6 reasons the guy who's fixing your computer hates you
I love it!
Since some in my family and some neighbors turn to me when they have computer problems.
I knew a guy that had a computer repair and service business.
He told me of an instance where a customer brought in a PC to have some software installed.
The PC was broken on arrival and the customer tried to accuse him of breaking it.
He gave me a motherboard that would shut down after a certain length of time. This was during the winter and I installed it in a case and ran it during the winter with no problems. Summer arrived and the shutdown problem appeared. On investigation, I found the voltage jumper for the processor was set to high. I changed the jumper to the correct voltage and that cured it.
I also had a lady ask me to look at her PC that was getting all kinds of strange errors.
In the end, I asked it she had installed any hardware.
She had installed a modem card and had pushed too hard to seat it in the slot which cracked the motherboard traces.
She did not believe me and ended up taking it to a repair shop.
They told her the same thing and sold her a new computer.
I am sure others have their stories also and figured I would share two of mine.
Since some in my family and some neighbors turn to me when they have computer problems.
I knew a guy that had a computer repair and service business.
He told me of an instance where a customer brought in a PC to have some software installed.
The PC was broken on arrival and the customer tried to accuse him of breaking it.
He gave me a motherboard that would shut down after a certain length of time. This was during the winter and I installed it in a case and ran it during the winter with no problems. Summer arrived and the shutdown problem appeared. On investigation, I found the voltage jumper for the processor was set to high. I changed the jumper to the correct voltage and that cured it.
I also had a lady ask me to look at her PC that was getting all kinds of strange errors.
In the end, I asked it she had installed any hardware.
She had installed a modem card and had pushed too hard to seat it in the slot which cracked the motherboard traces.
She did not believe me and ended up taking it to a repair shop.
They told her the same thing and sold her a new computer.
I am sure others have their stories also and figured I would share two of mine.
I thought this was particularly appropriate to the Puppy Linux forum:
Google: Garbage In, Garbage OutHalf the time I'm going to wind up Googling for other people who've had the same problem, because none of the standard spyware removal tools will do it. Half the time, my search will take me to a message board and I'll find this:
User: ComputerGuy
Posted: 8.1.11, 10:24 PM
Subject: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don't Detect It
Body: (Exact description of the same problem we're having)
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User: Admin
Posted: 8.1.11, 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don't Detect It
Body: (Request for more information, OS, HijackThis logs, etc)
_________________________________
User: ComputerGuy
Posted: 8.2.11, 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don't Detect It
Body: Never mind, I fixed it.
_________________________________
User: Admin
Posted: 8.2.11, 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don't Detect It
Body: Issue resolved. Thread locked.
Flash,
I guess that would go along with some of the posts here.
Ones that irk me are those where someone has a problem and the reply is that person replying just says he sent the poster a PM.
That may help the person having the problem, but I think it is a bad habit as other members/users reading the post may have the same problem and never get to see the recommended fix.
I guess that would go along with some of the posts here.
Ones that irk me are those where someone has a problem and the reply is that person replying just says he sent the poster a PM.
That may help the person having the problem, but I think it is a bad habit as other members/users reading the post may have the same problem and never get to see the recommended fix.
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It would take a Windows user to decide to wipe a drive and assume there is absolutely no possible way to save the important data that's on it. Sticking a lightweight Linux in the cd drive would solve that problem, wouldn't it. Can any of you boys and girls think of a nice, lightweight Linux distribution that could do the job? Yes, I thought you could.
First you save the data, THEN you wipe the drive. It's kind of like the old rule of pillage, THEN burn.
First you save the data, THEN you wipe the drive. It's kind of like the old rule of pillage, THEN burn.