My phones's lighting port to 3.5mm headphone jack converter wasn't giving any sound while it was randomly moving,so I used some tape and paperclips to put it in a fixed position3yr ⋅ EcRar30 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Lenovo boards have bigger mounting holes than standard, making push pins useless.. 4 smaller washers to the rescue4yr ⋅ ZenXnE ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Just trap a heat sink to the outside with cable ties, it’ll be fine, maybe.4yr ⋅ jlhudson1989 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Laptop I got for free completely destroyed, reassembled it and fixed it by using tape on the screen levers (sorry I don't remember how they're called) wich missed ALL of the screws AND screw holes, then I did those holes to try and fix the cooling since the fan is basically dead(failing miserably)3yr ⋅ loresimdriver ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Needed a usb card reader and the only one I had had a messed up usb port so woo, this works3yr ⋅ Urmomgayandsoareyou ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
When you quickly need portrait screen mode, but luckily you have a laptop:2yr ⋅ Woititti2005 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Ancient PC has no onboard BIOS battery, just a connector for an external pack. 5 minutes rummage in the bits box and we're in business. (Battery not included).4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
I needed a key I could press with my thumb for gaming, but the spacebar got in the way; with extra keycaps I Frankensteined a solution5yr ⋅ TThor ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
When your old gaming squad reassemble, but you don't have an headset5yr ⋅ MrAnsatz ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
My bedroom tends to get extremely warm during summer so i built a ghetto AC5yr ⋅ TriestGieter ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
My Surface Pro 7 suffered from throttling while playing Hades, so i figured a taped 140mm fan with USB adapter would be the perfect fit1yr ⋅ Fant1xX ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
The only PCIe bracket was too long for the case, what do you think of my son’s solution?3yr ⋅ gloucma ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Buddy wanted his case fans to work but didn't want to buy a fan controller and there was no extra ports on the motherboard3yr ⋅ TJ5897 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Was too cold to print in my dad's basement, so I built an impromptu heat shroud for my 3d printer!5yr ⋅ Rohall ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
This is how I take the dashcam video off the micro SD card onto my phone2yr ⋅ throway5585678876544 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Last year, I posted a pic of my friend’s headset that he cleverly fixed. Said headset has evolved to this monstrosity.5yr ⋅ marsmctavish ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Is this count? I only have a pair of hands and it is tired of holding the Switch. So i use the joycon straps to hold it on the rear view mirror.5yr ⋅ omnidohdohdoh ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
My office conference rooms have very sensitive motion sensors that trigger when anyone outside walks within 20ft of the doors5yr ⋅ xd1936 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Router kept crashing so I added a fan, soldered to the 12v power rail - Now running 20°C cooler4yr ⋅ supernerdpp ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Internet speed is 700Mbps at the home hub but 10Mbps at the jack. Think I found the issue6yr ⋅ bladesbravo ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Got tired of shocking my pool by hand. Hooked up a mixing chamber and a timer to the refill spout. All I do is add the grains of chlorine.3yr ⋅ ChronoFoe ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
How I listen to audobooks about spaceships and dragons at work without anyone noticing.5yr ⋅ Tinfoil_Haberdashery ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Work tech support at a local ISP..our customers are modern day Macgyvers4yr ⋅ Actionhank87 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Power supply failed in my wife's mini work computer. Nothing local so now it has an external power supply.3yr ⋅ the666thviking ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Washer installed instead of spending hundreds on a replacement bridge (broken string holders)2yr ⋅ g297 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
The plug end of my flash drive broke off and i needed the info on it, so I cut open a USB cable and soldered the wires to the drive. It works!2yr ⋅ -Charm-Offensive- ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
The button I use the most on my monitor eventually gave up, so I opened it up, ran a couple of wires from the button, took a button from a dead CCTV system I had lying around and stuck it there with hot glue. Works perfectly.1yr ⋅ halandrs ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Already posted on r/techsupportgore but somebody mentioned this sub in the comments and I think it rather fits. Phone stopped charging, powerbank pcb to the rescue.4yr ⋅ brain-oof ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Saw the guy with no low profile bracket for his gpu so I raise you a no high profile bracket for mine!2yr ⋅ Pabluro ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Load testing dying, overheating drives to get them nice and toasy to use as heating pads for a pinched nerve in my back.5yr ⋅ hoookie ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
That's okay, it's a temporary solution, just relax ... 6 month later ...1mo ⋅ wackou72 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
A desperately built flashlight because the power is out tonight and we have a surplus of half-depleted 9V batteries5yr ⋅ Nissingmo ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
MacBook Pro wasn’t detecting backup from SD card slot... H4N for the rescue?4yr ⋅ RedditInfinity ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Would it be possible to turn this keyboard into macro pad? (more info in comments)1yr ⋅ partyclank ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
GoPro Hero 9 was overheating when I used it outside in the summer heat, so I equipped it with some heat conductive double-sided tape and heatsinks. I also cut up a hairy pillowcase and covered the microphones with them to eliminate wind noise11mo ⋅ yeahboii5 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Low on tech, but high on support; the weight of the shelf distributed through the dvd case gives the proper force to hold the cartridge down.5yr ⋅ My_Public_Profile ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Used a 2.5 IDE drive + small IDE cable to connect a hard drive to this thin client, which originally had a 1GB flash disk4yr ⋅ Lars2_1 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Pi Hole with a custom length heatsink made from an old Mainboard plus a fan from a CPU cooler1yr ⋅ marius7963 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
'sleep is for noobs' - me at 5AM just finishing up silencing my hackpad2yr ⋅ speeder658 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
We were looking for a way to power our raspberry pi CU. This was what we came up with2yr ⋅ ToaSuutox ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Our router was crashing daily. A simple USB fan in the old router is enough to fix it5yr ⋅ Busyb0x ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Needed a Xbox phone clip, so some GoPro attachments and a car phone mount did just the job!4yr ⋅ c-k178 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
This icon naming. Boomer-proof simplicity, made by a Zoomer. Efficient and German.3yr ⋅ themo98 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
CPU fan died in the middle of installing Ubuntu. Had to add a little clearance.5yr ⋅ MagicalGirlEmi ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Realized my wireless mouse had a sensor extender. After some r&d I found that this gave me the best response time in terms of sensor to mouse distance. Works great so far I’ll keep y’all updated3yr ⋅ cim83 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
They said they needed 10 computers in the middle of nowhere and they wanted an attractive drop on no budget. Yes, that is a shower rod.7yr ⋅ puckbeaverton ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
That's screwy. This might be screwed, and might screw up.1yr ⋅ TheRealFailtester ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Friends. I need help! How do I take this screw off a Dell laptop? Someone decided to strip away the screw2yr ⋅ habibexpress ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Peltier cloud chamber I built for science outreach helping me get through the day.3yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Tired of breaking barrel jacks? Just solder right to the motherboard.3yr ⋅ Cam_e_ron ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Found out that my wireless mouse took 2.7v batteries... After I stashed s bunch of 1.5v batteries. So I plugged it into my switch dock. Mouse is receiving power from the switch, and sending data to PC (pc was too far and cable was too short to plug it right into the pc)3yr ⋅ Meme25327 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Pup got under the desk. Internet went out. Its too late to fix it the right way...2mo ⋅ Handy_Dude ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
My facial mocap rig in 2013 needed the cameras to be at precise heights and angles. Nothin a bit of cardboard, modroc, and hotglue can't fix.4yr ⋅ dragoninmyanus ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Forgot my cooling pad, and laptop fans are garbage. Didn't stop me5yr ⋅ AfoninZ ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
A classroom word processor done cheap. It's windows 2000 on an asus Eee PC 900a.4yr ⋅ Moomoobeef ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
When your 9v battery dies in the middle of the night, but you still need to get home3yr ⋅ king_twinkie ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Temperatures went from 70° to 30° in idle, also allowed for a substantial overclock on this GT7204yr ⋅ cla7997 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
I was asked to try fitting a desktop heatsink to this overheating laptop to get it to boot2yr ⋅ Somebody-Qualcuno ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Made a tool for cutting thin strips of plasterboard/drywall.1yr ⋅ justanotherpony ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
I used my cymbals as an antenna and it picked up 50 channels (from my basement)5yr ⋅ Chilla_Vanilla ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
6GB 1060 died. Reballing the GPU alone didn't help so I added some washers for more pressure and it's back alive & fully working again3yr ⋅ Higurashii ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
My gaming PC with a DVD drive attached to the side using double sided 3M foam pads. I have no idea where the pads came from. I just had them sitting in a drawer.1yr ⋅ ChickenFeline0 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Overheating component in the automation control cabinet? Spare is dead out of box? No problem - blowymatron 9000 on the way.3yr ⋅ Jc6862 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
I don't know if this counts as MacGyver or gore. I lost one of the clips that mounts the print bed on the printer. So I used a keyring to fix it in place. Actually works like a charm, besides the smaller print surface.2yr ⋅ Lucain872 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Raspberry Pi got kind of warm in its case. Heatsink helps getting the heat out of the case.1yr ⋅ Lars2_1 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
The feet came off the razer, so i replaced them with hot glue.5yr ⋅ NothinInMyPocket ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Ya'll loved my spoon glued to the turtle beach headset. Now I present to you. The $5 walmart battery bank glued to the astro a50's I got scammed on that don't hold a charge!4yr ⋅ BrentarTiger ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
My Dell laptop now thinks this is an original 65W Dell charger, when in fact it's a 120W Toshiba1yr ⋅ TinyHope5150 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
end of the day, router died, had a spare voice gateway. got them back up and running for the night1yr ⋅ Daritari ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
When you want to use a 40 year old keyboard but also want CAPS and Num lock lights. Drill + Teensy++.5yr ⋅ Kirkwood1994 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
How i solved overheating on my Chromecast : Some K'nex and a old Dell CPU cooler.3yr ⋅ artemis_0504 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
The thing I did to a dell power supply to get an hp all in one to work. Yes that’s a usb cable coming out of the power connector.2yr ⋅ Rydirp7 ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Maybe not McGyver-y enough but some think wizards are required to work with RAM.4yr ⋅ dracopurpura ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
i put a camera battery and a Bluetooth receiver in an ihome to make it portable and wireless. also duct tape6yr ⋅ frankaislife ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
This thing with a JM20330 SATA Bridge on it... SSDfying in another level.3yr ⋅ heysub ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
(Ps2 slim)- This mechanism the disc touches was causing weird noises with disc like scratching this is maybe the 2nd thing I tried . Now it’s just the loud laser noises when playing games1yr ⋅ BulmasBabyDaddy ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
I wanted to turn my lights on with Siri. It ended up working quite well.5yr ⋅ jrrudge ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
My Raspberry Pi 3 was overheating, my heatsink lowered temps by 30c7yr ⋅ actioncheese ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
My cheap headset had too much background noise even after lowering the pickup level, so I made this out of my old memory foam topper. It smells like back sweat and functionality.5yr ⋅ stopchooingsoloud ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
