Hi Jow Forums

Hi Jow Forums,

I worked in a computer shop for a few years. I built complete systems which we sold in store, and also repaired systems brought in.

The boss also dealt repairing arcade machines.

Let's have a look at some of the things we saw.

First up, a photo of beginning to build a standard complete system sold in store.

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These are circa-2010 btw.

Completed

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Oh man the Antec 1200, what a case.

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Sometimes the Antec 1200 is a disaster. This person bought the parts themselves, but couldn't build a system methodically. So he brought all he had purchased back, and paid a high price for us to un-fuck his work and get it right as rain.

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Ever have a swarm of cockroaches pour out of a PC when you open it?

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Couldn't even get the heatsink on lol what a dickhead

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cool thread OP, for real very cool thread.

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Nah, plenty of dead roaches in PSU's though. They smell awful.

But we built it right, how it should have been in the first place. Much better.

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What the- OH MY GOD IS THAT A Jow Forums PASS HOLDER?!

also seems to have alot of pee dust.

Oh, blown cap, that'll be why it isn't working.

Wait. What's that on the 4 pin?

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Oh god

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Customer wanted to build new storage PC with old CPU/mobo/ram

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Yeah, we found that CD inside the case.

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Customer states system doesn't run

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good thread

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what's the red shit? old dried blood?

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Correct.

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Customer states that C&C Generals crashes after 5mins.

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Excuse the shitty old phone camera.

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so the cap wasn't blown? the retard just bled all over it?

The GPU box art was pretty neato.

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Well I think the cap blew, due to his blood being over it.

Yes, this is a Pentium 3 cooler adapted to fit a graphics card.

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I remember when everyone was buying those Socket 370/A 1U coolers and mounting them on graphics cards, back in like 2003. The classy people drilled holes in the heatsink to match their graphics card's mounting holes and then bolted it down, incompetent teens like me just used thermal epoxy.

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Is that your own blood after getting a cut from those old cases?

This one came in the post.

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What is the story with this one?

RAM fire?

Nah. Although my hands did get cut up.

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IIRC it was mobo stand-offs under the board. Can't remember for sure.

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Failed attempt at DIY watercooling.

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>Nah.
It wasn't your blood...
How did you end up handling it? Gloves + alcohol, or did you toss it as bio-hazard?
>Although my hands did get cut up.
Old cases were fucking death traps.

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fuckin lol

>It wasn't your blood...
>How did you end up handling it? Gloves + alcohol, or did you toss it as bio-hazard?
Well when we opened cases, we never started touching anything. We would have a good look at everything and writing all visible faults down. Luckily with that we saw the blood easily. Told the customer we refuse to work on it. We still charged him a $120 fee to look at his PC.

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>another cocksucker who thinks he doesn't need hose clamps
I thought every single guide and tutorial had in big print "USE FUCKING HOSE CLAMPS". and yet people still don't.

>tfw they sell these at my location

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A CPS?

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Is chink psu okay or naay?

>Is chink psu okay or naay?
Not op, but superflower is pretty good.

like this then?

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Nah, it's the guts from an original arcade machine. I didn't know too much about them.

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That's awesome.

Sorry sir, warranty void, no refund.

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>being this much of a pussy
its just blood, scrape it off with a fingernail and continue work
wash hands later

It looks like the original capcom board (cps).
Those were pretty neat.

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fuck, is that a heatercore with some pipes welded onto it? I haven't seen someone do that since the 90s. Before they started selling purpose-built rads everyone just went to the junkyard and got a heater core from a 1976 Chrysler or something. Looks like he built his own block, too.

Customer states firewire doesn't work.

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Dusty PC + smoker is the worst shit ever

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>Giant ass heatsink for the VRM & Bridges
>Stock cooler
WHY

Mmm fried roaches

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cool

What a workshop.

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>car/bike radiator
my fucking sides

Apple outright rejects warranty claims from smokers if their Macs have been exposed. They have the right idea.

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>Water hose
>lawnmower radiator
Did he just make do with whatever was in his shed?

>my fucking sides
Why? The only thing that bothers me from that image is the aluminum radiator, and the copper water block combo.

well, if it works, it's not stupid

The virgin buyfag vs the Chad builder

Not OP but If I find some time I'll take photos from shopfloor PCs

So long as it's not touching the case it's alright, galvanic corrosion needs a return path.

>window wall A/C & ducted A/C
but why though?

lel

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Those are actually ductless and ductless mini-split systems, but the question remains: y tho

That's some lovely cable management right here.

Pretty much what one would do during the olden days. Whatever radiator you could find for cheap, hoses, any pump that can run from 12V. Can't think of many old watercooling setups that looks as "professional" as current ones.

It gets hot in there with all them computers going.

Not OP, but (years ago) I worked for three months in a computer shop doing some practices.

I've seen some weird stuff, like oil inside the optical disc drive, or generic 300€ computers with PSU demanding graphic cards (pic related). Also lots of hentai, some college students (girls) bringing their brand new Vaio laptop because "something went wrong", etc. I also had to deal with the lack of professionality of our boss, and another employee (a relative of the boss) telling that "we found thousand of virus in your computer" to somebody that knew nothing about computers. For fuck's sake, there was a trojan and thousands of cookies...

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So you bought two systems instead of one?

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I had a coworker that was a bit like that. Complete moron too, would put computers through lengthy diagnosis and parts replacement, only for the customer to wonder why this wasn't covered under warranty when they came to pick up their computers (it was, and i'm not going to break our countrys laws and lie about it so he can charge someone 100 dollars). All that time wasted for a quick buck, ended up with a lot of proprietary parts that only fit one single device since he's too stupid to buy the correct part, or ordered parts that never solved the real issue. The boss loved him due to his bs sales numbers and always asked me to be more like him.

It is a shame that people who know their shit is considered overqualified for support positions.

What a nice thread, user :)

I think the period 2003-2011 or so was so much fun hw wise.

So many wierd and interesting new tech in every new socket/chipset, so good looking flashy coolers and boards. And you could overclock fucking everything.
You really could feel every upgrade in performance.