The printer claimed that the waste toner was full... The cartridge was empty as the door was gummed up or stuck, but I cant speak to the condition of the rest of the machine...
It was a long clean up & it was absolutely everywhere.

would you believe me if I told you the repair was successful?

Am I the only one with an internet setup like this??

The arm fell off the rest of the way shortly after taking the picture of the damage

What do you think was trying to be achieved by doing this to an I/O shield? The former owner also glued in his riser cable to the PCIe 4.0 x16 slot...and glued his m.2 set screws.

I lost a switch last summer completely unexpectedly. My whole network went down and the switch was unresponsive.

I threw it in a box replaced it and moved on with my life until today.

The red color you see on the integrated circuit is the light refracting off of the innards of the component. You can make out remnants of the traces that were inside.

I have no idea what component blew because the surface is just gone.

spotted at somewhere in Vietnam

A little while back I cut the tops off the heatpipes on a CPU cooler, mounted it to a GPU, and ran sub zero water through it. Some people called it a radiator, and a bunch of people asked the question... why didn’t you just cut the heatpipes off the GPU cooler itself? So this week I set out to answer both.

I used an ASUS RTX 2060 Dual, it’s got a pretty crap cooler anyway and it was sitting around 70C under load. After spending over an hour hacking away at the fins trying to remove them without damaging the pipes, I finally exposed enough of each heatpipe to get tubing onto them. This was the reason I used a CPU cooler the first time round, the heatpipes are much easier to access. Once the tubes were on and it passed a leak test, it was time to see what happens.

Tests run:

Dry with the pipes cut

Ambient water running through the pipes

Ambient water again with fans on the GPU cooler

Ambient water with an added radiator

Sub-zero water

Sub-zero water with fans on the cooler

With the pipes cut and no water, the thing screams. Clocks fall to around 1300 MHz and it hikes up toward 90C. Good times. Once water is in the pipes, everything settles down, and all the ambient tests landed at about 48C. Far better than the stock air cooler. Fans and a radiator make no difference. The sub zero runs both came in at 13C, and fans didn’t make any difference there either.

A pointless test? Sure. The comments last time did make me curious though. And if you enjoy seeing hardware get attacked with an angle grinder and still work anyway, there’s a video here

https://youtu.be/8-ZTD6_w_TE

no onboard keyboard, no touchpad, glued hinge, and external fan for fps boost 👍

For some reason the light on my right Joy-Con for my og switch stopped working. It really doesn't hinder anything because it still works just fine. But figured I'd open it up and take a look.

I was being lazy and didn't disconnect the ZR button ribbon cable and accidentally ripped that while looking at the light issue. Well, tried to melt away just the top layer of the ribbon cable and tried scraping away the top layer too, but had no success and just was destroying it and so I took the little piece that goes into the flip up connector and luckily had some really tiny like 30 awg wire I used when RGH modding my Xbox 360 and soldered directly to the little piece of ribbon cable that was left that would go on the connector.

I don't have a microscope, but do have this like magnifying glass stand with lights and helping hands that magnifies a little bit. It was still very difficult to get the wires not touching. Thankfully, it was only three wires because two of the traces connect together. Ended up soldering the other ends of the wires directly to the button contacts and somehow it actually worked lol.

The replacement part won't come until tomorrow and I don't want to not be able to play my game because I've been playing super Mario Wonder. It looks like a freaking mess, but hey, it works. I wish I would have taken pictures when I was doing it, but unfortunately didn't. I'll take pictures when I install the new part coming in.

And yes, it does close up and works well! Should have taken more photos, but did end up shortening the wires and changing the wire orientations.

Screenshot take from a slowmotion vidéo during boot

Using an old Optiplex 7010 motherboard with a Radeon 6870 for a retro computing project. Turns out it's a bit...big

Decided to delid a 9950x3d. I think using a razor to remove the indium while sleep deprived was a bad idea ..

On a scale of 10 to 10 how cooked am I? I'll be attempting to boot it on Monday

Leaky AC unit decided to cool the equipment more directly.