lordmogul wrote on 2020-07-22, 11:02:
Reminds me of DAU alarm, they have a big gallery of stuff like that. Foils left on, chipped Athlons, machines drowned in conductive paste, no paste, paste in the socket, more chipped Athlons, coolers mounted the wrong way, even more chipped Athlons.
Warning, will break your mind and never place down a cooler again:
http://www.dau-alarm.de/gallery.html
This was actually a pretty good read. Good thing I can also read German but google translate will get you far. Course it's mostly about the pics 🤣
Slipping with a screwdriver I can understand. It took me some practice before I got the technique right so I typically don't make that mistake again (mostly comes down to having good control over any force I apply) and even then, most of the times a slip that isn't with too much force will probably not result in permanent damage.
(and sometimes I'd get things like strange HSFs or HSFs mounted in some odd way, there's always a surprise somewhere when taking apart some unknown rig)
But tearing off complete sockets, I mean wow 😮
Btw, at the "laufwerke" part, very last pic, I've actually used green gardener wires before when doing certain things like securing case fans and except for a single test setup with trying to silence one of THE most loud drives I ever did hear (trying to suspend it) I'd never try using it to mount a harddrive in such a way. I mean on the pic there's actually an empty 3.5in drive bay and with an adapter I've mounted 3.5in harddrives in 5.25in drive bays with no real issue. But still kinda funny to see someone having actually used something similar.
In years of building and handling computers, I've killed surprisingly few parts. And nothing ever came close to what was in those pics 🤣
Good read 😜