Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
Then something flew off the motherboard Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie Simon Sharwood Simon Sharwood APAC Editor APAC Editor Published mon 17 Aug 2026 // 07:30 UTC WHO, ME? REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Which was how he found himself struggling to attach a heatsink to a CPU destined for use in a new PC. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); "The stupid hook wouldn't go over the plastic tab and so the heatsink didn't want to stay on," he wrote.
- ▪Then something flew off the motherboard Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie Simon Sharwood Simon Sharwood APAC Editor APAC Editor Published mon 17 Aug 2026 // 07:30 UTC WHO, ME?
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Which was how he found himself struggling to attach a heatsink to a CPU destined for use in a new PC.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); "The stupid hook wouldn't go over the plastic tab and so the heatsink didn't want to stay on," he wrote.
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| Original publisher | theregister |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/17/part-didnt-fit-so-techie-got-out-his-screwdriver-then-something-flew-off-the-motherboard/5287692 |
| Publication time | Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:30:00 +0200 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-17T07:55:18.039Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-17T07:55:18.039Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); systems Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie Simon Sharwood Simon Sharwood APAC Editor APAC Editor Published mon 17 Aug 2026 // 07:30 UTC WHO, ME? Is it a mistake to return to work on Monday? While you ponder that question, pause a minute to read this installment of "Who, Me?" – The Register's week-opening column that shares your stories of workplace errors and escapes.This week,…
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