nlinecomputers
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Hard drive not found.
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phaZed
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lol.
Sky-Knight
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Someone do their own upgrade or did someone at the OEM have a bad day?
nlinecomputers
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The system has a bad fan. They said they removed the screws on the back but couldn't get the back off. The wrong screws were in the wrong holes and why they removed the SSD is anyone's guess. Paging Dr. House because clients lie.
I've had this in a macbook and it was due to the M.2 drive's screw breaking from its socket, and the M.2 drive becoming dislodged. The customer said they had an earlier repair, must have had the stripped screw since then. I re-seated it and put a spare strip of sticky thermal transfer tape on top which pressed against the bottom panel, I don't think that drive will move by itself again. Customer was happy, only a 15 minute job with no expensive part needed!
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What do you mean "hard drive not found"...It's right there!..
britechguy
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@nlinecomputers: Well, that'll do it!
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Oh hum, the things we see
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Look at it this way @nlinecomputers, you found it for them! And I can see that the phillips head holding the 2.5" is nearly stripped as well.
Markverhyden
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Don't forget the one's we hear as well....
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The ones I see (personally, and from folks here) I know to be true. Much of what I hear, though, has the quality of urban legend.
But, of course, the old saw, "While much is too incredible to believe, nothing is too incredible to have happened," applies.
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"Are you running under windows?"
"No, but the guy next to me is running beside one... and his computer is running just fine. I have a big fan on, if you think it's heat related?"
So close... yet so far.
"No, but the guy next to me is running beside one... and his computer is running just fine. I have a big fan on, if you think it's heat related?"
So close... yet so far.
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I got a VM last week, can't post it for privacy reasons, but the caller claimed the their cat deleted the information for wifi and audio on the laptop. Needless to say I didn't call back. Probably a victim of a W10 update drive by....
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I wish I had that strength, but I do only on the "obvious absolutely crazy" cases. I always call back, but have perfected demurring when I don't want the client.
Some people are just so computer illiterate they don't even know how to even close to accurately describe a problem. Some of those have turned out to be my best clients over the years.
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Trust me. I don't like not calling someone back. But the whole "the cat did it" was just too much for me.
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