On Call Welcome again to On Call, The Register's weekly column in which readers share stories of earnestly trying to fix broken tech, and end up feeling broken afterwards.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Tex," who briefly worked at a semiconductor company in the second-largest state of the USA.

"I was working in their receiving department inspecting and processing incoming components," Tex told On Call.

Most of the kit that crossed Tex's desk was mundane and uninteresting, but the job was a foot on the ladder and never more so than the day he was asked to inspect an incoming batch of motherboards.

"That excited me because I would finally be working with something technical," he told On Call.

Tex was one of a few staff asked to run an eye over the motherboards, and a manage

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