Last night accidently killed my laptop with a glass of water. I've taken it to my university's repair center and they tell me most likely I have to replace the motherboard. So, I'm pissed. And yes, that means I won't be on much for the next couple of days since I accidently and somehow killed my home's internet too. Yesterday was crap.

Thankfully, I've got a surviving battery, screen and hard drive at least, with possibly the RAM still being good too. Anyone else have a computer story that still makes them rage?

I once deleted a partition on the wrong hard drive & lost 200GB worth of vids, that pissed me off

When I was much younger, I used to visit my friend and we would play on one of the Micro Genius consoles that were popular back then. One day when I arrived, my friend asked me to help me set up the console, but had to leave the room before we were finished. I proceeded to plug in the remaining connectors without him, but unbeknownst to me, he had a variable voltage adapter that had been previously set to an incorrect voltage for some other purposes. When I turned on the console, there was no picture on the TV set, and I could smell something burning. I quickly disconnected everything and waited for my friend. He then set everything up, and to my great relief, the hardware was still functioning normally. It was no big deal, but I still remember the fear I had of my friend and his older brother discovering I had destroyed their precious gaming console...

I was a bit hangoverish back then (some years ago) and I had bought some newer motherboard and I left installing the processor to that day. Worst decicion ever, well not ever but a poor choice still. I broke 2 processors and used sempron for a while. Good thing that I had some back up processors.
And my motherboard didn't work for a while because I screwed the screws too tight and some screw did touch the metal plate in chassis.
Eventually it has become my prized possession, it's getting old though, well, the processor mostly.

I've killed many things but usually I brought them back to life even if it was in half the capacity.

About a year ago I heard a loud *BANG* coming from my computer. It was so loud and so sudden that I almost fell of my chair. I opened my computer and found that the inside was covered in a fine yellow dust.
Turned out that a capacitor had blow on my graphics card.

Years ago, in school, a guy walked into the computer class with a big cup of coffee. A handsome, smart lad told him that the guy really shouldn't bring liquids to the computer room, because he might accidentally spill it on computer stuff. The guy told the lad that you'd have to be brain damaged to spill a drink on a computer/keyboard. Less than 10 seconds later the guy spilled all of his coffee on a keyboard and a computer.

This doesn't actually make me rage, but it does give me a smug smile that'd probably make the other guy rage. :p

I lost about 10 of my earliest music compositions due to bad copy/pasting or something. Over the course of 2 years I chased down backups, dug through old floppies and tried to undelete them from the hard drive, even reconnecting an older hard drive to see if that had them. I managed to find some, but not all.

Not a terrible loss looking on it now, but then (about 12 years ago), it was a little devastating.

Good thing that you wasn't showcasing it to some of your friends without the cover. "Look at the wonders of modern day.." BOOM!
"That was sweet, can we go back to older days?".

I remember the time when I had upgraded an older computer I used to own around 2000 with a copy of the then-new OS Windows ME. It was just like Windows 98 - except it became so slow and unresponsive after about a month of usage that I had to re-install the OS. Naturally, it happened again, so I gave up and bought a new computer with Windows XP installed, which was one of the best decisions I had ever made IMO!

My first laptop for my studies spent more then one year on various repairs out of two and half years of owning it.

It was a time of nightmares, not having a computer and no money to buy another one.
Tragic thing is it was really expensive costing more then 2000$, eating all my savings.

i deleted auto play of the hard drive and i lost 500G !!! =( all my life went

I constantly forget to backup something when I format the lappy. Over the course of few formats, I've lost a few dozen poems of mine, own music pieces, and many pictures.

I built my first computer in university (before that you kind of bought them, like a Commodore or whatever). I bought a bare bones kit and ordered some parts (mostly shitty ones, because I totally didn't know what I was doing), put it all together, cutting myself a half dozen times on the cheap case that was both too small and had no machined edges on the metal. I then plugged it in and turned it on. I immediately heard everything start "spinning" like crazy, the most awful rumbling that you just know shouldn't be coming from your computer, the wires started to smoke, then bubble, then melt. I managed to scream "FUCK" and rip the power cord out of the wall about the time the first flames appeared (this all sounds like I stood there for a long time, no, it was all done in a matter of seconds).

Yes, the first computer I built for myself caught on motherfucking fire. That is my worst computer story.

"Looks like this motherboard has a bit blood on it, so the warranty doesn't pay for this even if it was any ones fault." "Well, this was a waste of time and your shop kinda sucks."

I once mistakenly typed "format c:\" instead of "format a:\" on a customer's quarter-million dollar machine. I had been there a few months previous and apparently made a backup at that time, and later dumped a copy on the server of the company where I worked. Normally I would format the floppies and reuse them for the next customer backup but I guess I hadn't gotten to that disk yet so it still had their software on it. I was sweating it heavily for that hour until I figured out I had that old, but still current, backup.