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Sometimes it takes a lot of knowledge/wisdom/experience to figure out odd/stupid crap like this. Other times.. It should have just been solved by replacing the damn part that was broken. Still, interesting read. I have ran into my fair share of "wtf" situations that I fixed in strange ways (guess ill write some up one day) but this is a fun one.

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>I think I never told this story here... how I fixed a server with a very precisely placed piece of tape. So at Euskal Encounter we got shiny new servers a few years back, and they worked great except one of them developed a peculiar problem. It would not shut down.

Sometimes it takes a lot of knowledge/wisdom/experience to figure out odd/stupid crap like this. Other times.. It should have just been solved by replacing the damn part that was broken. Still, interesting read. I have ran into my fair share of "wtf" situations that I fixed in strange ways (guess ill write some up one day) but this is a fun one. Archive: https://archive.today/zemHI From the post: >>I think I never told this story here... how I fixed a server with a very precisely placed piece of tape. So at Euskal Encounter we got shiny new servers a few years back, and they worked great except one of them developed a peculiar problem. It would not shut down.
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I fix problematic servers with a hammer. Works all the time.

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I fix problematic servers with a hammer. Works all the time.

I do this same repair procedure when @Stupidbird starts acting problematic. 60% of the time, it works every time.

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It's a random chance built into the firmware. It's not doing anything, we simply allow you to believe it is.

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It's a random chance built into the firmware. It's not doing anything, we simply allow you to believe it is.

I'll just increase the force of the percussive maintenance till the probability approaches 100%. That works with women so it should apply to bird drones as well. You both have the same quirky modes of operation and all will be fine till the magic smoke comes out.

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If they act up in the house, after the hammering, they need to be sent back out into the fields to pick cotton.

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The title to this post reminded me of a video I watched about a guy who fixed a 4K TV with the same "precisely placed piece of tape"

I fixed a broken 4K 55” TV with TAPE | How to fix a TV with a blank screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfrRhw7-ZII

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I once "fixed" a old mac laptop (the white shell one from like mid 2000's) by putting a penny under the heatsink for the gpu. I didn't have a re-flow setup or a oven I was willing to bake the board in to fix it but it worked for years like that.

I also got really lucky with a monitor I bought for dirt cheap because the backlight didn't work (I had been repairing backlight issues with monitors for a while and re-selling them to fund my other projects) I took the back panel off to find that all of the cables for the backlight were disconnected. Fastest easiest fix ever. Since it was a very expensive monitor (usually) I decided to keep it. I think I used it for a good 10 years before I gave it away. I would never have spent the $$$ to buy one new like it but I think I spent $50+shipping for what was basically a $700 monitor, brand new.