This is why you have your UPS software use hibernate instead of shutdown. You may need to activate hibernate in Windows. If the UPS software won't do this, it sux.
@@fido139 That's because Windows can detect when this happens and can repair it automatically, like sometimes when you power back on it'll say "Undoing changes made to your computer..."
Way back when I was in college I had an Amiga 500 and I was showing something on it to my friend, who suddenly and drunkenly spilled an entire cup of beer on the keyboard, which was housed directly above the motherboard. I dove for the power button on the separate power supply unit and switched it off. Instead of opening it up and drying and cleaning it, I put a fan on it for a couple of days, after which it ran just fine. Several months later, I opened the case to upgrade the RAM and found a mat of black mold covering half the motherboard - which had been functioning normally to that point. PC clone manufacturers and Apple wish they could produce hardware so resilient. Heck, I remember when the manufacturer sent out a batch of units in which a chip was improperly seated, and Commodore's fix was to drop the computer on a hard surface from an elevation of 18-24 inches.
Yooo I remember this!! You’re so right I tend to buy the same resilient equipment for my PC’s I’ve had so many accidents that I thought would’ve killed the parts. Nope still going
0:43 Improper CPU Overclocking 1:55 Intel Performance Tuning Protection Plan 2:34 Poor Cooling & Ventilation 3:31 Not using UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) or surge protector 4:41 Deleting System Files 5:32 Interrupting Updates 6:35 Shaking a HDD (hard drive, especially a laptop's) 7:42 Messing with components while they're running 9:16 etherkiller 9:38 washing computer components, spilling liquid on a laptop keyboard, pouring an entire quart of motor oil into pc
Being a idiot and downloading io bit unlocker and then trying to free up the C hard drive with your windows on it and destroying your os without having a backup.....totally hasn’t happened to me😅
tbh iobit software is useless, if anything they actually make your pc slower, I find that PCs with advanced systemcare and that other shit on them consistently boot slower, for something that was supposed to make your pc faster that's amazing
@@chlorobyte_projects iobit unlocker is completely different from other iobit applications, it's a tool that gives you access to files that are apparently under use
In regards to _ventilation,_ if you smoke, *do it outside.* My careless young self gamed and smoked and when I opened up the case to clean it, *wow.* Clumps of black and sticky dust etc everywhere. I tore it all down and spent a day off thoroughly cleaning it and never did that again.
I remember the HD shake test - that was awesome. My worst mistake was to get distracted and yank a memory board out of a computer while it was on. (Nearly 30 years ago and I'll never forget!) No more trying to do too many things at once when a case is open. Thanks again.
In 1992, my supervisor's computer was so flimsy, it would crash from even small vibrations on her desk. I tried to explain to her that was not normal but she wouldn't hear of it.
6:10 this is where the NixOS Linux distro shines: since updates are done generationally, if the computer fails to upgrade there is no situation where your computer is completely unusable. You can just boot into the previous generation.
One other great way to destroy the mainboard is to allow a USB cable to come into contact with a 120-volt power source,. A year ago yesterday, that happened to me when a USB cable I had plugged into my computer touched the prong of a cell phone charger as I was plugging it in. There was a big fireball on the power strip and the computer immediately went dead. The accident left a visible burn mark on the mainboard :P
the fan placement one is actually super important. My friend fried his laptop since the cooling was failing and i had some bad thermal paste so my cpu was hitting 120 degrees playing valorant and the computer would shut down from overheating. put some new thermal paste and now its at 60 degrees max
It's perfectly find to wash motherboards and other circuit boards with water as long as they is not power to them and they are completely dry before powering up. In my 21 years in IT as a developer I have dealt with lots of hardware also. If an electrolytic capacitor or a battery on the board leaks by all means remove the bad component, use a toothbrush under warm water from faucet to scrub the area that has the leakage on it. Then use some isopropyl alcohol (99% preferably) and clean it with that too. Replace bad component and you're good to go. I have fixed circuit boards with water damage that caused corrosion by scrubbing the corrosion off under a water faucet. Kind of ironic.
8th method, give it to a 12 year old boy and say "you can do anything online but no adult stuff, we're going out for a hour", the thing will be fried in 5 minutes lol
I've learned so much from watching your vids the last couple months. I watch several a day trying to get up to speed. Even my wife is impressed with our new network. (and that's saying something) lol.
Don't build your office next to a water tower. 😁 Had a storm come thru one night and lightning hit the water tower. Fried every desktop network card (except one) in the bank branch we had next to the tower.
I just saved a motherboard by washing it. And not the first. Of course it's a last ditch effort. These were somehow sugarcoated by soda or something. The trick is to never use hard water (minerals will leave deposits) and keep it under a powerful fan (preferably heated air) for a couple days to make sure all water has evaporated from underneath components. During cleaning use a soft paint brush. The bristles on a toothbrush are very short and even a soft toothbrush may be too stiff. Don't push hard, and if you find that you have to, then let it soak first until you don't. It was crazy when I tried it, but it worked (more than once) and so it is now a valid technique as far as I am concerned.
Honourable Mentions: -Installing one Mod for any game your pc can run -Playing Call of Duty MW 2019 for 17 seconds (Bonus if your PC is over the age of 3) -Installing any Hyper-Realistic FPS game made after 2018 - *H A M M E R*
My PC has a built-in battery backup that can keep the system running for hours. And it can be setup to do a shutdown when the battery gets below a certain level. It has another feature that makes it difficult for me to work on the guts inside while it is running. These features have been commonly available for years; the products using them just don't seem to be marketed to highlight these useful functionalities. The code name for this is "LAPTOP". With an external monitor and wireless keyboard/mouse it gives me all that I got from my last desktop, and more: I can now run dual monitors, and, if necessary, I can easily take it with me on trips.
I washed my display adapter - not these new ones with huge fans. I had a USB 2.0 card that blew and the soot messed the display adapter so that the display was garbage. I washed it with water and let dry properly and it worked for years.
i've washed plenty of modern motherboards with water when they were completly felty. after the washing you have to hang it up some where and let it sit for around 2 to 3 days
Another thing with UPS : some can send some data to the computer to tell that it is currently in "battery mode" and how much estimated time is left; so the pc shuts down properly on its own (Not all UPS have that and not all pc either, you might need to install a program on your pc)
You can actually wash a mobo. As long as its 150% dry before you pit it back together. In fact, thats what they do at the factory. I have done it a couple of times before and it worked. Not only that but it "fixed" a dead mobo.
I like NOT overclocking best. LOL! A note about UPS backup boxes, the batteries crap out after only a year of so. SO, just when you need it, it's not there.
When technology has a stroke: *Person enters password* Wrong password *Person enters old password* Wrong password *Person clicks forgot password and changes password to their old password* New password can't be the same as old password Technology stroke, seizure and heart attack symptoms.
I managed to break my PC by having too many wires. Basically, I have a wired mouse that is plugged into the back of the PC (which is on the outside of my desk) the mouse wire ran behind the desk and through a small gap between the desk and the wall. The problem was, my mouse wire easily got tangled with the wires connected my PC to the power outlet and also my external speaker wires. So, because of this, there were a few times were I'd be using my PC and then the whole thing would power off because the wires got unplugged from my setup. I'd fix it and continue on with what I was doing. That is, until when 7 months ago it happened, and when I plugged my PC back in I managed to kill the power supply. I haven't been able to fix it though because I've never built a PC or repaired one before, and my parents don't have enough for a power supply. I have a lot of files on there that I don't wanna lose (like, you know, a Windows XP ISO, game files, and my entire archive of Miiverse posts I made when I was younger), so hopefully I can get it fixed soon.
4:28 APC UPS devices may also come with the ability to show a notification in Windows in case of low battery and even "shut down" or activate "sleep mode" automatically if necessary.
1. Overclocking 2. Poor ventilation and cooling 3. Nost using a UPS 4. Deleting system files 5. Interrupting updates 6. Shaking HDD 7. Messing with components while computer is running
I've been looking for something like an uninterruptible power supply for ages nut didn't know what I've been looking for. Thank you; it's great not to be feeling around in the dark.
In Venezuela power outages are extremely common, almost every day your PC will have a chance of being damaged by that cause. With that being said, it's strange to me that, even without protection, all of my PC and Laptops (that only work plugged in due to a broken battery) were not damaged. I guess I'm extremely lucky
I think I know what went wrong with the multimeter, you had it set to measure Amps, which will connect the two leads and thereby create a short if used incorrectly. If it was set to measure voltage that wouldn't have happened.
"Don't spill liquids on your laptop keyboard" i may have once spilt an entire tall glass of chocolate milk on my current laptop, and its the one im using rn..oops
I need to add / remove hard drives from my computer all the time and luckily the mobo has a hot-plug option in the BIOS to accommodate this - but once i needed to connect an old IDE drive via a SATA to IDE adapter, and of course these use older molex power connectors. The drive wasn't being detected so I plugged and unplugged the molex a few times and suddenly the PC just died completely - and the mobo was fried! Expensive lesson since I had to replace motherboard, cpu, and RAM.
I’ve always wondered about UPSs. Back in 2010 I once had a bolt of lighting hit my backyard and it wiped out one of my 2 GPU (gtx 480 Hydro Copper). The PC wasn’t even on when this happened. At the time this GPU was expensive and very hard to find. Thankfully the wonderful people over at EVGA (specifically Jacob) read my forum post and helped me out anyways. I’ve been a customer of EVGA for 10 years now because of that. With that said, every time there Is a chance of rain or storm, I shut down and unplug everything now…forever traumatized
Me:doing a project for 4hrs unsaved School computer: shuts down without any reason Me:starts it and watch this video and planning to do a power surge Computer:hold my ups Me:hold my system 32
If your someone who never turns your computer off, some interruptible power supplies also come with software and a USB cable that to connect it to your computer and will shut your computer off after a specified amount of time after the power goes off.
Another is do not run a registry defrag while an update is running. Spent all night re-installing my daughter's Windows after that. Side note: back in the early 90's, I had a hard drive I had to manually spin it to get it running. It was fine as long as it didn't stop. Just didn't have the money at the time to replace it.
9:45 Actually, washing a motherboard with water is actually ok, if, A, you remove every power source, including the CMOS battery, and B, let it dry completely before even attempting to turn it back on. Some retro computer enthusiasts have actually run motherboards through the dishwasher to remove leaked electrolytic capacitor electrolyte from the board before replacing those bad capacitors.
Computer users: spend lots of money into buying giant external batteries that can keep your computer running for a few minutes if power goes out Laptop users: we don't do that here
Back in the 90s I had this really cool (for the 90s) Logitech keyboard. It wasn't wireless but it was a keyboard/mouse combo and the keyboard was ergonomic and had a built-in full size trackpad with 2 buttons for left and right click. Keyboards like that are a dime a dozen these days but back then it was like a unicorn. I loved that keyboard and everything was great....until I tipped over a bowl of cereal on it. It immediately was unusable and I searched high and low and couldn't find another one like it. So sad.
Kudos for Kevin for describing how he toasted part of a computer. That is the kind of thing I think a lot of people in his line of business would just conveniently forget their more embarrassing mistakes.
I am surprised that spilling coffee on your laptop isn't higher up the list. In my experience this is probably the most common for of death by user in practise.
We EE's wash PCB's after assembling them all thee time. Remove all power (incl coin cells), wash, then rinse with distilled water. Bake at low temp low moisture until completely dry. Haven't had an issue yet. Rinsing with non distilled water or with out enough distilled water may cause corrosion. Also forced air should be not used haphazardly as it could blow debris under high density parts (bad ) or contaminate electrolytic caps that are not well sealed so caution & YMMV applies to those situations.
I use OS X 10.4 Tiger on my nostalgia Mac, it literally lets you drag the system folder to the trash bin and doesn’t even ask for the admin password. Of course you can’t take it back out because you can’t open files in the trash, and trash is part of finder, which is in the trash. I did this for fun on my dying hard drive and it made every single character the no character found symbol (A in a square).
Populated circuit boards are actually washed at the end of the manufacturing cycle. So yes, you can wash those, and they do mix. You just have to make sure that 1. the board is not connected ot any power (such as a battery), or/and 2. you dry it thoroughly before reapplying power, or 3. you use pure water, because that doesn't conduct electricity or corrode.
Watch out for cheap UPS units. We had one at the radio station I manage. It fried itself and actually took down the playout computer with it. I was rather taken aback by this event as we all know these things are designed to protect computers, not wreck 'em. It obviously didn't fail safe.
About shaking a working HDD - I once dropped a PC down a short flight of hard concrete stairs. It was an early IBM, probably from the late 80's, built like a brick sh1t-house. It survived!
5:00 I remember a couple years ago I was trying to close a crashed game using task manager and I accidentally force closed Windows and I couldn't get my pc to shut down without unplugging it
I've been using computers since 1982. My family got an IBM PC (original model 5150) in 1984. I did my first PC build (a 286-16) in 1988. TO DATE, I have NEVER encountered a power surge that has been able to damage ANY computer that I have EVER owned or used at work. Americans with their privatised power grids...
It's one of the things I love about my PC. I've been running an intel core i7 7700k on a ASUS Z77 Sabertooth for, shit, quite a while. And the bios on that has a great 'dynamic' for over clocking, where it will +, or - voltages depending on your current workload. Also, doing a performance score of 8.9, to 9.9 on all. Yes those processors are known to run a bit hot. but they (for the most part) were kind of built for that. I don't even water cool. the Cooler Master hyper 212 has been doing the trick just fine. I can still game, edit videos, Multitask like a lunatic. Although one thing I have noticed. My performance has grown a lot since going to win 10, from win 7, although not at first. but as updates (big and small) have come to pass, my PC is running better than ever. also, yes I COMPLETELY agree one having a good UPS. that shit really isn't all that expensive. but after losing an older PC to a spike. I won't run without. I also run a POWER CONDITIONER/SEQUENCER. Those are great because I also use my PC as a home studio, so all things plugged in will have regulated voltage. That one is not that important, but it is fairly convenient. Just my .02 cents.
Most power surges that caused damage are not from lightning strikes or the actual power outage but are actually from when power is restored, and the reason being is when the utility company restores power and energizes that section of the grid again it is going from 0% load to what ever load was on it when the power went out which depending on the time of day and season could be Almost maximum load so it’s going to instantly draw a fair amount of current which can easily induced voltage spikes into the lines and it only takes a split second of a voltage spike to cause damage to computers. Very rarely will you get a surge from the actual outage and usually it’s only if the high-voltage primary lines cross over the lower voltage secondary lines that feed the houses, the most common way that happens is when someone hits the poles with a vehicle and it knocks the pole over and takes the wires with it
someone spilled some wine on my laptop ,of course on the keyboard, and i am still using it a month later and it works great, but now you make me worry about what you said about long term corrosion
Also be careful, smashing your computer with two hammers will damage your computer!
(This has been a funney haha ThioJoke)
Who said you have to be joking? I'm doing it
In a few years, my laptop requires the same protection as the Death Star
what about notebooks.?
@@vingray8119 As Palpatine said, DEWIT
You are talking really funny 😄😄😄 !
@RedeemlessKills mikita jack hammer
You forgot “watching a verge pc build tutorial”
true
oop
Ooooof
That puts me on verge of cringing ! 😁
@@ThioJoe thio plays roblox confirmed
(Its A Joke Dont Take It Seriously)
Instructions are unclear. Now Microsoft is providing me with a refund, however for some reason they want google play gift cards.
Everyone knows the IRS only accepts payments in iTunes gift cards too
@@ThioJoe Everyone knows you can only buy games from subway gift cards.
Ha, suckers, I’ve been approached by a Nigerian prince, he will make me a rich man soon!
_scem_
brooooo napolion just gave me a 19$ robloc card
4:00
Power: goes out
UPS: activates
Windows: shuts down
Also Windows:
*Windows is installing updates*
*0% complete*
*Don't turn off your computer*
This is why you have your UPS software use hibernate instead of shutdown. You may need to activate hibernate in Windows. If the UPS software won't do this, it sux.
From bad to worse
It doesn't matter. I've shut my systems down many times under the "do not turn off you computer" with never one single ill effect.
Lloyd Dominic Refuerzo Stupid.
@@fido139 That's because Windows can detect when this happens and can repair it automatically, like sometimes when you power back on it'll say "Undoing changes made to your computer..."
Way back when I was in college I had an Amiga 500 and I was showing something on it to my friend, who suddenly and drunkenly spilled an entire cup of beer on the keyboard, which was housed directly above the motherboard. I dove for the power button on the separate power supply unit and switched it off. Instead of opening it up and drying and cleaning it, I put a fan on it for a couple of days, after which it ran just fine.
Several months later, I opened the case to upgrade the RAM and found a mat of black mold covering half the motherboard - which had been functioning normally to that point. PC clone manufacturers and Apple wish they could produce hardware so resilient. Heck, I remember when the manufacturer sent out a batch of units in which a chip was improperly seated, and Commodore's fix was to drop the computer on a hard surface from an elevation of 18-24 inches.
Oh
Ok
@@hihi-ll3cw too long
Yooo I remember this!! You’re so right I tend to buy the same resilient equipment for my PC’s I’ve had so many accidents that I thought would’ve killed the parts. Nope still going
ThioJoe "don't shake your laptop"
my brain (digs through memories)
me "im safe"
Lol
**at the intel store**
Oh hi there so i overclocked my core i9 with 60 volts of electricity and i was wondering if it was covered
The shopkeeper
NOPE
Yes!... for a one time fee of 429.99
@@quantumbits wallet:why do i hear boos music?
0:43 Improper CPU Overclocking 1:55 Intel Performance Tuning Protection Plan
2:34 Poor Cooling & Ventilation
3:31 Not using UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) or surge protector
4:41 Deleting System Files
5:32 Interrupting Updates
6:35 Shaking a HDD (hard drive, especially a laptop's)
7:42 Messing with components while they're running
9:16 etherkiller 9:38 washing computer components, spilling liquid on a laptop keyboard, pouring an entire quart of motor oil into pc
Thank you so much, saved a lot of time, also 800th comment
@@ZekSanchez You're welcome😉
I have done all of this 🤫
@@chubselpulgoso3918 damn
I've done all of them.
On my friends pc.
11 times... I question your choice of friends.
@@Tw3akst3r lol
r/madlads
@@shou_gana1 yeee
_"Friend"_
Lmao that thumbnail.
_Just a dab of thermal paste..._
I've been overclocking my GPUs for years, but I still have never attempted to overclock a CPU. I just don't feel comfortable with the risks.
Being a idiot and downloading io bit unlocker and then trying to free up the C hard drive with your windows on it and destroying your os without having a backup.....totally hasn’t happened to me😅
tbh iobit software is useless, if anything they actually make your pc slower, I find that PCs with advanced systemcare and that other shit on them consistently boot slower, for something that was supposed to make your pc faster that's amazing
@@chlorobyte_projects Bruh its a joke
@@chlorobyte_projects iobit unlocker is completely different from other iobit applications, it's a tool that gives you access to files that are apparently under use
Thiojoe: “Do you want to destroy your computer?”
Me: YeS I wOuLd LoVe To
lol
What.
Lol me too I Want a new gaming pc
In regards to _ventilation,_ if you smoke, *do it outside.* My careless young self gamed and smoked and when I opened up the case to clean it, *wow.* Clumps of black and sticky dust etc everywhere.
I tore it all down and spent a day off thoroughly cleaning it and never did that again.
Another mistake that may damage your computer:
ThioJoe’s fake tutorials...
I was thinking just that myself
Ashton Harb That’s because some people who tried the fake tutorials for game consoles reported that they broke theirs
@Ashton Harb WOOOOOOOOOOSH
SaturneKx ya don’t need to scream
In his fake videos desc he said he switched to real vids
Prior to watching: “Please tell me I didn’t do any of these things!” 😬😬😬
Jake: I'm watching you...
Thanks man. Good looking out 👀 Us Jakes need to stick together 😉
True.
Jake late to the party but yes we do
@@jakeludlow7064
"Mom can we have Jake Chudnow at home?"
"We have Jake Chudnow at home."
Jake Chudnow at home: Jake Ludnow
Not hitting it with hammers may help
Oops.
Citation needed
@@ThioJoe Wikipedia
I heard that if you pee on your computer it will break so don't pee on your pc
smft didn’t worked mine still works fine
True but it may cure thumbnail fungus and you don't want all your windows thumbnails turning bad do you?
@@Robert08010 this is art
Don't let your cat pee on the PC.
@@CodeSlapper or your dog
8:36 love your choice of taking this scene 😂
"avoid shaking a HDD, this is quite common with laptops"
Me, having always used SSDs after my first laptop:
Eh?
When I was playing resident evil 4, I accidentally punch my monitor as I was angry I died 100 times. How do I prevent it?
I have 1 256gb ssd and 1 tb hdd. It's normal to have both.
@@Sol4rOnYt xd
No need to flex mr rich money big shot man
I remember the HD shake test - that was awesome. My worst mistake was to get distracted and yank a memory board out of a computer while it was on. (Nearly 30 years ago and I'll never forget!) No more trying to do too many things at once when a case is open.
Thanks again.
In 1992, my supervisor's computer was so flimsy, it would crash from even small vibrations on her desk. I tried to explain to her that was not normal but she wouldn't hear of it.
Do you want to completely ruin your computer? Of course I do!!!
The thumbnail is hilarious, one of the best I’ve ever seen. 😂😂
UPS saved my pc yrs ago in a (very) old apt where every time my nextdoor neighbor's blender and toaster were on, my screen sizzled.
6:10 this is where the NixOS Linux distro shines: since updates are done generationally, if the computer fails to upgrade there is no situation where your computer is completely unusable. You can just boot into the previous generation.
One other great way to destroy the mainboard is to allow a USB cable to come into contact with a 120-volt power source,. A year ago yesterday, that happened to me when a USB cable I had plugged into my computer touched the prong of a cell phone charger as I was plugging it in. There was a big fireball on the power strip and the computer immediately went dead. The accident left a visible burn mark on the mainboard :P
the fan placement one is actually super important. My friend fried his laptop since the cooling was failing and i had some bad thermal paste so my cpu was hitting 120 degrees playing valorant and the computer would shut down from overheating. put some new thermal paste and now its at 60 degrees max
It's perfectly find to wash motherboards and other circuit boards with water as long as they is not power to them and they are completely dry before powering up. In my 21 years in IT as a developer I have dealt with lots of hardware also. If an electrolytic capacitor or a battery on the board leaks by all means remove the bad component, use a toothbrush under warm water from faucet to scrub the area that has the leakage on it. Then use some isopropyl alcohol (99% preferably) and clean it with that too. Replace bad component and you're good to go. I have fixed circuit boards with water damage that caused corrosion by scrubbing the corrosion off under a water faucet. Kind of ironic.
8th method, give it to a 12 year old boy and say "you can do anything online but no adult stuff, we're going out for a hour",
the thing will be fried in 5 minutes lol
I've learned so much from watching your vids the last couple months. I watch several a day trying to get up to speed. Even my wife is impressed with our new network. (and that's saying something) lol.
Don't build your office next to a water tower. 😁
Had a storm come thru one night and lightning hit the water tower. Fried every desktop network card (except one) in the bank branch we had next to the tower.
9:38 Or with a shop vac they put out static which can cause ESD, unless you have them grounded properly.
I just saved a motherboard by washing it. And not the first. Of course it's a last ditch effort. These were somehow sugarcoated by soda or something. The trick is to never use hard water (minerals will leave deposits) and keep it under a powerful fan (preferably heated air) for a couple days to make sure all water has evaporated from underneath components. During cleaning use a soft paint brush. The bristles on a toothbrush are very short and even a soft toothbrush may be too stiff. Don't push hard, and if you find that you have to, then let it soak first until you don't. It was crazy when I tried it, but it worked (more than once) and so it is now a valid technique as far as I am concerned.
Instructions unclear... I washed my motherboard and my computer runs 1000x faster now!
Did you make sure to use a blow dryer that generates lots of static electricity? You got to really dry that static ram!
Honourable Mentions:
-Installing one Mod for any game your pc can run
-Playing Call of Duty MW 2019 for 17 seconds (Bonus if your PC is over the age of 3)
-Installing any Hyper-Realistic FPS game made after 2018
- *H A M M E R*
My PC has a built-in battery backup that can keep the system running for hours. And it can be setup to do a shutdown when the battery gets below a certain level. It has another feature that makes it difficult for me to work on the guts inside while it is running.
These features have been commonly available for years; the products using them just don't seem to be marketed to highlight these useful functionalities.
The code name for this is "LAPTOP". With an external monitor and wireless keyboard/mouse it gives me all that I got from my last desktop, and more: I can now run dual monitors, and, if necessary, I can easily take it with me on trips.
Don`t forget about the cat jumping up on the desk and flopping over on the key board expecting to get rubbed.
I wouldn't keep hamsters in your computer either. But that is just me.
I washed my display adapter - not these new ones with huge fans. I had a USB 2.0 card that blew and the soot messed the display adapter so that the display was garbage. I washed it with water and let dry properly and it worked for years.
i've washed plenty of modern motherboards with water when they were completly felty. after the washing you have to hang it up some where and let it sit for around 2 to 3 days
First, I broke my first Windows PC with viruses from limewire :)
I approve of this, comrade
When I was 15 and didn't know any better, I ruined my PC with malware from some shady free downloader.
Knight Wing hey im 15 and want to get my first pc and I don’t want to kill it with viruses what could I do about it or how could I avoid it?
@@offbrandhp5705 get malware bytes premium, from the official website. It is like the best antivirus. It blocks all malware and viruses.
@@jaycalter1629 Or avast its very good
Another thing with UPS : some can send some data to the computer to tell that it is currently in "battery mode" and how much estimated time is left; so the pc shuts down properly on its own (Not all UPS have that and not all pc either, you might need to install a program on your pc)
A UPS is a must around here. No more lost work for any power brownouts. Those happen often. I have two, one for the desktop, one for the monitors.
You can actually wash a mobo. As long as its 150% dry before you pit it back together. In fact, thats what they do at the factory. I have done it a couple of times before and it worked. Not only that but it "fixed" a dead mobo.
ThioJoe : do you wanna ruin your computer, of course not
Howtobasic : are you sure?
I like NOT overclocking best. LOL!
A note about UPS backup boxes, the batteries crap out after only a year of so. SO, just when you need it, it's not there.
Me a week earlier: Oops I accidentally spilled orange juice on mah keyboard meh it's no biggy!
Me now: Wtf was I thinking
"do you want to completely ruin your computer? well of course not!"
don't put words in my mouth. sometimes I do!
When technology has a stroke:
*Person enters password* Wrong password
*Person enters old password* Wrong password
*Person clicks forgot password and changes password to their old password* New password can't be the same as old password
Technology stroke, seizure and heart attack symptoms.
"everyone makes mistakes, it doesn't do anything"
Thiojoe: lol
I managed to break my PC by having too many wires.
Basically, I have a wired mouse that is plugged into the back of the PC (which is on the outside of my desk) the mouse wire ran behind the desk and through a small gap between the desk and the wall. The problem was, my mouse wire easily got tangled with the wires connected my PC to the power outlet and also my external speaker wires. So, because of this, there were a few times were I'd be using my PC and then the whole thing would power off because the wires got unplugged from my setup. I'd fix it and continue on with what I was doing. That is, until when 7 months ago it happened, and when I plugged my PC back in I managed to kill the power supply. I haven't been able to fix it though because I've never built a PC or repaired one before, and my parents don't have enough for a power supply.
I have a lot of files on there that I don't wanna lose (like, you know, a Windows XP ISO, game files, and my entire archive of Miiverse posts I made when I was younger), so hopefully I can get it fixed soon.
4:28 APC UPS devices may also come with the ability to show a notification in Windows in case of low battery and even "shut down" or activate "sleep mode" automatically if necessary.
Joe: wanna destroy your pc? Well of course not!
Joel: >:)
1. Dropping your sledgehammer.
I appreciate your work for making these videos! Thanks!
"Do you want to completely ruin your computer?"
* Ruins monitor instead....
Thanks for your laugh with me, but @@PDCMYTC.
Thanks, I’m going to try this on school computers :)
Old thio is back.
1. Overclocking
2. Poor ventilation and cooling
3. Nost using a UPS
4. Deleting system files
5. Interrupting updates
6. Shaking HDD
7. Messing with components while computer is running
UPS suck,i prefer FedEx
I've been looking for something like an uninterruptible power supply for ages nut didn't know what I've been looking for. Thank you; it's great not to be feeling around in the dark.
me watching this while my computer is laying all around the desk without a case: 👁👄👁
It's funny that this video was recommended to me from your video about doubling cpu cores.
The irony of it
I still remember overclocking my 2700x to 6Ghz and watching it cut off never to boot again 🤔😃👍.
In Venezuela power outages are extremely common, almost every day your PC will have a chance of being damaged by that cause.
With that being said, it's strange to me that, even without protection, all of my PC and Laptops (that only work plugged in due to a broken battery) were not damaged. I guess I'm extremely lucky
4:07
Laughs in ~5 minute shutdown time
Time for some tech revenge. *Holds mouse over system 32 folder*
I think I know what went wrong with the multimeter, you had it set to measure Amps, which will connect the two leads and thereby create a short if used incorrectly. If it was set to measure voltage that wouldn't have happened.
"Don't spill liquids on your laptop keyboard"
i may have once spilt an entire tall glass of chocolate milk on my current laptop, and its the one im using rn..oops
I need to add / remove hard drives from my computer all the time and luckily the mobo has a hot-plug option in the BIOS to accommodate this - but once i needed to connect an old IDE drive via a SATA to IDE adapter, and of course these use older molex power connectors. The drive wasn't being detected so I plugged and unplugged the molex a few times and suddenly the PC just died completely - and the mobo was fried! Expensive lesson since I had to replace motherboard, cpu, and RAM.
I’ve always wondered about UPSs. Back in 2010 I once had a bolt of lighting hit my backyard and it wiped out one of my 2 GPU (gtx 480 Hydro Copper). The PC wasn’t even on when this happened. At the time this GPU was expensive and very hard to find. Thankfully the wonderful people over at EVGA (specifically Jacob) read my forum post and helped me out anyways. I’ve been a customer of EVGA for 10 years now because of that.
With that said, every time there Is a chance of rain or storm, I shut down and unplug everything now…forever traumatized
Question if you spill something on your keyboard and it fully doesn't work can replace your keyboard with something that isn't the same keybourd
Me:doing a project for 4hrs unsaved
School computer: shuts down without any reason
Me:starts it and watch this video and planning to do a power surge
Computer:hold my ups
Me:hold my system 32
thiojoe: dont shake your laptop
Me: how about computer?
4:50 SYSTEM 32 IS A VIRUS,I'M DEAD 🤣🤣🤣🤣
If your someone who never turns your computer off, some interruptible power supplies also come with software and a USB cable that to connect it to your computer and will shut your computer off after a specified amount of time after the power goes off.
2:35 "If you have a pre-built you'll probably be fine"
Having watched Gamers Nexus' series on pre-built PCs, I can not confirm that ...
One time, I was dumb enough to let a scheduled chkdsk run during an update. Surprisingly, Startup Repair fixed the resulting boot loop.
Ah Shit, Here we go again
Another is do not run a registry defrag while an update is running. Spent all night re-installing my daughter's Windows after that.
Side note: back in the early 90's, I had a hard drive I had to manually spin it to get it running. It was fine as long as it didn't stop. Just didn't have the money at the time to replace it.
4:48 "They said System32 was a virus!!!!"
9:45
Actually, washing a motherboard with water is actually ok, if, A, you remove every power source, including the CMOS battery, and B, let it dry completely before even attempting to turn it back on. Some retro computer enthusiasts have actually run motherboards through the dishwasher to remove leaked electrolytic capacitor electrolyte from the board before replacing those bad capacitors.
Use a grounding strap. Sometimes you have to let capacitors disharge also. Be very careful when working with RAM. etc.
"Mistake 3: Not using a UPS or surge protector "
Me using a laptop:
Computer users: spend lots of money into buying giant external batteries that can keep your computer running for a few minutes if power goes out
Laptop users: we don't do that here
Back in the 90s I had this really cool (for the 90s) Logitech keyboard. It wasn't wireless but it was a keyboard/mouse combo and the keyboard was ergonomic and had a built-in full size trackpad with 2 buttons for left and right click. Keyboards like that are a dime a dozen these days but back then it was like a unicorn. I loved that keyboard and everything was great....until I tipped over a bowl of cereal on it. It immediately was unusable and I searched high and low and couldn't find another one like it. So sad.
Kudos for Kevin for describing how he toasted part of a computer. That is the kind of thing I think a lot of people in his line of business would just conveniently forget their more embarrassing mistakes.
I am surprised that spilling coffee on your laptop isn't higher up the list. In my experience this is probably the most common for of death by user in practise.
*laughs in Vargskelethor Windows Destruction*
We EE's wash PCB's after assembling them all thee time. Remove all power (incl coin cells), wash, then rinse with distilled water. Bake at low temp low moisture until completely dry. Haven't had an issue yet. Rinsing with non distilled water or with out enough distilled water may cause corrosion. Also forced air should be not used haphazardly as it could blow debris under high density parts (bad ) or contaminate electrolytic caps that are not well sealed so caution & YMMV applies to those situations.
I use OS X 10.4 Tiger on my nostalgia Mac, it literally lets you drag the system folder to the trash bin and doesn’t even ask for the admin password. Of course you can’t take it back out because you can’t open files in the trash, and trash is part of finder, which is in the trash.
I did this for fun on my dying hard drive and it made every single character the no character found symbol (A in a square).
Populated circuit boards are actually washed at the end of the manufacturing cycle. So yes, you can wash those, and they do mix. You just have to make sure that 1. the board is not connected ot any power (such as a battery), or/and 2. you dry it thoroughly before reapplying power, or 3. you use pure water, because that doesn't conduct electricity or corrode.
Watch out for cheap UPS units. We had one at the radio station I manage. It fried itself and actually took down the playout computer with it. I was rather taken aback by this event as we all know these things are designed to protect computers, not wreck 'em. It obviously didn't fail safe.
About shaking a working HDD - I once dropped a PC down a short flight of hard concrete stairs. It was an early IBM, probably from the late 80's, built like a brick sh1t-house. It survived!
If you are using a micrichip, such as an card make sure you never interrupt a write operation in progress. This can currpt it for keeps.
5:00 I remember a couple years ago I was trying to close a crashed game using task manager and I accidentally force closed Windows and I couldn't get my pc to shut down without unplugging it
I've been using computers since 1982. My family got an IBM PC (original model 5150) in 1984. I did my first PC build (a 286-16) in 1988. TO DATE, I have NEVER encountered a power surge that has been able to damage ANY computer that I have EVER owned or used at work.
Americans with their privatised power grids...
It's one of the things I love about my PC. I've been running an intel core i7 7700k on a ASUS Z77 Sabertooth for, shit, quite a while. And the bios on that has a great 'dynamic' for over clocking, where it will +, or - voltages depending on your current workload. Also, doing a performance score of 8.9, to 9.9 on all. Yes those processors are known to run a bit hot. but they (for the most part) were kind of built for that. I don't even water cool. the Cooler Master hyper 212 has been doing the trick just fine. I can still game, edit videos, Multitask like a lunatic. Although one thing I have noticed. My performance has grown a lot since going to win 10, from win 7, although not at first. but as updates (big and small) have come to pass, my PC is running better than ever. also, yes I COMPLETELY agree one having a good UPS. that shit really isn't all that expensive. but after losing an older PC to a spike. I won't run without. I also run a POWER CONDITIONER/SEQUENCER. Those are great because I also use my PC as a home studio, so all things plugged in will have regulated voltage. That one is not that important, but it is fairly convenient. Just my .02 cents.
Most power surges that caused damage are not from lightning strikes or the actual power outage but are actually from when power is restored, and the reason being is when the utility company restores power and energizes that section of the grid again it is going from 0% load to what ever load was on it when the power went out which depending on the time of day and season could be Almost maximum load so it’s going to instantly draw a fair amount of current which can easily induced voltage spikes into the lines and it only takes a split second of a voltage spike to cause damage to computers. Very rarely will you get a surge from the actual outage and usually it’s only if the high-voltage primary lines cross over the lower voltage secondary lines that feed the houses, the most common way that happens is when someone hits the poles with a vehicle and it knocks the pole over and takes the wires with it
5:33 I do that frequently because my computer is just too slow to restart🤣🤣🤣
someone spilled some wine on my laptop ,of course on the keyboard, and i am still using it a month later and it works great, but now you make me worry about what you said about long term corrosion