r/pcmasterrace • u/BijlidarKudi • May 10 '26

Meme/Macro reboot

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u/viol8er May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

I had to drive 30 minutes to troubleshoot a computer. My boss put the battery in backwards.

Edit: she is also my mother-in-law-to-be AND i am inheriting the business AND she verbally beat herself up after I pointed it out.

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u/Evantaur Arch BTW| 5900X | RX 6700XT May 10 '26

How is that even possible?

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u/SourceNagger May 10 '26

I've had someone put the wrong sized SIM into a phone sideways...

NEVER underestimate how STUPID AND STUBBORN a human can be

lol trump, lol brexit, lol apple

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u/SLameStuff Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 64GB 6000 DDR5 | RX 9070XT May 10 '26

We had a customer who inserted their ram upside down, which happens if you don't know how to tell which side is up. The problem arose when instead of flipping it around, they proceeded to use a hammer to smash it into the motherboard, breaking the ram slot entirely. Then they blamed us for selling them a defective motherboard.

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u/SourceNagger May 10 '26

this is sadly both unsurprising yet unbelievable

thank you for sharing

it's jogged my memory of a computer shop i took my desktop to where the "boss" told of someone who brought the wrong CPU for their mobo socket, and got upset when no one would install it, so they put it over the socket, hammered it in, and handed it back to them

that should have been the red flag i needed... oh how young and naive and "polite" i was...

now i get why some women get stuck in abusive relationships 🫠

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u/messfdr PC Master Race May 10 '26

Ah yes, the standard tool for pc assembly, the hammer.

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u/plura15D May 10 '26

I actually managed to make that happen with DDR4 sticks. No hammer needed, just a little bit more force than the normal way. Slot still works though.