Once while working in a computer store, couple years back, a young lady came in to buy everything she needed to go with her brand-spanking-new K6-2 400, which she'd bought on eBay. She took the equipment home, and then returned the next day with it, asking me to diagnose why it wouldn't work.
After a mindnumbing afternoon, I began to notice a strange smell, like burning tires, coming from the computer. Turned it off, looked inside, nothing. So I left it running now, and peeked in, And saw a bright-blue, 4 inch flame leaping from some poor unnamed IC on the mobo. Replaced the poor wretched mobo, and got the same results on another $120 board
The moral - somethings are sold on eBay because no sane person would otherwise buy them.
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Once while working in a computer store, couple years back, a young lady came in to buy everything she needed to go with her brand-spanking-new K6-2 400, which she'd bought on eBay. She took the equipment home, and then returned the next day with it, asking me to diagnose why it wouldn't work.
After a mindnumbing afternoon, I began to notice a strange smell, like burning tires, coming from the computer. Turned it off, looked inside, nothing. So I left it running now, and peeked in, And saw a bright-blue, 4 inch flame leaping from some poor unnamed IC on the mobo. Replaced the poor wretched mobo, and got the same results on another $120 board
The moral - somethings are sold on eBay because no sane person would otherwise buy them.
Lucky my boss was so understanding...