You win some, you lose... one. One pin that is

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Customer told us his GPU doesn't work

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The cpu still runs hot but I just changed the heatsink

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The things you have to do to keep the xbox from overheating

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You want lip gloss (I assume) with your PC?

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The new CB(anana)S lineup from Cisco has that nice curve you always wanted!

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Graphic card after local shop repair - don't repeat this mistake!

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My coworker uses an old laptop as a cutting board

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We work in IT, and we have literally thousands of lightning cables. Even so, my coworker insists on using this

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This poor DELL Optiplex at a hardware store

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Customer called, saying they smelled something burning and saw smoke coming out of the computer.

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Power over Ethernet? Laptop wasn’t charging

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I don't know how it happened

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DIY curved monitor, all you need is a height adjustable desk and a shelf to raise the laptop into

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There is SAWDUST in this PC!

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Client states Laptop behaves erratic when plugged into USB C dock... Found yer issue.

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Found this on r/kidsarefuckingstupid

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New form factor

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Keyboard keys come off? Don’t worry, just superglue them back on!

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This def belongs here.

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Something new everyday

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Ran out of cable clips...

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I don't even understand how these ports get mangled

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Look, just buy a new keyboard at this point. I'm not touching that with a 10-foot pole.

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Something came off with my heatsink

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Customer said his phone wasn't charging properly as the battery was too cold. He thought warming it on a toaster was a good idea!

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Customer's iMac was caught in a flood... Surprisingly I was able to recover the data!

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Just moved into a new apartment with the router looking like this...

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This is NOT the way to transport your company's equipment

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Water cooler took a leak

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The dangers of a raised sticker

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They asked for their chrome book to be fixed latter.

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Melted monitor. “But I HAVE to have a lamp at my desk. I just push it behind my monitor because it’s too bright”.

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This braided cable D:

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So my friend thought you could lift off the plastic like “an Intel bracket lifts up”

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From an IT Class (K-12). I feel sorry for the students.

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Nice one Microsoft...

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I didn’t know they could get this big

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No screws? No problem.

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We do work in data centers all the time

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Airdrop

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HP has a photo screenshot on it's official support website

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Hand Lotion just doesn’t mix with IT equipment.

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The reason my TV was flashing on and off

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Customers Spray-Painted MacBook Air

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Asked to organise some CAT5, the new person with networking knowledge assumed he wouldn't require supervision.

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This PC found in a lake

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My girlfriend's headphones, which are fine.

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Apparently mice need fiber in their diet!!

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my bomb has been planted guys

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DJ, spin that shit!

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Hard drives these days a crazy

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Received a CT scan tonight. Was not expecting to see this BSoD on it.

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Someone installed this fuse on +12V in parallel

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User: My computer has a broken mouse!

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I’m number 3, what about u guys?

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Oh, and can you check the speaker? It sounds a bit muffled.

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F#cking Painters

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Had a fiber cut to a major artery earlier this week. Noticed that the conduit was pretty shallow so brought in a fiber crew to move it down today. After getting the asphalt up, the crew started laughing - all the conduit was secured via duct tape.

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My sister “the kids have done something to my laptop, can you fix it?”

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“I watched a video on how to upgrade the RAM, but now it won’t turn on.”

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For Fuck's Sake, Frank!

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You guys want to suffer?

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This smartlock with a faulty battery

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Got an xbox 360 controller in for repair. Inside, I found multiple dead bugs and everything was covered in a fine, white powder-like dust.

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Found out why my monitor stoped working

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This guy made a horrid grinding noise and wouldn't load anything. Decided to pop it open.

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Sent to me by one of my techs today. Yes, someone did decide to just drill screws through it to mount it. (sorry for potato quality)

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To pay contractors to do your networking during a remodel

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Computer froze boss

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Got a call that their tablet for temperature monitoring isnt working anymore. Replaced this bomb.

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This computer desk.

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Why do we need to hire IT? Just plug it all in.

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Dropped and Cracked Zotac GTX 1080 Amp Edition

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I was tasked with fixing this. I don’t even know where to start I’m a kitchen manager.

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Oh, we're doing shitty self builds now? Here's mine, which lives in a cupboard.

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Serious question: when do you guys start disciplining people for damaging company property?

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Next level

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My dumb ass broke a resistor off my GPU. But my cheap ass isn't about to go buy a new one

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The mother in law asked me to see if I could speed up her laptop a bit. Spot the issue.....

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c/s “i didn’t want to buy a new one”

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Computer that was just dropped off in our shop from a dairy farm. We have many farm customers, but they usually keep their computers off the floor and out of the manure. The inside was worse.

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A cat5e cable I found under a rug where the user sat and wheeled over all day every day for years. The whole cable looked like that.

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MagUnsafe

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Another one of these... Bob the computer guy fixed my grandma's laptop hinge

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Touchpad ready for lift off in ...

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A lonely forgotten AMD gpu at work.

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Found at a restaurant in poland

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Apparently this is a customer server power supply

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VGA combining cable

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The Telegraph just got a windows update during the election livestream

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My gpu finaly fits in my computer .

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Switch not working

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Rusty Floppy Drive

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Some people just want to watch the world burn.

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Guess which coax cable goes to my unit

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Connectivity restored

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This guy shocked his phone screen with a lighter

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Came across this atrocity...

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Just realised I haven't had to do this for years

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This would be hell

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I am not proud of this :(

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shore power cable after ~8 years exposure to salty air and moisture

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My mom hasn't cleaned her computer since the day she got it, and she got it 6 years ago.

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Be careful when removing a macbook battery

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Do I belong here?

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Unrequested Lithium Surplus

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It's fiiiiiiine

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The amount of disassembly required to replace the hard-drive in a cheapo Walmart HP laptop

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Just cooking lunch on a athalon

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When a user wears too much makeup

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Kid dropped this off. Note read: “G-Ma stuck by heater”. Hope she’s warm.

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wife's x ray computer at work needed more storage [mild gore]

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isnt it amazing ? ⊙.☉

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Smile you have WiFi

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Some genius who closed last night, thought it would be a good idea to put notebook paper in our printer.

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Little panther ensuring the new build is grounded

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Might not belong here but I thought it was funny

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I’m not sure they put enough thermal paste on here.

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The nastiest mouse I have ever seen in the field. Make no mistake, that is not dust. That is...uh...hand-grease.

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when you have a VGA card with bad ram, it can cause Ijvalid drire specibicapikn problems.

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The space bar it's been having issues...

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The server room from my first sysadmin job in 2016

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A little different kind of gore. I Got my own desk at work, the downside was that I had to clean out the previous worker's mess.

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Today I fucked my hdmi cable

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This hurts to look at

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Was wondering why my laptop wasn't charging properly.

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IT Managers workstation. user1 is the Domain Admin.

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I was asked to try fitting a desktop heatsink to this overheating laptop to get it to boot

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Hurry up Rick, I need to check the switch!

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Rest in peace every single one of those cables

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RIP little homie. Thanks for about 18 years of loyal service. He was part of one of the first precision screwdriver sets I ever bought when I started working my first tech job at CompUSA back in 2002. He gave his life today bravely helping me repair laptops at NEISD. Pour one out on the curb, peeps.

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Apparantly she hadn't noticed until the mousepad started detaching itself from the laptop.

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How my weekend project is going

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Why won’t our computer turn on?

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Why yes that is a hole in the roof leaving their DP, Switch & routers exposed to the elements!

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User tried to clean out the charging port with an air compressor.

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It's known that Thinkpads can survive water, but they can survive fire too.

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Lizard eggs (I hope) nestled in an outlet box (crosspost with r/midlyinteresting)

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Is this the latest printer feature?

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I made this gore because I forgot about locking sata cables..

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