Share your Successful PC fix stories.

[Tech_Dreamer]

We all had our Bad days and Good days with our personal computers , and we quite often get called on by other to fix problems for other's , We all heard of PC horror stories, But only a few look back that often at the problems they fixed when it seemed impossible, especially with a Windows PC's.

 

So , Post your Success stories that you had when solution seemed impossible B)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a ninja helps the weak,only when it's at it's weakest

[FloRolf]

Pc won't boot right after building.

Heartrate drops to 0.

Flip PSU switch.

Boot up just fine.

Story of my life!

[H4X3R]

Pressed CLR CMOS = turn on.

On a sad note, i RMAed every part of my mothers pc for 5 months and it still wont boot.

[Fred Castellum]

Having worked in a computer repair place... there would be too many to tell... and I'm too lazy to type... 

[MCmcginness]

Almost returned a mobo, forgot to plug in the cpu 

 

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[CatCloud]

PC wont work, Goes and builds a new one.

Motherboard wont work, goes and returns it and gets a new one pre tested the same day.

new GPU cooler´s fan is broken, removes the fans from the cooler and slaps on 2 120mm corsair SP fans and calls it a day. ghetto mounted ftw

 

[Kamina]

>Computer keeps crashing

>Look inside

>Capacitors leaking all over the place

>Try to boot but nothing comes up

>BIOS not working after several reboots

>Reinstall windows and it magically works

>Computer is alive again

>BSoD again

>Gets new pc and tosses the old one out (6 years old... Athlon x2 6000+)

 

I rarely have computer problems, and I'm the one usually fixing someone else's computer. 

[flibberdipper]

My old Dell's power supply had failed, and it used one of the stupid small ones, so I had to take my regular power supply, drill holes in the case, set the power supply on top, and then taped it down. Worked great for the month I had to use it afterwords.

[tharvey]

Customer brings in a laptop and says "the trackpad don't work anymore".  I pressed FN + F9 and my customer hung his head in shame, picked the laptop up and walked out of the store.  I laughed about that for the rest of the day.  

[Guest Generallee]

• H80i Pump stops

Punch H80i Pump

Pump starts again

MVP for the rest of the day

[Vitalius]

I can cover 90% of my "fixed it" stories with this:

*User calls, I answer*

"Yeah?"

"I have a proble-"

"Be there in a second."

"Uh... Oka-" *I hang up*

*I arrive.* "What's the issue?"

"Oh, well you see, [insert problem as they try to replicate it to show me].... huh. It's working fine now. Thanks."

"You're welcome. Send an email to IT documenting my work." *goes back to desk*

[Fred Castellum]

I can cover 90% of my "fixed it" stories with this:

*User calls, I answer*

"Yeah?"

"I have a proble-"

"Be there in a second."

"Uh... Oka-" *I hang up*

*I arrive.* "What's the issue?"

"Oh, well you see, [insert problem as they try to replicate it to show me].... huh. It's working fine now. Thanks."

"You're welcome. Send an email to IT documenting my work." *goes back to desk*

Dang that must suck lol.... 

[Lays]

>Playing a game, randomly PC freezes, re-boot PC

 

>No LED indicator on PCI-E lane #1, think GPU is dead

 

>jiggle pci-e power cables, reboot

 

>pc works

 

>giant sigh of relief, no RMA duty for me

[Kyuubixchidori]

Got a laptop to fix from someone my dad works with, the second it boots up, cpu+gpu ramp up to 100%, mouse wont even move. pop ups about connecting to dial up show up. 

 

boot into safe mode without networking+avast on a usb, cleans it up. good to go. 10 minutes of work and 100$ richer:D

[Enderman]

When I first built my computer it would only work half the time, and it would shut off randomly. I found that putting it horizontally made it stay on longer, but when I lightly hit it then it would instantly power off. A couple days later I realized it was the ram that was not fully inserted into the slots And every time it disconnected the computer would crash. This was back when I knew nothing about computers, and had no idea how hard you need to push ram into the slots that have the one sided clip.

 

Also a long time ago when I bought by first SSD and was installing windows on it, I could not get it to boot properly. Ten all by myself I figured out how to change the boot priorities in the bios so that the SSD would be the only drive the computer would try to boot from. This was all me myself and I figuring the UEFI out with no manual, internet, or help from anyone.

 

When I bought my 2TB HDD It wouldn't get recognised by windows, but after a couple minutes I figured out how to see the drive in the administrative tools and assign a letter to it as well as format Again with no help from the internet or previous experience.

[iAsuno]

Figuring out that a wonked install disc of windows caused my new PC to freeze.

[the ginger gamer]

while doing cable management i removed my hdd sata cable (my hdd had not at that point been backed up either). I then turned on my pc to find out that it wouldn't load windows, i almost lost everything on my pc, but luckily i fixed it. I guess that's both a horror and good story though.