The Filthy, Rotten, Nasty, Helpdesk-Nightmare picture clubhouse

[hat]

Looks like a fire ant.

Oddly enough, that... thing gives the ex-miner theory more credibility. You're more likely to find bugs in your computer if it's tucked away in places miners are likely to go, like a basement, garage or shed.

 

[PLAfiller]

Until then, I found a Sapphire Nitro RX 460 Refurb on Newegg for 60 bucks to tide me over.

For 60$ it's still a baragain and a nice little Saturday one-hour project. Give it a nice tootbrush treatment and for the stickincess I don't think isopropyl alcohol/nail polish bla-bla of the sort will help. I'd say try it with paint dissovler?/stripper/remover? <- I am not sure how it's called in English. I am just a little worried if it is too strong for the purpose, but this thing saved me many times with sticker residue on my bike.

 

[micropage7]

Messy cables is not complete without rgb

 

[Frick]

Got an Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 from a flea market, now I'm cleaning it thoroghly (duh). It's not super obviously gross, but ... yeah.

 

[natr0n]

 

[rtwjunkie]

Well that is disgusting

 

[E-Bear]

What is more disgusting is to clean a computer and find pubic hairs in it.

 

[biffzinker]

What is more disgusting is to clean a computer and find pubic hairs in it.

TMI, sorry to hear that happened to you.

 

[robot zombie]

What is more disgusting is to clean a computer and find pubic hairs in it.

How does this happen.

Full stop intentional. It's a statement, not a question that needs an answer. Though it isn't the first time I've heard tell of this happening.

 

[jaggerwild]

Vacum cleaner!

 

[silentbogo]

Got one on my phone from earlier this summer. Saved this pic to show my customer why her PC is so loud and reboots all the time. PSU was even worse, but I forgot to snap a photo.

Spoiler

 

[Vayra86]

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Messy cables is not complete without rgb

That 4:3 monitor really is the finishing touch

Desert Storm?

 

[Ferrum Master]

The sad part of this is actually the owner is also breathing stuff like that.

 

[E-Bear]

How does this happen.

Full stop intentional. It's a statement, not a question that needs an answer. Though it isn't the first time I've heard tell of this happening.

Compulsive masturbator I guess.

 

[silentbogo]

What is more disgusting is to clean a computer and find pubic hairs in it.

There's one thing that's even more disgusting: cleaning laptops with roaches, spiders and moldy food leftovers in the HS vent.

Once I had a client (a friend of a friend), who'd buy old shit for restoration and re-sale, and nag me to fix it if there is a hardware problem.
Once he brought over a couple of old Fujitsu laptops. As soon as I took off the bottom cover and saw dead roaches, I told him to take this shit and f#@K off. Haven't seen or heard from him since then.

Another "worse than pubes" situation is when you get a so-called "kitchen laptop", which is my totally not made-up term for laptops used either to shut up loud kids by playing cartoons during dinner/supper, or bought as a present for aunt or grandma for the sole purpose of watching recipes on Youtube. Basically once you add a long-term exposure to food and drinks into equation, it gets really bad.

How does this happen.

 

[Aaron_Henderson]

Here's a "refurb" and upgrade I did awhile back...

Before -

After-

 

[Vayra86]

Here's a "refurb" and upgrade I did awhile back...

Before -
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After-
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BLASPHEMY!

 

[Ferrum Master]

There's one thing that's even more disgusting: cleaning laptops with roaches, spiders and moldy food leftovers in the HS vent.

Once I had a client (a friend of a friend), who'd buy old shit for restoration and re-sale, and nag me to fix it if there is a hardware problem.
Once he brought over a couple of old Fujitsu laptops. As soon as I took off the bottom cover and saw dead roaches, I told him to take this shit and f#@K off. Haven't seen or heard from him since then.

Another "worse than pubes" situation is when you get a so-called "kitchen laptop", which is my totally not made-up term for laptops used either to shut up loud kids by playing cartoons during dinner/supper, or bought as a present for aunt or grandma for the sole purpose of watching recipes on Youtube. Basically once you add a long-term exposure to food and drinks into equation, it gets really bad.

Have you found used up rubber in the case? Altho dried up already, but still it tops my horrid experience top.

I've repaired TVs years ago. Opening the rear case I saw a zerg colony crawling inside. Put back the cover as fast I could. Closed the service, went to get some poison to gas them out.

Put screws back and gave the TV cemetery back to the idiot owner.

 

[lexluthermiester]

What is more disgusting is to clean a computer and find pubic hairs in it.

Ick.. Been there. Foul indeed.

Have you found used up rubber in the case? Altho dried up already, but still it tops my horrid experience top.

Thankfully, never. Yeah that tops the weird-crapometer though.

 

[silentbogo]

Have you found used up rubber in the case?

Lol. Nothing like that (so far, and hopefully never).

Right now I've switched up a bit. Instead of working directly with people I'm getting most of my stuff from "less experienced" service shops. It's a bit less cash per repair, but more of the productive time (hence more $$$). Plus, I don't have to waste my time and nerves on mundane tasks like dusting, cleaning, TIM replacements, reinstalling Windows, answering phone calls, talking to idiots, yelling at bad customers to pick up their stuff and gimme my money, explaining the difference between legit and pirated software etc.

 

[Tomgang]

Bitwit dissapoints me. He is a pc guy and yet he lets he´s girlfriends pc to stay in a corner and not being cleaned for 3 years. The video says it all. Nasty dust comming out.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Bitwit dissapoints me. He is a pc guy and yet he lets he´s girlfriends pc to stay in a corner and not being cleaned for 3 years. The video says it all. Nasty dust comming out.

That wasn't too bad actually, I've seen much worse in PC's that have only been sitting for a year.

 

[silentbogo]

Bitwit dissapoints me. He is a pc guy and yet he lets he´s girlfriends pc to stay in a corner and not being cleaned for 3 years. The video says it all. Nasty dust comming out.

That's actually pretty good, even if you add dust filters into equation.

This is less than a year in my office building (I've probably posted these pics before, but for the sake of comparison I'll do it again).
My previous office neighbors had some fancy CM case with dust filters and noise suppression padding, but the dirt and grime still got through.
Forgot to snap what was going on with the mesh and foam padding, cause that was a nightmare.

 

[blobster21]

The finishing blow

The good thing is, the copper base is mint

 

[lexluthermiester]

The finishing blow

The good thing is, the copper base is mint

I find this on a regular basis. It's so simple to remove. How does this even happen?