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Hardware

28 scary photos of IT gore

By joal.ryan October 24, 2017, 3:00 PM PDT

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28 scary photos of IT gore

The incredible melting keyboard

uberflibs via Reddit

The incredible melting keyboard

The techsupportgore channel on Reddit is not for the faint of IT heart. It’s a horror show of laptops mangled beyond recognition, smartphones smashed beyond reason and other mistreated devices.

Here’s a look at some of the subreddit’s most disturbing (but fun!) sights. Leading off: The ThinkPad keyboard that, per the thread, had an unfortunate encounter with a hair dryer.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

uberflibs via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

From dust 'til dawn

Lord-Admiral-Nelson via Reddit

From dust 'til dawn

The subreddit r/techsupportgore discourages the posting of pictures of computers that are merely dusty. We feel confident in asserting that the subject of this thread is not merely dusty.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Lord-Admiral-Nelson via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Curse of the Chromebook

TerriblePizza via Imgur

Curse of the Chromebook

According to the Redditor behind this thread, this laptop was “left in the bleachers.” Was a fan using it as a seat cushion?

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

TerriblePizza via Imgur
28 scary photos of IT gore

R.I.P.

raceking37 via Reddit

R.I.P.

According to the thread, this mouse died on the battlefield after a game of Battlefield.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

raceking37 via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Bedbugs!

Hellspyke via Reddit

Bedbugs!

According to the Redditor, a customer brought in this laptop for repair. On the bright side of a grim-looking picture, all the bed bugs were dead.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Hellspyke via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

The battery blob

Zakk_Jakob via Reddit

The battery blob

Approach bags of “iPopcorn“–sorry, bulging lithium-ion batteries–with caution.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Zakk_Jakob via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

The swarm

Igpajo49 via Reddit

The swarm

According to this thread, that’s a cable box with an “active wasp nest” inside. Must be part of a new premium package.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Igpajo49 via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

A million tiny pieces

CmdrHurricane via Reddit

A million tiny pieces

Per the title of this thread, this smashed-beyond-recognition smartphone was “only dropped…a little bit.” A whole lot of times, apparently.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

CmdrHurricane via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Psycho printer

Fufflemaker99 via Reddit

Psycho printer

According to the thread, the glue on this HP LaserJet printer gives “new meaning to hardwired.”

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Fufflemaker99 via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

It's not alive

IAMGAVINMOO via Reddit

It's not alive

The hive mind’s prognosis for this iPad is grim.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

IAMGAVINMOO via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

The sitting

strathieeghetto via Reddit

The sitting

According to the thread, the owner of this Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 8.0 claimed to have sat on it “by accident… for a split second.”

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

strathieeghetto via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Creepshow

Langly- via Imgur

Creepshow

There are corroded batteries, and then there are corroded batteries.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Langly- via Imgur
28 scary photos of IT gore

Jeepers creepers

crackernibbles via Reddit

Jeepers creepers

With apologies to this MacBook charger setup, aluminum foil is not among CNET’s top tips for fixing a frayed cable.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

crackernibbles via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

(Not exactly) child's play

Snarblox via Reddit

(Not exactly) child's play

“Cable spaghetti” is how one Redditor described this unwieldy scene.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Snarblox via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Re-animator

plopana via Imgur

Re-animator

When it comes to your laptop, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do–and can afford.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

plopana via Imgur
28 scary photos of IT gore

The laptop screen crack'd

Top_Secret_TerminaL via Reddit

The laptop screen crack'd

According to the poster behind this thread, this brutalized, school-issued Samsung was fixed–so the students “can break it all over again.”

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Top_Secret_TerminaL via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Bloody murder

ElChibo via Reddit

Bloody murder

According to this thread, this smartphone’s litany of horrors includes a bent frame.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

ElChibo via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Death by nicotine

noturITguy via Imgur

Death by nicotine

Per this thread, smoking is bad for your health–and for your (formerly) translucent iMac G3.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

noturITguy via Imgur
28 scary photos of IT gore

They say it's sugar

pantzareoptional via Reddit

They say it's sugar

Here’s the punchline to this scene, per the thread: The computer with the cup of sugar inside (“at least”) was brought to the shop for a forgotten password.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

pantzareoptional via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Crack up

ElChibo via Reddit

Crack up

A user on this thread said this poor smartphone looked as if it “was used as a crowbar.”

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

ElChibo via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Roadkill

EmperorPhoenix via Imgur

Roadkill

The poster who initiated this thread reported that a customer ran over the laptop, on purpose, and apparently with a good deal of force. A replacement, it was said, was not offered.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

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28 scary photos of IT gore

Stranger things

usefulidiot46 via Reddit

Stranger things

This iPhone features duct tape, rubber bands, and, per this thread, “almost certainly” a swollen battery.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

usefulidiot46 via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Something wiry this way comes

djdiscordant via Reddit

Something wiry this way comes

As a Redditor on this thread put it, “That looks like a standard messy network room until you see the router sitting on the ladder.” “And,” the original poster added,”the duct tape on the port switches.” Other than that…

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

djdiscordant via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Watch out, it's a ... something!

Thisisgettingchucked via Reddit

Watch out, it's a ... something!

According to this thread, this set-up was found at the poster’s new apartment. It’s a modem, a router and “two cables not plugged in at all, so f—— god know what those are supposed to go.”

Sweet.

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

Thisisgettingchucked via Reddit
28 scary photos of IT gore

Killer resolution

TheEnderOfFun via Imgur

Killer resolution

“It was just a small drop.” That was the backstory on this ThinkPad, per the poster behind this thread.

TheEnderOfFun via Imgur
28 scary photos of IT gore

Approach with caution

MadIfrit via Imgur

Approach with caution

According to the thread, that’s an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) device with, uh, its original battery.

“[T]he UPS tech was in a full suit & gloves,” the poster wrote. “We knew something was wrong when we kept hearing, ‘Oh damn, oh wow’ over and over.”

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

MadIfrit via Imgur
28 scary photos of IT gore

Mousetrap

thelifeofsteveo via Imgur

Mousetrap

To hear this thread tell it, this is what it looks like when an Anker gaming mouse is “dragged along 300 miles of road…by mistake.”

SEE: Tech Nightmares, Disasters, and Spooky Gifts (TechRepublic Flipboard magazine)

thelifeofsteveo via Imgur
28 scary photos of IT gore

Diagnosis murder

eeflr via Reddit

Diagnosis murder

tThat’s an iPad, per this thread. “A mashed one at that,” the original poster noted.

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