who here....

[skier]

Has electrocuted themselves via a PSU?
/or caused a short, making something flame out?

along time ago, i was fooling with a 230W PSU from an old Pentium-S computer(133MHz CPU, 32MB RAM?, 2GB HDD, 4MB video card) cuz i was rewiring a fan in(the fan died, was replacing so at least it wasnt annoying when i was fooling with the PC) and it was still plugged in to the wall.....that was quite the shock

also, i plugged in a floppy drive wrong when i was on my Athlon Build(as some may remember), causing the red wire of that whole cable to melt the casing off(from plug to PSU) and scorched a number of things, and killed the drive

[pwcmed]

I can't say I have but I have installed a EVGA 680i motherboard with a screw in between the case and the motherboard. I didn't get any sparks but did have problems overclocking. I guess this has nothing to do with this post being that the theme is destruction but I've typed it out already.

I have a couple PS laying around I should try to get some flames out of it.

[Skippman]

I have a slew of times. Mostly on old eMachine desktops. You know, those cheap towers the size of a bread maker Best Buy used to sell? Having worked on a couple thousand PC's it's bound to happen every now and then.

[GI-JOE]

One computer I picked out of the trash had the PSU grounded to the motherboard heatsink(the clip fell there and got wedged). My mistake was plugging it in and pressing the power button!

Talk about smokin!

[Sporg]

I was one pin off on a power connection to a floppy drive. Toasted the drive, PSU, and IDE cables.

[Bio-Hazard]

Can't say that I've fried anything like that, but 1 of my 3 HD4870's died because of a critical core power fault this week.

[kappage]

ahh my personal favourite is flicking the switch that goes form 240v to 120v on the back of the PSU, i first did it because i didnt know what it did boy did that spark!

[Kougar]

Was unplugging parts of a system troubleshooting why it would only post one out of thirty odd attempts and the rest of the time just hum without POSTing. Yanked the molex plug out of the DVD burner and failed to notice the cable somehow landed just so so that one of the power prongs in the connector was touching the grounding pin on the CD burner below it. Talk about freak chances! Powered it up, got a loud bang, incredibly bright flash, and a slight tingling on my hand that was touching the metal case at the time (PSU grounds the case, had just shorted to ground). I froze in disbelief for a second, then never hit the power switch so fast...

Cracked the main caps in the Antec PSU, but the unit would still power on the system anyway. I still have it around for leak testing purposes, etc. The DVD burner still works although the tray motor never sounded quite right since.