Posts from — January 2010

Well that title is basically tacked on there to meet this weeks palindrome contest requirements. I would have liked to just call it “Crazy Box”. Anyways, vote vote vote!

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I don’t know why I keep putting faces on things, maybe its a disorder. Oh well.

Since I don’t have anything else of value to put here, lets look at a sad Mac Book. It would not start, flat dead.

I fiddled with its battery and then decided to check the Ram. The first stick that popped out of the slot looked all funky with white stuff on it.

Turned out that someone had coated the end of it in thermal paste, I don’t know why but they did. Ram does not like thermal paste smeared over it like cheese on a cracker, contrary to popular beliefs.

After the nasty stick was removed the Mac was all happy and like “Watch me chime and boot cause I don’t have a bunch of crap shoved in my Ram slot”

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Check out these pictures, makes me sad to be in Michigan.

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Well its Friday and that means another Woot contest has started.

This is what it started as…

And here it is finished, I would of liked to have had some more time to work on the layering of some more color, but oh well. Vote Vote Vote!

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So here we have some new stuff. This may be a future Woot shirt, not sure all depends. Its a big Tree Monster, I thought of it in that half awake stage you get when your just waking up and everything is still kind of out of wack. Kind of looks like a plata-tree.

Heres a Dell I worked on that was being tarted. Would boot and run stuff, but no Windows starty. After popping the side off it I found out that there were 4 burst capacitors, AND WALDO! I caught that punk.

And here is a picture of my shrimpers in their natural habitat on the Great Steel Desk Reef. Look at those crazy little buggers.

Thats all for Thursday

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So far today I’ve seen a lot of retardation. Even more so then most days, and so I’ve decided to share it with people out in Internet land in hopes that it will help make me feel better. Of course the names had to be protected those in question, but anyways here we go.

First up, a fellow got a computer from a police auction. At first when he came in to see if we fix X-Blades I thought he meant Blade Servers the way he was rambling on about a front panel controller that showed temps and fan rpms. He brings it in and its just a crappy gaming case with fans and windows that’s called an XBlade. Still he’s going on about how he went to the company that made it, blah blah blah the long story short is that he wanted a hard drive installed, windows installed, and the front panel display hooked up. I opened the case and noticed that the temp sensors that were running to the hard drive were cut, as was the SATA cable. No biggie, the front panel won’t read the drive temp, but it will still work. So I put the new hard drive he brought in it, were the cops had amputated the previous drive for its role in what ever illegal activity it had participatedin. I assumed it was just a Windows install, and had not tried to turn it on tell this point, after hitting the power button it did not post. Crap. Okay its bad RAM/hardware somewhere. Nope, nothing changed and still no starty. I looked up by the power managment on the board and seen this…

COOOL!!! Serously, wtf is this? It looks like someone went all Gary Busey on it. Its all scared, a lot of surface mount resistors are MIA as well as a some other important goodies. Also what was going through someones head to when they patched that capacitor in?! I mean really, what the crap is that. Instead of just de-soldering the cap from the board they soldered copper legs to the board, then another capacitor to those? Argh. After further checking the board over, a regulator on the north bridge looked all burnt and cooked, which meant that who ever did this may have cooked more then the board in trying to patch it up. He was more concerned about the crappy front panel thing then the well being of the board when I told him the diagnostic. Sigh.

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Woot Shirt day again! Here’s what I came up with for Ancient Egypt.

If you notice, the only thing that has to do with Egypt is the pyramids in the background. I really do not like the art of ancient Egypt. I do respect it for what it is, but personally I do not like it. All the wierd dog headed gods, scarabs, etc. Just not my thing, but camels are freaking awesome. They are like lumpy donkey’s.  So please vote for my lumpy donkey shirt

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The first time I seen this I laughed hard for about 10 minutes. And now everytime I hear this come on the radio I end up singing these lyrics too it.

Favorite part is “I don’t want a whale in a box or a bag… make me fries”

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Here’s a small sampling of stuff around the office that I’ve put faces on Power Supply Monster style.

Grrr!

So below is Mr. Powersupply Squid, in all his squid like glory.

This is/was an Hp laser printer, but now with a tongue and face, awesome.

And just to throw some more random clutter on the front of the site, here is a cool logo I found on a stick of RAM today.

At first I thought it was from some Asian origin, but its made in the Usa! That’s nuts, no one makes stuff here any more, especailly with cool simple logos like that on it.

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