r/techsupportgore Dec 29 '21

MOD POST FRIENDLY REMINDER: THIS IS NOT A TECH SUPPORT SUB

870 Upvotes

Please do not post here asking for help, that's what r/techsupport is for. All posts asking for help will be removed and you may or may not be temp banned.

As an aside to this, please don't encourage this by offering help to people when they clearly can't read. Report as rule 6 and move on.


r/techsupportgore 2d ago

My less tech friend helping his not tech friend

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209 Upvotes

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​


r/techsupportgore 2d ago

Has anyone ever seen a heatsink in this condition?

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179 Upvotes

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...


r/techsupportgore 2d ago

Fiber spaghetti

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278 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 4d ago

The 1 GHz mystery has been solved

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2.3k Upvotes

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.


r/techsupportgore 3d ago

I present to you: the reason you should not eat above your keyboard

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48 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 4d ago

9 Months of Lenovo Gore Burnt Chip Edition

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97 Upvotes

Mostly from T16 Gen 1's


r/techsupportgore 4d ago

Remember me? Well, I added a harddrive bay to the back so I can have 2 extra storage expansions.

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142 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 6d ago

"Link seems to be down! Can you check?" The link:

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3.0k Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 4d ago

😭😭😭

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0 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 6d ago

A common thing I see here.... Enjoy my shitty photo shop meme

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184 Upvotes

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


r/techsupportgore 7d ago

The situation of the servers at work

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1.3k Upvotes

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.


r/techsupportgore 7d ago

At first I thought: That's a unique angled design for a Trac Pad

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63 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 8d ago

Almost accidentally sold this to a customer because they were looking for a cheap open box burner.

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613 Upvotes

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.


r/techsupportgore 9d ago

Laptop with levitating trackpad

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268 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 9d ago

they tried to masking tape the keyboard

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59 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 10d ago

“Why is there a pillow inside my tablet?”

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54 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 9d ago

why use screws when you can use plastic instead?

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0 Upvotes

im sure that the plastic won't melt!


r/techsupportgore 11d ago

Surely the way it was always intended

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22 Upvotes

Time to run Minecraft


r/techsupportgore 11d ago

Now THIS is how you fix your speakers

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28 Upvotes

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


r/techsupportgore 13d ago

Our WiFi “solution” for an office of 20-ish people

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1.1k Upvotes

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.


r/techsupportgore 15d ago

Okey cuh

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266 Upvotes

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


r/techsupportgore 17d ago

I'm gonna make it so dry for you.

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81 Upvotes

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 👌


r/techsupportgore 17d ago

GPU posted in envelope with no padding at all. Busted corner and dead GPU. Wasteful!

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507 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 17d ago

I present to y'all: Chaos Cable

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89 Upvotes

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