rrichmond Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 From a mag I like to read "Computerworld". Field technician is on the team deploying new systems to a group of hospitals and clinics where most users are old and not very computer-literate. "One day, we were sitting in our office between deployments, going through the help desk tickets forwarded to us," says tech."As we joked about users saying 'keyboard needs to be remapped' and a user who couldn't get a CD out of his 'hard drive', we came across one job that stated a user's PC had started smoking and caught fire. Not entirely believing, we went down to check it out - and actually found a scorched PC case and motherboard in a room that smelled strongly of smoke and burnt plastic. From that point on, we took the users' input slightly more seriously." Hehehe... I'm wondering on which PC they submitted the job!!!
strawberry Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 just as well it wasn't in a school, can you imagine a 6 year old knocking on your door to tell you the computers on fire!.
OutToLunch Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Dear Sir stroke Madam. Fire, exclamation mark. Fire, exclamation mark. Help me, exclamation mark. 123 Carrendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. All the best, Maurice Moss.
gwendes Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Dear Sir stroke Madam. Fire, exclamation mark. Fire, exclamation mark. Help me, exclamation mark. 123 Carrendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. All the best, Maurice Moss. I was gonna say that! lol
SYNACK Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 That screensaver is so realistic. That episode of the IT crowd was hilarious.
SYNACK Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Ah, I really need to refresh threads before I post to them, looks like I was well and truly beaten to the quote
Andrew_C Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 I've had a smoking PC in the past. For some reason the cable to the reset switch was getting seriously hot and giving off quite unpleasant smoke.
Pete10141748 Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 We had a WAP start smoking here, I think that someone had used a wrong power cable for it and it overloaded. The smell hung around for days! Love the IT crowd, ep 1 of series 2 was funny as hell. BTW, any more fires, better call 0118 999 88199 9119725......................3
K.C.Leblanc Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 We had a WAP start smoking here, I think that someone had used a wrong power cable for it and it overloaded. The smell hung around for days! Love the IT crowd, ep 1 of series 2 was funny as hell. BTW, any more fires, better call 0118 999 88199 9119725......................3 I've had that, it wasn't a Linksys was it?
Friez Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 We had a WAP start smoking here, I think that someone had used a wrong power cable for it and it overloaded. The smell hung around for days! Love the IT crowd, ep 1 of series 2 was funny as hell. BTW, any more fires, better call 0118 999 88199 9119725......................3 That's an easy enough number to remember!
tech_guy Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 We had a teacher who managed to plug his laptop power supply into his printer at home. Apparently that one was a bit smoky!
webman Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Ahhh... I love the smell of fried electronic components in the morning
stephenleak Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 I've had a newly installed modem "catch fire". A tantalum bead capacitor shorted out internally and started emitting (probably toxic) white smoke. It was so hot that it was glowing and, at first sight, I thought it was a yellow LED.
Joanne Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 i get blown up computers a lot... the kids switch the powe supplies to 115v because they are nice like that.... &*$&*$&%!!!!
john Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 I've had a PC Speaker catch fire before in my home PC. I shut the PC down as normal and then the fans went CRAZY and I mean CRAZY it sounded like it was taking off, screens went black then all this smoke started billowing out of the case and I went S**T and whipped the power out and the side off and saw the speaker and its cable smouldering away, it got thrown out of the window, don't know waht casued it the mobo was fine the next day but the speaker and cable had become carbonous.
tech_guy Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 i get blown up computers a lot... the kids switch the powe supplies to 115v because they are nice like that.... &*$&*$&%!!!! We superglue them little switches because of our little bleeders....
ChrisH Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 I have had flames shoot out of the back of a PSU. I was leaning over the case as I turned it on listening to see of the fan was starting up. The customer was just telling me as I did it there was a strange noise from it before. My face felt heated put it that way. I also recoiled so quick I knackered my back for the rest of the day
mattx Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Reminds me of a few good youtube vids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG0sGugsv28&feature=related
mattx Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Talking of high voltage... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frFLKURulm0 A bad case of ion wind.....
ChrisMcf Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 And thats how you learn, to never buy Emachines:)
mattx Posted December 18, 2007 Posted December 18, 2007 this is what I call high voltage Make ya hairs stand up...
mattx Posted December 18, 2007 Posted December 18, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrb0G_-CzdQ&feature=related Another good one...
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