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Another completely non-furry manipulated pixel submission, but it's the only variety of visual art at which I have any talent.
The idea for this came about when I was installing a new fan assembly for my laptop, which my boss had ordered online to preserve his own sanity and everyone else's in the office - the computer had been making noises like an annoyed zombie with stomachache for some months. The process of getting into the computer was rather more involved than I had thought, involving the use of a screwdriver, a pen magnet to extract loose screws, a second screwdriver to use in conjunction with the first for unplugging tiny little fragile components, thermal paste, compressed air to blow away the dust because it was like Raiders of the Lost Ark in there, and old-fashioned brute force. Unsurprisingly my mind didn't stop when the operation was eventually successful, and as I've been playing far too much Under The Knife 2 recently, this was the result. (Don't use the magnet anywhere near the hard drives or you'll get up to 10 points of... data loss.)
To explain the middle item on the right, this came from an easier procedure that was performed a few months ago, following a recommended fix for getting around a design flaw of IBM's laptops. Some of the fan assembly went over the graphics chip and I could probably have left the now-baked-solid stack of paper out if the fan provided the necessary pressure itself, but it's still in there to be on the safe side.
And it all still works now that it's back together.
The idea for this came about when I was installing a new fan assembly for my laptop, which my boss had ordered online to preserve his own sanity and everyone else's in the office - the computer had been making noises like an annoyed zombie with stomachache for some months. The process of getting into the computer was rather more involved than I had thought, involving the use of a screwdriver, a pen magnet to extract loose screws, a second screwdriver to use in conjunction with the first for unplugging tiny little fragile components, thermal paste, compressed air to blow away the dust because it was like Raiders of the Lost Ark in there, and old-fashioned brute force. Unsurprisingly my mind didn't stop when the operation was eventually successful, and as I've been playing far too much Under The Knife 2 recently, this was the result. (Don't use the magnet anywhere near the hard drives or you'll get up to 10 points of... data loss.)
To explain the middle item on the right, this came from an easier procedure that was performed a few months ago, following a recommended fix for getting around a design flaw of IBM's laptops. Some of the fan assembly went over the graphics chip and I could probably have left the now-baked-solid stack of paper out if the fan provided the necessary pressure itself, but it's still in there to be on the safe side.
And it all still works now that it's back together.
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I used to do crap like this working as a PC Tech. This guy Aaron that I worked with (who literally drank on the job, no joke), once fixed a motherboard with a short by soldering the power cable from a fan to the mother board to bypass the short and also power the fan. He also fell twelve feet off a ladder while repairing some wire in an office ceiling, hit his head, got a concussion and kept working. In fact he worked better.
Once we learned that the problem with an old Compaq was that all the wiring in the case had gone bad and it just needed a new case; but the case was a bizarre proprietary design that used a HUGE ASS METAL BAR wrapped from front to back to keep the CPU fan on (without the bar, it just fell off; no screws or attaching mechanisms at all, save the metal bar). We ended up retrofitting all the parts to an HP case of roughly the same dimensions and duct-taping the metal bar in. Unfortunately the duct tape melted into superglue and when their computer died again we had to sell them a new computer. Oops.
Once we learned that the problem with an old Compaq was that all the wiring in the case had gone bad and it just needed a new case; but the case was a bizarre proprietary design that used a HUGE ASS METAL BAR wrapped from front to back to keep the CPU fan on (without the bar, it just fell off; no screws or attaching mechanisms at all, save the metal bar). We ended up retrofitting all the parts to an HP case of roughly the same dimensions and duct-taping the metal bar in. Unfortunately the duct tape melted into superglue and when their computer died again we had to sell them a new computer. Oops.
They sound like ideal candidates for http://www.thereifixedit.com :)
I haven't ever done hardware repair for a living, though I applied for a couple of jobs like that when I first moved to America when I didn't have a permit for full-time work... the most unlikely fix I've done is that post-it note/receipt story linked in the submission, but my dad's own computer came close. There was something broken in the power switch, or something that didn't quite connect right, so when the computer was cold the metal would contract and it wouldn't turn on. (That, believe it or not, was the most likely diagnosis.) So during the winter it was necessary to blow a hair-dryer into the back of it for a couple of minutes before you could start it up.
I haven't ever done hardware repair for a living, though I applied for a couple of jobs like that when I first moved to America when I didn't have a permit for full-time work... the most unlikely fix I've done is that post-it note/receipt story linked in the submission, but my dad's own computer came close. There was something broken in the power switch, or something that didn't quite connect right, so when the computer was cold the metal would contract and it wouldn't turn on. (That, believe it or not, was the most likely diagnosis.) So during the winter it was necessary to blow a hair-dryer into the back of it for a couple of minutes before you could start it up.
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