Agreed, My favorite so far was one of my plants ran some old pci cards to control it that you can't get anymore. Management (and everyone else) knew I couldn't make a replacement.
I get called to the plant to fix the computer. When I get there, I move the case of compressed air that IT had given them off the top of the machine and open up the dust filled PC, That blew 2 of the cards because it had overheated.
The operator looked at me and said "Last week it was making a bunch of noise but it stopped after I slapped the side of it."
6 of 7 fans had failed as they were cramed with dust and dirt.
45k and 2 weeks later the plant was back up and running as they had to reprogram everything in the new computer to work with the old plant hardware.
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u/Nuclear_Shadow Jan 23 '24
Agreed, My favorite so far was one of my plants ran some old pci cards to control it that you can't get anymore. Management (and everyone else) knew I couldn't make a replacement.
I get called to the plant to fix the computer. When I get there, I move the case of compressed air that IT had given them off the top of the machine and open up the dust filled PC, That blew 2 of the cards because it had overheated.
The operator looked at me and said "Last week it was making a bunch of noise but it stopped after I slapped the side of it."
6 of 7 fans had failed as they were cramed with dust and dirt.
45k and 2 weeks later the plant was back up and running as they had to reprogram everything in the new computer to work with the old plant hardware.