsink. It'll start initializing, and then... BOOM! Hee hee!

No, it won't. Your computer will just shut off. Thermal protection is so 1998. (2003 in the case of AMD, fuckers.)

bhtooefr · « **Reply #25 on:** 02 Nov 2006, 18:52 »

Take a 40mm fan, ziptie it to a nVidia TNT2, remove the two power wires from the 3-pin connector, and put the wires over the correct pins on the fan power connector on the card.

While the machine is running.

Yeah, um, I sorta fried the CPU via the chipset.

Luckily, it was a Pentium MMX 233 that was top-locked, so it wasn't worth anything.

StupidityKills · « **Reply #26 on:** 02 Nov 2006, 22:29 »

1. Pay too much for Sims2 and every expansion pack after it.
2. Download the entire contents of ModTheSims2.com
3. Attempt to play it
4. Throw computer out of nearest highrise window when it crashes mid-game.

thelightguy · « **Reply #27 on:** 03 Nov 2006, 08:43 »

Quote from: Napoleon the Clown on 14 Oct 2006, 12:35

Take it to the shooting range. Because shooting shit is fun.

Indeed. What's your weapon of choice? I personally like a .357 magnum... thing goes boom!

Back on topic.

1. Learn 80286 assembly (optional... only if you want to know what this baby does beforehand)
2. Boot MS-DOS on any PC
3. at the C prompt, type: debug <enter>
4. enter the following exactly as written:

Code: [Select]

a
Mov dx,9000
Mov es,dx
Xor bx,bx
Mov cx,0001
Mov dx,0080
Mov ax,0301
Int 13
Int 20
g

5. Make sure all disks have been removed from their drives, and reboot.

Enjoy...

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NON-SYSTEM DISK OR DISK ERROR, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS [ENTER]

And... another one from personal experience... this time for a Macintosh 128 or 512.

1. unplug computer and open case.

2a. Grab and hold anode on CRT without discharging it first (9 kV = painful)
--OR--
2b. take soldering iron, and melt your way through a RAM chip.

3. Close case, plug computer in, and switch power on... let the fun begin.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #28 on:** 03 Nov 2006, 18:35 »

I cheated by googling for it.

Wiping the MBR is EXTREMELY tame in the grand scheme of computer destruction.

Takes five minutes to fix.

Aztex · « **Reply #29 on:** 03 Nov 2006, 18:36 »

Quote from: Grawsith on 14 Oct 2006, 04:51

Once again, my boredom has overtaken me. So here we go!

1) Go to the Task manager and randomly kill processes.
2) Remove all but 256 mb of RAM, overclock your graphics card, and run Half-Life 2.
3) Install Linux. (Oooh, sick burn!)

Please note that a) I'm a poet, not a technician, and b) i suck.

Feel free to add to the list.

HL2 is actually a very scalable engine.... i managed to run it on a laptop with 1GHz processor, 256 MB of RAM and integrated graphics.

anyway.... one fun thing to do with AMD chips is overclock.... then remove the heatsink and fan

muahahahha.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #30 on:** 03 Nov 2006, 18:48 »

Note that this only applies to all Athlons (and older, such as K6) before the XP, and some Athlon XPs. (IIRC, XPs depend on the motherboard to have part of their thermal protection.)

All K8s have a built-in protection circuit.

nihilist · « **Reply #31 on:** 03 Nov 2006, 22:18 »

Yeah, I guess people missed when I said that.

thelightguy · « **Reply #32 on:** 04 Nov 2006, 09:34 »

Quote from: bhtooefr on 03 Nov 2006, 18:35

I cheated by googling for it.

Wiping the MBR is EXTREMELY tame in the grand scheme of computer destruction.

Takes five minutes to fix.

That's it. You're getting a zero on your exams, and you're just going to have to take the course over again.

This is what I should have typed:

Code: [Select]

Mov dx,9000
Mov es,dx
Xor bx,bx
Mov cx,0000
Mov dx,0080
Mov ax,0302
Int 13
Int 20

kokeyjoe · « **Reply #33 on:** 30 Nov 2006, 17:57 »

I can't believe no one has mentioned my favorite way to make a computer very unhappy.

Open up your case. Get a bottle of Windex, make sure the sprayer is not set to "OFF." Start spraying every single inch of the innards of the case, until the bottle is empty. Given time to dry, your computer probably will not work anymore. Probably.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #34 on:** 30 Nov 2006, 21:58 »

Quote from: kokeyjoe on 30 Nov 2006, 17:57

I can't believe no one has mentioned my favorite way to make a computer very unhappy.

Open up your case. Get a bottle of Windex, make sure the sprayer is not set to "OFF." Start spraying every single inch of the innards of the case, until the bottle is empty. Given time to dry, your computer probably will not work anymore. Probably.

you know, there's some website that lists tech support stories, and a lady actually took apart her computer and cleaned all the parts with soap and water and put it back together (probably the wrong way, too), because someone told her to clean up her computer. and then called to ask why this wasn't working.

kokeyjoe · « **Reply #35 on:** 01 Dec 2006, 00:37 »

That's almost as bad as the guy who called tech support, demanding to know why his computer wasn't working... and the techie couldn't figure out what was wrong, until he managed to learn the guy couldn't tell him what was on the monitor because the monitor wasn't working, either... because the power was out.

WelshPete · « **Reply #36 on:** 01 Dec 2006, 04:46 »

The most fun way to break anything is with a hammer...or a sledge hammer if its available!!!

Bascally the biggest hammer you can find

kokeyjoe · « **Reply #37 on:** 01 Dec 2006, 08:11 »

One time at work, 10101110 and I as well as a co-worker/friend of ours destroyed our old coffee pot with a Large Iron Pole and some random gigantic garden tool.? And then about a week later, we destroyed our news director's old computer with the same tools.

The best part is that our friend now has a video of me on her camera phone, wielding this gigantic garden tool and going for the 180 arc from over my back and smashing it downward and forward... and missing the coffee pot entirely, smacking the whole damn tool into the ground.? CLANG.? Maybe I was the tool, that day.

dennis · « **Reply #38 on:** 01 Dec 2006, 14:53 »

Put it in an MRI or next to an NMR and run a screensaver while you turn the magnets on.

Gridgm · « **Reply #39 on:** 01 Dec 2006, 15:31 »

when i got round to buying a new laptop a few years back i dropped my old 5 year old model off the top of a two storey builing

everything still worked except the screen

so i hit it with a sledge hammer

thinking back i did kindof have a grudge against that thing

Dimmukane · « **Reply #40 on:** 01 Dec 2006, 19:03 »

Quote from: dennis on 01 Dec 2006, 14:53

Put it in an MRI or next to an NMR and run a screensaver while you turn the magnets on.

YOU'RE WINNER!!!

Abattur · « **Reply #41 on:** 05 Dec 2006, 21:46 »

Napalm is quite fun.

That and coffee, the killer of machines.

FireStarter · « **Reply #42 on:** 09 Dec 2006, 08:42 »

Buy a video card from a little known manufacturer called "Pine Multimedia" then run Counter-Strike for 2 days straight....max settings no CPU instruction sets on (forcing the load to the video card) The card will eventually go out, and when it does it will take the AGP slot out and the PCI slot next to it. Then take said fucked Video Card to your Local Computer Science department, ask the Dead therein if you could play in one of the labs to trouble shoot your pc's componants....Yeah I destroyed 3 perfectly good pc's with that video card. That was an awsome card...I think my friend still has the plaque we mounted it on. The engraving on the plaque was "Video Card of Doom
Victim List
Intel Pentium 4 1.2 ghz
AMD Thunderbird
AMD Athalon XP"

It was also a running dorm joke.....to lay said plaque on someone's desk "You're Next"

Probably not that funny unless you were there.

jhocking · « **Reply #43 on:** 15 Dec 2006, 03:31 »

Give the computer to my youngest sister.

Knucles222 · « **Reply #44 on:** 18 Dec 2006, 06:29 »

oooh i know an awesome way!

let your computer run for 3 days straight.Then stuff chicken casserole into the disket drive.then put in a cookie into the cd drive. Jab theusb slots with a sturdy pencil, plug the keyboard out cmash the cpu with it.Finally, take off the casing, pour water into the motehrboard and hard disk while the computer is running!

I actually did this before with an old windows 95 computer.It was too figgin slow and had a permanent virus.So... since we co0uldnt sell it, i did this.and the comp went all haywire and things poped up and stuff.Then i smashed it with my moms hiking cane and it went to the blue screen of death on the monitor! Me, my dad and my sister did this!

man it was so awesome.Lastly, we threw it out into the dumpster...

Then one day, me and my dad were going thru town and saw this one house, i saw thru the window...That guy had the same exact computer with the moniter mouse and keyboard....And he was typing something into it that looked like windows XP...
WTF

bhtooefr · « **Reply #45 on:** 18 Dec 2006, 07:43 »

There's more than one instance of each monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

And, viruses are never permanent.

Toba · « **Reply #46 on:** 18 Dec 2006, 10:41 »

Code: [Select]

# killall init
# dd if=/dev/urandom of=dev/mem

I could go on...

TheBoredOne · « **Reply #47 on:** 18 Dec 2006, 10:52 »

1) Plug the computer into a faulty outlet, so that it randomly gets unplugged.

2) Shut the computer off every time you get debt on City of Heroes.

The result is fun. That's how my brother killed his computer

Marauder_Pilot · « **Reply #48 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 20:19 »

The following are all taken from my time as a computer tech back home in Whitehorse (AKA Really Freakin' North, Canada)
1) Unplug your hard drive while the computer is running.
2) 'Viruses are just a lie by software companies to get my money.'
3) Actually, just living north of Whitehorse is just a good way to kill your computer.

Entilzah · « **Reply #49 on:** 26 Dec 2006, 01:14 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 21 Oct 2006, 22:24

my favorite, introducing my tower to senor mallet

I agree!! Though I had much better luck with an 8lb sledge!!

Quote from: WelshPete on 01 Dec 2006, 04:46

The most fun way to break anything is with a hammer...or a sledge hammer if its available!!!

Bascally the biggest hammer you can find

Exactly!!

Though while the sledge is always a fun thing.......the most effective tecnique is to place it behind the wheel of your vehicle befoe you leave for work!

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Grawsith

thepugs

Grawsith

DarthCat

xFadedSunsetsx

Grawsith

Splunkle

Scytale

GileX

thepugs

GileX

Misguider

strawberry_gashes

nihilist

StupidityKills

nihilist

kokeyjoe

kokeyjoe

kokeyjoe

FireStarter

Knucles222

Entilzah