Computers are tough!

[BubbySoup]

Well, at least this one I have just been dealing with is.

I work in a garage - garage staff are not particularly kind to their IT hardware. This morning, one of the little beige boxes got "pushed" off its usual perch in the workshop. Hitting the concrete floor several feet below (and almost taking the montor with it), it bounced twice before coming to rest in front of a rather large, gas powered space heater - and promptly caught fire.

After several attempts to put it out, the now frazzled box was kicked out of the way of the space heater and came to rest in a pile of wood chippings, which were soaking up an oil spill.

Damage so far - box rather dented and somewhat buckled, plastic front completely destroyed by fire, dvd tray fused into "a lump", power, reset buttons "gone", small family of oily woodchips taken up residence inside box.

BUT, after much fiddling with the remaining power button cables and some mopping up of woodchips, it sprang to life and booted up! Haha, how crazy is that?

So, to conclude, computers are tough - at least this one is although it really does not look like a PC much anymore.

 

[[ASSE]Hinchy]

Mine used to collapse and die if the room went above room temperature, so they're not all that tough

 

[z0mbi3]

ttiuwp

 

[Wile E. Coyote]

Maybe its a super computer?

 

[Will_3rd]

it's obviously old technology if its in a beige box, bound to be resilient if its lasted that long!

 

[Shoseki]

Yeah, Macs are highly flammable, must be all the flourescant plastic

 

[Sp00n]

Metal > fire

 

[Will_3rd]

Yeah, Macs are highly flammable, must be all the flourescant plastic

what you saying about Macs?

 

[Kreeeee]

what you saying about Macs?

That they are highly flammable?

 

[Van_Dammesque]

When will people learn to install firewalls?



..........I'll get my coat.

 

[Insanity]

Mine used to collapse and die if the room went above room temperature, so they're not all that tough

How can a room go above its own temperature?

 

[Will_3rd]

That they are highly flammable?

.......goes to buy fire extinguisher

 

[[ASSE]Hinchy]

How can a room go above its own temperature?

If you have the heating on?

 

[BubbySoup]

it's obviously old technology if its in a beige box, bound to be resilient if its lasted that long!

Yeah it's very old tech - ISA graphics card, no fans cooling anything - runs a little dos program some of the techs use.

I get the feeling if that had happened to a new PC it wouldn't have survived

 

[Shoseki]

.......goes to buy fire extinguisher

I was kidding Flame on!

 

[Will_3rd]

Yeah it's very old tech - ISA graphics card, no fans cooling anything - runs a little dos program some of the techs use.

I get the feeling if that had happened to a new PC it wouldn't have survived

Yes, I knew it!...I am great

 

[Insanity]

If you have the heating on?

Uh yes.... but heating the room increases the room temp, but it is impossible for the room to be hotter than its current temp no matter what that temp may be... i think.

Stop confusing me =/

 

[Scam]

They are tough, but they can also go wrong for no apparent reason. I just spent 45mins trying to get my internet working. My computer was coming up with the 'a network cable has been unplugged' message. No amount of restarts or fiddling with potentially loose connections would fix it. It's sheer luck that i'm here now, but i'm so amazingly fed up i cant concentrate on what i wanted to get done today so am instead wasting my time listening to the mars volta very, very loud /rant

 

[[ASSE]Hinchy]

Uh yes.... but heating the room increases the room temp, but it is impossible for the room to be hotter than its current temp no matter what that temp may be... i think.

Stop confusing me =/

Room temperature, in scientific usage, is taken to be roughly 20 to 25 degrees Celsius (°C)

Is how I'm meaning it. Hardly anything to concern ourselves with

 

[ruffneck]

pics tbh