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| Thread ID: 118797 | 2011-06-21 08:28:00 | How to maim and destroy a computer | The Error Guy (14052) | PC World Chat |
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| 1210967 | 2011-06-21 08:28:00 | Just came across this, a jolly good laugh. I can fully relate to this in real life!! www.dansdata.com Quotes From the article: Power supplies can be obliterated in a number of ways. The simplest is provided by the ubiquitous voltage selector switch on the back. If the user is lucky enough to reside in a country where the mains supply is 220V or higher, switching a computer PSU to the 110V setting will result in a satisfyingly exploded supply, and possible considerable secondary damage. The very best tool for bending and breaking pins on DIP chips is the inexpensive springy "chip extractor" available at various electronics stores. U-shaped, the steel tool has an inward bent lip on the end of each leg, and is designed to hook both ends of a chip at once, and give the user the impression that it will in fact extract both ends at once... This never happens. Truly adept users can also hook a DIP chip extractor under the socket, not the chip, and bodily rip it from its soldered-in location. This can lift tracks from the board and render it practically irreparable, if done with sufficient gusto. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1210968 | 2011-06-21 08:45:00 | Here's one of mine that I did: "On an ITX motherboard the heatsink is permanently attached to the CPU. And yes, pulling the fan will literally rip the (integrated) CPU off the motherboard." |
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| 1210969 | 2011-06-21 09:00:00 | I liked the bit about DIP chips .... reminded me of Paul Henry getting fired .... :eek: | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1210970 | 2011-06-21 09:08:00 | Those IC extractors are some sort of sick joke. Two flathead screwdrivers work much better. The tools for PLCC chips work OK though. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1210971 | 2011-06-21 09:10:00 | Power supplies can be obliterated in a number of ways. The simplest is provided by the ubiquitous voltage selector switch on the back. If the user is lucky enough to reside in a country where the mains supply is 220V or higher, switching a computer PSU to the 110V setting will result in a satisfyingly exploded supply, and possible considerable secondary damage. That's happened to me before. Thermaltake it was. |
bot (15449) | ||
| 1210972 | 2011-06-21 09:15:00 | You don't even need to bother with the voltage switch on Thermaltakes, they'll blow up by themselves anyway. (Mainly because they are all rated at least 100 watts higher than they should be) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1210973 | 2011-06-21 10:33:00 | Air duster is quite useful for cleaning more robust items, but can also be usefully employed in computer destruction, where it is more than capable of blowing chips out of sockets, spinning fans to prodigious speeds and destroying their tiny brushless motor assemblies, and, of course, redistributing dust from relatively accessible locations to far more exciting ones, like deep inside expansion card connectors and CD-ROM drives.:blush: | Jen (38) | ||
| 1210974 | 2011-06-21 11:24:00 | :blush: Believe me, I once tried to get a sticker off my laptop and accidently rubbed some of the black off. In an attempt to make it look normal I coloured it in with Sharpie. :blush: :blush: |
bot (15449) | ||
| 1210975 | 2011-06-21 11:45:00 | Believe me, I once tried to get a sticker off my laptop and accidently rubbed some of the black off. In an attempt to make it look normal I coloured it in with Sharpie. :blush: :blush: By "attempt" I assume you mean it ended up looking a reflective purple colour rather than black as stated on the packaging? |
ryanjames.powell (13554) | ||
| 1210976 | 2011-06-21 13:39:00 | By "attempt" I assume you mean it ended up looking a reflective purple colour rather than black as stated on the packaging? it became a different shade of black. if you look closely you can tell the difference |
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