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phill · Jan 11, 2020

What are people or Intel doing?? Are they trying to break stuff so they have to re-buy it?? I suppose that's one way of bulking up your sales figures......

Valantar · Jan 11, 2020

phill said:
What are people or Intel doing?? Are they trying to break stuff so they have to re-buy it?? I suppose that's one way of bulking up your sales figures......

If you're delidding a soldered CPU you're either
a) well aware of the risks and entirely willing to re-buy if you mess up,
b) ill informed and working on the assumption that nothing has changed in Intel CPUs since the 8000-series, or
c) a complete nitwit who doesn't understand that solder joints are quite strong and who shouldn't be delidding in the first place.

I'd say either way this is purely PEBKAC. Intel is definitely not at fault - they have a long history of being at fault for various things, but going back to soldered IHSes on high-end CPUs is one of their better moves in recent history.

phill · Jan 11, 2020

Valantar said:
If you're delidding a soldered CPU you're either
a) well aware of the risks and entirely willing to re-buy if you mess up,
b) ill informed and working on the assumption that nothing has changed in Intel CPUs since the 8000-series, or
b) a complete nitwit who doesn't understand that solder joints are quite strong and who shouldn't be delidding in the first place.

I'd say either way this is purely PEBKAC. Intel is definitely not at fault - they have a long history of being at fault for various things, but going back to soldered IHSes on high-end CPUs is one of their better moves in recent history.

Maybe he was an option C.....

Jetster · Jan 17, 2020

My back up to my server

Edit: Figures, now it wont boot. Well it was shutitng down for no reason before I cleaned it.

Valantar · Jan 17, 2020

Jetster said:
My back up to my server

Edit: Figures, now it wont boot. Well it was shutitng down for no reason before I cleaned it.

Does that dust pattern on the side of the drive say "Synology"? :roll:

Jetster · Jan 17, 2020

Valantar said:
Does that dust pattern on the side of the drive say "Synology"?

Yes, Kinda cool ... 2 and a half years old. Its toast. Good thing its a back up
My back up power just went too, already replaced the batteries so It's fixed

EDIT again: Ok well its alive again. Weird

phill · Jan 17, 2020

Valantar said:
Does that dust pattern on the side of the drive say "Synology"?

That's just pretty!!

lexluthermiester · Jan 17, 2020

Jetster said:
Yes, Kinda cool ... 2 and a half years old. Its toast. Good thing its a back up
My back up power just went too, already replaced the batteries so It's fixed

That's a lot of what looks like "pet dander".

Jetster said:
EDIT again: Ok well its alive again. Weird

That's good.

Jetster · Jan 17, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
That's a lot of what looks like "pet dander".

The cats like laying around the hardware. Its warm

lexluthermiester · Jan 17, 2020

Jetster said:
The cats like laying around the hardware. Its warm

Kinda figured. I clean out the hardware in my home every month or couple of months for that very reason.

Chomiq · Jan 20, 2020

Jetster said:
The cats like laying around the hardware. Its warm

The only hardware my dog likes to lay next to is the fridge, it's cold and it has food in it

silentbogo · Feb 4, 2020

BUMP!
I've been busy lately, haven't posted anything here in awhile...
Here's some post-NY cringe-repairs:
1) "I've been cleaning my laptop and the fan isn't spinning anymore... I think I've damaged a wire or sumptin'..."

2) Got a laptop from our new head-economist. She wanted to pass it onto her younger daughter for homework, but it had few "issues". Come to find out the issue was cat pee, and excessive uncleaned flux from previous re-cap job. USB and eSATA ports were corroded to the point of being unusable, LEDs and TP buttons didn't work cause resistors got peed on... etc.etc.etc.

3) Chromebook Pixel 2013. The owner tried to convince me that he bought it brand new (which would've been even more idiotic than buying it used for $400-500) and it was never-ever repaired...
Laptop was dead (it was actually Google's fault, not that mess on the flip side), but that poor-poor charger: in addition to being totally f#$%ed up, it's also missing an ID resistor, which I have no idea what it was or could be)...

Grog6 · Mar 19, 2020

I got this for free:

It's an IBM Model 55, a 286 based IBM PC.

I cant build a config/boot disk for it, as none of my running PC's have a drive that small, and a 1.44 Disk won't work, lol.

It's one of those with the system configuration on the Hard Disk.

That was a great idea, lol.

Gmr_Chick · Mar 19, 2020

Ah, this thread always delivers the laughs. Good lord. To the folks here who have to clean out these monstrosities, I salute you :clap:

Athlonite · Mar 20, 2020

@Grog6 what in tarnations was that being used for in this day and age

Frick · Mar 20, 2020

micropage7 said:
Hard to understand how come someone typing using that keyboard from monday to friday
View attachment 141641

I was at MS tech support for a few months and basically hopped between desks. One day I came to a guys desk and the entire keyboard felt weird and the buttons sort of stuck to the bottoms. I turned it upside down and tons and tones of white stuff came out. I asked for a new keyboard, and mouse. I have no idea what the white stuff was, but the keyboard was full of it.

R-T-B · Mar 20, 2020

Frick said:
I was at MS tech support for a few months and basically hopped between desks. One day I came to a guys desk and the entire keyboard felt weird and the buttons sort of stuck to the bottoms. I turned it upside down and tons and tones of white stuff came out. I asked for a new keyboard, and mouse. I have no idea what the white stuff was, but the keyboard was full of it.

Depends? Was it at MS headquarters? Then it was probably cocaine.

Anywhere else I bet hair dander.

m4gicfour · Mar 20, 2020

R-T-B said:
Depends? Was it at MS headquarters? Then it was probably cocaine.

Anywhere else I bet hair dander.

OH shit, somebody got into Ballmer's private stash?

Better hope they didn't get caught :eek:

Frick · Mar 20, 2020

R-T-B said:
Was it at MS headquarters?

Callcenter, located by the frozen coast wastes in northern Sweden. So yeah, hair stuff. Some keys almost made "schlopp" noises.

Grog6 · Mar 20, 2020

Athlonite said:
@Grog6 what in tarnations was that being used for in this day and age

It had an Ortec Multichannel Analyzer in it that had been taking data since the early 90's.
It's so old, I can't get a manual for it.
It was taking data on O18 water coming out of a Cyclotron.

I also got a model M keyboard, and a Green monochrome monitor too, lol.

It was so dirty that it created a large cloud when I blew it out with my compressor. (outside, of course)

silentbogo · Mar 20, 2020

Grog6 said:
I also got a model M keyboard, and a Green monochrome monitor too, lol.

Always wanted to get one of those. Back in high school days I used to go an hang out with my friends in college computer lab. We used to run Quake tournaments every Saturday, and as the youngest out of bunch I was confined to a ghetto-rigged, but quite decent, AMD K6 PC with a beat-up spare monochrome(green) monitor.

Grog6 · Mar 20, 2020

I finally threw away my old NEC 600x800 flat screen trinitron; that monitor had the best picture, but it was huge for the 15" screen size, and not very gameable.

I bought it surplus in 1994, and used it until I got a 21" G550 in 03 or so.

I now have LCD monitors on my desk, but the second computer has the two G550's on it; they pretty much fill the desk, lol.

Gmr_Chick · Mar 20, 2020

R-T-B said:
Depends? Was it at MS headquarters? Then it was probably cocaine.

Anywhere else I bet hair dander.

If that's the case, then somebody needs dandruff shampoo BADLY. :roll:

Walking snowglobe, anyone?

R-T-B · Mar 21, 2020

Gmr_Chick said:
If that's the case, then somebody needs dandruff shampoo BADLY. Walking snowglobe, anyone?

As someone who suffers from bad hair dander issues due to genetics, it's just bad hygiene to leave it in the keyboard. I may make the snow on occasion, but I clean my keyboard weekly, and you'll never find any in it.

Gmr_Chick · Mar 21, 2020

^ That's why I fell in love with mechanical keyboards after getting my Corsair K68. I'd never had one before I'd bought it, and the difference was night and day. For some reason I found it to be amazing that you could actually pop the keys off and really get all the crumbs and other gunk underneath, lol. I clean my board about every two weeks or so (dusting, cleaning the keys in a mild soap bath, etc.)

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