pinascode
(Marcelo)
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I found this at a place i am doing IT support for. The picture is a bit grainy, basically, the VGA and DVI ports are both bent due to excessive kicking of the device under the table.
There was no other location to put the device. Fortunately, we replaced the device just yesterday…
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I have seen plenty of kit like this , it amazing what damage they suffer under a desk.
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End it back in place and give it a spit and shine.
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Damn, yeah I would be surprised if that even works anymore. Looks bent enough to possibly even damaged the soldered connections on the board.
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I’ve seen far too many mistreated workstations at my workplace. Battered parts of the case, missing stands for mini desktops, broken off DVD drive draw covers, there’s one workstation with a partly melted front panel since it was placed next to a heater, and for some strange reason, someone attempted to play an Xbox 360 copy of FIFA 12 on their workstation. Even though they would have never been able to play it for obvious reasons, they still left the disc in the DVD drive.
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Reasons #4385824 why we got rid of big box desktops.
We use the SFF desktops the size of pancakes everywhere we used to buy desktops if the job doesn’t need monster graphics cards. Who needs monster graphics cards? Only CAD and modeling engineers and the majority of those want a laptop anyways.
Pancake sized desktops fit behind monitors. At the time we never upgraded graphics through the lifetime of computers unless the machines were so dog old they could only handle 1 screen. We replaced those by attrition. We upgraded some hard drives to SSDs on some old stuff but that was just to pass off old hardware to outlook/excel/acrobat only single tasker users that had no creativity or only had >1 meg excel file style reports to fill out, no sweat for old hardware. The future of pancake size desktops really was a great deal.
I found a desktop once upside down under a desk floor wax sealed to the floor with the case lid removed and mop water in the bottom of the case. Fortunately the power supply was not mounted there and somehow the motherboard escaped the mop water and was still running. I found the cover behind the computer. I had to kick the computer to unseal it from the floor to put the case lid back on. The person was moving desks and I had to migrate the pc to another cubicle. It got put on the desk behind the pair of monitors in the corner. It took up no more room on the desk surface than what was available before.
Reason #2 why we went to SFF/pancake size desktops, we got a call one day from pointy hairs at one site near the port of Houston. It’s right on one of the bayou’s, they literally their own barge slip. A hurricane was on it’s way and Houston declared an evacuation that morning. The IT guy that worked on site has not even made it to the office yet because of all the evac traffic. He got a call at 10 am to go in and take all the desktops off the floor, pack them up, haul the home or move them to one of the offices on the 2nd floor on site. He called us and we said, “NOPE. GO HOME!” The site had already shut down and sent everyone home for the evac. He’s by policy not supposed to be on site. They should have thought about that the day before. We went to pancake desktops so that they stay on the desk and if a department manager or site manager decides to evac and wants to take or migrate the desktop machines, they can do so themselves. Fortunately we lost very few computers in the flooding. Only a couple old laptops that were loaners for training in one department that were stored on a bottom shelf of a cabinet nobody thought about.
We migrated a lot of people to pancake desktops or laptops on docks after that fiasco.
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maxdenton
(Brazbit)
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Having dealt with this issue repeatedly we went to small form factors in a new building when it opened for classes in September of 2009. For the time they looked great as the SFFs were secured where we thought they would be out of the way on the underside of the desks. By the end of that year 300 of the 365 new computers we put in the classrooms had their faceplates broken off by students bumping them with their knees. Not a single faculty member or student reported the problem, and being new machines they ran trouble free, so we only found out when we went to do maintenance at the end of the quarter. Those computers remained in service for 5-7 years and looked like so much salvage for nearly that entire duration.
Doesn’t fit? No problem. Just bend it. It won’t break anything.
pinascode
(Marcelo)
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fortunately we are moving to MFF, attached via Dells nice Monitor stand with MFF in the back. So this is in the past, as the desktop was produced in 2014, its time to move on. they have worked well for a long time so the owner is happy to get rid of them.
I have an HP dc5700 still working. Not sure why I have still it.
@justinsitton Ooof. What a story. A whirlwind of emotions and thoughts. Just. … yikes man. Sounds like you’ve got some good IT Horror Stories.
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james485
(James485)
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Oh that’s fine thermal duct tape fixes everything
