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derek22
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8h ago
My $6 eBay fan beat the $25 one from Best Buy and I'm still confused
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ellis.charles
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8h ago
I used to buy $8 tube of thermal paste at Best Buy, now I use the $3 stuff from the hardware store down the street
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ruby_grant
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16h ago
I always figured canned air was the lazy way to clean a laptop fan until I cracked open my 2019 Dell last Saturday
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carr.willow
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16h ago
Update: fixed a dead laptop in a Rockford library with a $1.25 eraser from the front desk
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ivan211
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1d ago
Am I the only one who fixed a dead laptop by baking the motherboard in an oven?
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coleman.jade
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2d ago
My uncle ran his shop PC on a $15 power strip from 1998 and a tech at Micro Center in Columbus finally explained why it lasted 20 years
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sarahsullivan
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2d ago
Vent: people keep replacing whole power supplies when it is a $6 fan inside making the noise
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wren_smith44
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4d ago
My neighbor paid a shop $85 to swap a laptop fan, so I did mine for $6 and 20 minutes
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lunashah
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7d ago
Quit telling people to blow out their dusty desktops with a leaf blower, I just watched a guy kill his in 10 seconds
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lisa_murray
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7d ago
TIL you can fix a dead laptop keyboard by unplugging the ribbon cable and plugging it back in, took me 2 tries and 0 dollars
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elliotc10
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7d ago
Just found out compressed air can fry a laptop fan if you spin it too long
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rowan666
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15d ago
Warning: I spent 3 years reseating RAM for no reason when my PC wouldn't boot
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foster.wade
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15d ago
Nearly cooked my laptop by trusting a $12 universal charger over the real one
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lisa_murray
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16d ago
Guy at the Columbus repair shop told me to never buy a used PSU, and it saved my rig
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margaret_nelson
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17d ago
PSA: check your PSU switch before you buy a new power supply
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