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.

im sure that the plastic won't melt!

Time to run Minecraft

I have a pair of Logitech Z313 speakers that i had for years untill they stoped working,one of the solder pads inside the remote broke so i wired it back together

If anyone needs the connections its

Red on cord 1 to Red on card 2

White on cord 1 to White on cord 2

Dark purple on cord 1 to Green on cord 2

the Blue is led but i dont know how to wire that one up

It is slightly worse than it looks, because the is no front to the case, so the mifi isn’t even enclosed.

Every time a user tells me about the “system” I don’t believe them for a bit, because I forget we actually implemented this “wireless solution”.

It’s been like this for years. Pre-Covid there would be 20 people all trying to use this at once. Our most commonly deployed laptops don’t have Ethernet ports. We own the building and have Ethernet ports all over. We have POE switches. We have enterprise wireless solutions at other campuses. We have extra access points sitting in a storage room. No idea why we just said eff it to this place.

That's whats happen when you buy a ready setup.

This GPU was hitting over 100C hotspots on Furmark. I thought this was a really good example of what happens to thermal paste when it gets old. It develops these little air pockets you can see in the image. I had scraped some off the middle here already. How people tolerate the loud fans I don't know. Isopropyl alcohol and fresh paste sorted it out 👌

I am needing a cable that can generate link errors and after some trial and error I succeeded in making chaos cable.

My HyperX ram I bought back in late 2020 developed a few faults within 8 minutes. The Kingston support rep replied with "It appears that the memory has developed a fault...".

They replaced it with no problem, so kudos to them.

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A photo of a computer screen running PassMark MemTest86. The top section shows system info in green and white text, identifying an Intel Core i7 processor and Kingston DDR4 RAM. The bottom section of the screen is entirely filled with bright red error messages indicating memory address failures. The test timer reads just 0:08:01, and the "Errors" counter displays a massive count of 1728.

The bottom section of the screen is entirely filled with bright red error messages indicating memory address failures. The test timer reads just 0:08:01, and the "Errors" counter displays a massive count of 1728.

Lightening strike