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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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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.