nikorr :
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.
Thanks alot for explaining this to me. i have never assembled a computer before and now i want to assemble the following PC
Processor Core i5 2500k
Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V Pro
Chasis Cooler Master Haf X 942
Hard Drive Western Digital 1TB 64MB Cache ( Caviar Black)
GPU HIS ATI 6870 1gb
Ram G Skill RipJaws 1.5volts 8gb 1600Mhz
Optical Drive Asus DVD R/RW
Power Supply Corsair 750 Watts
Kindly tell me how to go about it and what to avoid in order to save a loss of hardware