• NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My brother needed more ram for a computer I gave him, so I gave him some more and told him to put it in the extra slot on the board.

    He called me and told me it wasn’t working at all now, so I went over after work.

    I have absolutely no clue how, to all of my knowledge it should have been impossible.

    He had put the ram in backward and managed to get the clips to lock in.

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      1 year ago

      Something I’ve realised is that a lot of people when starting a task they’ve never done, don’t realise that fact and attempt to start and finish it all in one go anyways, rather than before starting realising you have no expertise and searching the web for “How to do: X” for more complex tasks this can be unsuccessful, but for simple tasks like installing computer parts people just wing it first time for some reason. 🤷‍♂️

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      1 year ago

      I managed to plug the 4pin CPU_POWER cable into two corresponding ports. As in 2 pins from one port and two from the other, since they make up an 8pin port.

      Surprisingly it was working but crashing randomly every half an hour.

      These ports are shaped so that this is impossible, but I managed to do it anyway.