Biggest Screw Ups... Hardware Frying, Or just plain Stupid Mistakes we made

[Machine]

Since i like hearing about other ppls computer related misery, I figured I'd start a thread that can turn out to be a funny as hell read.

Off the top of my head, The only thing i really ever screwed up that i can remember is I had an old 200 meg SCSI harddrive, and the Adapter plug on the back of it for the power broke off when i was putting it back in my machine (I was always messing with the thing , was about 15). So I took out my trusty soldering iron and soldered the connector back on.

When i turned the computer on I had Unleashed the pent up smoke demons inside the Hard Drive. It was completely fried. All my hard work was gone! (mostly porn and a duke nukem 3d).

I did Make a few motherboards spark by dropping screws into them by accident when i'm tightening down a Card. But nothing to make it die for good usually just sparks, than resets the computer.

Tell me your screwups http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif I need a good laugh.

Machine

[MAYHEM]

As far as hardwre frying goes, I've found that using a cast iron skillet is advisable. most non-stick pans just won't hold up to that kind of abuse. A pernoal favorite of mine is Breaded deepfried NICs. With a little cocktail sauce... MMMMM... Yummy.

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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?

[jhutto]

Hows this..

Replace a power supply with a new one, it only has the 4 colored wires going to the switch. The new one all the wires are grey. No colors. What do you do?

Check stock, whole shippment that way.

Customer pissed WANTS UNIT NOW!.

Trial and error ..

Used test (known bad) motherboard just to get it working. I knocked the breaker three times before I got it right.

[jhutto]

or here is something I tell people who are idiots to explain the world.

All computers are magical. The factorys they have magicians who put magic smoke in them. This is REALLY what makes computers work. If you release the magic smoke it will not work again. It takes a lot of magical ability to put the smoke back in. The smoke is from a pot of bat wings, pig hearts, and blood of chickens, that is why it smells so bad.



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[klenard]

I was putting in a video card and my hand slipped and i broke the video card, as well as the PCI slots that the sound card, modem, and NIC were using as my hand slid across them. I felt like such a retard. good thing it was my own Comp though. They just don't attach PCI slots like they should.

[Sowulo]

klenard, you've got to give up the 'roids man...

[Mr_Miner]

Ever Ghost a drive backwards? Doesn't take long before you have two blank hard drives. Just ask our dear moderator.

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[shawnMt]

IBM Stinkpad with no floppy and no way to hook one up that I saw. Customer bought machine used.

Need to wipe the drive and install 95, cabs are on hdd.

So I move the cabs to c:\cabs and delete everything else - everything. The machine will not boot off cdrom. Figured I'd just do this then run Setup. Just as I'm about to type it, another tech walks by and trips on the power cord, and the Stinkpad powers down. No, the machine didn't hit the floor but I did.

Let's think about this for a moment: no command.com on the drive so it won't boot, also won't boot off cdrom, and no floppy. How the hell was I gonna get to the drive?? The customer wanted the machine yesterday.

I ended up getting it to work but it was funny for a few minutes.

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Computer Geek + Football Freak - man I have issues :)

Paint your old laptop! (http://www.auwebdesign.com/shawnpages)

[techs]

Beta, as in Betamax. Funny, I still think people are interest in quality.

[RLD]

Power Supply + Freshly squeezed orange juice. I was amazed but the amount of smoke that came out of it!

[AlienDyne]

http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/Forum16/HTML/000179.html


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"Matter is passive. In spite of its power, it can't be controlled without the human mind." Sokrates

Photos Of My Work (http://www.geocities.com/alienhardware)

[3fingersalute]

I agree with AlienDyne, we just did this whole thread like a week ago, if you want to see what everybody has fried, look there!!!


Oh I must mention however, yesterday I was working on a PIII system and went to screw a modem in, dropped the screw, it his the mainboard and the computer turned on...whoops, no damage, but reminded me why you should always pull that power cord when working inside!

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techsupport@knousecomputer.com

[WinKrushR]

Originally posted by jhutto:
All computers are magical. The factorys they have magicians who put magic smoke in them.~~~~pig hearts, and blood of chickens, that is why it smells so bad.

LOL! That's what I'm telling everyone from now on. Law enforcement won't believe everything, but I think I can get this one past them.



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"What would anybody want with a blind dog?"

[WinKrushR]

Actually, it was my own machine. Late night studying for finals, I was on the university server looking at old exams. I retrieved my Healthy Choice BEEF STEW Cup 'O Soup from the microwave. Trying to sit at the desk, I tripped over an errant CAT3 cable and the soup flew directly onto the brand new M$ Ergonomic Natural keyboard. Just bought, brand new. Well, no more. That's when I discovered what a small sense of humor my professor had. After running the KB thru a dishwasher, I returned it to Circuit City for another.

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"What would anybody want with a blind dog?"

[klenard]

I did not do this one but a customer did.

Guy sends in his comp, says that his video card no longer works and that he want another one. We get the comp and open it up. Guess what the genius did to his video card???? He super glued it to the agp slot. we called him up and asked WTF. and he says that he glued it in because he was afraid that the card would come out..... He got a little pissed when we told him he also needed another board.

[DesertEagle]

I didn't fry anything computer related but I did make a $30,000 laser into the most expensive source of room filling blue light ever. Good thing I stood back, the thing was shooting sparks all over the place. It is amazing what 20,000 volts at 20 amps can do.

[ReBoot]

I once did a hot swap of a video card. toasted the slot/board/card all in one little spark.

Had a customer purchase new HD. Said he knew exactly how to put it in. Back the next day. He'd hooked up the small 12v power wire from the PS (fan wire, or case number display wire) to the LED out pins on the HD. OOps.

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Who needs a life, I have Internet!
Jim & Sue's Free Files (http://members.cnx.net/reboot) | Jim's Modems (http://members.cnx.net/reboot/modems.htm)

[BS_Tech_Spec]

When I was just starting out I had to replace a power supply in a full tower case. The connectors on the power switch were pretty tight so I grabed a pair of needle nose to take them off. Suddenly the roow was filled with the brightest light I have ever seen. I had shorted the terminals with the pliers and it ended up welding them close. My bench partner said the expression on my face was the funniest thing he had ever seen.

How come MY keyboard does'nt have a ANY key?

[rb_electronics]

Hello,
I was in a rush one day and was installing a new hard drive in my system it had old files w/2partitions I didn't need so I fdisked the drive then formatted right from windows 98 dos box... Then proceded to restore backup tape.. all was fine until the next day when the system booted and fdisk took effect http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/frown.gif I was a little pissed but that's what happens when you goto fast and skip small steps like rebooting after fdisk..


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Wadda you mean I lost all my information !! It has been making that noise for 2 months and working fine..

[Fig]

New Drive, Old Drive, & GHOST. I say no more

You had a backup right sir ???



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[JM78]

...working in the lab, i was looking at a SCSI HD that was in a small external box. I leaned over it to tak a look at the connections on the power supply... when i leanover, a bit of wire loom touched the power supply, and anoter tester turned the box on... sparks, and 3 holes in my shirt later... it started to work again.

[Nighthand]

Open case and a can of coke too close to the edge.

[Hippie_Techs]

This one was not mine but a fellow tech's.
He had just finished replacing a warranty part in a Compaq Presario (POS's if you ask me.) and put it all back together. The customer picked it up, took it home, and proceeded to take it downstairs to his computer room. He watched it slide out of it's case and tumble down the stairs. Apparently the tech hadn't remembered to put the screws back in the case. The customer was happy when he received his brand new machine.
It doesn't end there. A week later the same tech replaced another warranty part in another Presario. This time one of our salesman was delivering it to the customer. When he started down the stairs, lo and behold it started to slide out of the case. Luckily the salesman was fairly nimble and caught it before it slid all the way out. The tech no longer works for our store. We can't afford him.

[klenath]

Pulled a good one today at work (luckily, the computer was already checked in for surge damage):

Now, this one isn't 100% my fault - but I shoulda fixed this boo-boo earlier. Another tech was working on the system and found the PS was shot - he temporarily hung another one in the system to get it to boot for surge damage assessment. It's an AT power supply type, and we're all familiar with the switches they use - here's the killer.

The tech also hung the switch loose into the case - amazingly the switch didn't touch metal and ground itself (that was my job apparently). I pick up the cable by the black insulation and while moving the switch to where I could click it to turn off the system - one of the voltage out connectors on the switch hits the hung power supply, grounds itself, and the sparks flew!

I'm half-amazed I didn't get electricuted! I suppose the fact that I was only touching the insulated part of the wire to the switch and nothing else saved my *** from becoming bacon.

Amusingly enough, the system survived...for the most part. The on-board video (GAG) took a crap, but I'm not sure if it was just the cable to the VGA plug or the on-board chip that took a dump. That was the only thing that took damage, apart from the store's test AT power supply.

Oh! This is off-topic, but I find this unbelievable:

My boss (the owner of the store) insists that PC-Chips (in all their integrated glory) motherboards are just as good, if not better than, Abit or Asus or Tyan motherboards. Of course, I've lost count how many of those PC-Chips boards we've RMA'd now...

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CUSTOMER.EXE cannot find file BRAIN.DLL - program will continue to talk anyway

[PYRO]

well once i was repairing a friends computer.(friends gotta love em)when i noticed that when i picked it up to move it i heard something that sounded like loose skrews??...sure enough the day before he had the whole thing in pieces..HE HE do it yourselfer ..well come to find out. he had dropped some skrews and one landed in the PSU. i didnt know it at the time but found the other loose ones eveywhere in the case.
well wouldnt you know it(THOUGHT I HAD EM ALL NO MORE SOUNDS??) well i plugrd it in booted into windows. went to slide top back on case KERRRR POWWWWW!! blue sparks every where!!!!!! it took the PSU with it ...installed new one and right in to windows it went no other problems!!(LUCKY)!!



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BURN BABY BURN!!

[Milenko]

Best one I ever saw was a kid that had just gotten his new computer (built by us). He gets it home and decides he wants to see what the insides look like. So he takes te cover off and looks around, but notices a wire dangling inside that wasn't hooked up to anything. So he hooks it up to the only thing he could find. Turns computer on and wonders where all the smoke is coming from. Calls us, and we tell him to bring it in and don't turn it on anymore. Once he got it here, we popped the case and found the problem: he had hooked the little front panel LED power wire into the SPDIF connector on his nice shiny new rewriter. I've never seen the entire back panel of any drive completely melted until that day. A new rewriter, CDROM, PS, and motherboard later, he was back in business.

[Lowen SoDium]

Here are a few.

Did you know that socket 3 CPUs can go in, in any direction. My old cow-orker found that one out the hard way. POOFFF!

A lady brought in a computer that was beat all to s**t. I asked what happened. It turns out that the case was one of the designs were the face comes off and the screws are on the front rather than the back. She was not aware of this and took a crow-bar and tryed to force the case off backwards. It pulled off the backings of all the cards and the motherboard. I don't know about you, but I would have atleast lied and said that it was vandlized or something.


One time the other Tech and I went to lunch and when we got back I sat down to resume troubleshooting the system I had been working on. One thing: I had left the system on when I left and it had gone to sleep. Deep sleep including the fans and all. So, I proceded to remove cards to find the root of the lock ups. The first card I removed let out a small blue arc and the system woke up and procceded to beep. Never did get that one working again.

A lady called up and said that her laptop keyboard was sticking. I said, "well it probley needs cleaning" She replayed, "Oh, ok" and hung up. The next day she came in with her freshly washed laptop (strait out of the dishwasher) and wanted to know why it didn't work any more.

Cliff Coleman

[Revenant]

In a similar vein to Milenko, this was a customer screw up... Customer brought comp in,
HimL You just worked on it a damnit, the sound doesn't work after you fixed it.
Us: Ok, we'll look at it...
Us: Ummm, sir, Why did you plug this cable in here?
Him: Because you morons left it unplugged.
Us: Ummm... There's a good reason we don't plug the Floppy drive power connector into your Sound card Auxilliary port...
Him: oh...

Darnit, 5 coronas make make typing hard...
Beer good...

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[xtech-isme]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Machine:
[B]Since i like hearing about other ppls computer related misery, I figured I'd start a thread that can turn out to be a funny as hell read.

Off the top of my head, The only thing i really ever screwed up that i can remember is I had an old 200 meg SCSI harddrive, and the Adapter plug on the back of it for the power broke off when i was putting it back in my machine (I was always messing with the thing , was about 15). So I took out my trusty soldering iron and soldered the connector back on.

When i turned the computer on I had Unleashed the pent up smoke demons inside the Hard Drive. It was completely fried. All my hard work was gone! (mostly porn and a duke nukem 3d).
While building a computer for a church and in the side office,everybody had to stop by and get a look at the new wonder tool. After 20 mintues of this they all left. That's right left leaving their little kids alone in my care while they went and prayed. Didn't asked me, or nothing just dumb the babies anyplace. One smart lady place her little one right by the open case. Asked to move her baby,Why my little one won't hurt nothing. Yea,right. I told them I was not there to baby sit and to please take their kids with them. I was luckly to make it out alive. Long story short..I was paid cash to to the job,when the little angles got done with the computer,I build the computer at the house and then took it to the church. But i did learn a good lesson that day.

[BillTech]

This is somewhat a long story, I'll try keeping it short. Back on my Compaq Prolinea 4/25s 25mhz, 16mb ram, 240mb HD, I had a nice US Robotics 14.4 modem. After a lightning storm the modem seemed to not work anymore. I shipped it back, got it replaced, and had it again within 2 weeks. Everything was going well until about a week later. The stupid modem was screwed again, do not know why, but it kept making the carrier "click" noise. It wouldn't respond to windows, and I had Telix at the time, in Telix the corner said: "Offline" then "Online" for each click. I don't know where I came up with the idea of taking the modem out and putting it back in while the computer was running, but SERIOUSLY, this fixed it! Dial'd out no problems when I did that.. clicking stopped. Well one morning I turned on my computer and being a little sleeply I didn't quite put it in the ISA slot properly, sort of a row of pins over, and I saw some blue sparks and the magical smoke http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/wink.gif Board & modem now fried. Had them replaced on warranty though!

[BillTech]

Haha, me again what do you know! http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif This was after my 486 days... but I had a 233MMX system and a POS AT Case... after a couple months the pwr supply fan starting making grinding noises. It had me so annoyed one night I could not sleep (computer in my bedroom). I had to get up early the next morning and I was doing a big download. I ended up sticking a screwdriver in the back of the pwr supply to stop it from spinning. http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/wink.gif The next day, I noticed my entire case was more warm then usual. I felt the back and almost burnt myself! Then I realized I had forgot about the screwedriver... fortunately no damaged was caused by this, so far... When I pulled the screw driver out It arc'd across something inside the pwr supply and it made a nice loud POP noise, freaked me right out, I unplugged it, and got the screw driver out, but the pwr supply was toast! (I was only 16, so not too bright!)

[exec2r]

Customer brings in there computer telling me, “It turns on and off by itself” The person took apart the computer and put a rosary inside it saying that it was possessed by daemons (hinting towards evil). I turned off Advanced Power Management and they never came back.

Customer brings in a computer saying its been acting flukie for 3yrs now and he can’t take it anymore. It has an ASUS motherboard with bios revision 1.0, I go to ASUS’s website and check out the bios updates for the motherboard, threw the bios revisions it lists resolved conflicts with almost every piece of hardware he has inside the computer.
I flash the bios and it won’t boot up, what did I do wrong? I used the wrong flash utility from ASUS. Oddly the utility didn’t tell me otherwise, and there was no boot block L. I tried flashing another chip to the ASUS chip but they have some ID/function call in their bios chips to uniquely identify the chips to the software and I couldn’t flash it. So what did I do? Sold him a brand new system.

[j_davighi]

I work in IT support for a large engine design/manufacturing firm.

When I was on holiday, a user complained that she couldn't get her PC to boot up. Sadly, instead of telling IT about this problem, she told one of the maintenance people. The maintenance guy thought it would be a good idea to flip the voltage switch from 230 volts (what we use in the UK) to 110. Apperently there was a loud bang followed by some smoke.

When I returned from my holiday, I found a PC lying on the floor of my office with a notice on it: Joe - I think it's broken. Please send back to manufacturer.

Fortunately, only the PSU needed to be replaced.

[WebJedi_Master]

Made this mistake once on my own system when I was trying to overclock it. (instead of leaving well enough alone...)

I forgot to plug in the power connection for the cooling fan. (it had been a long day)
5 minutes later the system starts locking up constantly. I have a look at the main board and sure enough the fan wasn't spinning and there was a funny smell coming from the CPU. Just about burned my hand when I checked to see how warm the heat sink was.

Fortunately after letting the cpu cool down for a bit and plugging the fan power back in the system worked fine.

[wire_wiz]

The best screw-up I've recently performed recently was forgetting to replace the cmos jumper on a machine I was Upgrading for a customer. After 2 hrs of changing and rechanging Cpus, Memory, and Jumpers, I remembered Disabling the cmos jumper when I changed Cases and cpus. Were I Alone when this happened It would have been a lot easier
to forgive myself for being such an air head.
Unfortunately My partner and an employee were
there to witness it after putting up with years of incessant teasing on my part for there continuing follies.

[format c:]

Holy scrws !!!! I wonder if that tech worked in Calgary ALberta Canada
Heres my story of my friends poor PC
It is Nov. 97 and my friends PC goes belly up, He can't access his hard drive, I am a newbie with my Packard Bell so I can't help him
He takes it to where he bought it,and they have another company that does their warranty service fix it for them
Well two weeks later he finally gets it back and he goes to set it up
He plugs in the phone cord to the modem and the modem falls into the case , it hits the sound card ( thankfully it is not on )
My freind had to take the computer apart to get the phone cord out of the modem
He finds the CPU fan unplugged and it is genrally a mess
They return it again and I guess a tech lost his job
The computer is returned with a dead sound card but a new modem, My friend was ticked off
Then his drive failed again!!!
That was the last straw, Off to future shop for a huge 4.3 gig Quantum
That worked OK till it started acting up
I came over with a 1.2 gig drive and we backed up the system, I connect my drive correctly and the system won't boot
I look at the ide controller and find the ribbon cable was on backwards at the controller and the 4.3 gig drive
And a tech installed that cable, I was learning a bit at this time
Well we got it working good, set the bios correct for his drive but the system was never the same after the first time back when the modem caved into the sound card
This set my friend and I on the path to learn about PCs and service our own ( And when I get employed, service customers PCs using screws on reassembly ) http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/rolleyes.gif
Originally posted by Hippie_Techs:
This one was not mine but a fellow tech's.
He had just finished replacing a warranty part in a Compaq Presario (POS's if you ask me.) and put it all back together. The customer picked it up, took it home, and proceeded to take it downstairs to his computer room. He watched it slide out of it's case and tumble down the stairs. Apparently the tech hadn't remembered to put the screws back in the case. The customer was happy when he received his brand new machine.
It doesn't end there. A week later the same tech replaced another warranty part in another Presario. This time one of our salesman was delivering it to the customer. When he started down the stairs, lo and behold it started to slide out of the case. Luckily the salesman was fairly nimble and caught it before it slid all the way out. The tech no longer works for our store. We can't afford him.

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Format c http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/frown.gif I'm givin er all she's got cap'in !!! )

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[format c:]

Was that the infamous Crow bar lady ?

Originally posted by Lowen SoDium:
Here are a few.

Did you know that socket 3 CPUs can go in, in any direction. My old cow-orker found that one out the hard way. POOFFF!

A lady brought in a computer that was beat all to s**t. I asked what happened. It turns out that the case was one of the designs were the face comes off and the screws are on the front rather than the back. She was not aware of this and took a crow-bar and tryed to force the case off backwards. It pulled off the backings of all the cards and the motherboard. I don't know about you, but I would have atleast lied and said that it was vandlized or something.


One time the other Tech and I went to lunch and when we got back I sat down to resume troubleshooting the system I had been working on. One thing: I had left the system on when I left and it had gone to sleep. Deep sleep including the fans and all. So, I proceded to remove cards to find the root of the lock ups. The first card I removed let out a small blue arc and the system woke up and procceded to beep. Never did get that one working again.

A lady called up and said that her laptop keyboard was sticking. I said, "well it probley needs cleaning" She replayed, "Oh, ok" and hung up. The next day she came in with her freshly washed laptop (strait out of the dishwasher) and wanted to know why it didn't work any more.

Cliff Coleman

[metaxus]

i had a bad day once. took my computer into work (electronics repair shop - not pc specific) to impress my boss with my mp3 collection and sound quality of my maxi studio isis sound card. after work (2PM on a saturday) figured i may as well do a mini upgrade while i had it there. after installing another 128 meg of ram, (now 152 megs all up) windows refused to boot, and
occasionally in the 10 mins i was troubleshooting it, i'd reboot, and my video card would act dead (like monitor unplugged). after shuffling around simms to try and see if i could get it working, my video card wouldnt come up at all http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/eek.gif . after much tearing of hair, and substituting of cards http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/confused.gif , i remembered video cards need the -12v and -5v rails. in my simm shuffling, i had knocked out one of the AT psu connnectors. figures. in the end i only wound up with a bigfoot 1280, my original bigfoot 2110 (both in the same 5.25 bay) and my original 32 mb of ram. i now have 3.3 gigs of space for my mp3s. yay http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/rolleyes.gif

P.S i left work a 6PM. it took me 3 hours to find that fault (hidden under a mess of leads), and another hour to spray my case black.

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[hampton]

a friend and co-worker of mine was once upgrading a hard drive for a customer, and couldn't get the drive to detect. he tried a different one, same thing. that's when he realized that the electronics underneath the drive were touching a piece of metal on the chassis. but no sparks, no smoke, nothing. then he gets another drive, but drops it off the bench onto the cement floor. we actually managed to RMA the drive though. http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif

oh, and once when i was 15 and new to all this tech stuff i was installing this 386 board, and well... i kinda forgot to put the stand-offs in. i sure got to see a spark that time...

[RAELINHO]

everybody has a goofy cousin, hasn't it?
well, mine's once closed my case and forgot one skrew inside. luckily, it damaged only an isa ide controller...

oh, he once connected a psu in-the-wrong-way (if u know what i mean) too, and then the electric wires caught fire over the ceiling, melting it and falling over other client's pc.
luckily again, it was just a minitower case replaced (and we had to give a good sunbath on the cards).

ah, he put a 486 backwards on the socket (everyone on the store but him felt the smell). he's definitely a lucky guy -no damage at all.

coming up:
mine's (we're a cool family)

[RAELINHO]

now mine's:

let me see...
i put on a 486/50 on a 66mhz-configured socket (it built some heat, you can bet)

forgot to take off the cmos jumper (once)

last week i live-connected a b/w monitor on psu's back, it started to make funny little noises as the screen accompanied with funny flashes. later, it was normal...

oh, soury four may bed englisch

coming up next:
client's ones

[ruckc]

Agreed, but it isnt just the PC-Chips boards, its also the SiS chipset that they have. And how you have to install the busmaster drivers to see the cdrom in win95. But the busmaster drivers are on a cd and too big to fit on a floppy. Aint they smart?

Originally posted by klenath:
Oh! This is off-topic, but I find this unbelievable:

My boss (the owner of the store) insists that PC-Chips (in all their integrated glory) motherboards are just as good, if not better than, Abit or Asus or Tyan motherboards. Of course, I've lost count how many of those PC-Chips boards we've RMA'd now...

[/B]

[klenard]

PC Chips suck

[Kit]

I'm not gonna go into the details, cause it ruins the story, but one time, I ran over my boss. I didn't go to jail and I didn't lose my job.

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Wanna get more power outta your PC? Flip the switch on the back or the power supply to 230w. You'll almost double your power! Anyone eles smell smoke?

[Frostbitte]

This happened to me twice while replacing Acer motherboards. While trying to pop off the heatsink from the old processor I not once but twice popped off a small resistor near the damned CPU socket. I spent about an hour and a half on each one soldering it back on because I didn't want to order a new one and wait another week for the part to come in. Well, in both instances it worked! The system posted and booted just fine after. My fellow techs thought it was pretty damned funny me trying to get this tiny 1mm resistor back on with a big-*** soldering iron and thick gauge solder.


Frostbite.