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1. Spiderwebs still occupied.
2. I once found a chunk of fools gold crammed inside a customers CDROM.
3. Everything being heild together with duct tape.
4. PCI Cards crammed into AGP Slots. (not pretty)
5. Combos (The Snack)
6. Some sticky oily resuidue on everything (i didnt ask) https://forums.windrivers.com/
1. 3 Doritos
2. Dip
3. Cockroaches
This was all in the same computer.
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I find CD's in the CD-ROM all the time. other than that its mainly dust bunnies!
I've seen some of the standard dead bugs in the case, but the one that takes the cake was from a heavy smoker.
One of the techs called everyone into the service area to see this one. Upon opening the case he found 1 INCH of green and brown tobacco covering everything in the system! It was the most disgusting thing I've seen in a long time...
Needless to say this caused the heatsink fan and power supply fan to die ... https://forums.windrivers.com/
Every drive was a write off. HDD, floppy & CDROM. They were caked with tobacco inside and out. The CD drive when opened dumped a fair amount of the stuff onto the workbench.
The kicker was that the tech then told the cigar smoking customer that tobacco damage wasn't covered under warrenty...
I know what Id10T is. That one is easy. (no, I am not an ID10T U5eR)
What are ESTO or PEBCAK though? https://forums.windrivers.com/
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well, i've never really found anything interesting... even while working at best buy... https://forums.windrivers.com/
now that you all mention it I probally should have found some weird stuff... guess i was lucky! https://forums.windrivers.com/
The usual dust 'n junk, with the exception of one system that had an extreme case of insect infestation. Roaches and roach turds all over. https://forums.windrivers.com/
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"Life is hard...But its harder if you're stupid!"
John Wayne
The normal stuff; screws, manuals, various old cards and yes our share of cockroaches. The strangest was a Digital DX2/66 with lockable panels that came from a winery vineyard and it was missing one slot cover on the back. When we unlocked and opened it we had mice all over the place. There was a nest with 4 about 3 or 4 days old and a mother. The second big surprise was that they had built their nest out of good old Green Backs, about $5700.00 worth. It seems the money had been there for over 2 years when a retired office manager had used it for a safe. Needless to say the owner was happy as hell and gave each of us $100.00 for our honesty and bought a new system from us on the spot and has since been a very good customer.
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If life is a bitch then what is death? I believe I will take the bitch!
How about strange smells coming from the PC. We have a chemical plant across the street and they bring in their pc to us when they need repair. Any pc that they bring in from the plant I am afraid to touch. Any piece of metal that is unpainted is corroded and rusted. I usually use some form of plastic glove to protect my hands from the smell. It smells like dead fish that has been sitting around for 3 weeks and then crapped on. I can walk in the front door and tell if one of their computers is in the shop. If it does get on your hands it takes a few days with repeated washings to come off. And anything else that you touch becomes "infected" with the stench.
Also I did have one user that tied all of the wires up inside the case with paperclips instead of plastic tie wraps. What's that burning smell?!
I don't know what ESTO is, but PEBCAK is (P)roblem (E)xists (B)etween (C)hair (A)nd (K)eyboard.Quote:
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I know what Id10T is. That one is easy. (no, I am not an ID10T U5eR)
What are ESTO or PEBCAK though? https://forums.windrivers.com/
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- Fate drove me here...then told me to get out of the car...
worst thing found - live roach nest...quite nasty.
Craig
Some of you mentioned that some people try to pay for stuff in strange ways. Not long ago I had a guy come into the shop in a big hurry wanting to get connected to the internet, he was really acting like the whole world depended on his connection to the net. So we went through the form and then before I fax the form off he says he'll be back in a minute. So I wait and then he walks in with an arm full of hard drives, all less than 50 Meg each trying to pay his internet bill with them! When I told him we accept cash, chq, or cc not ancient hard drives he actually got upset and started abusing me, the shop, the town, etc and stormed out. I had the internet form ripped up before he had left the store.
True story, only the names haven't been inserted to hide the stupid.
[This message has been edited by QwertyBob (edited January 10, 2001).]
I worked on a computer from a rendering plant. You know, animal renderings, Every where inside this case was little chunks of beef flesh and unrecognizable parts. Talk about whats that burning smell!
The most interesting thing I found wasn't IN the computer but on the outside...the had one of those industrial strength magnet and was wonderin why the hell the HD (which was taped to the case wall, same side as the magnet) wasn't working
when I asked him about it - he said he was trying to help keep it from falling....MORON!
Other than that, we had a layer of dust about 3 inches thick that come from one of those places that does strip mining....and it wasn't thin, loose dust...but like rock was gonna be there in a few years...heh
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Hey, what do I know? I'm only an Apprentice....that knows how almost every part works...
After two years as a Field engineer I found some preety weird things.
1. About a pint of beer in a IBM thinkpad
2. A pair of nail clippers wedged into a PSU (no wonder it made horrible noises)
3. A sticky red goo everywhere in a Novell server (ex-employee had poured blackcurrent juice in it)
4. A full height 40 MB SCSI drive with the message 'don't even think about moving me' on top of it. (some engineers DO have a sense of humor!)
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5. A 286 which had been in a room all its life which had an open coal fire in it, and about 2" of soot inside the case!
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