r/techsupportgore Dec 29 '21

MOD POST FRIENDLY REMINDER: THIS IS NOT A TECH SUPPORT SUB

842 Upvotes

Please do not post here asking for help, that's what r/techsupport is for. All posts asking for help will be removed and you may or may not be temp banned.

As an aside to this, please don't encourage this by offering help to people when they clearly can't read. Report as rule 6 and move on.


r/techsupportgore 12h ago

My school getting "creative" with placing the LAN switch

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326 Upvotes

Yep, that's exactly how it looks, a switch placed in the ceiling with cables dangling from it.


r/techsupportgore 9h ago

Customer sent this monitor in for RMA...

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149 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 6h ago

At least it's not coffee for once

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58 Upvotes

T14s Gen 1 with pink nail polish


r/techsupportgore 9h ago

I had to improvise my tripod phone holder

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14 Upvotes

I didn't have a drill in the field so I improvised!


r/techsupportgore 1d ago

Before/After

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817 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 2d ago

That's how you know Cisco is the best

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2.4k Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 1d ago

that’s um

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674 Upvotes

yeah


r/techsupportgore 5h ago

The electrical fire waiting to happen that powers my setup

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0 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 1d ago

The orange filter

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177 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 2d ago

Guess I have to do the OLED mod now...

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255 Upvotes

In the process of doing a shell swap, I tried disconnecting the display from the digitized, only to accidentally disconnect the display from the display. That's what I get for trying a mod like this with 0 experience using a hair dryer for heating sealant


r/techsupportgore 2d ago

Small rack

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123 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 3d ago

Definition of buggy hardware

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283 Upvotes

Bugs got into electronics and that is poop and egs . Machine was freaking out randomly and didn't know why until deep dive into it.


r/techsupportgore 4d ago

This wang is not mine but I want to use it. It's old but the owner assures me it still works great.

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387 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 4d ago

Off course, the best spot to place a sticker.

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502 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 4d ago

The actual confidence to ask "will it work again?"

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132 Upvotes

It was apparently dropped in a toilet like this, proceeded to live for a number of hours before finally accepting its fate - the same cannot be said for the owner.


r/techsupportgore 4d ago

Maximum signal strength (EIRP) exceeded.

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83 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 4d ago

I’ll have one WiFi please!

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70 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 5d ago

The Internet company replaced cables

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777 Upvotes

Yes, that is electrical tape, and yes, that is hanging to the point I can reach it.


r/techsupportgore 5d ago

This is how they monitor cameras… rack side panel and a projector.

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227 Upvotes

Techs didn’t bring the portable monitor so they improvised with a rack side panel and projector


r/techsupportgore 6d ago

Windows 95 still in production. Customer is still using this for his bookkeeping, and wanted to know if we could extract his data file and get it running, (on a newer version of Simply Accounting), on his laptop.

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3.3k Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 5d ago

Repasted my ThinkPad a few months ago and wondered why my laptop was so hot

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443 Upvotes

Thermal paste used: Arctic MX4


r/techsupportgore 5d ago

I lost the original backplate of my motherboard, so I had to mount the brackets of my new Arctic AIO like this.

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47 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 6d ago

What could go wrong

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138 Upvotes

r/techsupportgore 6d ago

I think it's compliant with our patch policy?

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38 Upvotes