My worst came when i worked at a computer repair place. A computer came in from a house of nothing but smokers. The outside of the case had changed color and inside was covered in nothing but that thick layer of smoker sludge. I turned it on and actually started gagging and told them i refused to work on it. The next worse was a laptop with cat urine in it. Which you could hear it slosh around and would drip occasionally. (Not a single tech in the store would touch it, the customer actually got furious when she was told no one would touch her laptop, she tried yelling at the service manager but thankfully she backed us up on that decision).
eplebnista
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Well I just had to work on a 600 mhz laptop with 128mb ram and they wanted XP to be installed on it =(. IT had oodles of viruses and spyware and I had no way to backup but through network. It even took like 2 days before I Could transfer 40gb to my own hard drive.
Chain smoking crazy cat lady lesbian farmer's computer. It was just disgusting. We didn't want to go work onsite too often because of the stench, so when we'd get her computer to take back to the shop, we'd open it outside and give it a solvent rinse in the driveway first, and leave it to dry before taking it inside. She always got the higher shop rate and never complained because she knew how nasty it was.
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For the people who cleaned out computers with cat hair, red dusts...ect why not just tell them you need to buy a dustfilter. and let them know they have to clean it once in a wile.so then the computer parts are happy.
I remeber some one had this pic with a computer inside a box with the net they use for patios on old houses.(bug net ??)
I remeber some one had this pic with a computer inside a box with the net they use for patios on old houses.(bug net ??)
Number1
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Thank god some of you aren?t doctors. Let?s see what would hapen if doctors use the same logic as ATOTers.
Situation: Patient come in the ER with dirty wound.
Results:
Doctor looks at wound and replies: EWWW that?s dirty, I?m not touching that, and then takes pictures of the wound for ATOT.
Patient dies.
Forum hilarity ensues
Situation: Patient come in the ER with dirty wound.
Results:
Doctor looks at wound and replies: EWWW that?s dirty, I?m not touching that, and then takes pictures of the wound for ATOT.
Patient dies.
Forum hilarity ensues
My suitemate has this messed up Toshiba laptop that whenever you press backspace it'd log the user out, and pressing the enter key doesn't create a new line but instead have some random characters pop out on the screen.
It was a hilarious screen. Ask Neutralizer for pics.
It was a hilarious screen. Ask Neutralizer for pics.
I can't speak for everyone else but I'll take the dirty one's because I charge more. Now on average though most PC's I work on are 2 to 3 times "dustier" than that one in all of those pics above.
I'm saying I won't work on a roach infested machine because this one was a lost cause.
DrPizza
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Thanks for reminding me... When school starts back up in September, I'm going to have a new computer... No doubt, it's a Dell, with tons of crapware left on it, tons of extra bloatware that loads when it boots, etc. It'll take me a month or so to convince them to let me clean my computer. Then again... the new principal used to work in the tech department... Maybe I can go through him.
Working at compusa. We had someone bring a computer in that wasn't working. I got the honor of working on this guys PC. When I opened the case 30 or so dead roaches poured out of the case and there were roaches stuck in the case and heat sink fan. Was the most discusting thing i have ever seen. The computer also smelled of horrid cig smoke. When I finally finished cleaning the computer out I booted it up and found a crap load of viruses and spyware and even a nice video of muff (hope this is okay to say) diving. I was quite disturbed by the whole ordeal...actually I still am!
I've never gotten one myself but our senior tech at the time had gotten two people landed in jail serving some serious time over kiddie porn......I gotta say that's one of the worst one's to work on.
It's truly amazing what people put on their computers, I'm talking right on their desktop, and then bring it in for repair.....I mean, are these people thinking we WON'T turn them in???
The best one I saw one time was this guy who had bestiality stuff all OVER his machine, we're talking gigs of the stuff. His machine was physically dirty too and we cleaned that pc up in more ways than one.
when he came in to pick it up he said to me "Is everything okay with it now?".....I said "Yeah, it's good, but that was the dirtiest machine I've ever seen."....he laughed, thinking I was referring to the dust and stopped laughing once he realized what I meant. Dude turned red and my boss accidentally overheard me and had to supress his laughing.
It's truly amazing what people put on their computers, I'm talking right on their desktop, and then bring it in for repair.....I mean, are these people thinking we WON'T turn them in???
The best one I saw one time was this guy who had bestiality stuff all OVER his machine, we're talking gigs of the stuff. His machine was physically dirty too and we cleaned that pc up in more ways than one.
when he came in to pick it up he said to me "Is everything okay with it now?".....I said "Yeah, it's good, but that was the dirtiest machine I've ever seen."....he laughed, thinking I was referring to the dust and stopped laughing once he realized what I meant. Dude turned red and my boss accidentally overheard me and had to supress his laughing.
I worked on one that had thousands of pieces of spyware (~10k iirc) and several hundred virii. I suggested to the owner that it would be more time (and cost) efficient for me to back up their important data and do a fresh install. They declined and opted to continue the on-site service @$50/hour for 9 hours. I felt kind of bad about it, but I did give them the option.
Kaervak
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Oooh, no try again. I'm a member at that forum and those are taken directly from my post there. http://www.neighborhoodpub.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=9386&hl=vacuum Thanks for playing.
some amd tbird 700mhz computer with only 256mb of ram and had to do some work on autocad. i was introduced to the lagfest. 
now, some new-built HP with 1gig and am happy with the performance of solidworks.
<~~ still in college.
now, some new-built HP with 1gig and am happy with the performance of solidworks.
<~~ still in college.
P3 700MHz 128MB/HP desktop
The thing was so damn dirty inside...went through a whole can of compressed air.The HD had to be reformated.I helped them install XP.They were still running 98.
The thing was so damn dirty inside...went through a whole can of compressed air.The HD had to be reformated.I helped them install XP.They were still running 98.
flexy
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you guys are p@ssies complaining about dust and smoke-smell
Nothing what a can of compressed air can't solve, assuming you open a dusty computer outside and do a first-clean-run with a can of air.
Also...a vacuum cleaner with one of those soft car-cleaning tops/adapters comes in VERY handy.
I do NOT have dust-filters on my air-intakes, i KNOW..i should have some...but every 6months or so i just take out stuff, especially the ATI-card with the fan and cleaning is really easy. Same with removing the HSF-fan and sucking in some dust from the HSF, and do a quick vacuum-run on the bootom of the case and where the fans are. PC always looks like new
So..and if you're getting paid for it..what's the problem ?
I DO *however* understand that cat p!ss is icky
Bugs...i don't know WHY...but also in a very clean environment a spider or a bug sometimes finds it's way INSIDE the case...they just like it
Oh..and if you want REALLY disgusting stuff...i worked in a distribution center once where they got stuff, mostly radios from New Orleans after the hurricane hit there. This stuff was not nasty, but DANGEROUS...eg. they had to enforce a new policy, eg. touching things from there only with gloves and then thouroughly disinfecting of hands...and putting that stuff in a seperate "biohazard" area wher it will be decontaminated.
Also...it's always interesting to get units (once in a while) where there are dead birds, mice etc. inside
Nothing what a can of compressed air can't solve, assuming you open a dusty computer outside and do a first-clean-run with a can of air.
Also...a vacuum cleaner with one of those soft car-cleaning tops/adapters comes in VERY handy.
I do NOT have dust-filters on my air-intakes, i KNOW..i should have some...but every 6months or so i just take out stuff, especially the ATI-card with the fan and cleaning is really easy. Same with removing the HSF-fan and sucking in some dust from the HSF, and do a quick vacuum-run on the bootom of the case and where the fans are. PC always looks like new
So..and if you're getting paid for it..what's the problem ?
I DO *however* understand that cat p!ss is icky
Bugs...i don't know WHY...but also in a very clean environment a spider or a bug sometimes finds it's way INSIDE the case...they just like it
Oh..and if you want REALLY disgusting stuff...i worked in a distribution center once where they got stuff, mostly radios from New Orleans after the hurricane hit there. This stuff was not nasty, but DANGEROUS...eg. they had to enforce a new policy, eg. touching things from there only with gloves and then thouroughly disinfecting of hands...and putting that stuff in a seperate "biohazard" area wher it will be decontaminated.
Also...it's always interesting to get units (once in a while) where there are dead birds, mice etc. inside
You guys haven't seen anything.
I once pulled a Gateway P100 tower out of a furniture factory that had *at least* half a cubic foot of grease/sawdust inside of it. The accumulation was so bad the PCI cards were not visible.
Machine still worked fine.
Back in the days when Virii writers had to actually write their own code and not use canned ActiveX calls supplied by Microsoft: I once found 146 boot sector virus's on a Windows 3.11 box an engineer was using. Of those 146, 12 were unique, and the HD had critical data on it so it coulnd't be wiped (not that it could).
One of those virii was Monkey_B, perhaps the most elegant and sophisticated pieces of work I've seen since code red. Monkey_B had this nasty habit of encrypting itself onto the MBR, which prevented even a FDISK command from nuking it. I managed to copy the data over to a different drive, but that HD had to be destroyed.
I once pulled a Gateway P100 tower out of a furniture factory that had *at least* half a cubic foot of grease/sawdust inside of it. The accumulation was so bad the PCI cards were not visible.
Machine still worked fine.
Back in the days when Virii writers had to actually write their own code and not use canned ActiveX calls supplied by Microsoft: I once found 146 boot sector virus's on a Windows 3.11 box an engineer was using. Of those 146, 12 were unique, and the HD had critical data on it so it coulnd't be wiped (not that it could).
One of those virii was Monkey_B, perhaps the most elegant and sophisticated pieces of work I've seen since code red. Monkey_B had this nasty habit of encrypting itself onto the MBR, which prevented even a FDISK command from nuking it. I managed to copy the data over to a different drive, but that HD had to be destroyed.
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