My Brother Is A Genius

[Trace]

He's been running his new Propus AMD Athlon X4 without the motherboard screwed in. I swear to you this is true. We just were taking it apart to steal the harddrive to use elsewhere and found out.

Once again, SHORT STORY: My brother forgot the motherboard screws. Yes ALL OF THEM.

It's still running, somehow...


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Edit: Didn't notice my typo in the title. Should be BROTHER. If a mod would like to fix it would be much appreciated.

[Kayin]

I routinely lay boards on my desk and run them. Black glass desk, just hang the PCI brackets over the edge. Been doing it close to a decade now.

[Trace]

This was in a metal case. The standoffs weren't beneath the holes; the motherboard had shifted 3-4mm

[x88x]

:eek: yikes; he's lucky the board hasn't shorted. One tiny slip the wrong way, and...no more computer.

[Trace]

Yeah I know. And of course, we find this on Friday the 13th :D

[Kayin]

yeep. Another story altogether...

[XcOM]

i retunly have one screw in the mobo, non in cards, non in HDD's and one is CD/DVD, i sold a machine once,

"Be careful, the Mobo has one screw in it, the HDD's aren't screwed in so don't lean it back, oh and BTW theres 6 SCSI drives sitting on the floor of the case because im lazy (Full tower with 2 PSU's) don't lean it forward as the DVD jukebox (Held 5 DVD's at any one time) was held in with selotape!"

No lie.