I have managed to blow my pc up!

by Pickelschwanz • 8 Sep 2009, 12:13 • Journals
I have been working on my pc for the last couple of days and when I was going to bed I noticed my PC was sticking out a bit. So I used my barefoot to push it back in flush to my desk. At the same time I did that I put my hand on the metal light switch and 240 volts went through my body and earthed into my pc it throw across my room!

I had a guy in recently doing my electrics and it turns out the live wire was touching the metal plate on the light switch case. My Pc made a load sound and it smells really bad, it also does not turn on anymore :( Its ok you might think because I can claim on my house insurance. However I had not taken my house insurance out yet it was next to do on my list as I had recently moved into my house.

So no pc for a very long time which also means my plans of working from home as from next week are also screwed :<
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h8m3 8 Sep 2009, 13:18
why are you still alive
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Haffle 8 Sep 2009, 13:56
If you'd have 240V but like 2400mAh, it would be like just a bit tickling. It's all about the amperes .
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 15:31
It was enough of a kick to throw me back, my how long pretty much flashed before my eyes. I know it was my whole life because it was very exciting XD But yea the current was pretty low which saved my life.
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Mauro 8 Sep 2009, 13:18
hello to you survivor !


ul bro
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urtier 8 Sep 2009, 13:19
If the electric guy was a professional and you got a bill etc, you should be able to demand compensations for the caused damage by his faulty work.

I'm not too sure on this though, but could ask a friend of mine who's studying law in the 4th year, if you want :-P
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 13:25
He came from quite a large company so I am going to give them a call and also demand they send someone else out to fix it. I am tempted to get another company in to check the work out because I could of been killed so I might try and get a bit more out of them than just a pc! It scared the crap out of me!
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v1ech 8 Sep 2009, 14:11
ye and thinking about the fact that his fault could easily have ended deadly, he can demand a whole lot of money from them...
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Deactivated5638 8 Sep 2009, 13:21
Call Bill Nye the Science Guy. He'll help ya.
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loazis 8 Sep 2009, 13:32
I once had smoke coming out of my PC, scared the shit out of me, turned out to be that the power supply was just broken.
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 13:34
im going to try my old power supply on it later but I have a feeling it will of fried my motherboard. I will be really lucky if its just the powersupply. If I can get a new PC from the Electric company then I don't care! Its just the hassel of no pc :<
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Shortje 8 Sep 2009, 13:44
oh kip :(
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deactivated1032 8 Sep 2009, 14:08
LOOOOOL :D ok ur still alive thats good :D:D:D:D
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zenix 8 Sep 2009, 14:10
lol kipster.
badluck is following you m8.
I hope you get new good pc and dont lagg anymore in wolfenstein ;D
Its also possible that only your PSU is death. And new PSU can maybe fix it, if you got lucky. Or maybe only the motherboard is death next to the PSU, that can also happen. Hope you didnt lost your data.
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 14:15
My lags in Wolfenstein are down to my ISP well I think they are, im going to swtich provider soon. Me + computers are not a good combination :<
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zenix 8 Sep 2009, 14:16
yes, i noticed that a long time ago allready :( Your ISP was allways crap anyway.
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 14:22
Well I moved house and my new isp is giving me faster downloads etc but they seem to be restricting online gaming :<
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wsk 8 Sep 2009, 14:20
maybe its just the power supply that's broken ;o

Guess would have been fun to watch you doing that :D

good u didn't get harmed mate
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 14:24
I hope its just the psu, It scared the shit out of me! I laid on my floor for about 5 mins trying to process what had just happend.
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cattledecapitation 8 Sep 2009, 14:27
omfg kip :/

wtff :((
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AnnieMac 8 Sep 2009, 14:40
God bless you!
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Heavenly 8 Sep 2009, 14:45
that sucks m8. Hope it's just the power supply, my last 2 died on me as well. Both with smoke and a burning smell. Got the last one replaced though, was some crappy one and got 1 of the top of coolermasters in return :D.

Good luck on getting things fixed!
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spho 8 Sep 2009, 14:51
luckily you are still a pickelschwanz...
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HansoO 8 Sep 2009, 15:31
wtf kip?!
glad you're still alive :)
hope they have to pay you a lot!
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 15:43
Im just annoyed that I have no pc now :<
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HansoO 8 Sep 2009, 16:09
i know :<
but it could've hit you more serious than that
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 16:13
Im strong don't worry! Just think if that had killed me you would of never known :D For years to come you would wonder what happend to me.
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kazzam 8 Sep 2009, 16:25
hai my bestestes friend
glad u survived
rip computer tho =/

hf sueing the company
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 16:31
Hey my e buddy aka master troller!
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kazzam 8 Sep 2009, 17:20
seems like ure still way better than me :<
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 17:21
no no no you are the best! You would be alot better if you added me to buddy list :D
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beggin 8 Sep 2009, 16:31
Glad you are ok. Did you build the PC yourself or get if from a company? If you did get it from a company, threaten them and demand a brand new PC. That's really unacceptable!
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Pickelschwanz 8 Sep 2009, 16:45
You have made me feel really guilty now because I flamed your Crossfire curse topic. Well not the topic but you for being a naughty boy and cheating. As you are so kind I have removed the comment and I thought I had to come clean about it.

I did build my own pc, I would like to build my own again as I enjoyed it I will kick some but on the phone tonight. Before I get them to fix it im going to run a cable from my light swtich to my door handle and get my brother to open the door muahahahaha!
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beggin 8 Sep 2009, 16:51
Oh you did? FU! :P

Lol, I wouldn't do that. ^^
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sharpgx10 8 Sep 2009, 16:56
LOL, well glad you're ok, hopefully your psu is the only dead thing from that experience ^^, note for the future: be carefull when multi tasking :D
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Juize 8 Sep 2009, 16:58
i was the electric guy, i saw ur mouse and mousepad and said to myself: let this dude go back to school while he still can!
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