Great example of noobness.

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Hi
I recently bought the palit 9800gt sonic grpahics card from ebay (so no refunds) and it doesn't fit.
I have a thermaltake V9 case which is pretty damn huge, and a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard. What should I do?
Well the probelm is I have already cut a hole in the back of my case and the card now fits (aka amateuar mod).
Will this cause short circuits?
Overheatgin – cause of reduced airflow or something?
Too much dust?
I really need help asap cause I am about to start the computer?
By the way picutres are an impossibility.
Thanks in advance
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So yeah, he just basically cut up the back of his case cause he didn't know he could remove the PCI covers. Gold.

Post more noob examples.
 
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I had a customer the other day who had a computer with no AV and it was spamming like crazy. I installed AVG and it went mad, threat warnings popping up constantly. After starting a scan and leaving it to run, I called her back and asked how she was getting on. She told me that there were lots of virus warnings but she's fixed it now and she's not getting them any more. I thought great and asked her how she fixed it... "I uninstalled AVG"

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I remember when I was looking around the net to fix my HDD which wasnt booting I found many threads saying put it in the freezer. I also came across one (I can only find the images now) where a guy had misunderstood this an encased the HDD in a block of ice :lol: FAIL!

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Robin.
 
Robin.
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That's cool. :cool:

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My previous job was teaching folk how to use computers and the internet. One lady was using the internet, and I was just letting her browse as she had worked out the basics. She was on a website selling furniture and she was looking at the 3 piece suites. She found one that she liked and got a bigger picture of it on the screen. She then started stroking the screen. I was confused as to why, thinking there was a dirty mark on the screen, and asked what she was doing. She replied that she wanted to find out what the material felt like.
 
:lol: I swear some people should never be allowed to approach a computer!

Another guy showing us how to install a graphics card successfully...:rolleyes:

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Robin.
 
Oh my god, im nearly bent in two laughing at the pictures.

Nothing too bad at my end, but I once got a computer in to repair from a Pharmacy. They said everything stopped working, PC turned on but nothing after that. After a few qucik tests, I decided to check the Hard Drive connections, only to find the hard drive wasn't there! Someone had stolen the Hard Drive which got police involved because (think about it) all the sensitive data on the drive. Which wasn't encrypted. Thankfully it was just a rogue member of staff had took it out. Still I got a great laugh out of it to begin with!
 
No Computers, but I've worked in Hi-fi for 16 years (man & boy)... just a few that spring to mind...

Customer: I need a set of leads to connect my CD player to my Amp..
Me: Okay no problem, how long do you need them?
Customer: about two weeks..
Me: No, sorry what length do you need them to be...?

Also had a B & O customer wanted 7 pin din to optical lead.

3.5mm Jack to 6 RCA phono plugs is a common one too... for those that bought 5.1 speaker packages for the computer... "I've only got one headphone output..."

"Got any Amps with Thux on them?" always makes me laugh.
 
Many many many moons ago, I posted THIS in the Annihilator group (-: Some of you youngsters might not know what the Annihilator is - Google it ;-)
 
No computer-related tales to tell, but when I used to work at a popular UK electrical retailer (whose current xmas adverts depict them dossing about with technology making trees out of mp3 players and suchlike instead of actually working) I lost count of the number of times customers brought iPods back in saying they were "broken".

Fair enough you might think, they do go wrong from time to time.

But I'd say 90% of the time they were brought back in, do you know what was wrong? They hadn't been charged. What was even funnier were the customers who tried to deny that an empty battery was the reason their iPod wasn't working, and watching their faces when we sat it on a charger for five minutes and it then worked perfectly.

The best ever customer idiocy moment I experienced (non-tech related, but priceless anyway) was the woman who brought a neck-tie back to a clothes shop I worked at because it was "faulty". What we quickly realised was that neither her, nor her husband or kid, could do up a tie...
 
I'm a relative n00b compared to you guys, but I have to say all of those above examples make me look like Albert Einstein.
 

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