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Reminds me of when I fixed my computer with a chopstick back when I was a poor college student. I didn't know anything about cold solder joints at that time, b
by sfink 3y ago
Reminds me of when I fixed my computer with a chopstick back when I was a poor college student.
I didn't know anything about cold solder joints at that time, but I did discover that my flaky motherboard would start working when I flexed it a certain way. So I wedged a bamboo chopstick between the motherboard and the case to keep it in a little bit of flexion. Lasted the rest of the year.
- allenrb 3y agoNot quite the same thing, but there was a time when 30 pin SIMM sockets had terrible plastic clips on either end. Being something of a gorilla in my youth, I’d break them off from to time. Fortunately the one in my daily driver had another module behind it, so in went a pencil eraser to force the simm in the broken socket to stay in contact. Was so relieved as newer socket designs came out.