r/techsupportmacgyver

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My local Burger King's drive-thru a few months ago

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I didn't have a full height GPU bracket so I made one out of a spare full height bracket and the half height one the card had.

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I needed to reinstall Windows on a friend's PC. Didn't have any USB keyboard on hand, so I installed a custom Kernel and ROM on my spare phone, and had it emulate as a USB Keyboard, and the PC sees it as such. It even works on the BIOS.

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My tablet charger was only working at a certain angle lol

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Had to access the BIOS of an older firewall. Thankfully the motherboard still had a VGA header.

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When wireless VR makes your router overheat

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Had to watercool my raspi ;)

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My classmate has 2 earpieces with 1 bud broken on each one, so they plugged them into a 2 way adapter and uses one bud off each set

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When you need to increase airflow to your laptop while staying in a hotel room. Simple, but effective.

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Didn't have the necessary female to female adapters but still managed organic audio

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Connectivity issues you say? 🤔 Fixed!

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No Power, And You Need To Charge a Phone? No Problem!!!

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Not stupid if it works

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Half of the screen was blacked out, but when i applied pressure it went back to normal! So a clamp came to the rescue!

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Small form factor pc for my dad

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This particular filament spool did not fit the holder. Cooking gear to the rescue!

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My Dad uses a pasta sauce lid as a lens cap for his camera

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Power went out but turns out the modem runs on 12v

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SSD Failed due to an overheating controller. Now it's in the freezer.

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GPU cooler doubling as human cooler

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Didn’t have ribbon, or a label available. I suppose wire, heat shrink and a 3D printed tag will have to do.

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I slept through all of my phone alarms today so I rigged a TENS unit to an alarm clock. It hurts a lot.

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Nope. I'm the one who decides who's broke around here.

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Wanted to increase the thermal mass of a heatsink

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Samsung put the VESA mount in a goofy location, I artfully moved it.

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I'm proud of this one

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I had to get the data on a overheating thumb drive. Liquid cooling worked flawlessly.

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Wanted to make a wall mounted touchscreen PC. Gutted an all in one and hid it between some kitchen cupboards

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Here are my completed headphones with a large battery and external aux jack.

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A boom arm is a boom arm

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A iPhone 4s with about 4X the original capacity. Works perfectly fine. Even charges.

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The battery in my clippers died halfway through cutting my hair and my power supply came to the rescue.

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Definitely belongs to this sub

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I need pepper stat!

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I found a way to repair my headset

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Mousepads in the wash, gotta make do...

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Found in a local tech support facebook group. The guy didnt have a screw for his m.2 drive and he needed the computer up NOW.

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Used a heatsink to replace a torn clutch pedal pad.

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Cooling the AC unit with a sprinkler, so the AC can keep cooling us.

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I needed a racing seat but I don't want to buy one

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when you break and lose one of your keyboard's legs...

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Missing an AAA batteey for a flashlighrt? just use foil and some cells!

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Tip: If you need to fix a wireless device but there aren't any repair guides available, you might find internal teardown photos in the FCC filings.

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I have found the specific spot where I have to apply pressure on such that the disc tray of my PS2 is counting as „closed“.

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Phone only charges when its pressed at a given point

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My pc was running hot so i replaced the side panel with this

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Wanted to use my headphones with my NES 10 feet away, found enough adapters to make it work.

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The more the merrier

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Stealth mounting the Xbox series X

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Neighbor tossed out a 2013 Samsung plasma. I replaced the panel driver board for $18 and it works great

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Fixing GPU sag with a broken flash drive

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House battery from wrecked Tesla Model X. Charges using Solar Panel and has the same capacity as 6 Powerwalls.

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My friend's guest controller

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In my wife' office they customized the AC

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got sent to the cyberdeck subreddit, then got sent here by someone in the cyberdeck subreddit

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If it works then why not?

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Clever workaround to the buzzer

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I have no idea why whatever tiny screws those need aren't included. I actually screwed it in using the standoff first, before realizing that, well, it's a standoff and not a screw. Then I did this.

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By using Linux there's always a solution

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Flash drive was getting too hot so I installed a monster heatsink.

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My friend broke the SATA port on his SSD, so He soldered every pins to the cable. He's a true madlad

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Intelligence: 100

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This is one expertly installed AP

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Switch was overheating, good thing it's 19c outside.

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Built a custom game controller out of a blu-ray player

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My top RAM stick only works with a slight pressure from below. A rolled up piece of paper was what I came up with. It won’t ignite at the temperatures of my laptop.

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Xbox 360 HDDVD player as external disc drive. Obsolete tech my ass! (p.s. it doesn’t play HDDVD’s)

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Wanted a wireless headset

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I added Windows Hello fingerprint unlock to my desktop in the cheapest way possible.

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My phone died in the middle of nowhere and I had no maps.. petrol station only sold car chargers 🤔

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Motion detector and automatic print jobs

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Improvise, adapt, overcome

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I needed a USB stick but couldn't find any spare at home. I made this to avoid going out to buy one. A USB Micro SD Card Reader with a hard wired Micro SD Card on it. The SD Card Reader originally had broken pins and couldn't read SD Cards.

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When you need to charge your phone during a hurricane

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My baby turned my pc off on me a couple times, I made a button on a longer wire to put the power button up higher out of reach.

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There's no such thing as I don't have the part

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Found a use for all the old Windows Training Kits

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While fixing on my own network, I used a free ISP hotspot across the street with my coffee can antenna.

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The wall is too thin for the bracket so we used an old Foscam Mini NVR to pad it.

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When your nose piece breaks and you need your glasses now

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Couldn't Find a Strap So We Improvised

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I didnt have the right cable for this Nvidia NV300 card. This is my VGA to DMS-59 converter.

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My solution to an overheating laptop

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Printing on the temperature dial on this crappy oven wore off. $5 Meat thermometer to the rescue. Even beeps at you to turn it down once it hits the desired temperature.

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