Experiences with non-techies

[WkdPaul]

not sure if it's a troll since it was his first post, but this is something ... you can see from my reaction that I freaked out! lol

 

 

[SLAYR]

6 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

not sure if it's a troll since it was his first post, but this is something ... you can see from my reaction that I freaked out! lol

Well expensive mistakes will always make people learn.

[DocSwag]

10 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

not sure if it's a troll since it was his first post, but this is something ... you can see from my reaction that I freaked out! lol

 

 

It's definitely not a troll, since no troll would be stupid enough to risk breaking a 950 pro to troll!

 

If you're confused, you shouldn't just go ahead and try it.... Read the instructions! They're there for a reason!

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8 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

Well expensive mistakes will always make people learn.

[Belgarathian]

22 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

not sure if it's a troll since it was his first post, but this is something ... you can see from my reaction that I freaked out! lol

 

 

Haha yeah, I was following that as well. I'm by no means cash flow deprived, but even I was wincing at watching that beautiful M.2 Samsung 951 Pro SSD get bent. 

[SLAYR]

9 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

That reminds me of the person who drilled through their 980 ti.

 

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4 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

That reminds me of the person who drilled through their 980 ti.

 

And the time some crazy guy cut a Titan X in half to fit it in a single slot!

 

 

 

[WkdPaul]

17 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

It's definitely not a troll, since no troll would be stupid enough to risk breaking a 950 pro to troll!

No, I meant troll in the sense that he could have found the picture somewhere and just post it, playing dumb.

 

Also, don't underestimate the stupidity of some people.

 

[comicsansms]

5 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

And the time some crazy guy cut a Titan X in half to fit it in a single slot!

 

 

 

*Titan not Titan X

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2 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

*Titan not Titan X

oh, was it?  I totally missed that...  I just assumed based on the age of the video 

[GirlFromYonder]

1 hour ago, wkdpaul said:

not sure if it's a troll since it was his first post, but this is something ... you can see from my reaction that I freaked out! lol

 

 

just showing off his fancy new m.2 lol.

[DocSwag]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Oh god why.....

 

When was that post from though? Cuz that graphics card is like 10 years old....

The imgur post was from 3 years ago, but it didn't lead anywhere, so I'm wondering if you have any idea.

[GirlFromYonder]

15 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Oh god why.....

 

When was that post from though? Cuz that graphics card is like 10 years old....

The imgur post was from 3 years ago, but it didn't lead anywhere, so I'm wondering if you have any idea.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOO nooooooooo nooooooo noooooo noooo noo no 

 

Waaaaaaaaaaaaa (ltt doesnt have a crying emoji)

 

 

I am distrubed

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21 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Oh god why.....

 

When was that post from though? Cuz that graphics card is like 10 years old....

The imgur post was from 3 years ago, but it didn't lead anywhere, so I'm wondering if you have any idea.

Nope, no idea 

[Clonzoo]

3 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Pic snip

 

3 hours ago, SLAYR said:

That reminds me of the person who drilled through their 980 ti.

Both of these just makes my freaking day... Makes me forget about my micro bites... 

[BingoFishy]

7 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I'm partially surprised it didn't work. Didn't linus do a thing where he used an x1 slot for an x16 card?

 

Yes, I'm aware this is PCI not PCI-E but still.

[GirlFromYonder]

29 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

I'm partially surprised it didn't work. Didn't linus do a thing where he used an x1 slot for an x16 card?

 

Yes, I'm aware this is PCI not PCI-E but still.

wait wasnt it the same thing. no oops

[matrix07012]

This article:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pc-gaming-is-still-way-too-hard

 

Shots fired from TotalBisciut

 

[Sors]

8 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

I'm partially surprised it didn't work.

 

Yes, I'm aware this is PCI not PCI-E but still.

There are no short PCI slots, there is only 1 kind of slot and it needs all the pins.

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8 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

I'm partially surprised it didn't work. Didn't linus do a thing where he used an x1 slot for an x16 card?

 

Yes, I'm aware this is PCI not PCI-E but still.

He cut out the plastic on the slot so the full length lard would fit, not the other way around (cutting down the card to fit the slot)  

But, you're right that in theory this should work on a PCIe card... although, I'm pretty sure that card is PCIe, so that's where the confusion starts...

[Bleedingyamato]

On July 12, 2016 at 1:51 PM, wkdpaul said:

Honestly, I'm not gonna go through my 1000+ posts for that, just finding your reply was a PITA ... but just for you here's a new story that happened today;

 

Needed a workstation for a new guy

Pulled one of the M83 SSF out of the shelves

Take 2x2GB DDR3 (don't know why this SSF had it's RAM pulled out)

Open up the SFF, install the RAM ...

*insert other random tasks I had to attend here*

I come back to the SFF, close everything, power it up to make sure it's all in order ... and nothing ... odd, usually those things beep when something is wrong!

 

Followed by 20 minutes of trying to figure out if the PSU is fried ... then I started taking the RAM out and that's when I found the problem!!! Somehow when the other tasks came in I left one of the stick only half-way inserted in the slot and didn't check when I came back (one of the tab wasn't "clicked"). The PC wouldn't boot and somehow the motherboard wouldn't throw any error, but thank God nothing fried! lol

 

so yeah, for some reason I didn't install the RAM correctly and instead of checking the FIRST logical thing (the only thing I touched was the RAM), I start troubleshooting the PSU!

 

DERP

 

I'm not sure how similar this is but when I transplanted my secondary desktop to a new Corsair 88R case I accidentally plugged in the motherboard connectors for the power button, reset button, and HDD activity led incorrectly so that when I finished reassembling the computer and went to turn it on nothing happened.  I got a bit freaked out for a few minutes trying to figure out what was wrong.  Thankfully it occurred to me that I might've plugged in the power button to the wrong spot on the mb and was able to correct the issue very easily after that.  

 

It's scary how easy one little thing done wrong can prevent a computer from even turning on.  lol 

[RahulR]

14 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

He cut out the plastic on the slot so the full length lard would fit, not the other way around (cutting down the card to fit the slot)  

But, you're right that in theory this should work on a PCIe card... although, I'm pretty sure that card is PCIe, so that's where the confusion starts...

It's Universal 64-Bit PCI. Universal meaning it works with both 3.3V and 5V 64-Bit PCI slots.

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14 minutes ago, RahulR said:

It's Universal 64-Bit PCI. Universal meaning it works with both 3.3V and 5V 64-Bit PCI slots.

It does look like PCI actually, but the 7800 was PCIe (Except for one AGP version but that wasn't that)

So now you see my confusion  

[WkdPaul]

30 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

He cut out the plastic on the slot so the full length lard would fit, not the other way around (cutting down the card to fit the slot)  

But, you're right that in theory this should work on a PCIe card... although, I'm pretty sure that card is PCIe, so that's where the confusion starts...

It's actually an AGP card, that's why it probably broke the card.

[RahulR]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

It does look like PCI actually, but the 7800 was PCIe (Except for one AGP version but that wasn't that)

So now you see my confusion  

Oh.. My head hurts now. It looks exactly like 64-bit PCI.