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[dasickninja]

Didn't blow the bulb?

 

[Ponk]

Don't really know, it's not working at the minute, once a new board is installed, then I can find out...Don;t have another projector to test on, so can't say...Have had a look and it seems ok-ish...But don't know, never looked at a projector before and was in a rush to go home, so messed up...Manager was not happy!

 

[dasickninja]

Are they going to dock your pay?

 

[Ponk]

Nope, work for the government in UK, so they just say they never recieved it and then fill out a new form...You'll be surprised how dodgy the gov are in Uk...I work for the ed for schools, colleges and uni's, repair, build and maintain network and hardware for them...You'll be surprised what comes throught our doors.

He did say a few words which our network won't allow me to submit this post...Needless to say they ryhmes with you ducking piece of slit, you aren't fit to wipe the drap off of my shoe you waste of ducking time...duck off you planker...I did have to laugh...We then had a shouting match, end of story.

 

[Mugz]

Good Lord.

 

[dasickninja]

My sentiments also.

 

[Ponk]

It was a nice one, a Toshiba something (forget, will check after post) very shiny! Currently working on a laptop...One of our colleagues managed to electricute (can't spell...Too quick) himself on the CPU, the dumbar*se tried to repair it when it was still powered on! So now looking at that. Think the mobo is fried...Will have to test

 

[Ponk]

It be a Toshiba TDP-ET20U...Nice looking bit of kit...Lots of bits...Sorry about the lack of intelligence on the last post, lets me begin again. He managed to electrify himself when he touched the mobo (not the CPU) on a college PC while it was still on, he's managed to destroy the mobo, RAM and CPU...Nearly all of it, he's a bit shaken by it...My god was it funny! So ordered new bits!

 

[dasickninja]

They still let you touch the thing?

 

[Ponk]

Yeah, generally I don't usually make mistakes like that, but I've never look at a projector before...Common sense would indicate that metal on metal in sometimes a bad idea, so won't repeat the same mistake again...Ordered a new board...All quiet on the open front.

 

[killmess]

To get back onto the original topic... again...

We have a client who should himself be posted on this thread. He reformats and reinstalls XP to - I still can't get over this - change his home page from MSN to google!

Not only that, goes through the whole process about three or four times before finally bringing the PC to the shop.

Sorry but I can't believe that. 8O

 

[Mugz]

Seriously. You get some people who should not be allowed within the same room as a computer. I work (at the moment) in a PC shop so have the misfortune of meeting more than my fair share of these idiots.

 

[Ponk]

Yes, I can see it all now (cue flash back memory)

I was working for Mr.IswallowsemenformysecondjobandIlikethe taseitremindsmeofmydad'sthickcreamysemen when he came in...Mr.2dicks sloppy bottom! He wanted me to look at his slots on his mobo, I was more than happy to look at them, but I informed him their would be a charge, he was fine with that and then left.

I was looking at his slots, it was raining and I could see a distinct figure lurking in the shadows...It was Mr.2dicks sloppy bottom, he was holding something in his hand...It was his tool...AND my what a tool it was, no sooner had he whipped it out that he ripped my tousers off to take a good look at my BSB, he was impressed by the speed at which it ran. No sooner had he slotted his RAM in my BSB, he was shouting...HHHMMM RUFTY.

 

[dasickninja]

That doesn't belong here. Leave that kind of stuff for the other. You know the rules.

 

[Ponk]

Sorry, couldn't help it...had to! It called for it...Well it didn't really, but it seemed funny to me...Apologies.

 

[Mugz]

I wouldn't come up with that anywhere near certain denizens of the Other. The resulting contest might make the forumz implode...

 

[Ponk]

How would it? It would make the forumz more interesting...Anyway, that's the off-topic finished...Let's have some more scre*ups!

 

[cronic]

these arnt my personal blunders but oh well
a couple of years back i used to work in a computer shop...right outside an estate :roll:

iv had lots of stupid people who have done incredibly stupid things but i think these are the best

so i was working at the shop one day when a very middle-class man (you all know the type :lol: ) walks in. he says his computer is rebooting everytime he boots into windows
so i pluged it in and i noticed his computer was very quiet
it didnt work just as he said
so i went into the bias and had a quick look at the hardware monitor...the bias reported a temp of 180c rising quick 8O

so i very quicky unplugged it and had a look inside i was quite shocked to see a heatsink with no fan on it or in fact any fans, not even in the psu

i found out afterwards what had actually happed and it turns out that he had a friend build him a high end overclocked gaming rig
and he said that it was too too noisy so he removed all the fans and that he couldnt see why he needed the fans anyway

luckily (for him, not me :lol: ) no componants were damaged


another day i had a womon walk in saying her computer couldnt read cds nor could it send checks
i was a bit confused aas to what she meant by this but i soon found out that she had tried to jam a check into the cd rom drive when bying something off the internet !!!

 

[dasickninja]

180C... let me see, that's, 385F. (😵)

 

[Mugz]

An acquaintance of mine once reported OCing a tualatin and then pulling off the heatsink as a stress-test thing. Apparently it ran stable at about 150~190 degrees C for over a week without dying, if my memory isn't off. I haven't seen this one for myself though...

 

[uber_g]

my mistake was i went with an asus sli board, i should have got DFi or Epox

 

[dasickninja]

Could've done worse man.

 

[nevesis]

My biggest blunder just happened in the last 2 months... was building my e6600.. and the only 100% copper cpu cooler the store had was the thermaltake mini typhoon (biggest mistake ever)... the clips would not stay in on the gigabyte dq6, so with using a little 2 much force (after 3 hrs of trying to apply a god damn HSF) we found that the pins on the motherboard had been crushed.... the good news is i now have a P5B and the intel stock HSF took 5 seconds to install! and no broken pins! Still deciding on what HSF setup to go with

 

[Mugz]

This one has to be an urban legend, or at least a rural myth.

A client calls with 'My coffee tray is broken.'
After about 10 minutes of back-and-forth across the phone, the client brings the PC into the shop. Take a whild guess what the 'coffee tray' was...

CD-ROM...

 

[technology-sponge]

you cud call these half screwups - no fireworks but o well

i had my new core 2 computer open asn wwas using a free molex plug to test out a box of 8 and 12cm fans i ha dlying around. a couple hasd there plugs cut off so i stuck the bare ends into the sockets as i was too lazy to get sockets. anyway shorting 12 and 5v rails together reset the psu killed the fan


another time, i was changing plugs on a powerboard n forogt to cut the power first. pushed the plug in...

ginormous sparks abt 5 cm flew out n BANG!!

hald of the powerboard vaporised and i got covered with the rermainsa of a plug... 😀 tripped the fuse box 2