The computers at my school made me facepalm (pictures)

[roboplex22]

Ok so yesterday I posted a thread saying that I thought my High School's Design and Manufacturing computers were a little choked for air. I managed to snap a picture during class today of the PC's locked in their wooden boxes. See what I mean? About them not having enough intake holes? On both sides it's just a door, no exhaust, the only intake is those slits on the right side. 

 

 

[Aytex]

my school calls the PC a CPU and the teachers are told to call the PC le cpu... i want 2 kill my self sometimes u no

[MegaDave91]

Do they crash?

[DarkBlade2117]

I wonder what the temperatures are like in that thing. My stepdad does this to his ps4 and it's a dusty mess. Trying to getmhimmto get 2fans one for exhaust and one intake to Atleast minimize dust and stop his ps4 from over heating.

[thekeemo]

[CydiaDash]

Like I said, it's the school fault that they're doing fuck all to protect their equipment

[roboplex22]

Do they crash?

I just started school and we haven't started using them yet so I can't say. I was thinking more thermal throttling though.

[FatPenguin]

My school has computers with xeons and quadros 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shitty xeons and shitty quadros 

[MegaDave91]

I just started school and we haven't started using them yet so I can't say. I was thinking more thermal throttling though.

I doubt they'd do anything to mitigate that.

[Mug]

ehh, in IT you get what you have the budget for.

 

My mate does IT for Liverpool City Council and another does it for Wirral Universities Teaching Hospital (APH and Clatterbridge) and it's a lot better than this (because kids aren't gonna vandalise the computers) but still it's tough for them on such a budget. They buy computers with celerons which they have to make do with for 6 years or so.

[manikyath]

my question is: if you go to that extend to protect your computers..

THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE STUDENTS...

 

(actually, i've seen someone insert a sandwich in the disk drive before...)

[carguy86]

my school has crappy dell desktops and the it suport dude keeps saying that the computers are super fast. (it takes minimum 10 minutes to boot one of them and school recieved the computers from dell at the end last year, all info i can find is that they have i5 somethingK prosessors)

[Bubblez]

WHAT? why is it necessary to lock up the PC's where you go to school? Is it that big of a problem???

 

In my highschool PC's where in the open, and if you needed one for your classroom, or for some presentation somewhere you just walking into the library, unplugged one of the computers, and then walked out with the computer in your arms.... they all eventually found their way back to the school library at the end of the day.

[arniks8]

my school has crappy dell desktops and the it suport dude keeps saying that the computers are super fast. (it takes minimum 10 minutes to boot one of them and school recieved the computers from dell at the end last year, all info i can find is that they have i5 somethingK prosessors)

We are rocking Dell desktops in my school too, but Pentium D is 2old4this.

[arniks8]

I just started school and we haven't started using them yet so I can't say. I was thinking more thermal throttling though.

This will happen

https://youtu.be/u5YJsMaT_AE?t=52s

[roboplex22]

WHAT? why is it necessary to lock up the PC's where you go to school? Is it that big of a problem???

 

In my highschool PC's where in the open, and if you needed one for your classroom, or for some presentation somewhere you just walking into the library, unplugged one of the computers, and then walked out with the computer in your arms.... they all eventually found their way back to the school library at the end of the day.

I go to the "ghetto school" of my area. It's not a bad school, but something like 50% of the kids are under the poverty line. They were telling us to keep our phones in our pockets so they dont get stolen, etc. Plus I imagine these are some beefy computers because it's an architecture class and they're going to be running AutoCAD. Beside the point, my teacher said he once saw a student watching porn on the computers instead of doing his work. If a kid is screwed up enough to do shit like that, Imagine what else he would do.

[Mug]

my question is: if you go to that extend to protect your computers..

THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE STUDENTS...

 

(actually, i've seen someone insert a sandwich in the disk drive before...)

In secondary school, we used to put sherbert into floppy drives by tipping the laptops on their sides and shovelling it in and I think one guy went around all of the computers and took all of the keycaps and mouse buttons off the computers and they put them in the bin. He got suspended the next day but at least I got a snap of it on my disposable camera (yeah, I carried one around because I was quite the avid photographer)

[Fgtfv567]

Did they not think to drill a few holes into the bottom and then some more into the back?

[Mug]

This will happen

https://youtu.be/u5YJsMaT_AE?t=52s

wow, pulse jet metaphors ftw

[manikyath]

since we're sharing computer horror stories, i'll add my own. (i was in a pretty shitty school...)

 

i have before mentioned a sandwich in a CD drive, there was also a CD drive that was used as a "handle" to shake the computer violently. (bricking the cd drive's mechanism)

 

there were keyboards that had caps swapped to things like "<name of girl> is a <inappropriate word>"

 

the school actually had quite a sizable budget to spend each year, and one time spent it on extra RAM for the computers, since windows 7 was coming up, and it was notably more resource heavy than XP service pack 2. (the IT guy hated SP3, so that never got installed)

 

the issue was they forgot to check if it was compatible ram... well... they ended up with (at the time!) about 60-ish gigabytes of useless RAM.

 

AAAAND they installed windows 7 on all of the computers, with 1GB of installed ram...

[roboplex22]

Did they not think to drill a few holes into the bottom and then some more into the back?

Can't say about the bottom, but both ends have doors and no holes. 

[Ceatra]

Im my school books they still talk about IDE and AGP.... YES! IDE... AND AGP!!!!!

 

 

NOT SATA OR PCI/PCIE

[roboplex22]

Im my school books they still talk about IDE and AGP.... YES! IDE... AND AGP!!!!!

 

 

NOT SATA OR PCI/PCIE

That made me lose whatever hope I previously had left for the Public School system.

[arniks8]

since we're sharing computer horror stories, i'll add my own. (i was in a pretty shitty school...)

 

i have before mentioned a sandwich in a CD drive, there was also a CD drive that was used as a "handle" to shake the computer violently. (bricking the cd drive's mechanism)

 

there were keyboards that had caps swapped to things like "<name of girl> is a <inappropriate word>"

 

the school actually had quite a sizable budget to spend each year, and one time spent it on extra RAM for the computers, since windows 7 was coming up, and it was notably more resource heavy than XP service pack 2. (the IT guy hated SP3, so that never got installed)

 

the issue was they forgot to check if it was compatible ram... well... they ended up with (at the time!) about 60-ish gigabytes of useless RAM.

 

AAAAND they installed windows 7 on all of the computers, with 1GB of installed ram...

Sounds bad. I remember when a guy in library Bricked the OS ( windows XP ) and the CD drive was always filed with chewing gums and plastic bags. I also helped to destroy that PC, because it was so slow ( single core celeron ) I OC`d it too much and killed MB and CPU . But after a while they got some decent ASrock board and another shitty celeron, so I OC`d again, but this time PC didn`t die. I successfully Overclocked it from 1.6Ghz to 2.5Ghz .

[manikyath]

Im my school books they still talk about IDE and AGP.... YES! IDE... AND AGP!!!!!

 

 

NOT SATA OR PCI/PCIE

for my exam in high school i had to name the major components on a socket 7 motherboard. (like, motherboard in hand, point to things and explain)

 

that said, if the computer suffice for what they were designed to do, they have no reason to upgrade.

i have an old IDE&AGP workstation that'd still be fine as a text editing and mild graphics machine, even after around 10 years.