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

[scout970]

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

[Skatman]

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

[Caddarn]

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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*hits himself repeatedly with a BNC crimping tool and runs off howling*

[This message has been edited by Caddarn (edited March 20, 2001).]

[jrwilson]

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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""in certain cases...one remains a philosopher only by being silent." -Friedrich Neitzsche "

[Macgyver_111]

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...

[This message has been edited by Macgyver_111 (edited March 20, 2001).]

[MacGyver]

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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"We're always behind industry standards" - Microsoft product manager Ed Suwanjindar

[CobraTekMax]

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

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What the hell did I do to YOU?!

[auxegro]

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.

[Kyr0n]

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

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If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then lets get wasted and have the time of our lives.

[Jallentino]

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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"Dyin ain't much of a livin',boy"

[theBeast]

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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***the Beast
- I only came for the platypus soup