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| Thread ID: 62160 | 2005-09-28 19:21:00 | Techs Disasters | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 391778 | 2005-09-28 19:21:00 | HAd a couple of builds to do. Got everything except graphics so decided to take my card out to fire them up meanwhile while I wait for the graphics to arrive and make sure everything was ok and ready to go. Stupid. Stupid idea and stupid tech. It has several capacitors along the top edge above the heatsink and fan and as I pulled it out I bumped one of them. Not mashed it violently. Just a gentle sort of bump. Shock, horror, it fell off!!!!! :o :mad: The thing cost me $922!!!!!!!!!! Partner says, oh its not needed, leave it off, haha. Fortunately friend is expert electronics person so rushed over and he soldered it back on. He did say it was dry... Still, just about gave me heart failure. BAck home and its so far, so good, ran 3dMark for a while to make it nice and hot and still ok as yet. Going to buy a cheapy PCI-E card today for workshop purposes. Not using mine again. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 391779 | 2005-09-28 20:27:00 | If experts can do things like that, what hope is there for someone like me? :badpc: | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 391780 | 2005-09-28 21:39:00 | While telling someone about the 220-100v switch on the back of a PC I flipped it to demonstrate the 100v writing, while saying "never throw this switch when this is plugged into the wall." Someone (probably me, and I had forgotten :D) had plugged it into the wall. *boom*. I was really lucky, it only took the PSU, I've seen PCs where the only component still working was the floppy drive after someone did that. Oh. and on my grandfather's work PC I made a typo while formatting the D drive. Ever noticed how the C and D keys are adjacent... that took till 2am to fix so he was going for work the next day. -Qyiet edit:additional story, I took our brand new fresh in NZ, out of the box today, $6000 laptop to a client site to test their network. Had the laptop setup on a chair in the middle of the room. Put something down on a bench. at the edge of the room, this caused a bunch of stuff to move, sort of like dominos, the end result of which was a big 1 1/2" pipe falling directly onto the screen carving a lovely chunk out of the middle of it. most tradgic client story was a kid who (after reading PC world actually) got his PC back after getting it fixed decied to follow a set of instructions on how to clean up temp files. The instructions were to r-click->find->*.* on temp, then delete the lot. He missed the part about the temp folder, and did it on c:\ instead. |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 391781 | 2005-09-28 22:07:00 | You win qyiet ;) | pctek (84) | ||
| 391782 | 2005-09-28 23:08:00 | While telling someone about the 220-100v switch on the back of a PC I flipped it to demonstrate the 100v writing, while saying "never throw this switch when this is plugged into the wall." Someone (probably me, and I had forgotten :D) had plugged it into the wall. *boom*. I was really lucky, it only took the PSU, I've seen PCs where the only component still working was the floppy drive after someone did that. Oh. and on my grandfather's work PC I made a typo while formatting the D drive. Ever noticed how the C and D keys are adjacent... that took till 2am to fix so he was going for work the next day. -Qyiet edit:additional story, I took our brand new fresh in NZ, out of the box today, $6000 laptop to a client site to test their network. Had the laptop setup on a chair in the middle of the room. Put something down on a bench. at the edge of the room, this caused a bunch of stuff to move, sort of like dominos, the end result of which was a big 1 1/2" pipe falling directly onto the screen carving a lovely chunk out of the middle of it. most tradgic client story was a kid who (after reading PC world actually) got his PC back after getting it fixed decied to follow a set of instructions on how to clean up temp files. The instructions were to r-click->find->*.* on temp, then delete the lot. He missed the part about the temp folder, and did it on c:\ instead. alright then, what sought of laptop did u pay $6000 grand for, or was this along time ago? |
plod (107) | ||
| 391783 | 2005-09-28 23:34:00 | That must be some laptop to cost $6,000,000 | Greven (91) | ||
| 391784 | 2005-09-28 23:46:00 | It was a while ago.. it had a 15" LCD which was as big as they came. I think it was a PIII. I'm really streching for specs here plod, heh.. it's not like we had it for very long. -Qyiet edit: Heh, I didn't even notice that plod had suggested breaking a 6 million dollar laptop. |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 391785 | 2005-09-29 04:19:00 | Going to buy a cheapy PCI-E card today for workshop purposes. Not using mine again. don't you have spares? ive always had numerous cards,modems, nics etc to play around with. goes with the business - spare monitors, laptops etc. spend a grand or so on spare parts - makes life a lot easier. some techs i know use dick smith or the local computer shop as their instant supplier, what a joke. |
quarry (252) | ||
| 391786 | 2005-09-29 04:24:00 | don't you have spares? ive always had numerous cards,modems, nics etc to play around with. goes with the business - spare monitors, laptops etc. spend a grand or so on spare parts - makes life a lot easier. some techs i know use dick smith or the local computer shop as their instant supplier, what a joke. Not PCI-E. Plenty of AGP. And other cards and ram and stuff. Yes, I know, I was too tight to buy a PCI-E card just for workshop. After all I've used bits of my PC before lots of times. Hehe, not expensive graphic cards though. I've ordered one now. :blush: |
pctek (84) | ||
| 391787 | 2005-09-29 04:34:00 | Sad story time... Client brings in computer (just last week). Needed to find all his missing files. Story, he had gone away for 10 days leaving son in charge of the computer. When he got back, computer now had XP (was 98) and a CD-R (instead of just CDROM when he left). All his unbacked up files (Word, Excel, etc) gone. When I told him files were unfindable and unrecoverable (we looked at option of recovery software, but it had been 10 days since the XP had been installed; games etc had been installed in meantime), poor guy went into minor state of shock on the phone. |
Myth (110) | ||
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