What's The Biggest Repair Your Computer Has Ever Needed?

[everything count to life]

What the title says What's The Biggest Repair Your Computer Has Ever Needed?

[cafe]

well uhh

if something screws up so bad that it needs massive repair

I usually find a way to RMA it lol

so maybe bent fins on air coolers? lolol

[sonarctica]

I couldn't fit my HD6950 DirectCU II in a Antec 300 case, I had to hacksaw the HDD bay a bit so it would :D So I guess I didn't exactly repair it... more like the opposite but succeeded!

[Mo5]

My ODD died once... I'm lucky nothing big so far :)

[ExDreamer]

Changing my mobo.

[LDX]

5 years ago my wife spilled a full glass with lemonade on my laptop

and then she folded the screen all the way around so the hinges broke

 

on purpose

 

I reached to turn on the laptop and still did some work after that

but the hinges and damaged case were basically screwed...

 

But it was a DV6000 so it was doomed anyway

[Cad6500]

Not really a repair, but related I guess. When I first started getting into computers, I put a GTX 550ti in my pc that had a generic "550w" psu, and my pc was dying because of it, so after months of having that setup, I finally bought a GS800 (overkill I know).

[gibbsy81]

my brother jumping on my motherboard box with the board in ti all the caps smashed i saw able to send it back to asus and get a new one.

[snkmoorthy]

Mostly on laptops.

 

1. clean out gunk/dust from heatsink

2. re-apply thermal paste/thermal pads

3. replace mother boards

4. replace keyboards

5. replace speakers

6. re-solder DC jacks

7. recover and restore/replace HDDs

 

I'm the go to guy for electronics for my family and friends. Not very modest, but there you go :).

[ANIMAL_ORIGIN]

This isn't a repair but sheer negligence. A few years ago there was a thunderstorm where I lived. I ignored the lightning and was using my PC. So inevitably lightning struck, destroyed my modem and destroyed my motherboard. Luckily I was able to RMA it since it had no evident burn marks.

[legopc]

i got a second hand broken hd4870x2 but i didnt knew it was broken back then and it was getting to hot so i bought some custom wc stuff for it but the moment it all worked the gpu just said f it im dead 

[Jamdude]

Biggest repair?  Does cleaning it count? :P

[FireFox]

In the laptop has had a couple of hard drives fail which were more replacements than repair lol

[Ghost416]

Having to replace the motherboard, CPU, RAM and graphics card because of pathetic power stations for my area. It's more replacing but troubleshooting everything was a pain.

[Ghost416]

Mostly on laptops.

 

1. clean out gunk/dust from heatsink

 

 

It can be horrifying when you get like pillows of dust. 

[Nicktrance]

Replaced my old PCs PSU because the capacitors had aged too much and couldn't run the system under medium load. Probably my most expensive repair was a whole laptop motherboard, except it was still under warranty (thank god for Acer's standard 3 year warranty at the time) so it wasn't expensive for me :).

[Andreshk]

I had a 4870x2 die on me - apparently a memory chip, connected to one of the GPUs, was just going full retard from time to time, but I tried disassembling, cleaning and reapplying thermal paste before discovering this... oh well, it'll never be forgotten. Beautiful card, I'm telling you  :D Other than that, I don't remember doing anything else than cleaning or replacing parts  :unsure:

[iAsuno]

Replacing a mobo right after installing a new card. mobo ended up being more expensive than my card.

[mr moose]

5 years ago my wife spilled a full glass with lemonade on my laptop

and then she folded the screen all the way around so the hinges broke

 

on purpose

 

I reached to turn on the laptop and still did some work after that

but the hinges and damaged case were basically screwed...

 

But it was a DV6000 so it was doomed anyway

Are you still married?  was it your fault....wait what am I saying of course it was :rolleyes:

 

 

 

Biggest repair job I've had is everything bar the case and monitor, power surge took it all out, three hdds, cpu, mobo, dvd drive, ram, video card and PSU. I was pissed, I loved that pc.  Only thing that saved the monitors was the fact I turn them off to save power when I leave the desk. 

[RatedBlam]

Does changing the horrible phenom II Stock heatsink for a noctua one count as a repair ? If I've also changed TIM in old laptop due to overheating

[BobekCZ]

I had to replace the PSU>CPU 8-pin connector :DD, It lasted about 2 hours, but it works :DD

[Guest]

I dropped a laptop, all the plastic fell off it. I had to replace all that

[ANUPLUCIFERGAMER]

mine was bringing a whole new system!!

[Wulfgar]

I've had to bake my 8800gt about 5 times so far. Still running like a champ, although the idle temps are slightly high.

[Austin Powers]

Setting up custom watercooling system and clean them every 6months.