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| Thread ID: 85313 | 2007-12-06 05:23:00 | Tech Advice Laughs | Winston001 (3612) | PC World Chat |
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| 618413 | 2007-12-06 23:18:00 | pctek I thought you lived in Winton or near there somewhere. (me=Outram) I live in Wyndham and work in Gore. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 618414 | 2007-12-07 00:24:00 | www.flixxy.com | johcar (6283) | ||
| 618415 | 2007-12-07 00:41:00 | Ive seen one of our techies absolutely fustrated by the restart with floppy left in. He tried everything and couldnt figure it out, until another just walked up and took the floppy out. One of the cant-help-but-laugh moments I seen in a long time |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 618416 | 2007-12-07 01:06:00 | Stupidest Tech Support ever: After replacing a notebook HD & having 'issues' with the recovery CD(as sometimes happens) Tech Support "I suggest you borrow a notebook off a friend & run the recovery CD in that notebook to see if it works" the 'friend' wouldnt be a friend very long after the recovery CD possibly wiped his hard drive. |
steveroby (9470) | ||
| 618417 | 2007-12-07 02:27:00 | Not exactly tech support, but the 'supposed' expert none-the-less: My friend wanted a cheap PC for his nana. Here's how the conservation goes: My friend: Hi I'm looking for a new PC for my Nana. Nothing flash, just something running XP with decent RAM. Sales guy: XP? You need 2000. My friend: But XP is the latest before Vista. Sales Guy: Vista is for businesses only. I don't know about XP. Is it from Apple? My friend: No it's from Microsoft. (leaves the store) His shop is closed down now and the salesman moved somewhere else. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 618418 | 2007-12-07 06:03:00 | The funniest real life thing I saw at work recently. A note from the cleaner: We are going to clean your computer. Please turn it off when you finish work. We are going to clean and wipe your monitor and hard drive. Er, please don't the clean professor's hard drive I thought to myself. :waughh: OK I know they meant case or base unit.. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 618419 | 2007-12-07 06:46:00 | I went to the IT Manager and said we needed to get a new motherboard for the PC. He told me I should just connect the hard drive to the sound card instead.Gosh. Could you keep a straight face after that? :D |
Jen (38) | ||
| 618420 | 2007-12-07 23:41:00 | As part as my role at work, I have to review faults that are assigned to our team. I was doing some research the other day and came across this boomer... "The customer said that she had tried to sh*tdown the pc but it had made no difference" (i instead of a u) Not surprising really. Probably would have made it worse if anything. One letter can make quite a different in meaning! |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 618421 | 2007-12-08 01:38:00 | ... He told me I should just connect the hard drive to the sound card instead. ... It might have been worth trying, depending on how old the computer was. ;) Some sound cards did have an IDE interface, intended for a CD drive. (Of course some had 40 pin headers which were not IDE. Some CD drives had proprietary interfaces. :( ) I never tried booting from a hard disk on a sound card IDE interface (or even put a hard disk on a sound card IDE interface), but it might have worked. :cool: | Graham L (2) | ||
| 618422 | 2007-12-08 02:53:00 | [QUOTE=Graham L;622008]It might have been worth trying, depending on how old the computer was. ;) QUOTE] They weren't for HDDs. And in any case - it didn't have a sound card, never mind one of those. |
pctek (84) | ||
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