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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 1:38 am

Just throw a glass of water while it is running and see fireworks...

On the serious note: Don't ever do that.
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:48 am

kvndoom wrote:
Install Windows XP with no virus / malware protection, no service packs, no firewall, and surf the web with IE6.

Should be far more entertaining than shooting it.


Yeah do this one first. See how many viruses you can get in a day. Make fake email accounts and send "sensitive" information to different places.

Then blow it up.
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:13 am

Jigar wrote:
Just throw a glass of water while it is running and see fireworks...

On the serious note: Don't ever do that.

You might be surprised how unspectacular the results of this would be. I spilled a glass of beer onto a running motherboard once. Not only did it not kill the motherboard, the system kept running! (I did hit the power switch pretty darn quick though...)

I did more damage (by dropping the mobo on a hard tile floor) while trying to clean the beer off than I did with the beer itself. Board still mostly worked (would boot up and run) after that, but the PCI slots were flaky.
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:37 am

Add a pile of salt to that glass of water and things will get a bit more interesting.
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:34 am

lol remove all heat sinks and wrap it up in plastic wrap... put a candy or meat thermometer in there.. see how hot it gets
 
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:58 am

Captain Ned wrote:
Add a pile of salt to that glass of water and things will get a bit more interesting.

I really would've thought that beer would have enough ions in it to cause some fireworks too! TBH the spill was mostly on the part of the board where the PCI slots and southbridge were located, not in the CPU/VRM/RAM area; I suppose things could've gotten more interesting if I'd managed to drench the entire board.
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:39 pm

I've got it!

This is easy. Boot to windows, start defragmenting C drive, then pick up the tower and drop it from about a foot off the ground. See how many times, or how high you have to get to kill the drive. Once this is done, then you can worry about the more permanent "explode it in half with..." experiments.

If it has more than one partition, it might be interesting to see what happens if you defrag a non system partition and do the same thing... will it kill the whole drive, rendering it unbootable, or would it just cause data loss on the partition being defragged?
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:44 pm

I had several XMR Micro-hook cables used to connect pins from a DIP mounted chip. In a bit of sadistic rage, I randomly applied these cables to chips on an ancient Apple IIe. The results were spectacular as the computer started to produce randomly corrupted text on the screen but eventually the magic smoke escaped that kept the system running. In the end even one of those micro-hook cables melted.

Unfortunately modern hardware has gone mainly to BGA packaging so such antics are no longer possible.
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 1:38 pm

southrncomfortjm wrote:
kvndoom wrote:
Install Windows XP with no virus / malware protection, no service packs, no firewall, and surf the web with IE6.

Should be far more entertaining than shooting it.


Yeah do this one first. See how many viruses you can get in a day. Make fake email accounts and send "sensitive" information to different places.

Then blow it up.

Been there done that?
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Re: Trying to kill an old computer in fun ways

Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:51 pm

Wow!! so many suggestions.

This weekend, I am going to figure out something fun to kill this thing off once and for all :lol:
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