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How Not To Install Computer Hardware
ssassen writes "Most computer hardware websites tell you how to get your computer hardware up and running properly and not RMA it after the first boot. Hardware Analysis takes a different approach and tells us exactly how NOT to install computer hardware. They document many of the pitfalls that'll sound familiar to many enthusiasts and have some great pictures of what could go horribly wrong during an upgrade. Very funny, and guaranteed to put a smile on your face!"
...as long as nobody's looking!
See, you didn't need to read that article at all. Let's keep up the slashdot tradition!
I used to work in a retail computer store specializing in Amiga computers. The A1200 was notorious for being difficult to install expansion boards into the trapdoor slot.
I had one accelerator try to be returned after the customer tried to install it themselves.
I looked at the unit and the pins connecting the card connector to the board were bent and there were chips out of the motherboard.
I told the customer that it looked like they took a screwdriver to the edge and used a hammer to try and pound the card into the slot.
I kid you not, the reply was "I did. So what? The manual didn't say *NOT* to hit it with a hammer and screwdriver".
We didn't accept the return. I explained that my supplier would laugh me out of business if I tried to return it with chisel marks.
$200 down the drain because the cheap bastard didn't want to spend the extra $10 to have us install it.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
It got rid of the original problem of applications crashing as well. Moral: If your computer occasionally freezes use a screwdriver. Works best with AMD
And before you ask the Vendor was Kobian, yes the one that makes cheap(really cheap) mobos.My Aurora : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o91ZsGwJYyg
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Step 8a...
After your webserver is configured, create a page that has technical information that geeks are interested in, and have a friend submit a story to slashdot about it.
Step 8b...
Sit back, and watch the blinking lights turn solid with activity, as your 14 registered users get dogpiled with 6099 anonymous slashdotters. Admire the wonderful smell of melting IC chips while looking for your warranty paperwork.
krystal_blade
It will be easy to motivate our fellow man; there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.
I think I've seen something like this before somewhere ..... probably .....
Anyway, at my last place of work we instituted the annual Pegg Award for Excellent Incompetence in the Constructiuon of a New PC. The first recipient won for the sheer brilliance of omitting to fit any insulating pillars between the motherboard and the chassis, electing instead to bolt the motherboard directly to the chassis.
He was our top PCB designer. He also once routed a 0V supply to a microamp-current flame sense amplifier circuit through a section of track {ignition transformer primary circuit} that would carry pulses of tens of amperes.
The second recipient won it for failing to format a hard disk he'd just FDISK'ed, and wondering why attempts to SYS it were failing.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
Just make sure you have done a full (or preferably 2) full backups first - then it doesnt matter what you do to your PC, nothing will go wrong. Hell, juggle the ram chips, play football with the hard disk, drop bits onto passing pedestrians... whatever the hell you feel like. It'll all work just fine.
This state of affairs can obviously be implied from the case where you attempt to upgrade without backing up and it takes 0.0000001 seconds for something fatal to happen to your hard disk.
Beep beep.
ya... knowing that a server is /.'ed and i can't rtfa always puts a smile on my face...
Coffee? I managed to spill a glass of wine on my keyboard. It seemed OK so I saw no reason to change my habbit of keeing in drink next to my keyboard in the evening. Not even when a second glass of wine got spilt on the keyboard (actually my wife might have been responsible for that one).
The third glass of wine did not damage any hardware but Windows BSODed and my hard drive was corrupted badly enough to stop me rebooting. I had to reinstall Windows (for the coincidentally for the last time).
Hmm, let me test that out.
Unplug, plug, ok, no problem works fine.
Unplug, plug, ok, no problem works fine.
Unplug, plug, ok, no problem works fine.
Well my PC is still working, I cant see any pr
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
The thing I never understood about this particular joke is - how did the poster submit the comment?
Year's ago working on an old PC Case that would not fire up .
Step 1. Check 240v Fuse (3AG push and turn type)
Step 2. Observe 22 Cal. bullet fall out of holder.
Step 3. Down tools and back away slowly.........
Maybe he was dictating?
Not on a boatse, not with a goatse.
I won't mod the box, and I won't overclox.
I will not hot swap it here or there.
I will not hot swap it anywhere!
I do not hot plug CPUs, Sam. I will not do it, Sam-I-Am.
John
"Last time I went around to a computer store and askedif they had any [grounding strap] I was laughed out of the store.."
I think that was the time when you were wearing a "Chicks dig Linux" T-Shirt.