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

[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.

[kal]

Many, many years ago, I let a friend borrow my A500. When I got it back a couple of weeks later, it turned out his 3 year old sister had jumped on the trafo, repeatedly; it only worked if you turned it upside down (some components were, of course, loose). The stupid thing? Instead of fixing it (another friend had borrowed my soldering iron), I just kept it upside down (some times I had to whack it real hard to get it to work). After some time, it of course refused to work. So, rather than fixing it properly, I "fixed" it with some spare pieces of wire and some tape (don't ask me how). Lots of tape. Needless to say it overheated...

The moral of the story? If someone tells you "Trust me, I'm an electrician", run. Run very fast, and very far...

[jjans]

Wondering what would happen if I hit the 'Low Level Format Button' in HDToolBox :smack:

[Waccoon]

The dumbest thing I remember doing is copying my BACKUP disk onto my MASTER.  I lost about a week of work.  After that, I started using different colored labels for masters and backups.

The dumbest thing I've ever heard ANY person do... oh, man.  A friend of mine had the hard drive for his A500 that plugged into the side.  It tended to overheat, so when it started getting flukey, he took it off the A500, and put it in the freezer for 10 minutes to cool it off.  That drive survived a few weeks before it died.  When he was convinced it wouldn't work anymore, he opened it up, turned it on, and did "spinart" on the platters as they were going at full speed.  I'm surprised he didn't take his whole hand off!  :lol:

[whabang]

I buddy of mine managed to press two floppies into the floppy drive!

[Cymric]

The CIAs were the bane of my Amiga-experience. Owing to somewhat careless use of a printer switchbox, I fried them twice in succession on the A500, and managed to destroy both chips on the A4000 by moving the computer about on my table so much that the modem cable worked itself lose. The stupidest thing I did was fry a 2.04 ROM. The pins on those chips are very sturdy, and require some pressure to be positioned over the holes in the socket. I didn't want to use my fingers, and needed something which would bend a lot of them at the same time. So I used an elongated plastic money chip---the kind you use in poker or roulette. Of course, those things are loaded with static electricity...

[djkoelkast]

I once tried to connect a SCSI harddisk to my IDE connector of my SX-1 by just pressing the 40 pin IDE connector in the 50 pin SCSI port of the harddrive.
My CD32 said boom the SX-1 survived.

that was really stupid :-P

[fnord]

I once put a kickstart switch I just got from Ve**lia into an Amiga 2000 without having a closer look at it first. Well, the cables were broken and it caught fire instantly. Not only did it smell badly but it fried my Amiga ... :-/

[lorddef]

I once got mad at an a600 and punched it, from that point on the keyboard never worked again and the hard disk would occasionally fail making really loud clunking noises.

As for my a1200t, a micronik busboard blew that up, no fault of mine

[Dagon]

I was 10 years old and I wanted to play populous with the data disk which made my team with a commodore flag and the evil`s with an Atari one. When I inserted it, the disk`s little metal cover remained inside my A500`s floppy drive and I tried to remove it with a fork!!! :-o lol needless to say that I destroyed that poor floppy drive and when my big bro returned and saw the disaster he was chasing me around the house and I runned straight to mum  :-D

[kedawa]

I axe-kicked my A500 when Gauntlet II froze up on the eightieth or so level.  Either the A500 is very durable, or I was just a wussy kid, because I only broke the F1 key, which I later fixed using an old scrap keyboard of some kind.  That must have been at least ten years ago.

[Ilwrath]

I axe-kicked my A500 when Gauntlet II froze up on the eightieth or so level. Either the A500 is very durable, or I was just a wussy kid

The A500's are very durable.  Back in the early 90's, I was at a friend's house, and we were playing his A500.  It locked up on something or another, and he punched it.  Hard.  This was WHILE THE UNIT WAS STILL ON!  

After he settled down, we opened the Amiga and surveyed the damage.  A couple mounts were bent/broken, the 68000 had come completely out and was sitting loose on the motherboard about 5 inches from its socket, the Agnus was completely out, as well.  Denise was half-dislodged, as were several other things.

We just removed all the remaining chips and resocketted everything.  Applied power, and voila, back to normal.  Incredible!  So, apparently under some conditions you can rip a 68000 out of the socket while the machine is running, and not damage anything!  haha!

[SilvrDrgn]

Tried to plug my scanner into the external diskette drive port while the power was on.  The ports weren't labeled at the time in my new tower.  I had a "brain fart" and guessed wrong as to which port was the printer port.  Scanner was supposed to be plugged into the printer port.  Some things went "poof" and needed repair.

[weirdami]

I think putting it in storage was the worst. It came out with half the keys all yucky yellow. :-(

The C=64 was saved from discoloration, though. It's brown, the anti-yellow. :-) The VIC chip went all wonky, instead. :-(

[NJ_72]

Connected an external floppy drive on my first a500 while the power was still on...

The mainboard was completely f.u.b.a.r. and had to be replaced

...learned an expensive lesson :-D