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-A long pair of needle nose plyers for when you hear that awful sound of a screw falling down some crack.
-A Mini Maglight / LED Lenser light
-USB Ethernet Adapter
-Multimeter
-Spare Fans (mainly 80mm incase your PS fan dies)
-Backpack CD Drive
-Win 98 Boot Disk (Still love these, no good for NTFS Systems, but for the odd time I get a comp that wont boot from the CD Drive, its a huge plus) Also a boot disk with a Win 2k Boot INI and set up to be able to read the most common partition #s and Drive #s
-Null Modem cable if your going to be working with a super old comp that you have no way to get the drivers on it without this method (I have ran into this only once on an old 486 machine that people are still using....wow)
-Get a copy of a Data Recovery Program, there very helpful if the persons HDD just crashed / has errors. It will work for some things, others your just SOL.
-Any extra components you can get your hands on. IE:Sound cards, NICs, IDE Controllers, CD Roms, etc.
-a knife/cutting tool of some sort, The number of times I needed a freaking knife and noone had one sickins me.
And it may sound stupid, but a Pen and Paper, if your building a new system, upgrading an old one, or just fixing an issue, documenting what your doing is a help for you, and if something goes wrong you can fall back on it (sometimes). The main thing I use it for is copying down those damn Power Switch, LEDs and Speaker positions. Many people have no sweet clue where the hell they put there Win 9x CD let alone there Motherboard Manual.
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