full circle 27 February, 2009 at 12:15 am
so, 13 years ago I met my wife …
well, ok, 12.5, whatever
Anyway, we met and she was having trouble with her computer back at her dorm, so i offered to come over and look at it. mostly because i’m a know-it-all smartass who figured I could fix anything. Turns out that one of the case screws had it’s head stripped so it couldn’t be removed quite right. Over the next few days, I spent hours in her room working at it. Eventually I got it out using a hammer and a screwdriver. I literally chiseled the case apart around the screw and then pried it out … i might have voided the warranty, yaknow?
So, this weekend her power supply sounded like it was on it’s last legs. And yesterday it finally died off (wednesday). We picked up a new one and I was going to install it last night but didn’t get to it. Before work this morning, I figured “Hey, a power supply is like a 10 minute job, tops” and I popped open the case and removed the old one. And then the new one wouldn’t go in right. closed it up (so DK didn’t play inside the system) and went to work.
I just finished, after an hour. Got it in. All it required was a pair of pliers. There was a tab for lining up the psu or something. Only the new PSU, despite APPARENTLY being the same dimensions, seems to be an eight of an inch big. or something. So it was jamming and ending up at an angle. That’d've been my problem, ayup. Solution? I used the pliers to pry the metal so that the tab is no longer in the way. It’s screwed in and on rails, should be fine. I’m just glad it wasn’t the rails that were in the way :o
12.5 years, and I’m using the tools I have convenient to maul and abuse a case for my wife. It’s come full circle. I guess I’ll be wrenching something around in 2021 ;)
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