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

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.

Which was how he found himself struggling to attach a heatsink to a CPU destined for use in a new PC.

"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 computer component get the...

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