Well I've been pretty lucky, nothing major ever happened to me. I think I was bitten by a nasty dose of the static deamon. I'd bought my 2000+ and an MSI k7N2-L I think it was, anyway installed everything booted it up nothing happened, stripped it out built out side of the box, nothing happened. Rma'd it got a new MB in a couple of days, rebuilt perfectly fine.
At my last place I was on a cisco helpdesk as 2nd/3rd Line, we also did RSA tokens for a large international corporation. The database was held on a machine in London Docklands that we could access via PC anywhere and update....now in my time as IT support/Helpdesk I've done this a thousand times (I'm only 23 mind) CTRL+ALT+Delete and enter, or windows key + L....locks the machine right? For some reason on that perticular day I was trying to be extra sensible and Really think things through before I did them.....anyway so I'm on this box in docklands finshed what I'm doing CTRL+ALT+Delete, move mouse over, click 'shut down' click OK, close the box then 10 seconds later.......I realise what I'd just done, now I only use windows key + L to lock machines
Also, thankgod for paper clips and the CDrom unlock switch on the facia, never.....never....build a server for a company that are due to collect it 1hr before they're supposed to arrive and then get a packet of posit notes stuck in the CDrom drive.
What about "Most Lucky Saves?" You know that feeling you get when something you think has blown up but actually hasn't it's the best feeling in the world.
I had to a head office move, there was 3 of us doing it and as I was tearing down the equipment in the old comms room ready for loading into the van, I pick up the DC server and get the worse static shock I've ever had, even though I knew the internals would be ok, I couldn't stop myself from getting really worried about it, when we down in the pub for a quick drink before installing all the equipment I though i was going to be sick for the worry, anyway install everything, hook my laptop, login into the domain. Machine autorised and Account authenicated, Phew.