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peche · Feb 16, 2017

silentbogo said:
Nah... I restored it completely 3+ months ago. Just wanted to show what's left of that new keyboard.
Poor laptop. It needs a hug...

i mean for all the repairs, lol

Regards,

Komshija · Feb 17, 2017

@silentbogo That's pure recklessness. But something similar happened sometimes in the past once to most of us.
Once I destroyed half of laptop's fan wings (the one in my signature) with 8 bar air blast. I had to buy a super glue and carefully, using toothpicks, glued them back. Funny thing, it was sunday and I didn't have super glue at home so I had to wait until monday. Since then, I limit air compressor to 3,5 - 4 bars for cleaning electronic components. So, yeah... :ohwell:

Mussels · Feb 17, 2017

thats worse than the laptops i get for free in my 'look at the cool shit i got free this month' thread

silentbogo · Feb 17, 2017

Mussels said:
thats worse than the laptops i get for free in my 'look at the cool shit i got free this month' thread

That's because you never had pretty Samsung NP350 ultrabooks covered in lipstick :nutkick:

I think that was the worst one I ever had.

What's even worse, it was not that kind of lipstick that "stays on your lips", according to advertising... it was the bright oily kind, which (some of you, guys, probably encountered it at least once) after one kiss on the cheek manages to get on your shirt, your hair and in some cases - underwear :slap:

Needed a bubble bath and 2 bottles of isopropyl to get it off completely.

dorsetknob · Feb 17, 2017

silentbogo said:
(some of you, guys, probably encountered it at least once) after one kiss on the cheek manages to get on your shirt, your hair and in some cases - underwear

Is that how you request payment

Reminded of Xbox Red ring of ~~dic~~Death :laugh:

Jetster · Feb 21, 2017

Dell Inspiron with a Pentium M

Convenient CPU heat sink cleaning

Deleted member 24505 · Feb 21, 2017

I hate laptops, usually shitty cooling, pain in the sitter to repair, inc taking them apart and putting them back together.

P4-630 · Feb 21, 2017

Jetster said:
Dell Inspiron with a Pentium M

Convenient CPU heat sink cleaning

That's ideal! Wished more companies designed them like that, easy accessible for cleaning or to replace parts.

Jetster · Feb 21, 2017

tigger said:
I hate laptops, usually shitty cooling, pain in the sitter to repair, inc taking them apart and putting them back together.

I hate them too, but unfortunately everyone has one. I don't even use my personal one but I make money on them

P4-630 said:
That's ideal! Wished more companies designed them like that, easy accessible for cleaning or to replace parts.

I know right? They got rid of it on purpose

P4-630 · Feb 21, 2017

Jetster said:
I know right? They got rid of it on purpose

Lol! I thought it was a good idea!

ironwolf · Feb 21, 2017

Sorry for the pic if it is a little blurry.

Recently one of the guys here in town who does some small system builds/service and buys stuff from us came in asking about water cooling. He had a kid (lower 20's?) with a very nice water cooled gaming system call him, the motherboard died. This guy sends the board back to Asus for him, forgot to pull the CPU *and* the retention backplate for the water cooler. Asus sends a replacement board back, the CPU back but *not* the backplate bracket. So he asks if we had one, told him uh no, check fleaBay or Corsair. Two days go by and the actual system owner comes in all pissed off, machine wouldn't boot back up at all. I open case up, heatsink paste was *literally* running/oozing out from under the water cooling unit, all over the motherboard. On top of that, the techie guy decided the backplate bracket wasn't needed (!!) and took four brass standoffs and screwed the unit down with them. Since the brass standoffs didn't come up through the mounting holes, the water cooling unit got screwed down too tightly and without the right height. This is what the socket looked like when I pulled the CPU:

I told him there was nothing I could do. He tried to RMA the board back to Asus and they of course denied the RMA, user inflicted damage, yadda yadda. So the owner is trying to get the techie guys to man up and replace the board (still available on Newegg). I told the owner that I will cut him a break on putting it all back together. Still no word back. I am pretty sure the techie guy is going to deny all of this and refuse to man up over this. Yeah, as a gamer myself, it sucks to see a kid with a sweet box that is just doing nothing right now.

Do you guys think that the techie guy needs to pony up for a replacement board for this kid?

Jetster · Feb 21, 2017

Who's this techie guy? A friend? I wouldn't give them a break. Charge them for the work and they need to right it off as lessen learned. Offer to show them how its done correctly if they pay for the work

Most RMAs instructions say to not send anything but the board with a protective cover on the socket

ironwolf · Feb 21, 2017

Oh heck no, not a friend. Just a guy who has been buying stuff/parts from us for years. This was his first dealing with water cooling (according to him). I'm pissed that this guy ignored everything I told him, ie. look on eBay or Corsair. I found the bracket kits on Corsairs website in like 3 minutes.

Deleted member 24505 · Feb 21, 2017

ironwolf said:
Sorry for the pic if it is a little blurry.

Recently one of the guys here in town who does some small system builds/service and buys stuff from us came in asking about water cooling. He had a kid (lower 20's?) with a very nice water cooled gaming system call him, the motherboard died. This guy sends the board back to Asus for him, forgot to pull the CPU *and* the retention backplate for the water cooler. Asus sends a replacement board back, the CPU back but *not* the backplate bracket. So he asks if we had one, told him uh no, check fleaBay or Corsair. Two days go by and the actual system owner comes in all pissed off, machine wouldn't boot back up at all. I open case up, heatsink paste was *literally* running/oozing out from under the water cooling unit, all over the motherboard. On top of that, the techie guy decided the backplate bracket wasn't needed (!!) and took four brass standoffs and screwed the unit down with them. Since the brass standoffs didn't come up through the mounting holes, the water cooling unit got screwed down too tightly and without the right height. This is what the socket looked like when I pulled the CPU:

I told him there was nothing I could do. He tried to RMA the board back to Asus and they of course denied the RMA, user inflicted damage, yadda yadda. So the owner is trying to get the techie guys to man up and replace the board (still available on Newegg). I told the owner that I will cut him a break on putting it all back together. Still no word back. I am pretty sure the techie guy is going to deny all of this and refuse to man up over this. Yeah, as a gamer myself, it sucks to see a kid with a sweet box that is just doing nothing right now.

Do you guys think that the techie guy needs to pony up for a replacement board for this kid?

I don't think techie guy are the words I would use, first on begins with F and second with W. He does need to pony up indeed, and pay for the damage he has caused.

Jetster · Feb 21, 2017

ironwolf said:
Oh heck no, not a friend. Just a guy who has been buying stuff/parts from us for years. This was his first dealing with water cooling (according to him). I'm pissed that this guy ignored everything I told him, ie. look on eBay or Corsair. I found the bracket kits on Corsairs website in like 3 minutes.

Oh I see he's a customer. Well just see if he will pay for the fix then show him how its done.

Maybe he will bring in more broken parts, I mean business

Random Murderer · Feb 22, 2017

tigger said:
I don't think techie guy are the words I would use, first on begins with F and second with W. He does need to pony up indeed, and pay for the damage he has caused.

Pretty sure you and I came up with the same word for the guy, I'm assuming the word you came up with is f***wit.
Agreed that this guy needs to nut up and accept responsibility.

Ahhzz · Feb 22, 2017

Random Murderer said:
Pretty sure you and I came up with the same word for the guy, I'm assuming the word you came up with is f***wit.
Agreed that this guy needs to nut up and accept responsibility.

I would have gone with "Wad"

micropage7 · Feb 22, 2017

ironwolf said:
Sorry for the pic if it is a little blurry.

Recently one of the guys here in town who does some small system builds/service and buys stuff from us came in asking about water cooling. He had a kid (lower 20's?) with a very nice water cooled gaming system call him, the motherboard died. This guy sends the board back to Asus for him, forgot to pull the CPU *and* the retention backplate for the water cooler. Asus sends a replacement board back, the CPU back but *not* the backplate bracket. So he asks if we had one, told him uh no, check fleaBay or Corsair. Two days go by and the actual system owner comes in all pissed off, machine wouldn't boot back up at all. I open case up, heatsink paste was *literally* running/oozing out from under the water cooling unit, all over the motherboard. On top of that, the techie guy decided the backplate bracket wasn't needed (!!) and took four brass standoffs and screwed the unit down with them. Since the brass standoffs didn't come up through the mounting holes, the water cooling unit got screwed down too tightly and without the right height. This is what the socket looked like when I pulled the CPU:

I told him there was nothing I could do. He tried to RMA the board back to Asus and they of course denied the RMA, user inflicted damage, yadda yadda. So the owner is trying to get the techie guys to man up and replace the board (still available on Newegg). I told the owner that I will cut him a break on putting it all back together. Still no word back. I am pretty sure the techie guy is going to deny all of this and refuse to man up over this. Yeah, as a gamer myself, it sucks to see a kid with a sweet box that is just doing nothing right now.

Do you guys think that the techie guy needs to pony up for a replacement board for this kid?

yeah, i got one friend that act like he knows everything and try to handle tech stuff by himself
then he broke something and left it like nothing happened then say its ok when i use that

Deleted member 24505 · Feb 22, 2017

Random Murderer said:
Pretty sure you and I came up with the same word for the guy, I'm assuming the word you came up with is f***wit.
Agreed that this guy needs to nut up and accept responsibility.

No lol f....ng W...er

silentbogo · Feb 22, 2017

No pics today, but I just gave a laptop back to its owner.

The previous "service center" sent it back with a diagnosis - It's dead, get over it.
To be more specific - "a non-working south bridge"... on a f%$n Zacate Laptop!
That's usually what most Eastern European techies write in service reports, when they either can't or won't fix it, regardless of the actual fault.
I guess they were way too lazy and overfed to bother with reviving an entry-level Samsung laptop, which only had a failed HDD.
Probably the quickest $30 I ever made.

Had a similar story with a lot more expensive ASUS N61DA, maxed out to its full potential.
Bought it for $70 couple of years ago, assuming from the words of the previous owner, that the motherboard was dead (he spent 2 trips and some cash on diagnostics in two separate repair shops).
1 hour later I had a fully functional gaming laptop. 2 years later still kicking like a champ at my relative's house.

Random Murderer · Feb 22, 2017

tigger said:
No lol f....ng W...er

Oh right, you're on the other side of the pond, hence "w***er." I like what you came up with better, lol.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Feb 22, 2017

I knew straight away he meant "fucking wanker"

Norton · Feb 25, 2017

Pretty nasty!

The Silverstone TD02 AIO cooler that I had running on one of my rigs died recently so I decided to take it apart- the inside was loaded with scale, corrosion, and other assorted gook.

dorsetknob · Feb 25, 2017

Looks like a cesspit pump

Norton · Feb 25, 2017

dorsetknob said:
Looks like a cesspit pump

I deal with those at work, sewage, wastewater pumps, etc.., and some of those were in better condition than this!

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