Computer repairs? No problem! - Page 1
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author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 11:56:57 am
content: I can't find the words..It gets better: "I, web7days posted this not YOU" , "NOT YET Fully tested BUT OK "

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 01:47:44 pm
content: reminds me of all the guff on csi which the gf seems to insist on watchingi don't mind its just hard to keep a straight face with all the junk scienceso much so she usually ends up in mood for me laughing interrupting.

author: Excavatoree
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 02:21:25 pm
content: Quote from: Sionyn on February 21, 2011, 01:47:44 pmJunk science? You mean you can't blow up an image from a 640x480 camera and "enhance" the less than one pixel image into a perfect likeness of the perpetrator?

author: FreeThinker
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 04:31:05 pm
content: Get out of here. It's all fact...... Honest

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 05:56:09 pm
content: yea you can find some "interesting stuff". The like of star treck usually get it spot on, they make it sound belivable but yea other programs are probably less equiped.On the other hand anyone ever read any of the evil genious books ? many of the projects involge generating HT voltages starting from the mains and instructions are a bit patchy, needless to mention some of the "mumbo jumbo" explanations that often sound like science fiction.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 06:36:24 pm
content: Quote from: Excavatoree on February 21, 2011, 02:21:25 pmYou missed the episode where they even moved the viewing angle of an image to look behind an obstacle in the image so they could see an otherwise hidden car license plate.

author: Time
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timestamp: February 21, 2011, 06:43:02 pm
content: IRC! WHERE HACKERS GO! FEAR THE LEET SPEAK!

author: Simon
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timestamp: February 21, 2011, 06:50:34 pm
content: Quote from: BoredAtWork on February 21, 2011, 06:36:24 pmnow that is plain stupid

author: allanw
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 06:51:59 pm
content: I don't think he's completely making up how he fixes computers.The PCI card shows any BIOS error.The ESR meter is used to find bad caps which are often the source of problems, especially a few years ago when thehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plaguehit. He seems to just use the scope to read the ESR values.Those would be the first things I'd check if I were trying to fix up a computer that I didn't have replacement parts for.Randomly probing the motherboard with an analog scope is probably pretty useless though. The most you'd find out is that you need to replace the motherboard.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 06:55:39 pm
content: I have heard of pci diagnostic boards, back in the days when motherboards were almost worth repairing

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 08:30:31 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on February 21, 2011, 06:50:34 pmAnyone remember Star Trek Next Gen when some (I think the "Science officer" says "It is - 320 deg C out there")?Neil

author: Simon
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timestamp: February 21, 2011, 08:37:09 pm
content: Quote from: Neilm on February 21, 2011, 08:30:31 pmAnd ?

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 09:09:42 pm
content: It reminds me of the bomb with a 555 timer I saw on some silly scifi film.

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 09:12:25 pm
content: was it the bill i seen a few odd bombs on that before

author: orbiter
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timestamp: February 21, 2011, 09:30:54 pm
content: Quote from: Sionyn on February 21, 2011, 09:12:25 pmAhh 'The Bill', now those were the days. I loved that drama.

author: FreeThinker
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2011, 09:58:37 pm
content: Number Uno has to be Dr Who. Can still remember as a youth (16 ish) trying to identify parts of the tardis, vacuum cleaner hoses, air duct and my favorite a MEM three phase metal clad isolator.

author: oPossum
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2011, 03:24:59 am
content: Quote from: Simon on February 21, 2011, 08:37:09 pmThat would be -46.85 K. Below absolute zero.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 22, 2011, 06:23:28 am
content: oh yes of course minus never spotten that. yep 0K is -273.16 C can't go lower than that

author: FreeThinker
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2011, 01:46:40 pm
content: Not relevant but very funny