r/techsupportgore

Image 1 — Daughter dropped MacBook, fix with sharpening stone
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Daughter dropped MacBook, fix with sharpening stone

Daughter dropped her M4 air, no Apple care..

I used a knife sharpening stone to buff out the gravel and now use it… lol

Never seen the alloy go wavy near the hinge before.

u/RufflezAU — 7 hours ago
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Flooded xbox that i got working afterwards

This thing had concrete bag dumped on it during the flood. Hard drive was even working still. Fan works but will fail eventually, it took the brunt of the concrete

u/vigorosomoon48 — 1 day ago
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So this filthy rich guy came in to my shop with five sticks of memory in his PC

u/greenepc — 7 days ago
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Sure let's leave this out in the open, at a medical facility

Medical facility I'm at has some of their network infrastructure just out in the open in this exam room. What's worse is there is a locked network rack that sits next to it still has open space.

u/drummingdestiny — 5 days ago
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They ran over the iPad with a fire engine.

This is the result of a fully loaded fire engine running over an iPad. I don’t think turning it off and back on is gonna work this time.

u/gimalg — 5 days ago
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Cheap bluetooth earphone battery

I don't know if this place is the right place to post this. I have this for almost 3 years and got curious why is it not properly charging and saw this.

u/AetherKai — 4 days ago
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On the plus side, the cable wouldn’t even fit in the jack anyway.

I noticed the warehouse office had all systems attached to a little eight port unmanaged switch with long cables running everywhere. Couldn’t figure out why until I took a closer look at the wall jacks. Tomorrow is Repunching Day.

u/bubonis — 9 days ago
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User was in a rollover accident on the freeway; laptop flew

Luckily this person was okay, but their car and laptop were totaled. I got a Teams message one evening with a picture of them in a hospital bed holding the laptop asking me how to backup their files. I had to reassure them multiple times that their files were safe and they would not be in trouble for the damage and that they needed to worry about their health and not the laptop.

I guess it was under a bag in their back seat and flew out the windshield and down the freeway about 30 feet. It was in a laptop bag too (absolutely thrashed). A firefighter on the scene found it and returned it to them.

I'd seen some pretty gnarly damage in my high school helpdesk, but this was by far the worst.

u/Objective-Impress925 — 11 days ago
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When you work for a ski resort and the POS only needs to work for another few weeks until a proper fix can be put in during the off-season.

This was from a few years ago when I worked for a big ski resort. The weather turned nice and they wanted to open up the outdoor grill at one of the on-mountain restaurants, but the network cable was shredded by poor placement and a snow shovel. I didn't have a lot of cable to work with and just needed it to function for a couple more weeks. And that it did.

u/BuoyantBear — 19 days ago