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VidCard++ (pics)
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:23 am
by A_old
This, ladies and gents, is how NOT to install a video card. This do-it-her-self-er wasn't so handy after all. She wondered why her computer wouldn't turn on and so she brought it to me at work for a diagnostic. I opened the computer a few minutes later and couldn't help but laugh--and ask my general manager to take a picture of the machine..so here it is..enjoy
and no, this is no joke, docsta was there and saw it "live and uncut"
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:25 am
by nepenthe
Must be one of those new "Air cards".
shant,
david
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:27 am
by Gandalf
mmmm was she high?
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:30 am
by BaLa
lol
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:37 am
by LT-73
Originally posted by nepenthe
Must be one of those new "Air cards".
shant,
david
Thanx david, i could'nt put it any better! lol
Jeeeeeeez amro!!! ROFLMAO !!!!!
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:38 am
by Hopeful
LOL
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:51 am
by Faust
lol... i have come close to doing that (too dark inside the case to see. couldn't find a flashlight.... thought i'd give the braille method a whirl). of course if i had made it so far as to try and boot the system, i would like to think i would have guesses that it was because of the last thing i did (and investigated).
hard to imagine, though. there is quite a distinctive feel to seating a card. looks like she just set in in there and screwed it in. too funny.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:55 am
by JawZ
At least she got it inside the case.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:02 am
by A_old
my q is how she managed to short her board like that...and keep it intact when the card is out..she was in her 60s. she managed to corrupt her xp install too
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:17 am
by Humboldt
Egads!
That looks like something I'd do.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:18 am
by Docsta
two words : dumb ho
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:20 am
by Faust
two words : dumb ho
OK, dumb i can see...... but "ho". how do you know?
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:22 am
by Docsta
Originally posted by Faust
OK, dumb i can see...... but "ho". how do you know?
trust me
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:25 am
by Brandon_k_W
sheesh it was just a mistake. You people sure do criticize people badly if they do something wrong on a computer =P
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:26 am
by Docsta
thats not a mistake brandon..thats an act of stupidity lol!!
if only u could see the things amro and I see everyday
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:29 am
by Brent
you two work together?
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:30 am
by Faust
trust me
umm.... OK. if you say so.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:30 am
by Docsta
Originally posted by Brent
you two work together?
yes brent..we're best friends IRL
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:37 am
by Brent
Originally posted by Docsta
yes brent..we're best friends IRL
didn't even know that
cool
i wish SOMEBODY lived near me! all i got is Messiah and he's never around!
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:38 am
by Docsta
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:50 am
by A_old
yulp
i'm the calm one.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:54 am
by Docsta
Originally posted by Amro
yulp i'm the calm one.
yup yup, tru dat.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 7:32 am
by YARDofSTUF
ya i'd never pick amro and docsta to be freinds in reality. Amro is polite and conducts himself nicely on here, where as docsta treats this like a game and is the resident ass hole / instagator / insult poster.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 7:41 am
by Brk
Originally posted by Brent
didn't even know that
cool
i wish SOMEBODY lived near me! all i got is Messiah and he's never around!
Well technically, I'm somewhat in the neighborhood...
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 7:44 am
by Duzmor
It Look's like they got Fed-up and Said the Hell with this lets take it to the Shop !!!!
Duzmor
Duz !!
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 8:54 am
by YeOldeStonecat
LOL....nice one.
At least that computer is clean....you should see the disgusting one I'm working on today, an early PII HP Netserver.....ugh, it leaves a cloud and shadow of dust around it like PigPen from Charlie Brown.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:32 am
by A_old
Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
LOL....nice one.
At least that computer is clean....you should see the disgusting one I'm working on today, an early PII HP Netserver.....ugh, it leaves a cloud and shadow of dust around it like PigPen from Charlie Brown.
Saw a couple nasties yesterday too though man..they were infested.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:56 am
by YeOldeStonecat
Originally posted by Amro
Saw a couple nasties yesterday too though man..they were infested.
Ain't they nasty? Gotta take some outside they're so bad, to blow them out. Else the entire countertop and shelves get covered with a blanket of dust 'n dirt when you blow them out.
Then you get the filthy feeling on your, hands all dry feeling cuz of the powdered dust. Gets on the slacks, shirt 'n tie. YUCK!
It's like I want to run it through a carwash with the cover off!.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:02 am
by Docsta
Originally posted by YARDofSTUF
ya i'd never pick amro and docsta to be freinds in reality. Amro is polite and conducts himself nicely on here, where as docsta treats this like a game and is the resident ass hole / instagator / insult poster.
yup yup
at least i know i get under your skin yard..my goal has been acomplished!
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:08 am
by A_old
Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
Ain't they nasty? Gotta take some outside they're so bad, to blow them out. Else the entire countertop and shelves get covered with a blanket of dust 'n dirt when you blow them out.
Then you get the filthy feeling on your, hands all dry feeling cuz of the powdered dust. Gets on the slacks, shirt 'n tie. YUCK!
It's like I want to run it through a carwash with the cover off!.
newp lol, we can refuse work as it is an unsafe environment for technical labor
and we do. trust me, if it's like that---we don't bother---cause management won't get us a biohazard suit and a steam bath system.. hehehehe
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:09 am
by A_old
Originally posted by YARDofSTUF
ya i'd never pick amro and docsta to be freinds in reality. Amro is polite and conducts himself nicely on here, where as docsta treats this like a game and is the resident ass hole / instagator / insult poster.
haha, thanks. Yea, he's a goof head..and yea treats this like a game--he just likes to mess around (altho it's mean sometimes). i give him crap about it..
but he's a good guy in reality though..
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:18 am
by Docsta
Originally posted by Amro
haha, thanks. Yea, he's a goof head..and yea treats this like a game--he just likes to mess around (altho it's mean sometimes). i give him crap about it.. but he's a good guy in reality though..
*inside joke* *arnold laugh*
Amro
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:28 am
by A_old
u should record a sound byte of it and post it on speedguide
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:09 pm
by Brk
And of course CompUSA stuck it to her for service, right? LOL
I found half a powdered donut in my boss's case...I never asked any questions, I just cleaned it out.
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 2:59 pm
by C-S wanna be
Originally posted by UOD
At least she got it inside the case.
lol that she did
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 3:03 pm
by mountainman
Originally posted by Burke
And of course CompUSA stuck it to her for service, right? LOL
I found half a powdered donut in my boss's case...I never asked any questions, I just cleaned it out.
WTF ?!?!
Dude... in that case, you SHOULD ask questions. Heh ...
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 6:54 pm
by CableDude
What kind of video card was it and why does it have a ribbon attached to it?
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 7:06 pm
by binksfan
Must be of those new 'wireless" cards everyone's talking about!!
Hey, they put that white plastic thingy on the 'big, flat electric board' right in the way. I had to get around it somehow. Are you sayin', "I shoulda gone on a downward angle and gone under it?"
