I had talked to some of the tech guys in a Facebook group on which is on perfection while fixing technology, I had did some mistakes from the past but what you just got to do is to learn to do it better and then you’re cool and possibly golden.
One of the mistakes that I had done is that I put the original motherboard from my Compaq on my bed without any kind of anti-static protection. One time I accidentally plugged in the 24-pin from the power supply to one of the spots were the jumper goes in of that computer and I as far I said that the motherboard must have died from that and I said well, here goes my $65. I also bent the pins on the CPU too since the heatsink on that computer is very hard to come off and it was around July this happen. Another thing I did at the time I had bought the wrong motherboard and I sent it back since the RAM modules wouldn't fit into the slots, that cost me money to send it back. Then in August I properly do it right even it came with the processor that it originally had.
Back in March 2013 I had torn up my HP laptop because I had bought a CPU because I was tired of the slowness of the E2 E-450 what is in it, I realized that you can’t upgrade the CPU on that machine so I said screw that and send it back. Well this is my first time ever fully tearing up into a laptop internally anyway and I didn't lost the screws. Few months back I had torn up my first smartphone which is a LG Optimus GT540, I was trying to replace the digitizer on that phone but realized that I didn't have the right screwdriver so screw that but I did torn it apart anyway. The LCD screen to motherboard connector must been cut anyway but I think I can buy a the same phone again at the same price that I could buy both of that parts.
In December I had torn up my Dell Latitude E6420 due to I want to swap the chassis into another one because there was a crack on bottom of the DC jack. I didn't know on what I was thinking about but I had ended up getting some of the screws missing, missed connecting some cables, even I had taken off the thermal pad of the chipset without knowing which cause it to overheat while playing some games. Not only that but after I had gotten a BSOD on startup before Windows launches up so as further as do, I taken out the hard drive and copied stuff out of that hard drive before I even attempt to reinstall Windows on it. Before that though, I had taken a look inside of the laptop and reassembled it to see if I got the screws on the right place. After a few times I had broken one of the latches that holds the access panel together and yeah, I must had put that in the wrong way.
Couple weeks after had gotten my Late 2011 MacBook Pro that I had lost one of the cover screws while trying to repaste it. Since those screws are so small that I lost it on carpet so I had ordered a set of screws to replace that screw. Also I had realized that I don't have the proper screwdriver or compressed air to do it so screw that.
Now today when I work on laptops that I make sure that the screws are organize like this goes for the cover, CPU fan, motherboard, palmrest, etc and I had gotten that from Ryan which was Dell0304, he wrote down a guide on how to fix laptops properly in his Facebook Tech group.
Now notice that not everyone is perfect and I had some of the people that I know that did things wrong. Many of you that are reading this blog may know Tyler5310, he had delid his Intel Core i7-3770k and he had broken it, there’s also another guy that I know did the same thing with his Intel Core i5. Ryan (Dell0304) did some mistakes too that I had noticed that recently he had stripped screws on his Retina MacBook Pro on which he shouldn't have done. I know what I he had done before that though, he forgot to buy a hard drive while he was building a mITX build for a client. Even he accidentally stabbed the socket on his motherboard that he had used for his main build while parting it out for saving for his rMBP. Also I know that he had worked on carpet before and he didn't have any problems at all, this is before he had gotten wooden flooring.
See, everyone is not perfect and make mistakes all the time, so if you’re one of those people that thinks yourself that you’re are perfectionist then go ahead but not everyone are.