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A book with the title "I didn't touch the computer, it just stopped working And Other Hilarious Jokes you Can Tell Someone from the IT Department.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Can confirm, my home desktop more or less died while I was at work. I'd leave it running 24/7, as I had it set up as something of a simple server for a couple things, namely a remote desktop virtual machine.
So yeah, I didn't touch it when it failed.
Cause: Bad capacitors and a failed chipset fan.
I had a work laptop just die one day. It had been working fine, but then I came back from lunch and it was off. After lots of troubleshooting, I narrowed it down to a fried M.2 SSD. I was WFH, so definitely no interaction at the time of failure.
I had a GPU fan losing one blade while gaming, once. Made loud ricochet and clang sounds in the PC and then a loud humming (from the remaining off center fan). Really scary. I shut it down and found the blade sitting at the bottom, but it didn't break anything else. I replaced the whole GPU cooler and it worked for years. Never had this again, but sometimes things just break.
My chipset fan literally rusted internally, from Mississippi air humidity. I do have a brand new fan and brand new replacement capacitors, but I still need to pick up a new PSU.
My desktop has been down for like 8 years, but I do all my own resoldering and other work, so it's really just a matter of laziness.
I've been doing just fine with my 2 laptops for years, so I guess I'll get to my desktop whenever I feel bored enough.