Weirdest tech issues you've seen

[asim1999]

Thank you .

No problem.

[Legion]

My motherboard decided one day it wouldn't post. I tried everything and had no joy. Called up ASUS ready to send it off. Got up the next morning tried turning it on for the laugh and it worked ever since

[Calavera]

My brother's Logitech mouse was squeaking... try explaining that to Logitech support

He got a replacement though.

[13CA350]

My usb 3.0 wireless keyboard/ mouse will not work to wake the computer when it's sleeping if it's plugged into usb 2. It will only work when it is "awake"

[Robin88]

Our lasses Mac died after upgrading the RAM, she took it to a (supposedly) Mac specialist who told her it was dead because apparently the screen/wireless/webcam connector on the motherboard had been broken, he also told her that the RAM wasn't compatible with the Mac (hint, it was)

So she bought a new one as she desperately needed it for college and left the old one under her bed, I visited her a few months later, stripped the old one down and looked at the supposedly broken connector, could see a very very tiny chip in the plastic of the cable end itself and the connector on the motherboard was completely fine, (although my eyesight is terrible so it may not have been damaged at all) and summised that it couldn't possibly be enough to break the whole thing so I put it back together as before and lo and behold the laptop booted first time and as far as I know it still works perfectly. So our lass has 2 13" Macbook Unibody laptops and both of them work perfectly 0_o

I wasn't able to fix it before she bought the new one as I lived about 7 hours away at the time, so she ended up paying a ton of money that she didn't need to spend when to be honest it was probably just that the connector had been knocked loose during the upgrade.

[Lord Gaben]

What's the most odd tech problem you've ever had? Looking for odd explainable/hard to explain problems people have had.

 

This was a lenovo I was imaging at work. There's a plastic seat the hard drive sits in that clips in to plastic clips in the case. If the seat was snapped in place, the machine wouldn't boot. It it was unlatched, it worked no problem. To this day I don't understand what was happening. After this video I'm posting i went on to remove the metal springs from the seat, swap out power cables and sata cables, and put a thin rubber layer across the bottom of the hdd seat. The problem persisted. If the HDD was unlatched I could flip flop swivel toss roll spin balance it, and it had not problems. The second that latch clicked. DEAD.  I even pulled one of the HDD seats from another one and had the same problem. 

Maybe the SATA cable is a bit dodgy

 

Nevermind I read the rest of your post

[Ace Lean]

Whenever I get into a Skype call these days, I get these moments when my friends start receiving static from my end and I have literally done nothing on my PC. It happened today when I was simply sitting at my computer, without anything displayed on the screens, and my friend basically couldn't hear anything but static from my side. He couldn't even hear me talking. I've tried everything I could think of and it still happens.

 

Definitely some paranormal stuffs man...

[DerBernd]

My MX510 refuses to die. Runs on the third set of feet and is getting new buttons soon (temperamental outburst, mashed the mouse on the mousepad).

 

My brother's Logitech mouse was squeaking... try explaining that to Logitech support

He got a replacement though.

[SirReallySam]

My mates PC wouldn't let any USB perificals work PS/2 was fine.  Tried to solve it with many fixes using PS/2 perificals. But in the end a system restore was needed

[Weirdybeardyman]

Hmmm... This may actually work. Just kidding, I'm gonna invest in a soundcard and see if that works.

Would highly recommend you get an external Amp and Dac instead because it will eliminate any electrical interference from inside your pc which could be the cause of some of the static.

Before investing in either you should make sure if you are using a headset connected via headphone jacks that the usb ports adjacent to them are not in use because this is your most likely cause, or if your headset cable is tangled.

[awesomes8wc3]

I had one just then...troubleshooting the hard drive on my sisters PC...

Her old one died so I threw in my beloved FAEX, but I noticed that the BIOS detected it, almost nothing worked... I noticed that the drive was spinning up and then down and then up and then down

Apparently you can't use molex to sata adapters (none of the SATA plugs on the PSU reached so I needed an adapter) on these bigger drives... had to wreck my cable management.

[Toggle]

Would highly recommend you get an external Amp and Dac instead because it will eliminate any electrical interference from inside your pc which could be the cause of some of the static.

Before investing in either you should make sure if you are using a headset connected via headphone jacks that the usb ports adjacent to them are not in use because this is your most likely cause, or if your headset cable is tangled.

Thanks for the info. I will look into this kind of stuff before buying now as I had no idea of this kind of thing before.

[dougyfresh]

I put my friends 670 in my 1st pci-e slot and then after using it for like 5 minutes put my 570 back into the slot. The pc would not recognize my 570 at all in the slot no matter what we did. We put the 670 back into the slot and it recognizes it write away. We then put the 570 in the second pci-e slot (the 8x one) and then it recognized it. Was the weirdest thing ever. I put my new 970 in the first pci-e slot and it works flawlessly. 

[HectiKCookiE]

If i have less than all CPU cores active in my bios my corsair H105 fails constantly!!!

[ionbasa]

On an older Asus board that had both E-IDE and SATA gen 1, the board wouldn't boot from the Intel SATA chipset, but it would from the 3rd party LSI SATA raid controller. It took me days to figure out that the onboard Intel sata controller wasn't configured as a boot device in Asus's BIOS due to compatibility issues at the time.

 

What a fail. To make it even worse, the manual made no mention of this.

 

And on top of that I had to load the LSI SATA raid drivers when installing Vista. Mind you this was before AHCI was even a thing, so we were stuck with DMA or fake raid (single Disk Raid 1) transfer modes on the SATA interface.

[Mohenjo]

With my old speakers for my pc i was getting some strange russian chatter when the pc was turned off.

Consistent volume no matter how much i turned the volume wheel in any direction. And loud enough to disturb my sleep..

Were they praising mother Russia in moon speak? 

[techswede]

Were they praising mother Russia in moon speak? 

I have no idea^^ 

[thechez99]

My laptop has what I call its Period, for about a week every single month (since August) my Laptop will go Blue Screen tonnes, be unstable and almost unusable (I once had to re-install Windows), which is not good as I need it for a lot of school work.