Another day on the job

[lazdixi.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that this isn't even that uncommon a problem...

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[pikaporeon.livejournal.com]

ONCE YOU LET OUT THE MAGIC SMOKE YOU CANT LET IT BACK IN

[lazdixi.livejournal.com]

You realize, of course, that I am now going to put that in the work log.

[pikaporeon.livejournal.com]

whats worse is now I picture Kensuke Aida describing it using military jargon.

[kirolee.livejournal.com]

Me too.

(note to self: get ton of eva icons. bad enough you are making an eva themed air hockey xna game...)

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

man that was gonna be my line!

well that and a george reference

[mariasama16.livejournal.com]

So they need a patch for nosmoke.exe?

[toxico.livejournal.com]

I watched a car do that during a dyno pull today. Pretty much the same response from the owner.

[batchfile.livejournal.com]

this has happened only once in my office. amazingly enough, on the side where the engineers reside. instead of thinking the funny acrid smell might be computer frying to a crispy critter, they all immediately got out some tools(from where i still do not know) and took apart the office furniture divider/wall.

before they started in on the wall, the netadmin handed me the computer in the immediate vicinity and asked me to check it out since OBVIOUSLY it couldn't POSSIBLY be the computer, but the comp might have been messed up from shutting off abruptly...

so i yanked the hard drive, put in in a spare box. and took it back to find them tearing apart the wall.

"um, guys. it was the processor."

they don't call the netadmin for much of anything, now. thank gods.

[mark13.livejournal.com]

Tch, such a defeatist attitude!

They should think not that they have lost a computer, but that they have gained a doorstop...

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"Good news! Some parts of your destroyed computer might still be worth a couple of dollars from salvage!"

[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

Now, it's a handy, dandy toaster!

[leetmasterjames.livejournal.com]

I had something like this occur at the shop a few years back, in front of the client no less. They brought in their system saying it kept shutting itself down. I was betting on the power supply but wanting to be sure so I plug it into the diag station on the front counter. I press power and couldent be more sure when the PSU blows a foot and a half long spark shower out of the fan grill on the back which only ended when I jerked the cord out. Surprisingly enough nothing was damaged but the PSU.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Ouch... :(

Nothing says loving like a cubicle-campfire? ;)