[RESOLVED] Dumbest thing I ever saw Done to a Computer !

[jimmr13]

Here's one Back when I was going to School for my MCSE My long time buddy who was teaching the A+ class took his class to the Computer Fair at the LA County Fair Grounds And 3 of us from the MCSE Class went with them, Well most of his Class went on a spending spree buying everything they needed to build there own computers in class. Sounded like a good idea to me! But I didn't buy anything just advised the A+er's. Well came Monday morning They where putting there systems together And just before break Jonathan(There instructor & my Bud) Came into our class said we just had to see this, well it seems that one of his students couldn't wait till Monday he couldn't figure out how to put his Floppy drive & CD ROM in so he got some 3" metal screws and drilled them into place through the case. Then couldn't figure out why nothing worked when he pluged it in! Dumbest thing i ever seen ! (Sorry Jose but that but at least you learned what the slides are for)
I sware this is a totally true Tech Tale !
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If all else fails read the directions !

[This message has been edited by jimmr13 (edited December 10, 2000).]

[pcshark]

I saw something similar once. Someone I know mounted a hard drive using the type of screw you use to mount a wallplate. In other words, it was about 1.5" long. The screw was in all the way and laid accross the controller on the drive. What's cool is that when I took that screw out and replaced it with a normal one, the system worked fine. As far as I know, it's still running.

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[Larommi]

Big *ss sheet metal screws holding the MOBO in place as well as the drives!

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[Green Iguana]

I have seen several machines with the HDD held in place by duct tape and one with a laptop HDD rolled up in a wad of carpet padding stuffed in the drive bay.

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It's a dog eat dog world out there, and there isn't enough dog to go around. So get as much dog as you can, before all the dogs gone.

[NPaladin]

I saw a machine once with an old Seagate full-height SCSI drive in a 5.25 slot (of a normal tower, mind you) being held there with nothing but foam-backing from motherboard packaging.

Then I opened up this old Packard Smell once, and apparently, since they had run out of places to put hard drives, they superglued one to the bottom of the case! (one of those old P120 desktops)

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[LORE]

I opened up a machine once, the guy added a second HD himself and we were installing a video card for him, he hung the HD from the top of the case with fishing line, he thought that would keep it extra quiet and let it cool the best. man, you should have seen the look on my face when I opened that machine, I couldn't stop laughing for an hour!

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[Ugo]

I once installed a hard drive in my freind's dell computers. But the drive bays were for some weird hybrid dell drives or something. Anyhoo, its hanging in there with duct tape now.

[AlienDyne]

Stupid 80mm cooling fans everywhere inside the box!
I'm not talking about one or two. I'm talking about more!!!

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[window_washer]

My coworker found Alpha-Bits in a machine once. And we also found someone who'd forced the floppy drive cable into the back of a CD-ROM drive and couldn't understand why his machine wouldn't boot.

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There's an exception to every rule, except this one.

[BreakWindows]

Originally posted by window_washer:
My coworker found Alpha-Bits in a machine once.

Now that is just stupid...everyone knows Captain Crunch works best with computers (2600 inside joke ). Oh, well that and potatoes: http://totl.net/Spud/gallery.html



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Either drop the Windows out of your computers, or drop your computers out of the windows.
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[Damned Angel]

I gave one back to a customer once. Does that count?

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Who's cruel joke was it to put the letter "S" in the word LISP??

[jimmr13]

Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Stupid 80mm cooling fans everywhere inside the box!
I'm not talking about one or two. I'm talking about more!!!

Ran real COOL ! Right ?


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If all else fails read the directions !

[archangel]

My first computer I ever bought (my dad gave me many computers before that, but stoped at the 386 and said I had to buy my own) was a Packard Bell. Please stop laughing at me.... Anyway, I needed to add a second hard drive but there were no open bays. So I duct taped it to the case. Never had any problems with it. Does useing duct tape make me stupid or inovative? You deside.

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[This message has been edited by archangel (edited December 13, 2000).]

[Damned Angel]

Originally posted by archangel:
My first computer I ever bought (my dad gave me many computers before that, but stoped at the 386 and said I had to buy my own) was a Packard Bell. Please stop laughing at me.... Anyway, I needed to add a second hard drive but there were no open bays. So I duct taped it to the case. Never had any problems with it. Does useing duct tape make me stupid or inovative? You deside.

if it killed anything, it makes you stupid, if it didn't, it makes you innovative.

[Cyberwiz]

I have seen the duct tape used many times before in computers. Too many people are taking the advice of the Red Green Show and using the handyman's favorite tool... duct tape.

I have also seen a computer with a hard drive wrapped up in a folded over mouse pad and that wrapped in tape and then stuck into the only open CD-ROM bay on a low profile Dell Optiplex.