[HN Gopher] I fixed a server with a precisely placed piece of ta...
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       I fixed a server with a precisely placed piece of tape (2023)
        
       Author : Wowfunhappy
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-11-10 22:23 UTC (36 minutes ago)
        
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       | gbolcer wrote:
       | I came into a company once that had built their own server room.
       | It had a couple hundred pizza boxes in it and was always hot as
       | hell even with full blast air conditioning. When I retired almost
       | all of them to use virtual servers, it turns out that 1) a lot of
       | the chipsets internallyl still had plastic film on them (to
       | prevent scratches? Why would you put film on them? There were
       | even some CPUs that didn't have any coolers on them, just film)
       | and 2) A lot of the inpflow and outflow air ports also had
       | plastic shipping film that was never removed. I was completely
       | shocked. So I fixed dozens if not a hundred computers simply by
       | removing a piece of tape.
        
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