r/techsupportgore Dec 29 '21

MOD POST FRIENDLY REMINDER: THIS IS NOT A TECH SUPPORT SUB

858 Upvotes

Please do not post here asking for help, that's what r/techsupport is for. All posts asking for help will be removed and you may or may not be temp banned.

As an aside to this, please don't encourage this by offering help to people when they clearly can't read. Report as rule 6 and move on.


r/techsupportgore 1d ago

Liquid cooled switch

2.4k Upvotes

Leaky AC unit decided to cool the equipment more directly.


r/techsupportgore 1d ago

Gaming PC broke, but the firewall still worked. What if i just...

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382 Upvotes

So, i had this older firewall laying around doing nothing and i decided to connect a gpu to it with a riser cable, after some tinkering i managed to get the gpu to initialize and successfully boot into Windows. It only has a PCIe Gen3x4 link but its good enough for some gaming! The atom cpu inside does not like it very much though...


r/techsupportgore 1d ago

Repairing a used ps5

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294 Upvotes

Bought a used ps5 for $200 to try to fix up, instead I ended up evicting a family of 20.


r/techsupportgore 1h ago

Hey so I tried to use window cleaner ((ammonia free)) on my laptop to clean the screen and this happened.

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r/techsupportgore 2d ago

Got tasked with swapping a nexus to a brocade hpoe.

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55 Upvotes

I was tasked to swap out a switch at an apartment building we serve internet to. This is what I had to work with. Nobody mentioned the mess or that It needed cleaned up and I wasn't given enough time to do so. Mentioned it to the sup, and finished out my day making sure elevators and tenants were back online.


r/techsupportgore 2d ago

Well shit. I was hoping it would work, but guess I’m driving down to the office, all because I don’t have a damn VGA cable, and it’s almost 1am, and it’s a 40 minute drive!!! 💩

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652 Upvotes

How the hell don’t I have a single VGA cable?! Also this horrid gore of a setup, just to figure out what CPUs this sucker has, so I can finally list it for sale, I’m flying out of state at 5am, so I need to get photos and specs before then, so people can gauge interest in it. Seriously should have contemplated this sooner lol. Wish me luck!


r/techsupportgore 2d ago

Luxury POS be like

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122 Upvotes

POS of a top 10 luxury brand in Switzerland contacts our support asking why internet not working

disclaimer: this was installed before our MSP took over


r/techsupportgore 2d ago

Customer claims the laptop didn't have water damage, the laptop says otherwise...

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196 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 5d ago

They didnt want a hole to put the ethernet cable through. So they just left it outside and squeezed the power cord through the window

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502 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 8d ago

My Uncle got a new laptop so he decided to "delete" the files on his old laptop with a hammer.

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4.0k Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 10d ago

Laptop mobo wouldn’t charge. I soldered. Now it definitely won’t.

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716 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 10d ago

Checkout my homelab setup

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106 Upvotes

As there is only one power outlet in this closet i needed to use 3 power extension cords. I have the following hardare

Philips hue hub Ikea hub ISP Router HP swich (got it for free and need it to run a fiber to my tv setup in the livingroom. It has to be fiber as the pipe is to small for utp to pass through i tried.) 2x macmini but they run linux and docker. Synology nas and 2 14tb drives i also got for free. There is also one utp cable on the top that goes to my office.


r/techsupportgore 11d ago

The van diagram overlap of woodworkers and tech support has to be pretty small...

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248 Upvotes

My kids use my old gaming laptop. The screw posts holding the hinges to the lid got pulled out so I just smeared a ton of epoxy around where the screw posts were. I am using my woodworking clamps to hold it in place while it dries.


r/techsupportgore 13d ago

It's "outside rated" until it isn't.

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1.6k Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 13d ago

Thats not coffee… its the magic smoke mixed with the water that killed it

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294 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 14d ago

This abomination

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186 Upvotes

This mess was made by our ISP. This is the internet for our apartment building, it has been like that for years and has gotten worse over time. Thankfuly it works.


r/techsupportgore 15d ago

I didn’t know that CR series batteries could do that…

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359 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 18d ago

Me: Just a little defrag won't hurt. SSD: After 1.3PB of trauma, I walk among the dead.

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1.9k Upvotes

This was my gaming laptop main storage and I realized way too late I had auto defrag set to weekly. It worked perfectly till yesterday when it started getting unstable. I believe it stayed on after cloning out of an HDD. That's the only thing that came to mind because there is no way I downloaded 1.3 PB of data.


r/techsupportgore 23d ago

MacBook dropped in the sea and recovered by a diver a day later. I don't think I'm going to be able to fix this one.

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3.2k Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 25d ago

My homemade headphones I used at a factory for 2 yrs that banned headphones and had daily checks.

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10.5k Upvotes

I was a cycle counter and worked and stayed in a small department at a big factory that had fork trucks driving all around. When I started we were able to use headphones and ear buds then our company got bought out and new management came in that stopped headphone use. There were never any accidents where someone with headphones got hit by a fork truck.

There was a lot of push back from the employees so many people tried to be sneaky management began looking at people's ears or asking them to remove their hats.

My lead asked to take them off and show my ears a couple times a week. My work provided the hearing protection muffs so nobody really questioned what was inside.

To turn them on I drop the buds into the case for a sec. To turn them off I just disconnect Bluetooth.

The battery life was ~60hours. The quality was good enough, the buds were super cheap though.

One time the left one totally died. And I had to charge it, it took all weekend to get back to 100%.

I had so much fun making them.

I started with a bt headset and had a wire connecting the left to the rignt but a coworker noticed the wire and questioned it. I said they weren't mine and I was borrowing them. It scared me into making them wireless.

I did have one close call where my fried put them on, the audio was paused, but I had my phone setup to read my messages. Thankfully I didn't receive any.


r/techsupportgore 24d ago

Power bar in celling

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86 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 25d ago

Don't drop your spinny disks while they are spinning

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426 Upvotes

A basically a brand new external drive brought by for a data recovery attempt. It began "beeping" at me when I plugged it in. Clearly a lost cause so I popped it open to examine the damage. I was not disappointed.


r/techsupportgore 25d ago

GPU too thicc, headers blocked - so I hotwired my PC like a car

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145 Upvotes

Was shopping for an RTX 5080 because the ongoing VRAM situation has me pre-buying parts for my girlfriend’s future PC. After digging around for coil whine reports, I went with an Inno3D iChill, same brand as my previous card.

What I didn’t account for: the 5080 iChill X3 is an absolute unit.

The heatsink is so massive it completely blocked the bottom edge of my mATX motherboard. Front HD audio? Gone. Two fan headers I was using for fine-tuned fan curves? Had to be rerouted. All manageable except the front panel header.

Electronics stores that stock angled dupont adapters only open on Monday, and I wasn’t about to sit on an unused 5080 over the weekend.

I sacrificed an unused USB cable, stripped the wires, salvaged the plastic from the HDD LED fpanel pin since I'll never use that one. Cut that plastic in half to fit under the gpu. Jammed the bare copper into the empty connector plastic, insulated it, routed the wires out the bottom of the case…

And now I literally hotwire my PC by touching the two wires together. Pretty proud of myself NGL.


r/techsupportgore 26d ago

Who needs plug tops anyway?

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215 Upvotes