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Mussels · Aug 28, 2021

Forget the ring of fire, we got the RING. OF. NICOTIIIIIIINE!

plastiscɧ · Aug 28, 2021

FireFox · Aug 28, 2021

Unfortunately i smoke, but never not even once inside my house, car or in front of my Daughter.
When there are too many people around me smoking it bothers me.

Nuckles56 · Aug 28, 2021

lZKoce said:
I was given an old lappy "to make it faster"...you know...the usual routine. Reeked on cigarettes' smoke as soon as I got it in my hands. When I saw the back I already knew I got a winner for this thread. Without further ado, FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE CHARCOAL OF DUST!

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Never did a PackardBell before. Gotta say a sturdy machine, if this was Toshiba, it would've died a long time ago

Toshiba's laptops could be pretty hit and miss, I've had two myself. One was total dog of a machine that I couldn't wait to get rid of in the end, but the other one was solid despite the abuse it copped and I've had it now for 9 years and it's every bit as fast as the HP Envy X360 that replaced it in the end

Valantar · Aug 28, 2021

At times I wonder if people blow smoke directly into their laptops to try and hide the smell (like people do into their stove hoods). Though if anything stuff like that just illustrates how disgusting smoke is. I hope you were well compensated for handling that disgusting crap. I was particularly impressed with the smoke trails from the side ports - a great illustration of what happens when you don't align the intake vents with the fan.

Athlonite · Aug 28, 2021

Mussels said:
Forget the ring of fire, we got the RING. OF. NICOTIIIIIIINE!

Kinda reminds me of when I was a car valet and used to clean fresh imports from japan we used to spray on the cleaner walk away for 10 and then go back and start mopping up the filth

lexluthermiester · Aug 29, 2021

plastiscɧ said:
basically they're doing experiments like:

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just different...
testing the airflow... u know...

okay collected works of heads of government... at the risk of being deleted....

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Not to diss on you, because these were funny, but this a TECH nasty thread, not a general nasty thread... Just throwing it out there.. No offense of course..

95Viper · Aug 31, 2021

Stay on topic.
Stop the thread crapping, trolling, and off topic posting.

micropage7 · Sep 1, 2021

and as usual lab pc stuff

phill · Sep 6, 2021

A little while ago, I had to have a look at my Mum's PC she'd bought my sisters two girls and for everyone... It. Did. Not. Look. Pretty.

I have cleaned it up again and installed some newer hardware in there but since the end product is clean and sadly I never took many pics of this mess I can't really post much more in here

That said, this little build is over in my Project Log should everyone like to see the progress and end result

Give me 5 though, as I've only just put in the few lines of a new post!!

plastiscɧ · Sep 6, 2021

phill said:
A little while ago, I had to have a look at my Mum's PC she'd bought my sisters two girls and for everyone... It. Did. Not. Look. Pretty.

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I have cleaned it up again and installed some newer hardware in there but since the end product is clean and sadly I never took many pics of this mess I can't really post much more in here That said, this little build is over in my Project Log should everyone like to see the progress and end result Give me 5 though, as I've only just put in the few lines of a new post!!

lovely..

WhitetailAni · Sep 6, 2021

I sadly don't have pictures of this but I saw a Dell Inspiron something tower on the side of the road. The thumb screws still worked, so I opened it up.

There was a dead frog in the exhaust fan.

plastiscɧ · Sep 6, 2021

sure it was a frog? can be a toad as well....

phill · Sep 6, 2021

plastiscɧ said:
lovely..

I am glad I had an electric blower to clean it out with, I think I might have gone through a few cans of air duster to clean it out... It wasn't good....

plastiscɧ · Sep 6, 2021

i remember the times i had an alienware notebook. had to clean the inside- vents and other things with an electric toothbrush..

phill said:
I am glad I had an electric blower to clean it out with, I think I might have gone through a few cans of air duster to clean it out... It wasn't good....

R-T-B · Sep 6, 2021

plastiscɧ said:
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sure it was a frog? can be a toad as well....

Good job, you are going to frog/toad hell.

WhitetailAni · Sep 6, 2021

plastiscɧ said:
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sure it was a frog? can be a toad as well....

I'm not sure. I didn't examine the frog/toad - all I did with the Inspiron was take out the frog with some sticks and then leave it. I don't mind dirtiness in old computers, but I don't feel like making the office smell like dead frog.

Bungz · Sep 7, 2021

Covering in another location, mouse felt rough so started chipping away at it.....

Some people

micropage7 · Sep 7, 2021

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Covering in another location, mouse felt rough so started chipping away at it.....

Some people

yea, soft touch, rubber layer or whatever they say. it is good for some years before glueing and melt on your hand and leave sticky feel everywhere

Bungz · Sep 7, 2021

Not soft touch, its a boggo plastic mouse. And it is fairly new!

I can only put it down to hand sanitizer and scummy hands.

lexluthermiester · Sep 7, 2021

Bungz said:
I can only put it down to hand sanitizer and scummy hands.

And a failure to clean the thing. I wipe down my mice and keyboards once a week whether they look like they need it or not... Basic hygiene..

Anoniem · Oct 3, 2021

Well, not a picture but a video

Some time ago a customer which we all know well came to us to get his PC checked since it was acting up. Now we all knew the customer was a smoker (Zilver zwaar FTW) and we regularly cleaned his PC. But what we had to troubleshoot that day shocked all of us hahaha.

So I get to work, PC doesn't POST, okay.
Booting with one DIMM? Nope.
Booting with everything disconnected? Nope
Different PSU? Nope.
Breadboard on wood and 1 DIMM? Nope.
Breadboard on wood and different RAM slot? Nope.

So after a bit of testing I was losing my patience a bit and remembered that I had another Z270 board that I owned in my own lab. So I grabbed that and got to work. Now it STILL wouldn't boot and dead CPU's are quite rare compared to other components. So knowing the user was a smoker I decided to check the CPU under my microscope in my own time. So a few hours later I entered my lab and I shit you not, I could SMELL the CPU :roll:

The contact pads on the bottom of the CPU were completely covered with nice, thin film of nicotine residue thus not making proper contact at all! Cleaned the thing, booted in my board and all was fine.

Please people, don't smoke next to your PC hahaha.

Here's a video of what I found: https://streamable.com/4552s5

Athlonite · Oct 3, 2021

@Anoniem he didn't just smoke next to his PC he chain smoked next to it

Mussels · Oct 3, 2021

Oh god, i couldnt see it at first until the cotton bud started changing colour...

Deleted member 24505 · Oct 3, 2021

Disgusting, I don't smoke, and any smokers have to go out in the yard if they want to.

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