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jdeb:

--- Quote from: ivan on December 03, 2013, 08:30:01 pm ---jdeb, there have been several picture horror stories shown on the Register in the past (I don't have a link, sorry) that would turn any self respecting service engineer off lunch.

The worst one we have seen was an IBM tower server that hadn't been touched in years.  It was kept under a bench at the back of the restaurant veg preparation area.  The bottom of the case was almost rusted through, the hard disks couldn't be removed because of rust and other gunge, the motherboard had been wet - there was a tide mark on it - and non of the fans turned.  The owner said that it was running slow - we wrote it off after cloning the hard disks.

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Nasty... I never thought of taking pictures 8). That electrical contact cleaner did the trick. It looked like a brand new motherboard after that. It is a decent rig... Asus A8N5X, AMD 64 X4400+, 4 GB DDR400 of RAM, Dual 7900GTX in SLI, WD 320GB Sata I drive,  and an off brand Power supply that was made by Super Flower. I was shocked at the quality of it (after opening it up) being I did not recognize the brand (escapes me now). Looked up the UL and made by Super Flower and upon further investigation, make high quality power supplies in another country. I have a brand new A8N5X somewhere in my organized hoard of stuff, maybe I will pull it out and give eCS a run on it. ;). The thing runs XP like no one's business. 

Tricky_Cat:
I have no idea what all this means... I just wish I had a working laptop so I could get back to programming...

ivan:
Sorry, the above were two people in the repair and maintenance business comparing notes.

jdeb:

--- Quote from: Tricky_Cat on December 05, 2013, 12:35:50 am ---I have no idea what all this means... I just wish I had a working laptop so I could get back to programming...

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Sorry, did not mean to hijack your thread.

Tricky_Cat:

--- Quote from: jdeb on December 05, 2013, 04:00:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Tricky_Cat on December 05, 2013, 12:35:50 am ---I have no idea what all this means... I just wish I had a working laptop so I could get back to programming...

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Sorry, did not mean to hijack your thread.

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It's OK. I did get some of it... But now I don't know what to do about the dust... I don't think I need to get all the dust out... But there's so much I think it burst into flames.

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