Word of the Day

(How many times has this happened to people I know... )

Urban Word of the Day
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October 05, 2007: bricked

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bricked&defid=1600855

To render your computer useless, as useless as a brick.

Usually the result of tampering with the insides and doing irreversible damage. Bricking your hardware leaves you with a new paperweight. Can be the end effect of a faulty flash or [firmware] update, a [modification] (mod) gone bad or being struck by lighting, to name a few.

He managed to get his new iMac bricked while trying to boot WinXP on it.

I tried to change graphics cards while my computer was running but I only managed to get my machine bricked.