What is the stupidest thing you ever did to your amiga?

[Shamron]

First...I was halfway through my first year in electronics at school. At this time i was "of course" an expert... (yeah right!) I wanted an extra floppy drive on my first A500. I already had a msx-spectravideo computer wich i opened and removed the floppy from. I then soldered a cable myself from the floppytastion to the ext. drive. on the back of the A500. Then powered it up and smoke arrived. The lare two resistors between the two 8520 chips inside the amiga was burned up.

Second... I made a wooden case for my A600. Pretty nice if i may say so myself... Only thing i forgot, keyboard. An adapter to an external keboard was not awailable at the moment. After a LOT of searching i gave it up.

So there... :-)

[nac]

During a game of Cannon Fodder I made that cup of coffee and poured it through the vents like it asked.


Kidding. :-)

The silliest thing I did was replace it with a PC. Since then the A500+ has sat in the cupboard 95% of the time.  :-(

[whabang]

that_punk_guy wrote:
Sold it.

Aye! :cry:

[Orjan]

I was in the middle of linking up my 1200 with my PC. The Amiga was switched on, and so was the PC. I attached the laplink cable to the Amiga, and the I proceeded to attach it to the PC. Not thinking about the Amigas somewhat different parallel port, and being somewhat clumsy when trying to attach the cable to the PC, sparks was emitted from the backside of the pc, it turned itself off, and a smell of burned electronics filled the room...

Fortunately it was only the PC motherboard which fried, and I got a new one claiming it "just died on me".

[nac]

Oh and I once lugged the machine setup outside and onto the garden table to enjoy outdoor gaming but of course it was a nice sunny day and I could hardle see what was on the screen and so I lugged the lot back indoors.

[leirbag28]

 Ive done may stupid things to my Amigas............................Particularly CD32's!

This is one story (The WorsT!)  My brother had just given me a Power PC Mac with a G3 processor in it........................since i don't care much for macs...I was wondering if there was anything I could snatch from it and put it in My CD32 wich had an SX32 pro at the time.................well, I noticed that the G3 Processor upgrade looked identical to the SX32 connector that plugs it into the CD32........and since Amiga was beginning to go to PowerPC at the time.I thought "hmmm these connectors must probably comply with a certain standard, so I am sure this G3 will certainly give my CD32 a SUPER burst of power!....so I did the NON logical utmost stupidity and connected the G3 card into my CD32's expansion port..it fit perfectly...........except when I switched it on.there was no TURBO mode as I had hoped....but there was Smoke and Snap Crackle Popping sound..........................................Ahhhhh to my total relief.......only the G3 card was damaged and my CD32 was ok............My bother was pissed that he ever gave me that...........G3 cards were super expensive at the time............and yet I was more glad that my less costing CD32 survived..I could care less about the G3.
Love my Amiga darn it!

[Chunder]

Where do I start?

I've misaligned a floppy power connector in my tower; the cable melted with a cloud of disgusting smelling smoke. Everything (except the melted cable, of course!) worked fine once connected properly!

I have also - stupidly - put an 8mb expansion board into the A1200 slot *the wrong way around*... how I managed to get it to stay there I'll never know (brute force, probably) - but it made a funny noise when I switched it on (and off again very quickly)... but the memory card never worked again.

I've connected things to the 2.5" IDE header incorrectly a few times; never any damage, though - touch wood.

What else? Tripped over joystick leads, tugging the plug out of the socket? Again, never any damage fortunately.

My 1942 monitor died for no apparent reason, as did my A2000 (looks like a diode on the mobo burned out) :-( I don't think that either of those were my fault, although I'd just been cleaning all the dust out of the A2000...

I seem to recall destroying an A1200 mobo (accidentally, of course) - can't remember if it shorted against something in the tower, or whether one of the many socket-over-a-chip bolt-on bits wasn't connected properly...

The best one was once after totally rebuilding everything into the tower and connecting it all up, I switched on and nothing happened. Bam - turn off; panicky check to see if anything had melted. Nope. Checked all the connecters - OK. Turned on again... nothing... hmmm...
My heart was in my mouth thinking that I'd destroyed everything, when I realised that I hadn't connected the PSU to the wall socket - DOH! :-)  :lol:  :lol:

[scholle]

Most stupid thing, that I did was in the "good old days" of
Workbench 1.2: When my A500 was new to me, I deleted the
"Empty-Drawer" on my original WB Disk and then I didn't know how to get it back...

Greetings,

[PMC]

Oh man there's so many stupid things I've done to Amigas over time!

I read something about powering an A1200 Motherboard via the floppy power supply header, so I merrily connected an AT PSU and it surprisingly worked.  However, the sound output wasn't working properly so I realised it was a bad idea.

Amazingly, the A1200 sufferred no ill effects.

The other silly thing I did was to ignore the slightly strained sound from the chip fan attached to my overclocked '040.  One day it detached from the chip and since then I'm presented with a red screen every time I turn on my machine.

[Acill]

Selling my A1000 and not having an Amiga for a few months before getting my A3000. Then selling that for an Pegasos II All is great with the Peg) and having the person I sold it to while thinking it would be used and cared for my someone that loves Amiga as much as I do part it out and make a nice bit more then I sold it to him for on ebay.

But hey I got my Pegasos II so all is well now!

[odin]

Giving ShapeShifer/MacOS a partition past the 4 gig mark. It wrapped round and ate the RDB.

[graffias79]

On my old A1200 I replaced the Kickstart 3.0s with 3.1s and had them offset by one pin because I blatently ignored the arrows printed right on the motherboard.  Cooked the accelerator card for some reason  :-?

Them chips can get pretty damn hot though I found out!

-Jamie

[Bodie_CI5]

The stupidest thing?

I fell in love with the damned thing...

[X-ray]

I let an over-enthusiastic hobbyist connect his A1200 to my A4000T via a Parnet cable that he had made the night before. Well the A4000T refused to boot after that. It was unusual because BOTH CIAs were fried. And I can tell you it was no fun trying to find a guy in South Africa who had spare CIAs, and also could solder them directly onto the mobo. I opened up the Parnet cable and he hadn't grounded it properly. I was not amused.
Annoys me everytime I open the case and see the scars: but the good ol' A4000T has served me well ever since.

[clark]

I've done a few stupid things over the years, all of them should've been avoidable.

One time, I was in a rush to boot up my A2000 and I put a floppy disk in upside down.  I waited a few minutes for it to boot before realizing I'd the thing in wrong.  Amazingly, the floppy drive still works to this day except for the eject button.  I've to use a pair of tweezers to take disks out.  Over 15 years old and still working.

The other stupid thing I did was throw away the 2mb Chip RAM SIMM from my A4000D.  After I'd moved to a new house, the machine wouldn't boot.  So, I opened it up and started swapping components to see what was the matter.  Somehow I got it into my head that the SIMM was bad and threw it away.  That's the only piece of computer hardware that I've thrown away in the last 7 years!  It turns out that during the move the case became warped, and I didn't realize it until several days later.  So, I'd to buy a new case, and use an 8mb SIMM for chip RAM, and there was most likely nothing wrong with the original SIMM.

Not Amiga related, but I've nearly killed myself several times while trying to wire up power switches on old AT PCs.  Always unplug it.

Not as exciting as sparks and flames, and melting chips.

[artman]

Stupidest thing I ever did was to plug in a PeeCee keyboard in my A2000.  Didn't know any better then, and promptly blew all the keyboard caps.  Thanks to Tom D-Tek Weeks, I got it back up and running.  Been real careful since then.