Things you recently tried to fix but broke them even more.

[bandithedoge]

I'll start. I was trying to clean my fat PS2 from the inside. I accidentally broke the ribbon cable that connects the power/eject buttons to the motherboard (the cable is very long and super annoying, it's one of the biggest design flaws of the fat PS2). When I assembled it, the power LED didn't light up and the eject button didn't work. The console was powering on and it worked fine, though. A few months later I painted the case, so I obviously took it apart. After putting it back together in the newly painted case, it didn't power on. Turns out it was the long ribbon cable. It was broken completely. I fixed it by just buying a new ribbon cable and all issues are fixed now.

 

[VinsCool]

My life.

 

[supergamer368]

I tried to fix my DS once, it did not end well. That tiny ribbon cable on the touch screen...

 

[Itzumi]

I tried to fix my DS once, it did not end well. That tiny ribbon cable on the touch screen...

Tried to figure out why a Wii game wouldn't work, somehow nuked an sd card and destroyed USB Loader GX.

 

[FAST6191]

Ur mum.

That's OK as it is more about the experience (worth it) than the end result.

 

[ry755]

Years ago a fuse fell out of place in an NDS. My young idiot self decided it would be a good idea to glue it back in place, rather than having my dad solder it back on.

 

[EmulateLife]

My external hard drive for PS2 Open Loader. I ripped a game to it and it fragmented. Tried to defrag it and it fragmented even more. Then it became fragmented to all hell and unreadable in 3 different PCs I tried. I still could load it on PS2 but very few games worked. I ended up having to redownload almost 200 PS2 games.

 

[plasturion]

I tried to fix my DS once, it did not end well. That tiny ribbon cable on the touch screen...

Same me, i broke the connector of this cable, most tricky part in DS. However my fellow solded ribbon cable to the board once and for good.

 

[Noctosphere]

I tryed to fix my relationship with dio, but he broke it over and over again...
Ended up by ignoring him...
And hell, I feel much better

 

[Aldoria]

my 3ds

 

[jimmyj]

a friendship with someone :/
cough aldoria cough

 

[AmandaRose]

I tryed to fix my relationship with dio, but he broke it over and over again...
Ended up by ignoring him...
And hell, I feel much better

You know dio is just gonna reply with his standard reply of

Nobody cares

 

[Noctosphere]

You know dio is just gonna reply with his standard reply of

Nobody cares

haha i bet, but since i ignored him, I won't notice it

 

[FAST6191]

Not knowing which Dio this is I am going to assume it really was Dio

 

[Noctosphere]

Not knowing which Dio this is I am going to assume it really was Dio

dionicio3

 

[VinsCool]

dionicio3

 

[Grmmish]

Well this was not recent but was last year.

Ps2 slim had a messed up laser like all Slims after awhile. Ordered a new one.
Installed it.

Turned on the system and somehow now magically the motor is broke from I guess something I did? ????
I am experienced in this field and even I am stumped since I carefully didn't do anything else to it. ._.

Not sure if this counts because I did indeed fix the laser... But now, unlike before, the entire system is completely unusable now. :/ (While originally it skipped on cut scenes, some games didn't play that were laser processing-heavy, no PS1 games, etc.)

 

[cracker]

Broke the clip off the DS lite touch screen connecter while replacing the screen after my kid used window cleaner on it and killed the touch layer.

Made a PS One motor spin backwards after a failed modchip install.

Bricked a PS3 that I was trying to downgrade (that my ex upgraded to OFW from CFW) only to find I had a bad backup afterward.

Fried something in a 360E while attempting an ixtreme install and then ripped some NAND pads off the board when the drive fell against the wiring.

 

[Grmmish]

Broke the clip off the DS lite touch screen connecter while replacing the screen after my kid used window cleaner on it and killed the touch layer.

Made a PS One motor spin backwards after a failed modchip install.

Bricked a PS3 that I was trying to downgrade (that my ex upgraded to OFW from CFW) only to find I had a bad backup afterward.

Fried something in a 360E while attempting an ixtreme install and then ripped some NAND pads off the board when the drive fell against the wiring.

No wonder he's/she's your ex.... XD

 

[cracker]

Nods. The reason given was she didn't want to bother booting XBMC so instead set up the PS3 to go online to install a media player. Was very pissed!