Comments on: Hardware FAIL

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:50:05 +0000

I heard the story about broken cup holder (cd player)…but this is just damn funny!!! lol. man

By: HawkPidgeon

HawkPidgeon — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:40:00 +0000

I hope you all know that this was actually a joke… most people fell for it though lol (for a while anyway).

By: Louis II

Louis II — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:01:42 +0000

Nearly 3 month old internet thread that was a fad over 2 years a go???

Waste of Bandwidth?

*sigh*

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:21:33 +0000

The article does lead to posts that are readable, even if the article is a bit fail.
And I must say that to my disbelieve I did meet devices in my life where they actually forgot to properly machine the parts and left holes filled or plastic attached that was suppose to be removed, and that was quite confusing.
As for electronics madness, I had it several times that when I bought a product from reputable companies and looked inbetween the heatsink and the chips I found they didn’t make any contact and there was a sizeable gap (always check).

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:36:55 +0000

Epic Fail. Who would cut off the pins? :D

By: spaceballs

spaceballs — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:34:13 +0000

Actually one can take some PCI-E x16 video card and mod them to fit in an 4x slot, and yes this has worked before.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:23:04 +0000

This is a standard “If it doesn’t fit .. get a Bigger Hammer” and you’d be surprized how often this happened with ISA->PCI cards UGH…

By: Miles

Miles — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:05:56 +0000

"21. Uhh if that is PCIe it should still work in a 1X slot or 2X or more depending on how much he cut off.

Lots of 1X slots on MOBOS are open ended fo larger cards can fit in, it is traditional to mod the slot and NOT the card, at least that's what I have read."

You are correct, l have personally done this both ways, first with the motherboard:

http://picasaweb.google.com/nubie07/PCIEX1/photo#5054159711464753282

Then with the card:

http://picasaweb.google.com/nubie07/PCIeX102/photo#5174809524446028994

http://picasaweb.google.com/nubie07/PCIeX102/photo#5174809666179949778

On that card l managed to cut the internal power path to the RAM voltage control, l wound up connecting it to the unused fan header with some wrapping wire.

The wrapping wire you see in the last photo is a repair to the differential pair, l cut through it as l was making a notch for the x1 connector.

That card has been working for months, it still is in use every day for 4-8 hours.

l don't recommend it with an expensive card going into a PCI motherboard, but there are some motherboards with x1-x8 connectors that this may work fine on. Generally if you don't understand connector pitch width you shouldn't actually try anything like this.

By: Yappingboy

Yappingboy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:00:48 +0000

He is NUBLET

By: wally

wally — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:38:34 +0000

My dad tells me of a time (back in the day) when his company just started distributed software on these "amazing, new" 3.25", DOUBLE SIDED floppy disks.

He was sent out to provide support for someone who "couldn't install the software from the provided disks".

He arrives, and asks the client to demonstrate how far the install goes before stopping.

The client faithfully inserts the first disk, starts the install, reads the prompt for the next disk, takes it out, flips it, force-rams it back in again...

;)

And don't even get me started on my friend who plugged a PCI sound card in while the computer was still running... or the guy who conveniently plugged a (stupidly designed) 12v PSU lead onto his new HD's Master/Slave/Cable select connector. "It just happened to fit so I plugged it in. Then smoke came out."

By: killerpiggypie@gmail.com

killerpiggypie@gmail.com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:21:58 +0000

0/10

By: Edward Nardella

Edward Nardella — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:14:38 +0000

Uhh if that is PCIe it should still work in a 1X slot or 2X or more depending on how much he cut off.

Lots of 1X slots on MOBOS are open ended fo larger cards can fit in, it is traditional to mod the slot and NOT the card, at least that's what I have read.

By: Trez

Trez — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:32:59 +0000

epic leroy jenkins style… that just ruined my day, thanks hack-a-day. I guess with one post you giveth and with another you taketh away.

By: twistedsymphony

twistedsymphony — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:16:31 +0000

I think we’ve all done something stupid once before. I remember when I first got a burner I was fairly new to CDs and general and tried to use a regular pen to write on the label… it took me a few bad discs before I realized I was killing them as soon as I got done burning them.

This poor sap in the article is that the mercy of his “friend” I guarantee you that if I told a relative they needed to cut off the pins to make the card fit they would do it and wouldn’t think twice about it… that’s just MEAN.

By: simmo

simmo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:04:50 +0000

john either your hard drive or CDROM or m/board was stuffed (maybe you weren’t wearing an anti-static strap???) the only ide interfaces i’ve ever come across that only support one device are in RAID interfaces (which I doubt your PC had in ’94 as they were VERY expensive back then).