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Easy fix, get a dremel and cut it out. Buy a cheap video card as a replacement.

Probably the cable was entangled around her feet, and bam, no more video. :p
 
I'm not surprised personaly. I see something like that at least once a year, mainly on home build ones thou. It's possible that someone upgraded the mobo or used one from another Dell (to get faster proc maybe), but was dumb enough to leave the io port cover offthus making it easy to rip off. The things some folks or even so called "pc repair" shops do, make you wish for somone to pour some bleach in the gene pool.
 
I had this same thing happen to a guy's computer that I worked on; His Daughter was using the computer and the Video wasn’t working so she got pissed off and ripped the Video Cable out of the computer, including the piece missing in the picture. Then her fix was to plug it into the Serial Port, Then he called me to have me fix it... lol :rolleyes:
 
MichiganTeddyBear said:
well, monitors normally have 3-6 foot cables, and most desks/tables are only 30 or so high.. did the monitor fall out a window??
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If that is true, I'd hate to have a 30 or so feet high table...That would require one hell of a hydralic on my computer chair :p
 
I had a very skittish cat ruin a spanking new Voodoo3 that way. Doorbell rang. He jumped, and somehow managed to land in the crack between the desk and wall. The PC and monitor wedged in the crack between the desk and wall, and the port just popped off.
 
I don't even think dell's "accidental damage" policy could be applied here... :D
 
Slade said:
my those are some pretty big hands grandma...
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Reminds me of the episode of seinfeld and the "man hands".

Back on Topic: Good golly all mighty. That took some yanking. C'mere Bubba and pull this here cord out for me, would ya?

... :cool:
 
Obviously this was done by terrorists using sharks and lazers.... look at how much percision they took to insure it looked "Accidental!"
 
MichiganTeddyBear said:
oh, I get about 3 of them a year in the shop I am at.

Usually they say 'the monitor fell off the table and yanked it out, can you fix it??'

well, monitors normally have 3-6 foot cables, and most desks/tables are only 30 or so high.. did the monitor fall out a window??

One customer did say that 'they didn't know it was screwed in, and just walked away from the desk with it, and it pulled the monitor off the back of the desk (cable went around back side of desk appearently), then broke the connector off'
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RangerSVT said:
If that is true, I'd hate to have a 30 or so feet high table...That would require one hell of a hydralic on my computer chair :p
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oops.. LOL well, 30" for the desk.. LOL

Hell, my chair requires a massive hydraulic regardless of how high the desk is for my fat arse!


{QUOTE=Outamyhead;1032415025]Wow, was she a "Miss built like a brick shit house" body builder?

or was she unable to unhook the monitor so she drove away with it hanging out the car?[/QUOTE]

actually, you yank at the right angle, they snap pretty damn easily.
 
ITS THE FAN!!! YEA THATS IT!!! Well theres your problem, the fan isn't spining....... YEA...... UM......
 
you know, as a professional who's been fixing computers for over six years...

i'm stumped.
 
certainly not the first and most certainly not the last,. The only thing that amazes me is that the entire connector did not come out, solder joints alone are never to be relied on for mechanical strength, and yet they held and the connector "exploded". Some crappy connector (probally the same one/manufacturer is used in every machine under the sun). An Amphenol brand connector probally would have not failed and she would have ripped the entire motherboard, cpu and all, out the I/O chassis opening.
 
DJ-FX said:
I'm not surprised personaly. I see something like that at least once a year, mainly on home build ones thou. It's possible that someone upgraded the mobo or used one from another Dell (to get faster proc maybe), but was dumb enough to leave the io port cover offthus making it easy to rip off. The things some folks or even so called "pc repair" shops do, make you wish for somone to pour some bleach in the gene pool.
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Those things are dangerous. I am not surprised that people dont want to put them on anymore. Every time I attempt to put one on I have around 4-5 band aids on my fingers because the thing. I think on my last build it was causing me so much trouble putting it on a I got furious and riped it in half, but that was because the mobo wouldn't go in with it attached to the case + the 4+ band aids I had on because of it.
 
Gorilla used monitor as a beach ball?
 
Reading the recent posts since my post, Yes I agree, this is an obvious terrorist act, a cleaver ruse to reinstate the Syrian nuclear program. DHS must immedately monitor all computers by having the telcos provide direct taps right off the major backbones, oops wait, they do that already.

eh gotta go, two guys in cheap suits, sunglasses and a black SUV are at the door.
 
I almost want to try this to see how hard you would have to pull with the VGA screws locked in lol :D:cool:
 
It's because the cables for adio. video and network were too close together and signals were interfering. We call it a rat's nest.
 
In the words of Foghorn Leghorn "Ahh boy, that's what it looks like when it's been ripped off, I do say."

Also reminds me of the bloody stup of a gentleman who had an unfortunate incident with his johnson ...oh the horror...

STAY away from that woman ...err... maneater!
 
Not trying to be a downer on this thread, but I have seen this many times. Usually it involves someone tripping over the cable.

Really isn't as difficult as one would think.
 
way back in the day like 5-6 years ago somebody ripped the north bridge off of their motherboard and made a thread here with pictures asking if it was possible to fix it, it was not a joke i still remember the thread.
 
CaptNumbNutz said:
How do you fix that?

Cut away the remaining connector and install a video card?
-or-
Send it back to the manufacturer?
-or-
Attempt to solder on a new VGA plug...if possible?
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You have 3 options:

Isolate the pins and throw in a real video card

Buy a new board

Solder on a new vga header.
 
sc3252 said:
Those things are dangerous. I am not surprised that people dont want to put them on anymore. Every time I attempt to put one on I have around 4-5 band aids on my fingers because the thing. I think on my last build it was causing me so much trouble putting it on a I got furious and riped it in half, but that was because the mobo wouldn't go in with it attached to the case + the 4+ band aids I had on because of it.
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hmm, building systems daily myself, and can't remember last time an I/O plate cut me. Sharp edges inside cases now, thats a common occurance
 
sc3252 said:
Those things are dangerous. I am not surprised that people dont want to put them on anymore. Every time I attempt to put one on I have around 4-5 band aids on my fingers because the thing. I think on my last build it was causing me so much trouble putting it on a I got furious and riped it in half, but that was because the mobo wouldn't go in with it attached to the case + the 4+ band aids I had on because of it.
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How the hell is do you manage this?
 
I've always said that there should be some sort of IQ test for having kids and voting but I never thought one would need an IQ test in order to own a computer.

Just how hard would one have to yank in order to do that?
 
I'm surprised I have not done that before, usually in my tangle the video cable is the last thing I take out or even leave in when it is a "quick thing" there have been times when I have come up "just short" of the access I need so I have pulled a little harder knowing there is more cable (usually married to another cable).
Of course I only use onboard if there is something wrong with a primary but still, that is a decent amount of force to use.

The big question is will a $10-$20 card WORK in that system, it might have a wonderfully screwy bios that says onboard is the only thing it will do.
 
MichiganTeddyBear said:
hmm, building systems daily myself, and can't remember last time an I/O plate cut me. Sharp edges inside cases now, thats a common occurance
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about the same here. I have hand build probably about 1000+ machines and have never cut myself on an I/O plate. I cut my self on a cheap case trying to take the front cover off for a floppy once. But like you never on a I/O plate.
 
so is it not obvious to anyone else that the backplate had to have been yanked off with the video cable and connector? srsly
 
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