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phill · Nov 20, 2020

Hardware abuse is no laughing matter....

Poor card....

Jetster · Nov 20, 2020

silentbogo · Nov 20, 2020

phill said:
Hardware abuse is no laughing matter.... Poor card....

Jetster said:

You, guys, haven't seen abuse yet. Simply tortured hardware is kinda daily thing for me. The worst part is when people knowingly pass it onto a repair workshop, thinking that "Idunnowhathappened" will make the problem go away. Had a laptop which was previously in my lab for boring LCD replacement, again not my direct order but through another colleague. Then, few months later I get the same laptop, only now it won't turn on at all, and customer acts like it's our fault somehow, without saying it directly. The story is the same - "idunno, it just crapped its pants one day and stopped working", "you are the specialist - you figure it out". After disassembly I found this:

1) Lots of liquid damage
2) Big-ass carpet furball after only 3-4 months of active use
The outside of the laptop was spunk-free, which wasn't the case the first time around, so I know that everything was done knowingly and on purpose.
So, I called back my friend that passed this order onto me, and he called back that stupid arrogant bitch and... oh-big-surprise-omgface... :twitch:

After being head-on confronted about the issue, she remembered that: "Oh yeah... maybe that big flood in our office that destroyed pretty much every piece of electronics had something to do with it..." :banghead:

phill · Nov 24, 2020

We must be people that do Voodoo as we seem to fix anything that comes through the door....

silentbogo · Nov 24, 2020

I should probably change last position in my resume from "engineer" to "lvl.69 necromancer".

biffzinker · Dec 13, 2020

This video of a dirty iPhone, with gunk packed into the speaker/microphone was yuck.

micropage7 · Dec 13, 2020

Jetster said:

damn, some need to be saved: the cases, oh many cases

Athlonite · Dec 13, 2020

biffzinker said:
This video of a dirty iPhone, with gunk packed into the speaker/microphone was yuck.

eww that stuff gettin dug outta the charge port looks like a mix of earwax and pubes and th gross crap in the speaker hole :eek:

micropage7 · Dec 14, 2020

actually i dunno if someone has posted before

xtreemchaos · Dec 14, 2020

wow that rig above must get the dirt of the day award

. back in the day it was called soundproofing .

Splinterdog · Dec 27, 2020

Watching this happen must have been torture.

xtreemchaos · Dec 27, 2020

thats a new type of modding

what the hell happened ? that gives me the willys.

Caring1 · Dec 27, 2020

Splinterdog said:
Watching this happen must have been torture.
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Looks like someone took the C4 sleep state literally. :laugh:

phill · Dec 27, 2020

Splinterdog said:
Watching this happen must have been torture.
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Cheap PSU?? :eek:

Night · Dec 27, 2020

Splinterdog said:
Watching this happen must have been torture.
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Custom loop leak caused a fire? Painfull indeed. Damn, I think I need to get rid of my H100i that's 7 years old.

Splinterdog · Dec 27, 2020

Night said:
Custom loop leak caused a fire? Painfull indeed. Damn, I think I need to get rid of my H100i that's 7 years old.

So is mine!

Valantar · Dec 27, 2020

Splinterdog said:
Watching this happen must have been torture.
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How is that even possible? Doesn't pretty much everything inside of a PC have a bunch of flame retardants in the plastics, PCBs, etc?

Jetster · Dec 27, 2020

This reminds me, I need to check the new motherboard for that protective plastic film

lexluthermiester · Dec 28, 2020

Valantar said:
How is that even possible?

Easy, many of the plastics used in PC's are flammable. Get one started, they chain react..

Valantar said:
Doesn't pretty much everything inside of a PC have a bunch of flame retardants in the plastics, PCBs, etc?

That might be true for some plastics but not most. Flame-retardants tend to have conductive/capacitive properties which make them unsuitable for electronics use.

phill · Jan 2, 2021

I'm not sure how you wish to class this one, but oh my.....

Pardon our interruption...

I just have no words........

bobbybluz · Jan 2, 2021

I have a X99 Deluxe. That thing looks like it was attacked with a butane torch.

Jetster · Jan 2, 2021

phill said:
I'm not sure how you wish to class this one, but oh my.....

Pardon our interruption...

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I just have no words........

Looks like maybe some conductive paste got on the socket? That is crazy
even if you manage to change the socket I don't think it's gonna work. That plastic melted everywhere

lexluthermiester · Jan 2, 2021

Jetster said:
Looks like maybe some conductive paste got on the socket? That is crazy

Maybe liquid metal?

bobbybluz · Jan 2, 2021

lexluthermiester said:
Maybe liquid metal?

Maybe a small amount of thermite that was later ignited. That's some serious burnage.

micropage7 · Jan 2, 2021

Splinterdog said:
Watching this happen must have been torture.
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oh now i have another reason to buy fire extinguisher

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