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Story: Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll

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I have had a customer whos floppy drive failed due to a 2 inch stell washer being jammed in the works. Maybe he though it would reveal some arcane engineering data???
Another claimed not to know why his PC had failed but on removing the lid I noticed a "tide" mark of rust up to about half of the case. When pressed he admitted that they had had a burst pipe and it may have sat in a few inches of water for several weeks.
Another common fault is a failed PSU caused by the 240V switch being moved to 120V while power was on. This vapourises the fuses and blows the tops of the regulator chips.
My favourite PC fault happened after the machine had been returned to the UK from abroad. The fault report read " short circuit of graphics card caused by 400 benson and hedges jammed in case". The spikey back of the card had pieced the celophane and the foil wrapper ahd caused the short.

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