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My late-night nostalgia binge yielded a rare 'treasure'; some BASIC code buried in an ancient text file from an awful 'adventure game' I started in ~6th grade and never finished. Mostly because my dad deleted the source and grounded me for a month for writing it in the first place.

620 REM READ LABELS OR ELSE HA HA HA
621 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
630 PRINT "YOU RIP THE CAN TOP OFF THE CAN OF SUPERBEANS. THEY SMELL SUPER YUMMY"
640 PRINT "THEN YOU EAT THEM ALL AT ONCE WITH NO FORK OR A PLATE OR ANYTHING"
650 PRINT "EATING IN VIDEO GAMES IS FUN!!!! WHO NEEDS ANY TABLE MANERS!! BURP!!"
660 PRINT "uh oh cheerios your tummy feels funny"
670 PRINT "your intestins are getting turned into balloons! OH HELP HELP PLEASE CALL 911"
680 PRINT "***********KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM**********"
690 PRINT "You did not read the label on the can of super beans, rock brains."
700 PRINT "So you ate them alll at once. Then you had to super fart, but since you are not"
710 PRINT "a super-man like the comic you do not have a super butt, you are now super dead!!!"
720 PRINT "Your mom and dead had to bury the half of you that didn't blow up, super dummy."
730 REM put GOTO the line for a game over here
 
guys idk what to say. my amd ryzen has been running kinda hot so i decided i would reapply thermal paste and clean dust off the heatsink. well i unscrewed the heatsink and it wasn't budging so i gave up and started screwing it back on and was gonna ask someone else for help. while screwing it back on it JUMPED out of my hands and off the mobo, with the cpu glued to the heatsink, pins exposed. the socket had the bar on the locked position still!

the pins look undamaged. however i cannot get it out of the cooler to put it back in. I've tried aiming a hair dryer at it and using rubbing alcohol to dissolve the paste, flathead, dental floss, everything but it's well stuck. i don't really care if i have to buy a new cpu but i just hope the mobo is still ok :'(don't wanna have to replace everything. i need to find a guy that can fix it but it's the holidays
 
乙乙乙 said:
guys idk what to say. my amd ryzen has been running kinda hot so i decided i would reapply thermal paste and clean dust off the heatsink. well i unscrewed the heatsink and it wasn't budging so i gave up and started screwing it back on and was gonna ask someone else for help. while screwing it back on it JUMPED out of my hands and off the mobo, with the cpu glued to the heatsink, pins exposed. the socket had the bar on the locked position still!

the pins look undamaged. however i cannot get it out of the cooler to put it back in. I've tried aiming a hair dryer at it and using rubbing alcohol to dissolve the paste, flathead, dental floss, everything but it's well stuck. i don't really care if i have to buy a new cpu but i just hope the mobo is still ok :'(don't wanna have to replace everything. i need to find a guy that can fix it but it's the holidays
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Put it into the oven for an hour or two to heat up the thermal pase. Not at insane heat of course, just 75c or so.
 
biggacracka said:
Stupid question : are you sure you used thermal paste and not solder paste?
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I used the paste that came with my PC case. It reads "Coolermaster thermal compound kit". I don't think I left the film either. I think something went wrong when I recently upgraded my RAM. I'll explain;

My cooler was installed in a way that blocked the RAM slots I needed to access, so I took it out and installed it flipped around so I could fit the sticks. However something was wrong when I booted it, the CPU temp was really high and a CPU-heavy game I play was running reaaaaally slow. I opened it again and the cooler was not properly screwed on because I'm a retard, so I screwed it in tighter and everything was fine. But it always ran a bit hotter than normal since then, and it's gotten worse as it got dusty. I think it's because I didn't refresh the paste when I took out the cooler and put it back in. So I decided I was gonna do it now and then this happened.
 
just murdered my brand spankin new <1 month old 1200w psu... got a 3090 TI, installed the waterblocks, bit of water came out of the old card's block while unscrewing a fitting. saw it drip into the PSU. promptly forgot about it. get everything packaged up, panels back on, ready to go. plug it in, see lights flash as normal. go to actually turn on the main power. psu go brrrt. no flashing lights. no smell. but it remains dead to the world. thank g*d everything else was fine, and I have extra PSUs. been running fine with "just" 850w, 1200 was overkill. anyway, it's time to commit RMA fraud.
 
Jeff Q. Anime said:
Maybe you could like, ask him, or something.

If it were me, I'd *VERY CAREFULLY* put the CPU in a vice and twist the heatsink.
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i tried to but he wasnt there when i went to pick it up.

i tried to twist it like that but it was hard to get a good grip on the cpu without risking bending the pins
 
Technically not personal, this was a roommate years ago. Modern laptops run relatively cool these days, back in the day not so much.

A buddy of mine left his laptop on his bed playing itunes or whatever all day while he was messing around doing other stuff. The bed is obviously a soft surface so it blocked the fan intake and the laptop overheated and cooked itself, he had to get a new one. This was maybe the mid 2000s, I would have thought CPUs of that era had thermal shut off or something. Guess not, or maybe he just got unlucky.
 
Stasi said:
I would have thought CPUs of that era had thermal shut off or something.
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They did. My guess is he cooked something that didn't. That's why we have thermal zones now.

Cpt. Stud Beefpile said:
from an awful 'adventure game' I started in ~6th grade and never finished
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no line number 666? What the hell dude

乙乙乙 said:
i tried to twist it like that but it was hard to get a good grip on the cpu without risking bending the pins
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Old post but exactly the same thing happened to me too. (Apparently you can really pull out CPUs out of these sockets while they're locked as long as you use enough force, tbf it kinda makes sense) The trick is to bathe it in isopropyl alcohol. It completely dissolves thermal compound.
 
AmpleApricots said:
They did. My guess is he cooked something that didn't. That's why we have thermal zones now.


no line number 666? What the hell dude


Old post but exactly the same thing happened to me too. (Apparently you can really pull out CPUs out of these sockets while they're locked as long as you use enough force, tbf it kinda makes sense) The trick is to bathe it in isopropyl alcohol. It completely dissolves thermal compound.
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you mean like dunking the whole thing in a bowl of rubbing alcohol? i did read something on google about soaking in alcohol but felt unsure about it as the only thing they sell here is 75% ethanol with isopropyl and i wasnt sure it'd be safe. i did apply it to the sides to try and dissolve the paste but it didnt seem to help.
 
乙乙乙 said:
you mean like dunking the whole thing in a bowl of rubbing alcohol? i did read something on google about soaking in alcohol but felt unsure about it as the only thing they sell here is 75% ethanol with isopropyl and i wasnt sure it'd be safe. i did apply it to the sides to try and dissolve the paste but it didnt seem to help.
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I'm pretty sure it's safe, just don't go for the one with aloe vera. I used hand sanitizer to clean off the dried thermal paste on a couple of things and it works fine.
 
I guess maybe this isn't a "fuck-up" as much as astronomical-tier laziness and neglect, but I finally got around to deep cleaning the heat sinks and re-applying thermal paste to a couple older computers (circa 2006 and 2010) I keep around for various ancillary tasks. I can't believe what a difference it made - more than 30 degrees C cooler under load. And they've become noticeably more responsive because I suspect they're not throttling under the high temperatures anymore.

It took like 20 minutes and I had thermal paste sitting on a shelf. Why the fuck didn't I do this years ago?
 
While not a big fuck up and almost nothing was lost it did scare and teach me to be more careful with what I am doing.

Once when I was a wee laddie who was getting really into the computers I decided I wanted to try this "Linux" thing all the kewl H4x0rs used. Little old me however was not the tech wiz I pretended to be to family even if my router reboot skills and basic network troubleshoot moves impressed them. I was in the sweet spot of being smart enough to know how to download Ubuntu (It was the 8th or 9th release don't quite remember), burn it to a CD and set the bios to boot from but not smart enough to actually understand exactly what I was doing and how I was going about it.

See, I understood the concept of "if I install new OS old OS gone" and I understood the concept of "dual booting" from having heard about it and seen mentions on the install instructions of the Ubuntu webpage. But I did not understand partitions or how to make them. So I had a brilliant idea: I will just install it on my fancy 4gb Pen Drive!

What I failed to realize at the time is that a portable install is not the same as a internal one, especially not back then when such portable installs were nowhere near as common and as such the newbie friendly Ubuntu and it's simplified GUI guided installation would not be able to understand what I was trying to do and would assume just that I was installing the OS on a old and small HD.

Surprisingly enough it worked. The computer booted up normally and I was able to see the glorious Linux. I then spent about 10 minutes and got bored because the internet was not working on it and I couldn't figure out how to get it to work. So I reboot the PC and wow look at that! It asks me if I wanna start Windows XP, Linux Ubuntu or shut off the PC! Damn it feels good to be a H4x0r.

So I get online and get instructions on how to possibly get internet working on Ubuntu (probably the terminal codes to run the automated diagnostic or something) and play some games but it's late now so I go to sleep. Turn off the PC, remove the pen drive and figure I will try it again some other time.

Next day I start the PC... And it's bricked. Waves of text flash by and then there is a error. Clicking enter doesn't work, it just flashes the same message. I panic, reboot and go in the BIOS thinking it's the CD drive being empty and failing to get a boot from there. Nothing. I stop to read what text flashes on screen before the error and I realize it is something Linux but my dumbass can't make heads and tails of it. Then a epiphany.

I slide the pen drive back into the USB where it was the day before and turn the PC on. After a few moments the screen flashes and the PC asks me to select which OS I wanna start.

And that is how I made my Pen Drive into a key without which my PC would not start. In retrospect it is obvious that the Ubuntu realized the Pen Drive was external and not propper for it to run, but I had asked it be installed there so it just sorta dropped a bunch of important files related to boot up and system info on my actual HDD. The scare did teach me to pay more attention, and the Pen Drive was for all intents and purposes bricked as using it to transfer any files would mean formatting and deleting the Ubuntu and as such make it impossible to start my machine.

It was a neat trick, kind of surprised I never heard of anyone doing something like it intentionally to make a machine safe from unwanted snooping by family or coworkers when you need to be extra safe.
 
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