What's the worst thing you've put your computer through?

A thread for the abuse you've subjected your computer to, milk-related or otherwise.

Speaking of milk, I spilled some on my keyboard once. Nothing happened, but it smelled funny for a while.

Porting a post over from that other thread:

The worst thing I've put my computer through is the constant use it gets (it gets almost exactly as much sleep as I do), to the extent where it's now:

• Underclocking itself
• Processor temperatures are stupid high (50C at startup, 90C an hour later.)

It's only two and a half years old...

My brother spilled an entire glass of milk on my keyboard once.

It was a mid-2000s iMac keyboard, the kind that's in clear plastic, so it just sorta pooled there.

(It worked again after a couple days, but I ended up replacing it anyway because it stunk)

For my laptop, it still has a dent on the lid that I have no idea how it got there.

I also once spilled a glass of water on it while watching My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic so its battery or motherboard went on the fritz, so it wouldn't recharge anymore and I had to send it off to Poland to get it fixed.

For my desktop...I'll have to think about that one.

Last year I spilled some milk on my laptop. It stopped working immediately and ended up costing me 25 bucks for repairing. One year later, I did the same thing and my laptop is gone for real. So I lost another 800 bucks for a new one.

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There's a lot of milk-spilling going on here.

What are you guys, lactophiliacs?

We're only talking about milk because of the other thread.

I installed Vista once.

An Aesop : NEVER, EVER, drink milk while using your computer. You will pay for your ignorance.

That was a pre-existing condition for mine.

edited 27th May '11 1:47:26 AM by Malph

Saw that coming a mile away.

You have nothing against me. I used Microsoft Powerpoint to make my dad a birthday card once.

That's why I never bring drinks near my computer without lids these days.

Also because this is my first laptop, and so I treat it like my baby. (Though admittedly less so than when it was new, for example, the fact that I even bring drinks near it now)

For my laptop, it was dropping it, twice. Still works though

For my desktop, its like someone else on here said. It sleeps just as much as me, which is to say barely at all.

Nothing too dramatic so far... although I did knock an almost-full carton of iced coffee all over my carpet with my elbow the other day.

He does, however, occasionally become infested with ants. I can see them scurrying around under the keys. >=(

edited 27th May '11 1:56:37 AM by LoniJay

I dropped my laptop several times too. Fortunately nothing bad came out of it.

Dropped my keyboard once. Couldn't use the space bar, and ended up having to waste my Game Stop money on the repairs.

Does anybody here overclock their computer? I don't really have the knowhow to do that, but I hear that if you screw it up it can go a bit Michael Bay on you.

edited 27th May '11 1:54:45 AM by zeroplusalpha

I've never dropped my laptop, though I did contribute indirectly to a teacher's laptop being dropped on a linoleum floor.

(The corner of the case actually broke off and he had to have it replaced)

I once dropped a laptop off a desk. Apparently, this cracked the motherboard; it died a very slow death over the course of about a year and a half as a result.

edited 27th May '11 1:56:49 AM by Haven

Today I almost spilled coffee on my laptop.

My little brother broke the screen off his government-issued netbook.

Through "daily wear and tear".

Oh, and I borked my old Linux-installed laptop by stepping on it.

Your little brother has a government-issued laptop?

Is he a spy?