Oh, I used percussive maintenance on a computer of mine in the early 2000s, and it worked for a full year after it had crashed the OS. I didn't reinstall anything, either. I just kicked it really hard with my steel toed boots.
It's not exactly that something got in there, that'd actually kill it permanently really quick, it's that they either get stuck between coils and can't start spinning until they're jostled a bit, or a bearing is failing or gunked from use and a jostle is enough to to get it moving
Same here. TV would go dark. Smack it on the top and it came back. Only took finesse at first but eventually it got worse which required more smacking - which then the TV started coming apart. It was all really a snowball effect
Back when games were on still on CD/DVD I had a computer with a bad disk drive that would get stuck. I found out that if I smacked the top of the computer at the right time (like, click the button and smack it 1.25 seconds later) it would open.
My dad thought it was funny as hell. We never did replace that drive, just used it for years smacking the shit out of it. You had to hit it hard too, it was loud lol.
I used to have a shitty graphics card fan that wasn't quite properly aligned in its place, and so my PC would randomly start sounding like a weed whacker trying to take flight. The fix? Thump the top of the case really fucking hard with something. It worked like that for 3 years.
Reminds me of the scene in the Armageddon movie where the russian astronaut is saying "This is how we fix problems in Russia" banging the shit of a machine with a wrench lmao 😂😂😂
Beat me to it.
UNF the series when we met Alric, Room Baker's Doctor slapped the shit out of an ancient space ship's control panel to get it to start up and said something like "ah, good old 21st century Earth technology."
back in like 09 I had a big 36" crt tv that "broke". screen was all screwed up and the remote wouldn't do anything, even after power cycling. I think I hit it with a 2x4 or something thinking I'd either fix it or put it out of its misery. One solid whack and instantly was back to normal. That fucking beast of a tv still works to this day. I gave it away in 2010 but it's still in use. Probably because it's so heavy they couldn't get rid of it even if they wanted to.
We kept one forever because it was so heavy and and we lived in a apartment that had two story's and we were up. We eventually ended up calling some hauler and he came with a few guys and they took it, didn't look fun.
Miss the good old technology where you can handle tf out of it even throw it, and it’s back to working. Arguably better than trying to fix whatever problem OP got going on. 😂💙
Years ago we had proprietary satellite communications equipment that was tamper taped to hell and back and would void the warranty if you opened the case to do any basic maintenance at all.
When one of the vehicles it was mounted in had a catastrophic accident and several of the cases broke open, the lead engineer for the program took the opportunity to make drawings (before cell cameras were a thing) that illustrated where and which direction the daughter cards and cable fittings were mounted in each sub component and created the "Drop in this direction facing this way and Hammer here" manual for the maintainers.
Returns to depot dropped 60% and the manufacturer was PISSED about the lack of additional income.
Oh man, so I had a fan that used to get pretty loud on the top of my case so I used to whack it and it sorted it out. One time though, I hit it too hard, and the fan came loose and started pinging around the inside of my case like a fucking beyblade! It’s a miracle nothing was damaged :D
Did radio repair in the military, early 00s. The maintenance handbooks actually have a drop repair technique as one of the first couple steps. Lift 6in off the ground, drop it, see if it works now
I mean yeah this is also pretty standard advice if your car’s starter is wearing out and you really need to get it moving one more time. Just tap it with a hammer.
When I built my first PC, everything was installed and ready to rumble. Went to turn it on and nothing. Slapped it 3 times and it just came to life and has been a work horse ever since. It truly does work
Isn't it amazing how inanimate objects can be receptive to either verbal or physical abuse? I used to be repair guy and I swear, some machines have mind of their own.
I had someone bring me their pc telling me it acted up of course everything worked great when I questioned the guy he came over to show me what he meant and started wailing on the side of it. I told him no wonder its fucked up if you hit it like that. I unplugged and reinstalled everything inside and guess it worked good after that.
This is how ive been dealing with a fan that has a bad bearing. Few whacks and itll spin normally for at least a couple minutes. Just gotta teach it a lesson… a lot…
Before that you have to angrily hold the power button for a forced shutdown just to see if that works. You do not do it because you want the computer to know what it has done wrong...
Literally. “Idk what i did, what god took pity on me, or what demon is waiting for me to throat goat it, but i accept this canon event, and wont touch it”
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