Author Topic: Chipped chip! (Read 330 times)

mortis · « **on:** July 25, 2001, 06:33:00 PM »

So how many of you out there have zapped, crushed, or destroyed computer parts by being impatient and not taking the time to install the part correctly? I just took a nice chunk out of a new duron cpu today while trying to install the heatsink/fan *after* everything else was already in place. Yeesh, I shoulda ordered the fan along with the other stuff. oh well, thats what i get.

Staga · « **Reply #1 on:** July 25, 2001, 08:34:00 PM »

Check if your local shop is selling "Shims" between CPU and heatsink.
Its small copper/aluminium plate with hole in the center for cpu's core.

bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 25, 2001, 08:45:00 PM »

Yep, durons and Tbirds can be broken if you get in too big a hurry and don't do it right. (As Staga said, shims prevent this, and are about $10. Great buy IMO.)

Boroda · « **Reply #3 on:** July 25, 2001, 08:45:00 PM »

The worst thing I witnessed was -ivan- breaking the CH Force-FX stick down after spinning because of pot spikes...

I felt like hiding under the table

CH makes srong sticks. It took him 10 minutes to break the handle from the base. QS or Genius sticks usualy last until first 1-2 hits.

Keyboard is a nice puzzle to break for your workmates, who ask you - "Pavel, isn't it your 'ALT' button?"

Cracking 3.5" floppies is a long and good habbit - it's impossible to explain other people that if they are going to have the only copy of their great scientific results on a floppy that refused to format w/o bad sectors - they'll lose it anyway. Damn! They still collect cracked floppies that I threw into the coridor! And they glue it together with adhesive tape, and still insert them into the floppy drives!

You'll not believe me - but here in Moscow we have people repairing $2 mice!!! And the mice they repaired work better then new... Imagine an engineer who makes at least $15 daily, spending his whole day repairing a $2 mouse!

IMHO it's one of the reasons why Russia is still in such a deep [...] now.

mortis · « **Reply #4 on:** July 26, 2001, 01:00:00 AM »

Funny you should mention the shims, I ordered one (along with a new chip, blah!) right after i started this thread. This time I'll put the thing on correctly.

I used to have a huge microplis scsi drive once, after a failed attempt at flashing it me and a friend took it out and shot it with a .308 rifle. Damn thing stopped a round butt cold. I was impressed.

I think that was the reason I stopped playing Counter-Strike. Too many broken mice and too much time putting the keys on the keyboard back in the right order.

[ 07-26-2001: Message edited by: mortis ]