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Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
systems Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie 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, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "James," who told us that in the early 2000s he worked in the biology department of a famous American university."We custom-built all our PCs from the cheapest available parts at the time we ordered," James wrote. REG AD Which was how he found himself struggling to attach a heatsink to a CPU destined for use in a new PC. REG AD "The stupid hook wouldn't go over the plastic tab and so the heatsink didn't want to stay on," he wrote. "Not one to let a comput
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