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kelly258
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1d ago
Using a 2 dollar shim to fix a laptop fan rattle that three shops gave up on
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lewis.troy
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2d ago
Pro tip: I ran DBAN on a shop laptop without checking for a RAID controller first, and now a dental office in Mesa is out 40 patient files
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josephbutler
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2d ago
I finally spent $60 on a decent PSU tester and it caught a bad 12V rail that a multimeter missed
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hugoh55
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3d ago
Why does everyone push SSDs on customers who just want their old laptop to boot faster
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butler.finley
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7d ago
Update: I use a 9 volt battery to test old power supply fans before I even plug the unit in
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andrew_rodriguez
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9d ago
Found out my USB polarity trick was killing ports, and now I wonder if I was right all along
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gavin_hill27
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9d ago
Can we talk about why everyone checks the PSU last when a PC won't boot
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hunt.quinn
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11d ago
Hit ticket #2000 in my solo repair gig and the number that stuck with me was different
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gavin_hill27
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12d ago
Showerthought: a failing SATA cable on a 6 month old build humbled me after 40 minutes of cable swapping
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wesley_martin
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12d ago
Showerthought: I quit reseating RAM first on every ticket after a $60 office call in Tacoma taught me better
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ellis.mia
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12d ago
Dropped $180 on a data recovery class and learned the trick is just asking the client for their old phone
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rubyk86
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15d ago
PSA: A dying CMOS battery was faking a dead motherboard on 3 machines last month
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julia557
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16d ago
Told a client their PC was fixed, then Windows Update undid it 20 minutes later
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riley_schmidt
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16d ago
PSA: dropped $180 on a power supply tester last year, it just saved a client's $4k server build
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drew_martin
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16d ago
Chose to keep a client's failing RAID array alive instead of moving to a single SSD, and it came back to bite me 2 weeks later
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