Well, let hope that this thread will pan out better than the last one. Will post in here occasionally, probably depending on how people reacts to my post. Mostly will be vent posts about my day and the like. It is not going to be good nor entertaining, since my day job is a computer sales and repair man/guy/ dude/ inserts what ever pronoun you like.
Let start off with today. Riding across Hanoi like a mad man. In the morning went to one of my computer sales guy acquaintance to pick up a monitor since I sold the last one I got the day before, which mean now, I don't even have a computer to use. That monitor ended up being a tad more pricey than I would like and there are a few blemishes on it. Seems to be some moisture between the polarizing layer and the LCD layer. Will try to dry it out with a hair dryer tomorrow. Even though the monitor still have a warranty from Dell, I much rather have a monitor to use right now and not have to wait at least a month or so in this pandemic to have a monitor to use. Just my luck as well, since I after all this I saw a post where a guy is selling 15 of the monitor I used to have for a really good price. You win some you loose some I guess.
After picking up the monitor, I went to my SSD supplier and pickup a few SSD to install in the two systems I planned the day before. Got non of the SATA SSD I would like but there were lots of NVME SSD for not that much more money and the NVME SSD are one of the faster model there is so it is a no brainer for me. Got it on credit sale as well so I don't have to bother with payment til about a week or two from now.
Then, to complete my two planned systems, I wen't to a local distributor to pick up the CPUs, the motherboard and the power supply units. Got those on credit sale as well, so a huge leverage for me in this lean time of pandemic. Ironically the CPUs are what we called "tray" and not boxed CPUs, but they are only 8% cheaper than the boxed variety at retail of one of the major retailer in Hanoi. But at least I got it on credit sale. This just goes to show you that this business is not easy and margin are really thin.
Got back home and have steamed fish for lunch with mom and dad. Then spent time building the two systems. It went over quickly since I have build in this case before and there is no SATA drives in it so there are much less cables to deal with. Finished with those to system I went to deliver a monitor to a client 18-20km away in a silly old township call Rùa Thượng. Never heard of it before but it is not that far away of a drive and it is kinda close to another shop which I just sold some RAM to a few day before that they reported as not working back to me. Killing two bird with one stone so there I went. Afterward on the way back home I swing by my favorite GPU supplier to pickup some new stock, which ended up taking longer than expected since most of the stuff he had on hand was no good. But in the end we managed. At this point it was like 7PM so I scrambled back to my last ticket of the day, getting a Wifi card for a customer who I had sold a rig the day before. This was done without too much fuss. Finally got home, had some instant noodle and then back to work cleaning the GPUs I just bought. Took them all apart, give them a good washing (Yes, you can wash electronic, just make sure there are no electricity when there is water on them and you should be good) and then bake them in the dish dryer. One didn't make it, it spit out some weird artifacts on screen but it had happened to me before. This mean there are still moisture in the GPU and it need more time to dry out for good. That will be left til the next day then.
Well, by now we are all caught up. Will update this if I ever had the time or the will to do so. Used to do thing like this all the time in Uni as part of my assignment. 5-6k words "light paper" usually written the night before it is due. It is a good thing to have the ability to do, so I don't want it to rust away. Until the next time.
Your humble and bumbling computer repair tech.
