Comments | kyra_ojosverdes: Oh Yes

kyra_ojosverdes

Oh Yes

Jun 07, 2006 19:27

I dedicate the fact that Friday was a good day to Dr. Jim Jacobs, who taught me what a capacitor looks like and what it does. I was replacing a faulty tape drive1 and trying not to let any of the screws fall into the server. Of course one did. Of course it landed right by a set of fairly chubby (for a motherboard) capacitors. That would have been ( Read more... )

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Comments 9

drmagoo June 8 2006, 02:34:57 UTC

Zap.

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kightp June 8 2006, 05:05:27 UTC

Heh. No shit.

Evidently Dell got shipped a gazillion wonky capacitors that all went into this particular model ... or so I was told by campus tech support when they were replacing my motherboard and power supply yesterday after my GX270 had begun to lose its ability to boot up without going straight into power-saving mode.

(The inside of the GX270 reminds me of the engine compartment on my New Beetle: Everything crammed in so tight you can barely get a tool in there to fix anything.)

kyra_ojosverdes June 8 2006, 05:07:00 UTC

I'm a fan of nice big roomy cases. My brain refuses to believe that hardware repairs on laptops are even possible. (Seen it done, can't process it.)

johnpalmer June 8 2006, 07:18:59 UTC

Hmm. I wonder if that's what JU26Mirage is.

"Sorry, that has a blown processor."

"We've replaced the processor, but the motherboard is bad."

"We have a Dell Platinum Server technician coming in."

"Dell couldn't fix it on Friday. We are scheduling another visit."

My question to my manager: "Did someone pretend they were doing us a *favor* by giving us this server?"

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siliconshaman June 8 2006, 07:47:12 UTC

*ouch*

That reminds me of how my friend Steve the Elf got his nick...
See, he used to work as electronics tech with the army, and was repairing one of the radar sets, which have these big-ass caps [serious, 10F is small for them].

Anyway, he grabbed the edge of case to move it, with both hands and his fingers sticking down the back... and the first finger on each hand made contact with two of the bigger caps, earthing them right through to the case. [which is why he's not dead, most of the charge earthed before it got to his heart].

So, one loud bang and a nasty smell of roast pork later, Steve is missing the first fingers on each hand... hence why he's called 'the elf' since elves according to Tolkin, only have three fingers and thumb.

[and really, the fact that he's tall, rake-thin and got pointy ears has nothing to do with it!]