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sclitheroe · 05-20-2009, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by NuclearFart

I once was trying to remove the stock cooling fan on my northbridge chip, and it had these one-way plastic pins holding it in that I didnt want to rip out for fear of damaging the brand new motherboard. So I took a long serrated kitchen knife to cut them off, and after cutting through the first pin, my knife blade carried forward through the new motherboard. 500$ gone before I'd even tried the board out

See y'all on the handi bus!

Did you at least try firing up the motherboard? Believe it or not, they can sometimes sustain some damage and be OK - a lot of the traces on a typical 4-layer board are ground planes, and you can survive with some of them not intact. In fact, I have an Athlon 64x2 6400 that is missing one pin, and its just a ground pin - chip still works because it has lots of other ground pins.

NuclearFart · 05-20-2009, 10:11 PM

No I don't think I did....It was my first time putting together a computer from scratch and I didnt want to waste a ton of time building something that I assumed would not work. It was a pretty good sized gash/crack, and I remember the store clerk also saying something about metal fillings from the knife causing short circuits or something?

alltherage · 05-21-2009, 11:36 AM

sclitheroe · 05-21-2009, 12:12 PM

This comes in handy for diagnosing network issues:

Cliche · 05-23-2009, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by sclitheroe

This comes in handy for diagnosing network issues:

Sorry that's 220V only. I need something with a nema5-15 plug on it.

Hack&Lube · 05-23-2009, 01:32 PM

BlackArcher101 · 05-23-2009, 02:03 PM

Wow... some people.

And could that thing get more barebones? Dear lord, onboard sound/audio, one stick of ram (probably 1 GB) and one hard drive, all on one cheap motherboard. Yuck.

Hack&Lube · 05-23-2009, 02:23 PM

430 watt PSU though

Buff · 05-23-2009, 11:37 PM

Took me a second to realized that the heatsink was on the side of the case and not the CPU.

worth · 05-26-2009, 08:17 AM

I have done this a couple times and it usually gets me into some trouble.

I'm having problems with a computer and I want to run it in safe mode, so I go into 'msconfig' and check off 'safe boot' and then restart the computer. But then I realize it is a networked computer and i'm pretty much screwed to log back into the computer to turn safe boot off. I can never remember how I do it or what I do but it usually takes me a good hour of screwing around to get back in to turn it off.

I think I have finally learned (wow...the first time I typed that out i spelled it 'lurned') my lesson and I have avoided using safeboot for the last while.

Hack&Lube · 05-26-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by worth

I have done this a couple times and it usually gets me into some trouble.

I'm having problems with a computer and I want to run it in safe mode, so I go into 'msconfig' and check off 'safe boot' and then restart the computer. But then I realize it is a networked computer and i'm pretty much screwed to log back into the computer to turn safe boot off. I can never remember how I do it or what I do but it usually takes me a good hour of screwing around to get back in to turn it off.

I think I have finally learned (wow...the first time I typed that out i spelled it 'lurned') my lesson and I have avoided using safeboot for the last while.

Why would anybody do this anyway? It takes much more effort to go run, msconfig, click the tabs, click safe boot checkbox, click okay, apply changes, okay after restart, restart, etc.

Just hit the darn restart button on your computer and hammer F8.

worth · 05-26-2009, 11:14 AM

For some reason I can never get into safe mode on startup. It's like a curse.

photon · 05-26-2009, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by worth

For some reason I can never get into safe mode on startup. It's like a curse.

Or you could have one of those keyboards that has a F Lock key.. i.e. the function keys don't actually work as function keys until you press F Lock, so it never sees the F8.

Bobblehead · 06-03-2009, 10:15 AM

I love it when our network admin (note: not me) leaves MS Auto Update turned on. On servers. So they reboot almost randomly.

I understand he is busy and doesn't want to deal with updating all the servers individually, but that would sure beat the hell out of the random panicked calls from users that they systems have gone down or long running jobs that fail.

llama64 · 06-03-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobblehead

I love it when our network admin (note: not me) leaves MS Auto Update turned on. On servers. So they reboot almost randomly.

I understand he is busy and doesn't want to deal with updating all the servers individually, but that would sure beat the hell out of the random panicked calls from users that they systems have gone down or long running jobs that fail.

Auto update is on by default on Servers? Oh Microsoft...

Traditional_Ale · 06-03-2009, 03:42 PM

Not a computer thing, but yesterday I hooked up a new deck in my truck. I carefully soldered everything together absolutely perfectly. Rock solid solder job and I got all the wires matched up correctly first time around.

But I forgot to put the shrink tube on before I soldered. So I had to cut them all, and do it again. What a bitch...

Superflyer · 06-12-2009, 11:53 PM

Yesterday I was checking on a computer that was not reporting to the servers. I go over and find that the network cable is unplugged. I find one that is sitting in a rats nest of cables and follow it to the end. I take one end, put it in the NIC and the other in the wall port. Turns out that I followed the cable wrong and put the end into the wall port that was already plugged into a wall port so I created a loop. Took the entire network down for about 5 minutes until I realized what I did.

Azure · 06-13-2009, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

Not a computer thing, but yesterday I hooked up a new deck in my truck. I carefully soldered everything together absolutely perfectly. Rock solid solder job and I got all the wires matched up correctly first time around.

But I forgot to put the shrink tube on before I soldered. So I had to cut them all, and do it again. What a bitch...

Oh yes, done that before as well.

Displaced Flames fan · 06-13-2009, 12:10 AM

I think it is hilarious that a guy who builds his own computers thinks he can do something dumb.

Hack&Lube · 06-13-2009, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

I think it is hilarious that a guy who builds his own computers thinks he can do something dumb.

There is a reason Best Buy pays kids minimum wage to build computers in their back room. It's not rocket science.