When Overclocking Goes Wrong

[Tom.]

Fire

[Jared]

well that just sucks

[ctjoyce]

Thats almost exactly what happened to my frriends Cheeta (15,000RPM Hard Drive). He was playing BF2 and all the sudden his comp locked up and crashed. He clanced at his case to see that his HDD was not only shooting flames, but was melting through his drive bay, and onto his 300GB storage drive.

Moral of the story, make sure to have adequate cooling.

Cheers
Cameron

[elite marksman]

If this was an overclock, I assume CPU or GFX card, why are the flames coming from a 3.5" bay, and not the card of chip? Pretty cool though.

[cspyro21]

That's like what happened to my father and his friend (who were messing with an old computer) - they heavily overclocked it, and, suprise suprise, the whole thing blew up

[GeForce]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

[myshelf]

If this was an overclock, I assume CPU or GFX card, why are the flames coming from a 3.5" bay, and not the card of chip? Pretty cool though.

for me it lookes like there was some fireworks stuffed between two drives.

[Overspeed]

the accents are great

[Moach]

oh boy that was fun to watch

but why oh why did he have his computer out in the yard

still pretty cool to watch i loved seeing it shoot flames... it just wouldnt stop

[Tom.]

There is a whole series of stuff like that just look down the right side off the screen
Tractor Vs Laptop is my favourite at the moment

[Ecko]

It's totally fake..
Who would have a computer outside, obviously only people that put fireworks in their PCs..

[Mees]

Hear the guy: shhheattt, shheattt!




Melikes

[F-16Viper]

lol .

hey look! its smo`KING.

what a stuped jerk... he put out an electrical fire with water :-/

[Akula.]

Oooooh... thats gotta hurt! totally rigged though.

I have an old Panasonic CF-V21P (google it) which was made in '92 and is 6cm thick and weighs 10lb. Seriously, i stubbed my toe on it and drew blood.
Anyhoo, i decided that i wanted to re-install the OS from a CD, which, of course, the laptop doesnt have. So, the 2.5"-looking HD comes out and goes into the desktop. Didnt quite fit... had a few pins sticking out on one side. Oh well, got nothing to lose, so i hit the power on. A pop, fizzle, and smoke starts dribbling out of the 270mb drive. Hit the power off, took the drive out.

Damn, smoked it, i thought. The thing was blackened on top and had a few melt marks on it. Well, i may as well see if it'l work, so i stuck the drive back into the lappy and turned it on. To my utter amazement, Win95 boots! THe drive worked then, and works now (4 months later)

The moral: dont expect it to be dead, even after being toasted!

[Skligmund]

My motherboard started on fire. Amazingly, it had NOTHING to do with me overclocking. It was an un-used USB header voltage regulator. Kinda sucked, had to aquire another motherboard.