Strange.....

[Technoid]

I work in a computer shop and often takes computers apart or build new ones or such activities....

But whenever I uppgrade my personal computer or makes some changes my sthomage goes out and I become almost sick....

Yes, I'm afraid that i'm going to break something

It never happens and still I can't shake the feeling that somethings going to break....

And I just did some major changes to my computer and Now I feel like shit and great at the same time

[Liquid Snake]

Yeah I get the same feeling. I always get nervous working on my own PC but never on other people's PCs.

[KRSESQ]

Just the opposite here. I can cheerfully rip the guts out of my own system and rebuild it, no problems. A favorite weekend passtime is re-installing Windows (go figure!). But when I get my hands on a customer's system I get all paranoid and second-guess myself all over the place.

Kevin

[ZokesPro]

Unless I'm doing a crazy experiment on my PC then I feel rather indfifferent. Ok, maybe a little excited when I upgrade, or pissed off when I have to remove faulty parts.

So far the only crazy thing I've done was hot swap a PCI Ultra ATA66 card.

My buddy added ram to his system while he was downloading stuff, it worked, but I would rather shut my system down before though.

Oh yeah, and I feel nervous whne I try to remove sensitive parts.

All in all, I know how you feel, it's the whole idea that you saved up your money and you want new stuff but you don't want to screw up your system while your at it!

[Reverend Maynard]

I'm the exact opposite. I am careful to the point of tedium when working on other people's computers, but when it's mine, I just slop along. If something happens to mine, no big deal, but I don't want to mess up a computer that isn't mine.

[mutz]

...stranger than strange...

I won't let anybody's thubby fingers in my computer, and go in myself like a brain surgeon. It's amusing though to note other people's apprehension when I've got my thubby fingers in their computer.

I have a friend who can hot swap, plug, unplug, sloppily stack cables, cards on each other, grip, wrench anything with his sweaty fist in his own running computer and have nothing happen! But when he so much as glances at somebody else's computer, it causes some major disaster. He is now the major rollout hauncho for a major international bank.

...strange...

[Admiral]

First time I was a bit affraid when handling my PC, but it passed quick.
The only problem I have is with some stubborn extension cards that will come out harder.

[The PIT]

The first time I did an upgrade on my own machine as I was as nervous as hell. A new cpu and everythinge was jumpered rather unclearly of course. One mistake a piff more a weeks grant had gone.
Now I ain't nervous at all.

[lecter]

I like to dive in without remorse both in my and other people's PC's...I remember when a friend who wasn't particularly tech-savvy asked me to come over because his BIOS had a password he couldn't remember....he looked in horror as I took it apart (the damn BIOS reset jumper was between 2 expansion cards, so I had to pull one of them out )....so far I've only managed to burn an old video card and my own Athlon CPU&mobo....

[K6-III]

I've been pretty confidant with all mods. All I've burnt so for is my first KyroII due to a volt-mod gone bad. Luckily, Hercules replaced it for free under warranty and it now resides in my parents' machine...

[The PIT]

The worst thing I've ever done is forget to remove the power from the newer atx boards. I just caught the connectors on my G400 as pushed in another card. A few sparks and a nice smell. I thought toast but everything was fine.

[SpiralDragon]

my first time with my PC (no pun intended) was full of problems....

i did not know much about any thing ... especialy not how to plug in power to the MBD... pre pentium II days.... well actualy was in the 486 days and i felt like geting a new and fast pentium 100MHz ..... put the wiers in wrong and lost the mbd... ... but since then all goes well.... but i still get buterflies when workling on my own pc but not on someone elses... it is strange