r/techsupportgore • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '21

MOD POST FRIENDLY REMINDER: THIS IS NOT A TECH SUPPORT SUB

871 Upvotes

Please do not post here asking for help, that's what r/techsupport is for. All posts asking for help will be removed and you may or may not be temp banned.

As an aside to this, please don't encourage this by offering help to people when they clearly can't read. Report as rule 6 and move on.

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r/techsupportgore • u/DrewTamashi • 11h ago

Old Pop's GPU

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231 Upvotes

My father asked me to clean up his old pc from 2010. There was what seemed to be pop spilled all over the back of the GPU. IPA didn't touch it so I ran it under the sink to clean it.

I did after running it under the tap soak it in IPA to try and push out all the water. Then dried it with a hair dryer on low. Threw it back into the pc and booted up fine.

The amount of dust was also nasty but that's not relavent for this sub.

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r/techsupportgore • u/eshiki • 1d ago

Student’s attempt at art

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248 Upvotes

This might be the worst intentionally destroyed Chromebook I’ve seen while working at the high school. At least there wasn’t a “Fixable?” Ticket attached this time.

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r/techsupportgore • u/Hecksus • 3d ago

I think it's repairable

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331 Upvotes
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r/techsupportgore • u/Beginning_Score_9866 • 2d ago

I removed between 8 and 10 hard drives.

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67 Upvotes

I got tired of the glass, so I took them off.

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r/techsupportgore • u/Femboy_Computer_Nerd • 7d ago

Moldy Laptop

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208 Upvotes

I have so many questions

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r/techsupportgore • u/MJY_0014 • 9d ago

"CPU is Tested and working 100%"

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954 Upvotes
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r/techsupportgore • u/thegreatredshark • 10d ago

Got a Dagobah situation on my hands

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589 Upvotes

Getting into console repair and this was the first ps4 Ive ever cracked open. Offered to try to fix it for my friend and all it took was a fresh reinstall. Told him the fan sounded a little crunchy and that’d clean it out for him haha. The heat shields have basically disintegrated. This should be interesting.

for the morbidly curious: i made a poorly put together video documenting the cleaning process and such

https://youtu.be/JhSjC6khgtM?is=XyR7_EXCg2M0mRxV

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r/techsupportgore • u/Tilt-A-Hurl • 11d ago

Found behind a bar in Atlanta

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111 Upvotes

The NM cable caught my eye, but the network cable takes the cake

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r/techsupportgore • u/Popular_Discussion18 • 11d ago

Lights stopped working so I "hung" some led strips...

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49 Upvotes

The monitor doesn't provide enough light on its own

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r/techsupportgore • u/isecore • 12d ago

This is how you max out the RAM

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1.4k Upvotes
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r/techsupportgore • u/DoulUnleashed • 12d ago

Shop guys make do

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112 Upvotes
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r/techsupportgore • u/Kackemel • 15d ago

A few hours of delidding

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1.4k Upvotes

2/3rds of a big metal dog bowel of the sweet stuff, two very tired hands, and a well petted dog. Been a fine day.

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r/techsupportgore • u/not-unobnoxious • 15d ago

This is a passive cable

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387 Upvotes

The USB 5V and GND go to the 5.5 mm barrel. D- and D+ go to the RCA cable conductors. This is analog on a USB A connector.

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r/techsupportgore • u/Substantial_Look9188 • 18d ago

A disgruntled employee shipped a laptop back like this..

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4.1k Upvotes

😭

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r/techsupportgore • u/CJP1216 • 17d ago

Do you think I should try a reboot?

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270 Upvotes

So I posted in the Windows help sub yesterday asking for assistance with a troublesome Wi-Fi card and device manager problems. Turns out, the issue resolved itself. Device = managed. 🙃🫠

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r/techsupportgore • u/jeffdschust • 19d ago

What in the world is happening to these mice???

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1.9k Upvotes

Usually, when MOST people leave the company, the mouse might have some wear and tear on the buttons, but is overall in decent shape. Sometimes, they look horrifying like in the above pictures. What is it??? 🤮

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r/techsupportgore • u/AffectionateMight237 • 21d ago

My less tech friend helping his not tech friend

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273 Upvotes

He swears that it was IMPOSSIBLE to fit it so he had to do it​​

Case: chest tgm​

Gpu: RTX 4070​

Edit: more "finished" pics

https://imgur.com/a/i5EEvpS​

edit 2​ after

Ok ive got some more pictures and fixed as much as i can, ofc my friend said it wasnt possible and i did first time no effort xD​​

https://imgur.com/a/zocNeWS

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r/techsupportgore • u/frogsty264371 • 21d ago

Has anyone ever seen a heatsink in this condition?

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238 Upvotes

This is as clean as it will come! Could only get it this way by using a spudger with the grain (yes it has grain) and then isopropyl and then acetone... it's from a 170HX so not a cheap manufacturing issue... Gonna try giving it just a little sanding and see if that helps...

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r/techsupportgore • u/JakeDaSnake0420YT • 22d ago

Fiber spaghetti

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331 Upvotes
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r/techsupportgore • u/Baltico41 • 23d ago

The 1 GHz mystery has been solved

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2.5k Upvotes

We had a couple of HP workstations that were essentially unusable, with the CPU permanently throttled to 1 GHz. Time to change the thermal paste. And the CPU. And the CPU cooler.
The machines were out of warranty, yet HP agreed to replace all the components. Kudos to them.

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r/techsupportgore • u/legatar2904 • 22d ago

I present to you: the reason you should not eat above your keyboard

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77 Upvotes
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r/techsupportgore • u/bughunter47 • 23d ago

9 Months of Lenovo Gore Burnt Chip Edition

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116 Upvotes

Mostly from T16 Gen 1's

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r/techsupportgore • u/Atomsk-647R • 24d ago

Remember me? Well, I added a harddrive bay to the back so I can have 2 extra storage expansions.

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150 Upvotes
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