Wonder what might be wrong with this pic

[Kodiak]

A lady called me yesterday because her pc would no longer run. She said it was making noise for the past few months but ignored it and finally it just won't start. As soon as I walked in the house I smelt a familiar smell of burnt circuits. The cover was already off the pc so I took a look and noticed the processor heat sink was taped with "do not remove" stickers to the motherboard and kind of just hanging there. I pulled it off and the bottom of the heatsink was black. I pulled the processor out and it looked like it was almost burnt all the way through. Almost looked like a blob of welding. I told her I think I found the problem. She said it had ran like that for a couple years. She said it was built by someone who worked at intel. LOL. Some people.

[NooNoo]

hahah you get to see the most extraordinary things!

[Tekboy]

I believe it. I once went to a hotel for a service call, and the network was nonfunctional. It was a simple peer to peer net, and I was able to fix it, after using the right protocols, and establishing some sharing.

So I got done, and I was reassuring them about having tried to do this on their own, and that most end users make these kinds of mistakes.

They told me that the network had been set up by a guy who works for Microsoft (friend of the hotel owner).

He was probably a janitor at MS or something.