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27-10-2005, 09:50 AM
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Formerly au^ute
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For those that dont know, i work in IT in support/sys admin.
This morning I was approached by a staff member that was a bit worried about his brand new notebook. One of his kids put the notebook on the floor, i thought this was the beginning of a "someone stood on it can it be fixed?" problem... not so easy! Works out the notebook was placed near a box to store wood for an open fire, and was left there a couple of days. When they went to use the notebook it was too late, ANTS had infested the thing, and I've discovered eggs inside the battery compartment! Might take me a few mins to blow them out with the compressor  : Has anyone else had this happen to them? First time for me, but then i get ALOT of weird questions and problems. |
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27-10-2005, 09:59 AM
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27-10-2005, 10:20 AM
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Formerly au^ute
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Had a mouse in a desktop once, i took a firewire card out of it, and didnt put in a blank plate to fill the gap. one squeezed in there!!! must have lived in there for a while because it had everywhere! lucky a hp engineer came out and did that one for me. |
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27-10-2005, 10:56 AM
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To shreads you say?!
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I've mainly had to replace countless power supplys with dead geckos in them.
Although i once had to repair a computer that had sustained a power spike from a tree hitting a power line powerline. We ended up replacing the whole computer, the internals were all blackened and a couple of the capacitors burst and melted. There were scorch marks on the carpet of this guys house near all of his power sockets!
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27-10-2005, 11:12 AM
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Mouse!
One wet Saturday under protest my late father dismantled the toaster that you alway had to hold the pop-up handle down to make toast. The problem was skeletal mouse remains. His ex Mrs & Kids went right of toast for a while, LOL. Last edited by RED_EL_XR8; 27-10-2005 at 11:53 AM. Reason: toast is bread, now get on with it..... |
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27-10-2005, 11:50 AM
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Formerly Black EX-R6
Join Date: Jan 2005
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 A mate of mine picked his hub up off the shelf it was on to find it full of ants. Must of been a whole colony in it.
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27-10-2005, 12:01 PM
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beep beep
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Yeah I once had a wierd computer problem... I was using a Microsoft Windows operating system on my computer....
Quickly learnt to fix that problem.
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27-10-2005, 01:15 PM
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go Linux!!!
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27-10-2005, 01:17 PM
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beep beep
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Location: Melbourne
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*pfft* to Linux.
Mac OS X or Solaris
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27-10-2005, 01:20 PM
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On the other hand OS X is also a very respectable system
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2003 BA XT Wagon, I6, 4sp Auto, Dual Fuel, Prins Autogassystemen VSI LPG RIP: EA S MPFI 5 speed sedan w/exhaust, LSD, tint, 225's, DBA Golds, EL twin thermos, dual fuel and fluffy dice ; Stolen, recovered and written off, 7th April 2007 |
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27-10-2005, 02:25 PM
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My old 486SX scored an ant colony. Ironically all I ever played on that computer was SimAnt!
I just let them grow & multiply! After a while, they adapted to acid from a battery or something, windows 3.1 stopped working, the sound card died (long live PC speaker though!), the computer had no internal clock or something like that which caused havoc, and eventually the monitor started playing up (due to the munted computer, not the monitor itself). Mum discovered the ants one day, and got dad to get rid of the computer. I was not happy! |
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27-10-2005, 03:09 PM
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Formerly Black EX-R6
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Cant kill the PC speaker. Its still an essential part of any computer. Admit it, youd miss its sweet sounding beeps.
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27-10-2005, 03:35 PM
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Towie F150
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melb SE burbs
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At work we deal with Printer & pc's for large co,
Ants, roach nest, native mouse squashed by a rotating laser printer drum, even a Fried baby snake in a power supply in a pc, ya get all sorts of weird stuff. Then there is the customers!!
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27-10-2005, 09:30 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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It's not computer related but we had to remove a snake from under the dash of a EB wagon once.
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weird computer problems
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