PSA: Before you have your laptop serviced, try to delete anything "questionable" from your HD

murphy55d

Lifer
Dec 26, 2000
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Cliff's Notes below, but here's the full story.

Awhile back, I had sold a laptop to a former co-worker. It was a used Toshiba Portege, worked perfectly. I was getting a new laptop, so I had no use for this one. He wanted it, so we made a transaction. Things were fine with it for awhile, he was happy with this new laptop. (new to him) So one day, he calls me up and says it won't turn on. I said ok, bring it down, I'll take a look at it. I don't know much about laptops but he was computer retarded, so I thought it might be something simple. He brings it over, I look at it, and notice that it's sticky. I asked him if he spilled something on it, like soda, and he said no, it just stopped working. So I said alright, I'd take a closer look, and get back to him. So he leaves it at my house, and I opened the hard drive and memory slot screws, take the plastic covers off, and notice that there is a sticky liquid in there. I thought WTF. So I called him back, and asked him again, if he spilled something on there. He finally said, "yeah, my girlfriend spilled MtDew on it". I told him there wasn't anything I can do, I dont know how to repair laptops in the first place, especially not ones soaked in MtDew. He took it back, said his uncle would fix it, I said ok. About a week later, he called me back and asked if I could fix his laptop. I told him again, no, I dont know how. He then just said, ok, well you can keep it, It doesn't work. I must have had it for a few months, one of the guys I work with now, said he may be able to fix it. I let him have it, he cleaned it out, got it to power up! The keyboard and fluorescent tube are both borke,d but at least it powered up, and booted into windows. So he's looking around the hard drive, notices he has quite a bit of porn... including, SHE-MALE PORN! I still can't stop laughing about this.

Cliff's Notes:
Idiot spills MtDew on laptop
Asks me to fix, I cant
Gives me laptop because it doesnt work
I give laptop to guy who can fix it
He fixes, and finds ex-coworkers transexual pornography

:D
 

AnyMal

Lifer
Nov 21, 2001
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LOL A friend of mine works for a large PC and laptop service center, they find crap like that (and worse) all the time.
 

brxndxn

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When I was around 13 or so, my friend (Chris) decided to order a custom-built computer. I told Chris I could build him a really nice computer for $1000 (at the time, that was cheap). He tried to convince his mom to let me build him a computer, but his mom was a stubborn bitch.

So, she had a guy at her church build a computer for my friend. I met the guy once - got into a huge argument about computer parts. The guy was a complete idiot - he ordered everything right out of TigerDirect magazine without even looking at the prices. Chris gets the computer and certain things wouldn't work like the parallel port.

I told them I could open it up and plug the parallel port cable onto the motherboard and it would work. His stupid mom didn't believe me and insisted on giving it back to the guy who built it to fix it. A week later, my friend gets his computer back. He finds a /temp directory on his C: drive with about 25 pictures of kiddie porn (like fvcking 8 year-old kiddie porn).

Chris called me up because he wanted to ask me how to delete it so that his parents wouldn't think it was his (omg that would suck). I suggested even better... I printed out all the file records with dates and times for when they were created. I also printed all the browsing history records.

When we broke it to Chris's parents that the guy from their church put kiddie porn on his computer, they got furious. They contacted the pastor at the church and the dude's parents. I felt vindicated... cause' Chris's mom completely trusted me with fixing his computer after that.
 

ndee

Lifer
Jul 18, 2000
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Originally posted by: brxndxn
When I was around 13 or so, my friend (Chris) decided to order a custom-built computer. I told Chris I could build him a really nice computer for $1000 (at the time, that was cheap). He tried to convince his mom to let me build him a computer, but his mom was a stubborn bitch.

So, she had a guy at her church build a computer for my friend. I met the guy once - got into a huge argument about computer parts. The guy was a complete idiot - he ordered everything right out of TigerDirect magazine without even looking at the prices. Chris gets the computer and certain things wouldn't work like the parallel port.

I told them I could open it up and plug the parallel port cable onto the motherboard and it would work. His stupid mom didn't believe me and insisted on giving it back to the guy who built it to fix it. A week later, my friend gets his computer back. He finds a /temp directory on his C: drive with about 25 pictures of kiddie porn (like fvcking 8 year-old kiddie porn).

Chris called me up because he wanted to ask me how to delete it so that his parents wouldn't think it was his (omg that would suck). I suggested even better... I printed out all the file records with dates and times for when they were created. I also printed all the browsing history records.

When we broke it to Chris's parents that the guy from their church put kiddie porn on his computer, they got furious. They contacted the pastor at the church and the dude's parents. I felt vindicated... cause' Chris's mom completely trusted me with fixing his computer after that.

holy crap.... what happend to that other fagg0t?
 

AFB

Lifer
Jan 10, 2004
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Originally posted by: ndee
Originally posted by: brxndxn
When I was around 13 or so, my friend (Chris) decided to order a custom-built computer. I told Chris I could build him a really nice computer for $1000 (at the time, that was cheap). He tried to convince his mom to let me build him a computer, but his mom was a stubborn bitch.

So, she had a guy at her church build a computer for my friend. I met the guy once - got into a huge argument about computer parts. The guy was a complete idiot - he ordered everything right out of TigerDirect magazine without even looking at the prices. Chris gets the computer and certain things wouldn't work like the parallel port.

I told them I could open it up and plug the parallel port cable onto the motherboard and it would work. His stupid mom didn't believe me and insisted on giving it back to the guy who built it to fix it. A week later, my friend gets his computer back. He finds a /temp directory on his C: drive with about 25 pictures of kiddie porn (like fvcking 8 year-old kiddie porn).

Chris called me up because he wanted to ask me how to delete it so that his parents wouldn't think it was his (omg that would suck). I suggested even better... I printed out all the file records with dates and times for when they were created. I also printed all the browsing history records.

When we broke it to Chris's parents that the guy from their church put kiddie porn on his computer, they got furious. They contacted the pastor at the church and the dude's parents. I felt vindicated... cause' Chris's mom completely trusted me with fixing his computer after that.

holy crap.... what happend to that other fagg0t?

:Q:Q
 

Warthog912

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Jun 17, 2001
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Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Originally posted by: ndee
Originally posted by: brxndxn
When I was around 13 or so, my friend (Chris) decided to order a custom-built computer. I told Chris I could build him a really nice computer for $1000 (at the time, that was cheap). He tried to convince his mom to let me build him a computer, but his mom was a stubborn bitch.

So, she had a guy at her church build a computer for my friend. I met the guy once - got into a huge argument about computer parts. The guy was a complete idiot - he ordered everything right out of TigerDirect magazine without even looking at the prices. Chris gets the computer and certain things wouldn't work like the parallel port.

I told them I could open it up and plug the parallel port cable onto the motherboard and it would work. His stupid mom didn't believe me and insisted on giving it back to the guy who built it to fix it. A week later, my friend gets his computer back. He finds a /temp directory on his C: drive with about 25 pictures of kiddie porn (like fvcking 8 year-old kiddie porn).

Chris called me up because he wanted to ask me how to delete it so that his parents wouldn't think it was his (omg that would suck). I suggested even better... I printed out all the file records with dates and times for when they were created. I also printed all the browsing history records.

When we broke it to Chris's parents that the guy from their church put kiddie porn on his computer, they got furious. They contacted the pastor at the church and the dude's parents. I felt vindicated... cause' Chris's mom completely trusted me with fixing his computer after that.

holy crap.... what happend to that other fagg0t?

:Q:Q

That is an insane story, good for you on your revenge-
 

m2kewl

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Oct 7, 2001
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blah, you should see the financial data/transactions on some of our users' laptops...

o how to make 5/6-digit figures disappear. ;)
 

ndee

Lifer
Jul 18, 2000
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Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Originally posted by: ndee
Originally posted by: brxndxn
When I was around 13 or so, my friend (Chris) decided to order a custom-built computer. I told Chris I could build him a really nice computer for $1000 (at the time, that was cheap). He tried to convince his mom to let me build him a computer, but his mom was a stubborn bitch.

So, she had a guy at her church build a computer for my friend. I met the guy once - got into a huge argument about computer parts. The guy was a complete idiot - he ordered everything right out of TigerDirect magazine without even looking at the prices. Chris gets the computer and certain things wouldn't work like the parallel port.

I told them I could open it up and plug the parallel port cable onto the motherboard and it would work. His stupid mom didn't believe me and insisted on giving it back to the guy who built it to fix it. A week later, my friend gets his computer back. He finds a /temp directory on his C: drive with about 25 pictures of kiddie porn (like fvcking 8 year-old kiddie porn).

Chris called me up because he wanted to ask me how to delete it so that his parents wouldn't think it was his (omg that would suck). I suggested even better... I printed out all the file records with dates and times for when they were created. I also printed all the browsing history records.

When we broke it to Chris's parents that the guy from their church put kiddie porn on his computer, they got furious. They contacted the pastor at the church and the dude's parents. I felt vindicated... cause' Chris's mom completely trusted me with fixing his computer after that.

holy crap.... what happend to that other fagg0t?

:Q:Q

I'm talking about the kiddie-porn watcher.
 

dxkj

Lifer
Feb 17, 2001
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Originally posted by: ndee
Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Originally posted by: ndee
Originally posted by: brxndxn
When I was around 13 or so, my friend (Chris) decided to order a custom-built computer. I told Chris I could build him a really nice computer for $1000 (at the time, that was cheap). He tried to convince his mom to let me build him a computer, but his mom was a stubborn bitch.

So, she had a guy at her church build a computer for my friend. I met the guy once - got into a huge argument about computer parts. The guy was a complete idiot - he ordered everything right out of TigerDirect magazine without even looking at the prices. Chris gets the computer and certain things wouldn't work like the parallel port.

I told them I could open it up and plug the parallel port cable onto the motherboard and it would work. His stupid mom didn't believe me and insisted on giving it back to the guy who built it to fix it. A week later, my friend gets his computer back. He finds a /temp directory on his C: drive with about 25 pictures of kiddie porn (like fvcking 8 year-old kiddie porn).

Chris called me up because he wanted to ask me how to delete it so that his parents wouldn't think it was his (omg that would suck). I suggested even better... I printed out all the file records with dates and times for when they were created. I also printed all the browsing history records.


bad word!! But yeah, hope kiddie porn guy fried.
When we broke it to Chris's parents that the guy from their church put kiddie porn on his computer, they got furious. They contacted the pastor at the church and the dude's parents. I felt vindicated... cause' Chris's mom completely trusted me with fixing his computer after that.

holy crap.... what happend to that other fagg0t?

:Q:Q

I'm talking about the kiddie-porn watcher.