Topic: I have been the most stupid cunt ever - computer related disaster inside (Read 3642 times)

Warning: This is just me having a bit of a vent because I'm feeling extremely infuriated with myself right now

You know that fantastic gaming PC I built that was working great and let me do everything faster? I went and fucking ruined it, being the idiot that I am despite having carefully researched all the parts I needed I realised the stock heatsink was too loud I bought a heatsink fine, but I watched some twat on youtube put way too much thermal paste on and I assumed it would be fine ( not knowing of course that the thermal paste would already be on a new heatsink which I know know in hindsight ) and didn't check other videos which pretty much screamed at me about using only a pea sized amount. The stuff of course went all over the processor and bits of it on the motherboard, I tried cleaning it off with isoprophyl alcohol as much as I could but it was clearly a lost cause because there was just that much paste everywhere and because the processor had gotten stuck to the heatsink some of the pins were bent.

Thankfully I had the good sense to keep all my old parts etc. and hopefully I will be able to salvage my old computer and recover most of the stuff and be back to normal but FUCKING DAMNIT, perfectly good powerful computer gone down the drain!

I should fucking know better as well but let this be a warning to all of you thinking about building your own PCs, I'm sure you guys have had disasters like this right? I'm not alone right?

@bolded, shit, more like 12-15 minutes . Ever quicker with a USB install stick rather using a dvd.

Exactly. These are minor software issues. You could actually probably fix the windows but you're not qualified enough to do so. Last time I had a BSOD which prevented me from booting into Windows (didn't have a backup, that was the problem), I ended up manually fixing a driver via a LiveCD (painfully slow).
Hardware problems are much much worse than software!
Installing a new copy of Windows on an SSD takes <30min.

Pfft that's nothing, at least you didn't fry your computer parts, then again a family member of mine did that with a plug and it ended up melting the motherboard somehow, so you were pretty lucky there you could even keep windows running.

No thanks, I still love my baby

My baby pull the plug while I am trying to restore my window to earlier version. Well, window fail completely after that and I have to re-install the whole window. I have bitcoin wallet inside and.....

Only one thing left to do.  Sell the baby.   

My baby pull the plug while I am trying to restore my window to earlier version. Well, window fail completely after that and I have to re-install the whole window. I have bitcoin wallet inside and.....

The reason it happened was because I had pretty much messed with every other part of the computer except the processor and the heatsink. The ridiculous thing is I definitely didn't do enough research on it because I thought it would be simple but I underestimated how much blatant misinformation there is about it because on the youtube comments everyone was screaming warnings about the video I saw and on many others as well.

I have no idea why I didn't check things out more carefully because normally I am careful ;_; lol all the other videos I checked out after fucking up were of people warning against using paper towels and stuff and only using tiny tiny amounts of thermal paste.

It was just purely down to my own experience, I can tell you I didn't take off the thermal paste that came with the processor either and when I put the stuff on I did here a SNAP! so it must have been conductive, ah well, I'll definitely never do that again.

Also, I wouldn't dare touch water cooling, ever LOL who knows what might happen, might somehow end up electrocuting myself.