Raining lizards, isnt that a sign of a coming apocalypse or something?Originally Posted by haqking
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Raining lizards, isnt that a sign of a coming apocalypse or something?
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A computer gremlin (which had been causing havoc for about a week) getting shaken down by a leprechaun (that I think had been bothering my grandfather.)
A colleague found an electrocuted mouse once when someone asked him to check out a computer that wouldn't turn on.
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Re: Whats the oddest thing you've found in a PC?
I had a mouse living in my old Compaq..So mouse turds. I finally caught her in a basket and put her in the neighbour's unused shed so she'd have a safe place to live out her mousey life.
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My IT career would have ended right there.
The worst I've ever personally found was a lot of dog hair (animal shelter), which isn't so bad except the outside of the case was quite sticky and tinted yellow.
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The weirdest: A burnt soundcard that still works.
Most wonderful: Someone removed the plastic casing around a PNY card to give it more air.
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Windows 3.0 and a magnet (not in the same pc, yes it trashed the hd)
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In-between:
Windows 98 on a Zenith 386 Monochrome laptop (No ethernet, no wi-fi, no COM Port.)
^ This did not boot of course. Forever loading screen.
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Someone gaming on a pc where the cpufan was broken and you could hear the cpu fry.
After cooling it down and replacing the fan...
The cpu still worked!
Logs indicate it has been running for 0.5hr at 100+ degree....celcius!
Take that amd!
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I have no cool stories. :< All run of the mill stuff, dust monsters etc. Nothing as cool as a snake.
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Not anything as exciting as the above, but I found some spiders in one (like a family, quite cute really-I left them in), and four AA batteries. Mercifully they didn't touch the motherboard.
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