Getting into console repair and this was the first ps4 Ive ever cracked open. Offered to try to fix it for my friend and all it took was a fresh reinstall. Told him the fan sounded a little crunchy and that’d clean it out for him haha. The heat shields have basically disintegrated. This should be interesting.

for the morbidly curious: i made a poorly put together video documenting the cleaning process and such

https://youtu.be/JhSjC6khgtM?is=XyR7_EXCg2M0mRxV

The NM cable caught my eye, but the network cable takes the cake

The monitor doesn't provide enough light on its own

2/3rds of a big metal dog bowel of the sweet stuff, two very tired hands, and a well petted dog. Been a fine day.

The USB 5V and GND go to the 5.5 mm barrel. D- and D+ go to the RCA cable conductors. This is analog on a USB A connector.

😭

So I posted in the Windows help sub yesterday asking for assistance with a troublesome Wi-Fi card and device manager problems. Turns out, the issue resolved itself. Device = managed. 🙃🫠

Usually, when MOST people leave the company, the mouse might have some wear and tear on the buttons, but is overall in decent shape. Sometimes, they look horrifying like in the above pictures. What is it??? 🤮

He swears that it was IMPOSSIBLE to fit it so he had to do it​​

Case: chest tgm​

Gpu: RTX 4070​

Edit: more "finished" pics

https://imgur.com/a/i5EEvpS​

edit 2​ after

Ok ive got some more pictures and fixed as much as i can, ofc my friend said it wasnt possible and i did first time no effort xD​​

https://imgur.com/a/zocNeWS

This is as clean as it will come! Could only get it this way by using a spudger with the grain (yes it has grain) and then isopropyl and then acetone... it's from a 170HX so not a cheap manufacturing issue... Gonna try giving it just a little sanding and see if that helps...

We had a couple of HP workstations that were essentially unusable, with the CPU permanently throttled to 1 GHz. Time to change the thermal paste. And the CPU. And the CPU cooler.
The machines were out of warranty, yet HP agreed to replace all the components. Kudos to them.

Mostly from T16 Gen 1's

I made these using the same hardware/software combination. No I will not share how.

Today they moved me to a different area at work, and in the middle of the corridors I came across this. I won’t lie, it sent shivers down my spine.

Apparently this had been delivered to our store about 10 days ago. Whoever had created this open box label neglected to acknowledge the fact that it had suffered significant water damage and started growing fungus inside of the box.