step by step

what happens when you turn on the power switch?

Absolutely nothing, everything is plugged in correctly, but when I push the power button nothing happens. There aren't even any lights or fan noises, nothing.

>>107318

1. Are you just pressing the power button on the front, or do you have a switch on the PSU as well (not all do). Unplug your computer, then plug it back in. It's sometimes possible for (hybrid)hibernation or sleep modes to fuck up and not allow the computer to wake again for a variety of causes. Disconnecting the power physically will typically fix this. Also, hold the power button for 15 seconds, then press it again.

2. Test the outlet and any surge protectors/extension cords that you are using by plugging in a lamp or something.

3. Re-seat the various power connections. They could have developed a poor connection somewhere due to thermal cycling, and were barely making contact when the computer was warm, but have contracted now that the computer is cool.

At that point I would use my spare power supply I have leftover to check if that works. If it didn't work, they it could be a motherboard problem. Often PSU and motherboard failures are the result of a capacitor popping and making "magic smoke" which is typically very noticeable, but not always. You should look over the components for anything that seems damaged/warped/out of place. Unfortunately there are plenty of components that can also die silently for a variety of reasons.

>>107316
Stop turning your monitor on and off. The monitor is not the computer.
Usually.

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Slap the tower around a bit ideally with a large trout first and see if it finally starts working. Some PCs are like women in that way.

>>106544
This is what I thought the Shotspotter thing was.

I last heard about them in '08, I had thought they'd gotten better since then.

>>106545
Ditto. I thought the shot spotter was the commercial version of the boomerang.

In 2014 the new goverment of puerto rico went and bought this garbage.
It cost a few million dollars a year per square mile or km.

They require a special cop car with their software/laptop so you can see where the gunshot was made from.

We only had 2 succesffull arrest which where because the cop car was 3 minutes nearby.

Every other activation the police arrive around 15 minutes after the incident which sometimes turns out to be a car with a broken engine.

IRC one of them was a location where a bunch of reports of "shootings" where made over a few months and turns out a person with a really shitty car/backfires on engine lived at that address and their microphones detected it as gunfire...

Waste of money

>>106544
had them never turned the fucker on

Wasn't this a key plotline in Deus Ex? The main reason Triads used swords is not to attract police attention.

With the NSA leaks, thought policing crap SJWs put out, and the corrupt politician (ie clinton) shenanigans, world is looking more and more like Deus Ex.

How high is OP right now

>>107233
tl;dr the guy with schizophrenia is back.

http://bunbunmaru.com/wakaba/photos/res/55256.html
https://boards.420chan.org/med/res/54519.php
https://chanon.ro/int/res/1934.html
https://uboachan.net/ot/res/16436.html
http://www.operatorchan.org/t/res/107231.html

  >>107301
Don't blame being schizo on that. Most people with schizo aren't anywhere crazy enough to make such a grammatically unsound paragraph.

No this reads more like some whiny 14 year old emo fuck thinking he's shitting out deep and meaningful garbage because it has smart sounding words and shit that sounds macabre like they think they are fucking Edgar Allen Poe (or more likely these days Anne Rice).

They are about as smart sounding as Star Trek technobabble and about as macabre as fucking Monster High.

That or its all some stupid copypasta that we don't get.

>>107310
If it started as a 14 year old, they'll be 19 now.
Someone has been sporadically posting variations on the text to obscure imageboards for the past five years at least, accompanied by an unrelated image. Generally the same image is used for each posting spree.

There are a number of variations on the text, most of which saying the same things but sometimes they seem to re-use the exact same text as was posted years apart. Given that some of the chans where it's posted are younger than the oldest posts, I assume it's a person rather than a bot, who's finding the new sites to post on as they appear.

The poster does not reply to their own threads.

They're posted from a Canadian IP, most recently it was 99.254.68.100 but appears to be a dynamic IP in the 99.254. range.

Here's the most recent one:
https://boards.420chan.org/tinfoil/res/83173.php

(I'm posting about this on 420/tinfoil and 4ch/x/ so you might see some of my text about it copied and pasted about between them).

How is ol' Maxy doing?

I miss having him around and also I wonder if he has old copypasta of shooting girl scouts, Peter Cottontail, and other such classics that I just can't seem to fucking find.

I also owe money to a few opchanners that I intend to pay back (and havent yet).

That $2500 I was going to use to pay them back is being held by my school because the VA is to busy standing on its own dick to pay for a semester of school I did like 2.5 years ago. They paid semesters after but not that one for some reason.

Im currently working a new job and have been saving a hundred or two hundred bucks a pay check even though I cant really afford it thanks to car troubles and housing issues (my landlord is a slum lord I am about to take to court for many reasons, got neighbors who also got fucked by landlord in on the lawsuit).

Thankfully one of my VA reps is hooking me up with a lady that puts vets with degrees in high paying jobs, see how long that fucking takes.

The upside is I have been hitting the gym hard and have made a lot of progress in the fitness to re-enlist department. Also dem gainz bruh


I do still feel really really bad about not paying you guys back yet. The Sicilian in me feels like I deserve concrete shoes if you know what I mean.

>>107247
If I'm ever in Houston I'll take care of it.

But since it's Houston, and I'm lazy, I'll probably just plant you in the front yard and wait for the floodwaters to take care of the rest.

>>107247
VocRehab or something different?

>>107297
Yep Voc Rehab fuckary.

>>107296
By the time you got here, Trump probably started WW3.

>>107033
Potsdam?

Downstate kids hating on anything that isn't NYC-esque are the fucking worst. You're in college in a small town, what the hell did you expect? They even fucking hate on my hometown (in a part of the state you consider shitty) and we aren't exactly the sticks--we have independent coffee shops and all the stupid retail chains they want--so I can't imagine how awful it gets up there.

When I was visiting colleges in Massachusetts in high school we stopped to ask for directions and when we told the guy we were from Upstate NY he was like "Nice! God's Country!" Motherfucker I grew up in a Rustbelt city. I'm not from the woods. And even if I was, what the hell do you think people do there?

>>107167
Huh I've been posting operator, no wonder I haven't been getting yelled at.

>>107165
They are popular.....for a time.

The fact it its sitting on the shelves with shitty self help books, a selection of Bibles that come in a wide range of sizes and colors, the occasional Star Wars novel (more lately) that I have to stop myself from buying (usually, bought Heir to the Empire last time I was around.....dammit) and usually crap stolen from my work. King books are like Twilight books in where they are flash in the pan popular but people apparently quickly lose interest in keeping them.

Its not just paperbacks on the shelf either, hardcovers too of both King stuff and Meyer shit. Paperbacks for some people, some, treat as more or less disposable but not 20 dollar hardcovers.

>>107166
Fuck thats retarded. I'm glad you posted that because I've been meaning to getting around to reading that. Just haven't yet where I've been collecting 3 massive book series and haven't had the book budget for anything else.

Strange enough I could have picked it up anytime from my work but for some reason I really don't like borrowing books anymore. Maybe something like how McDonalds workers don't like eating McDonalds but probably not.

>>107166
>The fact I spent money on it kept me from tossing it in the fireplace after that.
Why? You spent money on firewood, right?

>>107170
>They are popular.....for a time.

You just described a level of success above the vast vast majority of authors. The guy writes popular fiction.

>>107044
>>107048
Anybody have any experience with Fujitsu Lifebooks? I learned Fujitsu made laptops a while back, and the hipster "you've probably never heard of them" part of my mind started twitching.

>>107044
Just make sure you get new thermal paste on the EliteBooks. Overheating pieces of fine equipment... *grumble grumble*

Also, guides:
http://ktgee.net/guides
https://yttrium-tyclief.github.io/guides/Thinkpads/index.html

>>107055
Interested in them for a time, but I have never used one. Sorry, brah.

>>107058
I actually have a laptop that didn't look much better then that when I got it.

A family friend had her house completely flood including some electronics. She was going to throw everything out but I told her I could probably fix some of it. Usually electronics if they aren't on when they get wet and nobody is dumb enough to plug them in while still wet can be cleaned, dried, and will work.

She had a laptop that wasn't thrown out, completely caked in mud, screen was a bit warped where water got inside much like that picture, just looked completely fucked. I broke it down taking off everything I could pry off, left it near but not too near a heater so I didn't fuck it up worse but it could dry faster, and left it to dry for a 3 days.

Then attacked it was a fistful of q-tips and some rags and like a Jamaican woman chanting mystical bullshit I raised the fucker from the dead. Still had a little screen blur but that mostly cleared up after an hour of it being on. Now only a tiny little spot is damaged but barely noticeable.

The only thing that was actually wrong with the fucker afterwards was a bad stick of RAM but that could have easily went bad before hand.

I really regret not taking pictures, maybe doing a vlog series to throw on jewtube.

On topic, my own laptop is a Dell Precision m4600 workstation laptop I got off ebay for 200 bones.

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>>106986
The cheap-o Amazon Fire tablet has worked out, so far. If you just want something light to pack and break out to read books or watch videos, this works fine. The screen is OK for being so small. The VLC app plays videos well. Transfers video files from a PC easily (far easier than an Apple iPod that also will not play many video formats). A $20 64 GB memory chip is needed for loading lots of videos. 7 hour battery life could be better, but is twice as long as the bestselling budget tablet in the Walmart online store, the $44.99 RCA 7-inch bundled with a keyboard and case. The specifications include a 1.4GHz Quad-Core CPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage, 1,024x600px screen resolution, 0.3MP front camera, microUSB port, speaker, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 4 hour battery life and Android 4.4. https://www.walmart.com/ip/RCA-7-Tablet-8GB-Quad-Core-with-Keyboard-Case/38693704#about

The $49.99 Amazon Fire tablet offers a 7-inch screen with 1024x600px, 1.3Ghz Quad-core CPU, 8GB storage, 0.3MP front camera, 2MP rear camera, microphone, 3.5mm stereo jack, microUSB port, speaker, microSD port, Bluetooth, 7 hour battery life and Fire OS 5. http://www.i4u.com/2015/09/95144/50-amazon-fire-compared-bestselling-walmart-bargain-tablet

>>107172
https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices#vendor=%22Amazon%22;

Only worth it if you remove the Amazon AIDS from it.

>>107019
Except when they don't.

>>107020
Which is never.

I picked up a $40 LG Rebel L44VL Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) smartphone and I was able to transfer my old flip-phone phone number and 2500+ unused minutes. It triples my minutes for the life of the phone, which was the main selling point. Holds 8 GB of data and uses a 1.1 GHz quad-core processor, but nobody will be watching movies on that tiny 4.5" screen. Should be good for calling and using maps for car navigation.
http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-L44VL-rebel-lte

There are smartphones in the $60-70 range that are actually quite decent if you really want a cheap smartphone.

Although...
>smartphone
>good decision
iPhone 4S was $650 if you want to buy it.

I took one look at that price, went out and bought a flip phone, canon digital camera, an ereader, a tablet and a netbook for slightly under $600. Four of these devices connect to wifi and have an earbud jack. Also if any of them gets stolen or damaged I don't have to commit seppukku.

Nowadays people are dumb enough to actually lease phones, like it was a car or something.

  And from the Bureau of Obvious Shit, do not drill a headphone jack in your $650 iPhone 7.
WARNING: Don’t Fall For iPhone 7 Hoax https://youtu.be/XIpx8TmrhCI
“A video claiming that users can add a headphone socket to the iPhone 7, which only has a Lightning port, by drilling into the bottom of their phone has been watched almost 10m times.

The prank video shows a man drilling a 3.5mm hole into the bottom left edge of the iPhone 7 held in a vice. It points to the row of small holes on the left side that replaced the headphone socket present on the iPhone 6S and claims that drilling into the second hole on the left reveals a hidden socket.

Once the hole has been drilled the video shows an iPhone 7 playing music, although the sound comes out of the speakers, not the white headphones now inserted in the DIY hole.”

Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/26/video-claiming-drilling-into-iphone-7-reveal-hidden-headphone-port-goes-viral

Don't Fall For This iPhone 7 Headphone 'Hack' https://youtu.be/AtQ6p-NahUg
Don't blame Techrax if you fall for this...blame yourself. Did anyone REALLY believe the headphone 'hack; for the iPhone 6?? Kim Horcher and Michelle Nguyen (Writer, Host) break it down.

>>106995
will call them tomorrow to find out

>>106998
Dude, just spend some time on Google.

http://www.gocoastguard.com/active-duty-careers/enlisted-opportunities/view-job-descriptions
I'm sure you can find a non-combat role if that's what you really want to do.

>>107000
> I'm sure you can find a non-combat role

Yeah, like the Coast Guard.

Bbbbuuurrrrnnnn

>>107001
Be nice to the puddle pirates. I hear they just recently got their own special ops!

>I'm sure you can find a non-combat role to conscientiously object to doing

xe will actually have to wait until the draft board calls xim before xe can take offense to being forced into military service. i know everyone loves to show off these days how offended they are at this that or the other imaginary injustice that they are the victim of, but this one is really kind of hard to buy in to.
in the event of a war xe would not be needed anyway, there are now mechanical devices known as anus fleshlights which fill the role xe would have been wanted for.

>>106947

It's not necessarily about back doors or anything. Just the fact that someone pools certain information (which then later can be hacked) or accustoms people to freely sharing interesting information is an advantage for the CIA.

IN-Q-TEL even has ties to the latest Pokemon game.
I wonder why the CIA is interested in a game which constantly transmits your current GPS location. Oh, wait...

The upper classes collaborate to prevent members of the working class from ever saving up enough money to stop laboring a servants

>>106956
NSF member detected.

>>106967

Northwest Secessionist Forces?

  >>106971
Come on, man...

How many times do I have to post this?

Who are all these people naming their future-murderer children John Wayne?

>>106238
Fans of the Duke? Or if they are Michele Bachmann fans of Gacy.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/michele-bachmann-confuses-john-wayne-gacy-with-the-duke.html

Really though John and Wayne are fairly common names in themselves plus the fact John Wayne the actor is still very popular pilgrim its not suprising there is alot of people named John Wayne.

There is a good chance you can find quite a few murderers with the same last name.

I mean there is tons of murderers and serial rapists and pedophiles named Muhammad.

>>106238
The middle name Wayne features unusually common with convicted killers.
The commonality of the middle name "Wayne" amongst criminals has been remarked upon by News of the Weird and Steven Levitt's Freakonomics blog on the NY Times website. In Nevada there are currently 16 inmates whose middle name is Wayne. In Georgia 374 ... in Kansas 677 ... and in the prisons of Iowa, no less than 3171 offenders have Wayne as their middle name. https://uclue.com/?xq=936
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html

  Ripple in RIPs Steve the Ripper, "Hacksaw" McDaniel, Son of Liberty & non-virgin.
Finally free from Obama's tyranny & mining mad gold in that great MMO in the sky.
1976 - 2016

>John Connor has been executed as an old man
luckily he managed to lead the rebellion against the machines before coming back in time for one last mission