They needed me to help them because the Flash drive “wasn’t working”. They ended up shoving it in backwards and completely destroying the port. I asked why they did it and they said it wouldn’t go in.
I had a boss who once told me that there are two things you should never force: love and machines. If you have to try that hard, you’re doing it wrong.
I remember the old days, before RAM had little hydraulic presses to keep them in the motherboard… If you looked at the case wrong, the RAM would jump a mm so it was disconnected but still looked fine, or worse had an intermittent connection and would cause all sorts of issues.
They needed me to help them because the Flash drive “wasn’t working”. They ended up shoving it in backwards and completely destroying the port. I asked why they did it and they said it wouldn’t go in.
I had a boss who once told me that there are two things you should never force: love and machines. If you have to try that hard, you’re doing it wrong.
Very wise words indeed.
meanwhile, farmers after the 78th kick on their tractor
Until it comes to seating RAM, or plugging/unplugging the 24-pin motherboard power cable.
The power cable of my nightmares… Everytime I feel like they want you to brake it, just so you need to buy a new one
I remember the old days, before RAM had little hydraulic presses to keep them in the motherboard… If you looked at the case wrong, the RAM would jump a mm so it was disconnected but still looked fine, or worse had an intermittent connection and would cause all sorts of issues.