r/techsupportgore

The zip-tie is wrapped around the clips, locking them closed so you can't release the RAM stick

Don't ask im broke and its made from hardware trash

for context i was given this by a friend who actually couldn't get it to post, and when he handed it to me it essentially hinged at the already existing crack. Idk what the hell he did.

Guess now I know why my idle temperature was hitting 90+.

Needed to get two devices online and only had one cable run, i didn’t have a rj45 wall plate so had to improvise with wagos until
This morning when I can go and fix it properly 😅

It runs, somehow.

ETA:999:00:00

I'll be done in a jiffy I said...

should I let it run a little while longer or pull the trigger?

I didn't realize I had installed my exhaust fan backwards...

This took him 90mins

Bought brand new and I'm told I'm the first person to open it. Thermal paste and liquid metal everywhere. Worst I've ever seen. Someone has put normal compound on top of the liquid metal and then pressed it down. It's pushed liquid metal onto the motherboard, around the edges, and gave my customer terrible thermals from day one.

HP Omen 16 with a 6900HX.

Got my ROG strix 850 w psu back from RMA recently and decided to open it up to see what the hell they did and why it failed again it worked for about 2 hrs on my pc perfectly until my whole rooms power went out thought it was strange go turn the breaker back on and then turn my pc on it trips the breaker again I’m like wtf I replaced the psu with my old one and all is good what is this shitty as solder job idk much but I feel like there should be a fuse at F101 instead of a jumper wire

EDIT: I already took it back and was denied warranty that's the only reason I opened it up to inspect it.

Another edit

To everyone downvoting me because I’m taking the L and letting asus win I tried to return it first and got turned down the staff member said it was a RMA unit and he can not help me I only popped it open afterwards to see what went wrong which is when I found the bridged fuse and tore the pcb, I already thought it was e waste after I got turned down

I’m not protecting ASUS I’m just being realistic I’m in New Zealand not the US I’m not spending 10k on a lawyer over a 300$ PSU, I don’t have the money either , I posted this to just show wtf I saw after opening it up not to start some legal crusade

I’ve sent asus_USA a message now

I'm not sure what caused it. I just moved it, and it it's now like this

Just the right size for clamping a shard that broke off the trim. IC on the motherboard provides a grippy surface doe the clamp, and the side facing the timber being glued is flat and strong.

Yes this is exactly what it looks like. Not sure why I made this, possibly for some old laptop with the half length port so card doesn't stick out.

Didn’t know a 5070 Ti was so big!

Got a 5070 couple weeks ago and wasn’t happy with it, so returned it to grab a 5070 Ti today. Had to remove the hard drive cage and a third of the lid for it to fit in my HTPC. Luckily this eyesore sits above my TV, so nobody will see it.

So back in the days of "just buy another HDD" external hard drives were really slow...

So some elements of this PC are from 2008ish. I think it has 3 500gb HDD, 1 1.25tb HDD and a Solid state that I don't remember the capacity of haha.

I am currently trying to turn this monster back on to retrieve some old photos but getting to the pins to clear the cmos is a struggle.