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Old 07-14-2008, 01:21 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Exclamation Neglected PC

I think I found the cause of a customers PC not booting as it should
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Old 07-14-2008, 01:31 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I've seen that before.

It's GROSS!
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What a waste of a SKT939 with plenty of life left in it, or at least there WAS!!

I just replaced the whole mobo/cpu with a second hand skt 754 just to get them up and running again.
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Old 07-14-2008, 01:44 AM   #4 (permalink)
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how much are you going to charge him for blowing out the gunk?
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Nice dust bunny.
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OMG, post it in this thread as a funny pic - Funny Computer Pictures
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I just replaced the whole mobo/cpu with a second hand skt 754 just to get them up and running again.
Like I said... I just replaced the board and cpu which took me 15 minutes and I still charged him £20.00 (he was a repeat customer after all )
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