Was a long time ago but I think the push pins weren’t broken so they did reattach well enough for it to get the customer some more mileage out of it. After clean and repaste of course.
I don’t remember ever seeing that exactly but I’ve seen all manner of cheap hardware and user error. Had a lady complain about her cup holder one time and yes she was talking about the cd drive. When we pulled the drive apart after replacing it there was a huge amount of dried coffee in it. She must have like it nearly solid with sugar and cream. Some guy came in complaining the windows background looked like sunset. It was overheating. The cpu and video card fan had so much paper dust in it that the fan blades had noticeably worn away and the dust had a mirror finish. I really wish I had taken a picture of that one.
It’s a 478, some Pentium 4.
And you just fixed it?
Was a long time ago but I think the push pins weren’t broken so they did reattach well enough for it to get the customer some more mileage out of it. After clean and repaste of course.
Fair enough. I only kept pictures of roach motels. I’ll post one next time I find them.
Pls do.
Here’s one that came with “memory issues:”
The chips were visibly desoldered from the DIMM even before taking it out.
Well, they weren’t wrong
I don’t remember ever seeing that exactly but I’ve seen all manner of cheap hardware and user error. Had a lady complain about her cup holder one time and yes she was talking about the cd drive. When we pulled the drive apart after replacing it there was a huge amount of dried coffee in it. She must have like it nearly solid with sugar and cream. Some guy came in complaining the windows background looked like sunset. It was overheating. The cpu and video card fan had so much paper dust in it that the fan blades had noticeably worn away and the dust had a mirror finish. I really wish I had taken a picture of that one.
This shit used to happen often enough that we joked calling optical drives “cupholders!”
We did to. The one I descibed was just a big coffee stain though.