If it doesn't go in nicely, FORCE IT!!

Greetings all.

Have you ever noticed that some people are so insistant that something should fit into a space that it was not meant to go?

ISA into a PCI slot or vise versa.
Socket 7 chip into a socket 5 slot.
IDE cable into a floppy drive

These people always make me laugh for being so stupid. We all make mistakes, but remember putting puzzles together? If the piece didn't fit, it wasnt meant to go there.

Have you even wondered if these people as children tried to pound that triangle block through the square hole?



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My favorite is putting the ide cable on a drive and being shifted to the right or left 1 row of pins and forcing the cable on. then you have to try and straighten out those 2 pins that are completly mashed on flat!

Just goes to show you that anything can be fixed with a big enough hammer! https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Its like shooting fish in a barrel, in the head, at point blank range, with an elephant gun.

It might be kinda infantile of me, but every time I see a component forced someplace that good common sense would suggest it doesn't fit, I can't help but think of an early episode of South Park, "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig."

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Some customers are soooo smart.

ad a customer come in a while ago & purchased a stick of 64mb PC100, took it home and since he only had 72 pin style sockets on his board... he decided that he could just SNAP the stick in half and put 1/2 in each slot ... TRUE STORY ... i kid you not!!!

YES i just about soiled myself holding in the laughter when he brought in in for me to 'get it to go'

as i said ... some customers are sooo smart!

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CobraTekMax:
It might be kinda infantile of me, but every time I see a component forced someplace that good common sense would suggest it doesn't fit, I can't help but think of an early episode of South Park, "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig."

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Not a good analogy...After a little forcing, the elephant did fit and work...the pig got pregnant....


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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by sowulo:
Not a good analogy...After a little forcing, the elephant did fit and work...the pig got pregnant....


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Yeah, but the elephant really didn't get the job done. The piglet DID end up looking like Mr. Garrison, ya know. https://forums.windrivers.com/

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"And then one day, for no particular reason at all, my hand went bad, and started punching me in the face. Mama never said nothing about that."

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jediab:
Greetings all.

Have you ever noticed that some people are so insistant that something should fit into a space that it was not meant to go?

ISA into a PCI slot or vise versa.
Socket 7 chip into a socket 5 slot.
IDE cable into a floppy drive

These people always make me laugh for being so stupid. We all make mistakes, but remember putting puzzles together? If the piece didn't fit, it wasnt meant to go there.

Have you even wondered if these people as children tried to pound that triangle block through the square hole?

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It's a common thing. Stupid people are out there...!!


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We had a customer use a hand saw on a 72-pin SIMM one time because it would not fit in his 30-pin SIMM socket!!

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ohh my god 3fingers .. now thats bad

worst i see is the people who force ram in and break the socket and then demand we fix it .. and id be like heres the sheet that offered our service to do it for you .. but you chose to do it and broke your mobo .. i guess that little bit of money now costs a new mobo and your ram is still not installed

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jvaguy:
ohh my god 3fingers .. now thats bad

worst i see is the people who force ram in and break the socket and then demand we fix it .. and id be like heres the sheet that offered our service to do it for you .. but you chose to do it and broke your mobo .. i guess that little bit of money now costs a new mobo and your ram is still not installed

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Man, i love it when i see things like that.

I encountered a very violent man one day, who bought two 4mb simms (yeah two 4mb simms,) compained about our $15 ram install charge, so he decideded to try it himself. Can you guess the end of the story? that's right, you are leaving the store sir, NOW.
No i won't fix your motherboard for free, it needs to be replaced dumbass!


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Always keep a hammer/sledge above your bench where all customers can see it!

Had a customer bring in a system that he'd just 'upgraded' the memory on. He got the right kind of RAM and put it in the right slot... He just put it in backwards. And since it was 72 pin, which has the notch on the side, he filed down the pin on the socket to get it to fit!

I charged the guy about $40, and told him that the motherboard needed a 'manual digital adjustment' (Well, it was 'manual', and it was 'digital'. I used my fingers after all....) He asked whether he should bring in the computer the next time it needed a memory upgrade, and I said, "Oh yes, you'll need to bring it to a professional." https://forums.windrivers.com/

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CobraTekMax:
Yeah, but the elephant really didn't get the job done. The piglet DID end up looking like Mr. Garrison, ya know. https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Oh, that's riiiight! I'm getting old, I forgot that part. I stand corrected.

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I like the attempts to get a Zip disk into a floppy drive, like when people bring a Zip from home to work. It's like people just don't understand that they need a Zip DRIVE. If there's a hole in the computer that kinda looks right, it should just work. And then they want to act miffed about it, like, "Well, it certainly LOOKED like it should work. I don't understand why computers have to be so complicated." https://forums.windrivers.com/

try this one on for size guy brought one over cause he had just upgraded it and couldn't get it to post after he left i opened the case i swear i never knew you could put a socket a duron into a socket 7 board

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Ignorance can be fixed , but stupidity is forever

How about the people that think the floppy disk drive is a credit card reader and try to use it like a CC reading machine to buy stuff online

The of course you have the good 'ol coffee cup holder/CD/DVD Drive, or the "Little jimmy put his toast in the floppy drive" - actually, as he's a kid I'll let him off. Also, the people who are convinced that their age old 5-1/4" floppy drive accepts their win98 upgrade CD... D'OH!
The best one I ever had, though off topic a bit, was a guy who had heard about using digital tv for the 'net and decided to buy a modem, then smashed it up trying to plug it into his VCR.... Ah well such is life.

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i have long lived with the philosophy/assumption that the people i meet everyday are complete idiots until they prove otherwise...saves me ALOT of grief

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I have had to file parts b4, due to man defect, woked fine afterward.
Dumb manufactor made a blacking plate too long didnt push all the way into the slot.

got plastic in the slot and the card dint fit.
why cant they fet it right.

And yes people are id10ts.

once saw a stick of ram pushed into a floppy drive i kid you not. person complianed the floppy didnt work opened it up and a stick of 4 meg 30 pin ram was stuck in it.

Phone cables in nic's all the time.

blown mic's from being stuck in the sound out.
mice and keyboard in the wrong ps/2 ports.

and worst off all floppies upsidedown.

also a manufact defect pin holes on a 486 board were lass that .1mm too small had to force it worked fine though. could never get the cpu back off the board. LOL...

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I managed to put a serial port card in my Tandy 1000SX so I could a mouse in SimCity. (I was addicted to the game!) The expansion slots were standard 8-bit ISA but the slot covers were a proprietary design. After some -minor- modifications to the card with a hacksaw, and pliers, I was able to put it in. And it worked awesome!

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i have long lived with the philosophy/assumption that the people i meet everyday are complete idiots until they prove otherwise...saves me ALOT of grief

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Can't argue with that logic. The sad thing is, very few people prove otherwise in my court. https://forums.windrivers.com/

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I believe this sums it all up quite clearly

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."- Albert Einstein.

They fit...but cd's into a 5 and 1/4 floppies seem to be popular

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I have seen a lot of bent up PS/2 mouse and keyboard ends. Twist em, push em, heck those pins bend easy ! I show them the ends and how bent they are, and they are like. "Man, that stuff is fragile".

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Worst I ever did was stick my monitor cable in upside down. Have no idea how I did it. I didn't force it or anything. I just plugged 'er in after getting a shiny new CD-ROM (a 2X), and...hmm...odd, there's no video. I looked, and I had the video upside down. Mashed a couple o' pins...

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