[[EG] Pepper]

My hands only tremble when the thing is delicate as fuck and i know that one wrong move and something breaks. Other than that, they are pretty damn steady.

That's what it was like when i replaced the CCFL bulb on my thinkpad.

[tratzzz]

Hehe, I remember chaning my friends CPU.


I put a 960T ~5 lines of pins wrong, lifted it a bit, put it correctly in and my friend didn't even notice.

Nothing happened to the CPU ofc. but he was so scared about bending the pins etc.

[Strikebango]

The i2500k has the nastiest crunch noise when you pull down the lever.

[Niteshifter]

It's a tense moment when you try and fix bent cpu pins, but when it works, it's a huge weight off your shoulders.

[Protocol7]

Strikebango posted:

The i2500k has the nastiest crunch noise when you pull down the lever.

I was so hesitant to continue pulling down the lever, and I wasn't convinced that I had actually installed it properly, but clearly it works.

They should come up with less heart-pounding ways to secure CPUs

[Strikebango]

I like my i5.

[FlubberNugget]

Protocol7 posted:

I was so hesitant to continue pulling down the lever, and I wasn't convinced that I had actually installed it properly, but clearly it works.

They should come up with less heart-pounding ways to secure CPUs

Or make pins less prone to bending :v

Edited:

Friend of mine tried to install a Phenom II in a 1155 Socket motherboard, most of the pins done

[Amiga OS]

Just imagine straightening out a few bent CPU pins and they just snap off instead.

[latin_geek]

Sad that the humble music bundle is getting so little attention
they should have added some games or something, JoCo and Frontalot are great artists

[Lyoko774]

..wait, there's a new humble bundle?

[latin_geek]

See what I mean?
Yeah, http://www.humblebundle.com/
Five albums and some extra songs and sheet music starting at a cent.

[Lyoko774]

I never got an e-mail about it from their site. Huh.

[Niteshifter]

Amiga OS posted:

Just imagine straightening out a few bent CPU pins and they just snap off instead.

If that happens, you can apparently straighten the pin out, drop it into the hole, then plug the CPU in and it'll still work.

[latin_geek]

Huh, now that you mention it I didn't either
that's odd

[Amiga OS]

Niteshifter posted:

If that happens, you can apparently straighten the pin out, drop it into the hole, then plug the CPU in and it'll still work.

In that situation I think I would just curl up and die right after I realize what I'd just done.

[[EG] Pepper]

Sometimes you can get away with a missing pin on a CPU. One of my socket 478 p4s has a missing pin and works fine.

[lavacano]

[FlakTheMighty]

lavacano posted:

I saw the HDMI version of those on Newegg once, it was during a sale and a 20 foot cable or something that was normally like $50 was $9. When I saw the name I burst out laughing and actually ordered one for shits and giggles.

[TonyTheBean]

Has anyone else had the joy of smashing one of these with a sledgehammer? Because I got to do that today.

[latin_geek]

That's called "office space-ing"

[wingless]

TonyTheBean posted:

Has anyone else had the joy of smashing one of these with a sledgehammer? Because I got to do that today.

I'm jealous.

[TonyTheBean]

We got a huge donation yesterday of about 30 desktops, 25 laptops (pretty damn good ones too), and about 15 printers (most are giant-ass office type printers that we can't even use because the toner is like, 500 bucks). Don't forget a shit ton of flat panel 4:3 monitors, because we got those too, so many that my boss told us to take a few for free if we wanted.

Edited:

So for some reason when I plug my third monitor to my other GPU it won't even detect it. Anyone know how to fix this?

[lavacano]

TonyTheBean posted:

So for some reason when I plug my third monitor to my other GPU it won't even detect it. Anyone know how to fix this?

If your other GPU is integrated then it might have gotten disabled when you plugged the non-integrated GPU (I forget the word) in.

[TonyTheBean]

lavacano posted:

If your other GPU is integrated then it might have gotten disabled when you plugged the non-integrated GPU (I forget the word) in.

Nope. I have a 6870 and a 6850 crossfired.

[lavacano]

I think the crossfire is what's causing it to not work then.

Edited:

Also I swear Firefox is fucking with me

Every time I go into about:config to enable the per-tab taskbar previews I can't find it, even if I searched the correct string.

It's like it's invisible until after I've Googled it.

[Pbox]

TonyTheBean posted:

Has anyone else had the joy of smashing one of these with a sledgehammer? Because I got to do that today.

if this wasn't playing while you did it you did it wrong

[Political Gamer]

TonyTheBean posted:

Has anyone else had the joy of smashing one of these with a sledgehammer? Because I got to do that today.

Obligatory Office Space clip

[latin_geek]

I just noticed that song is featured in GTA:SA. Or at least a snippet of it.

[magravn]

I came home from vacation yesterday, turn on the ADSL router as usual. It starts up as it should, but it can't establish a connection.
Now, there's been a couple of thunderstorms here while we've been away, but the router was able to turn on, so everything should be good right?

I open it up to see if anything's wrong:


Gee, I wonder why it doesn't work...

[wingless]

magravn posted:

I came home from vacation yesterday, turn on the ADSL router as usual. It starts up as it should, but it can't establish a connection.
Now, there's been a couple of thunderstorms here while we've been away, but the router was able to turn on, so everything should be good right?

I open it up to see if anything's wrong:


Gee, I wonder why it doesn't work...

Excuse me for a second.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Oh that's painful.

[kaukassus]

magravn posted:

I came home from vacation yesterday, turn on the ADSL router as usual. It starts up as it should, but it can't establish a connection.
Now, there's been a couple of thunderstorms here while we've been away, but the router was able to turn on, so everything should be good right?

I open it up to see if anything's wrong:


Gee, I wonder why it doesn't work...

oh god oh god oh god

[kaze4159]

HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?

[~Kiwi~v2]

kaze4159 posted:

HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?

with..

SCIENCE

[lavacano]

magravn posted:

I came home from vacation yesterday, turn on the ADSL router as usual. It starts up as it should, but it can't establish a connection.
Now, there's been a couple of thunderstorms here while we've been away, but the router was able to turn on, so everything should be good right?

I open it up to see if anything's wrong:


Gee, I wonder why it doesn't work...

It has buck teeth

[~Kiwi~v2]

I would like to know why and how I got that download rate.

[VistaPOWA]

Check you cabling, the construction crew might've routed the internet backbone into your computer.

An internet backbone looks like a normal ethernet cable, but with a slight colour change.

[~Kiwi~v2]

VistaPOWA posted:

Check you cabling, the construction crew might've routed the internet backbone into your computer.

An internet backbone looks like a normal ethernet cable, but with a slight colour change.

If only our cabinets in New Zealand were like that.

[David Tennant]

£1,200 is much less impressive in person, it's amazing what you can get for old hardware.

[latin_geek]

Ask for it on the lowest value note available next time :v

[Amiga OS]

latin_geek posted:

Ask for it on the lowest value note available next time :v

It still wouldn't amount to much in £5 notes.
How about pennies?