What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen a non-techie do to a computing device?I thought it would be fun to bring out the stories on what people have done throughout the ages with computers due to their sometimes, to put it politely, less than perfect grasp of technology.
I'll start out with a little story from my high-school days. After graduation, a classmate of mine, who took IT and subsequently scored an A in the subject, was sent an e-mail by a friend.
She replied to his mail:
"I'm sorry, but I can't reply your mail, since I don't have your email address."
Till this day I still can't understand why she gave such a weird reply as she was a bright girl although not a techie.
Now, let's hear those other battle stories from the real world...
I hate it when people have a picture of their kids as a wallpaper stretched to an incorrect aspect ratio. I just want to scream "Can't you see your kids are all distorted?! Why doesn't this bother you?!"
I hate it that just because I'm a computer person, that everyone thinks that I should know everything about every piece of software available.
"I thought you were good with computers?"
I hate it when I see someone double-clicking on things that only need one click... happens all the time...
Customer: Copy something in computer A with mouse, plug it in to computer B. "Why it doesn't Paste??? Is my mouse memory broken??? Fix it!!"
Me: ...
People who have a nice big TFT screen and then proceed to run it at less than the native resolution i.e. 800 x 600.
I came home from school when I was younger (many moons ago) to find that my cd-drive wouldn't open. After forcefully pulling it open, I discovered a 3.5 floppy disk jammed inside...Mom isn't allowed to use my computer anymore.
Doing phone support for a clinical user.
Me "ok..right click on the icon labeled 'My Computer'."
User "OK"
a minute or two go by while asking other questions.
Me "I want you to right click again on your 'My Computer' icon."
User "I don't have a 'My Computer' icon anymore."
Me ?????
I discover the guy has Pc Anywhere on the machine. I connect to his PC and look at the desktop. Sure enough, no 'My Computer' icon. But there is an icon labeled 'Click'.
Yep...I had told him to write 'Click' on his 'My Computer' icon.
I put that down on my annual review as one of my proudest moments of the year.
When my mother moves the mouse to the utter edge of the mouse pad, and the mouse pointer is not at the edge of the desktop screen, she panics, totally at a loss how to make the pointer move further.
My mother in law once complained that she had put a CD in the drive on her laptop and when she came to take it out there was nothing there. She was convinced that the laptop had swallowed her CD.
I was certain she had just taken it out already and forgotten about it so put it down to old age memory, but agreed to take a look anyway to keep her happy.
I found the CD rammed between the edge of the drive and the laptop's case. She'd gone to insert it, missed the drive totally and forced the plastic trim aside.
I've been asked if a computer virus could infect humans.
A few years ago I read a forum post where a guy didn't quite grasp the principle of a liquid / water cooled PC.
I still can't believe it, but apparently he made his casing water-proof (no leaks), after which he proceeded to fill the entire case with H2O.
He was completely baffled when his PC made it's final SHRIEK when he turned the power on...
Wish I could find the link. Maybe someone also read this?
In 1990, a secretary I knew used a Mac II for her word processing chores. The Mac II chassis has two floppy drives slots, however the left one is rarely used ( if ever, I never saw one in use) and is filled with a blank plate.
One day she called the support : "the computer doesn't work: it eats my floppies! they don't appear on the desktop, and they won't eject neither!". What happened? The left floppy drive blank plate had fallen inside the computer case, and she inserted floppies in the non existing drive. When we opened the chassis, there was a pile of 10 or 15 floppies lying inside upon the hard drive.
Someone I know spilt water into a CRT monitor while watering a plant that was standing in a window above the desk. Luckily, the monitor was powered off at that point.
To see if it was still working, she turned it on right away.
It sounds like urban legend but I've actually seen people hunting for the Any key, as in Press any key to continue
...or worse still, Hit Enter to continue unleashes a considerable keyboard impact
i once built a computer for my sister and labeled each port and cord with matching numbers. i then told her to plug all the other ends into the surge protector i gave her. she calls me up and tells me the computer won't turn on.
turns out, i failed to label the surge protector cord to tell her to plug that into the wall. she plugged it right back into the surge protector.
I try like hell to convince my parents that I don't know anything about Windows, because once you go down that road there is no going back. But worse than having to spend your weekend visits to your parents cleaning out their viruses and spyware and driver screw-ups, is that once people think you know computers, suddenly you're expected to know how to do anything with any technology at all, from their cordless phones to their home theatre setups.
Lifting the mouse in the air and pointing it as if it's a remote control.
My favorite amusement to send in the direction of the technically challenged is in the form of netsend messages. Typically your most technically challenged user is also going to be one of your most excitable.
So that being said, I really like to use "Press OK to Launch the Nuclear Weapons" as my cage rattler. Since it is a netsend message and allows recipient to only click OK, this one has great comic potential when used on the right audience that is easily unsettled.
I've had many laughs watching as they toil with their choices what to do next.
Paying great homage to Wargames.... The only winning move is not to play.
I've heard similar stories, but didn't really believe it until it happened to me...
So, at my first programming job, our in-house tech support handled most calls just fine, but every once in a while a user would report a bug which our support couldn't fix immediately. Tech support was across the building; whenever they needed someone with more knowledge of the software, they'd just shout for a programmer, and usually we could resolve the problem in a few minutes. Users quickly picked up on this: whenever they called tech support, they'd immediately ask for a programmer since we could answer most questions in a heartbeat.
After we released a new version of our software, we got a frantic call stating that our new software completely hosed the computer. Tech support says "tell me what happened, maybe we can fix it", and the client shoots back "you guys are useless, get me one of your programmers".
The conversation which follows is almost surreal:
User: After we upgraded to the latest version of your software, one of our terminals shows a blue screen.
Juliet: Can you tell me exactly what you did?
User: I didn't do anything?!? We upgraded, now we can't even use the computer.
Juliet: So you just installed it, and the computer crashed?
User: Well, no, it started up and worked fine for a few minutes. But now it just shows a blue screen.
Juliet: What did you do before it bluescreened?
User: I told you, NOTHING!? Why did we even upgrade if its---
Juliet: I'm afraid I can't do much about a bluescreen, but it would really help to know what caused it. Does the screen say anything useful. Maybe "null reference exception" or something like that?
User: Ummm... no.
Juliet: Nothing?
User: It has a picture in the corner.
Juliet: A picture?
User: Yeah, like a little computer.
Juliet: [Suddenly it clicks with me, and I know the cause of this "blue screen"] Looks like you minimized the program and you can't find it because your taskbar is set to auto-hide. Just move the mouse to the bottom of the screen to show the task bar, the click on Super Awesome Ninja Program 7.0 to restore it.
User: [Fumbles around for 30 seconds] OH MY GOD, IT WORKED!!
Juliet: Glad to help.
User: Let me ask you one more question: what was that blue screen?
Juliet: Your desktop.
User: HOW DO I GET RID OF IT?!?!?!
Juliet: ...
My friend tried to photocopy his laptop screen as he didn't have a printer handy and needed a hard copy of a Word Document.
In 1989 I worked as a PC admin. Lot's of funny things happened. I guess the stupidest/funniest was when a user argued that although the network cable had been diconnected, she should still be able to access the network as the power cable was still connected.
When she after a while of arguing asked if she could still use the network when the power cable was disconnected I got stumped. She evidently could not grasp that different cables between the computer and the wall had different functions, even though I had explained that one was for power and the other for network several times at this stage.
Another firm and classic favourite is the user who prints a 50 page document ten times, because it "doesn't print". Of course it's printed to another printer. Never fails.
I used to work with a person who performed tech support for the US Customs Service. He told me that about twice a year he would be called on-site to repair a computer and find a bullet hole in the monitor or the chassis.
And no one knew what happened....
I was visiting relatives and they asked me to set up their Internet (ADSL) for them. I didn't think there would be any problems with that so I spent the better half of the night trying to get it to work. Eventually I had to ask them if they are currently purchasing the service and they finally told me that they weren't; the modem I was setting up was an old one that they must've thought they could use again without paying for the service.
I knew somebody who used the voltage switch on the back of the computer to turn it off. shudder... I am still surprised the thing still worked after doing it hundreds of times.
A user once called to complain that the software was asking him to insert the third disk and wanted to know how the hell he was supposed to do that.
Turned out the reason why he simply couldn't manage to insert the third disk was because there were already two in the slot... (this was in the days of 5.25" floppies)
To be fair, bad software translation also played a part in this. This actual interface wasn't English so it's a bit hard to explain. Suffice to say that with a bit of imagination the on-screen message could indeed be interpreted to mean "insert three disks"...
I had a customer in another state whose equipment included a PC with a monitor. He called that the monitor was not working. I ask him to switch it out with a spare. The new one didn't work either. I had him check the power, cables, and so on. Finally deciding it must be the computer that was bad, and knowing it was beyond his skill to replace it, I got a spare, made travel arrangements, flew to the customer site. Fortunately before swapping computers, I tried the new monitor one more time. It worked fine. In talking to the customer I discovered that he had physically swapped it, but never connected the cable.
I've seen people leave their computer on for days because it completely froze and they're worried that pulling the plug might cause it to lose data (as if it might magically recover sometime soon).
I received an email couple of days ago in which a girl accidentally emailed me her photographs. My email address is very similar to her fiance leading to the mistake. When I gently told her that you have reached the wrong address, she replied back with:
hi .sir ..there is heartly request frm my side …sir acctuly i was sending my pics to my fiance but it goes to u as ur id is jst similiar to my fiance id sorry fr that ..and plz sir forward my pics back to me
WHAT? Forward back to her? As if forwarding the email back to her will remove all her photographs from my email box…Perhaps she thought email is like a physical envelop which can be returned to original sender leaving no trace.
My 4 year old daughter just learned to play a game on the Wii. When she needs to select something on the screen, she finds her cursor by waving the Wii remote in circles in front of her until she gets the hand cursor somewhere on the screen, then she homes in on the spot she wants to click on.
Last week, I found her waving around the DVD remote in circles in front of the TV, trying to get the "hand" to appear on the screen so she can select the DVD menu item she wants. I explained to her that only the Wii remote works that way, that the DVD remote only works by clicking the buttons, not by aiming it at the right spot. So she left the room and returned with the Wii remote, and proceeded to try and use that to select the DVD menu item she wanted.
I kept thinking of Scotty talking into the mouse.
The answers to these questions are really funny: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/720108ee-0a9c-4090-b62d-bbd5cb1a7605
Its about the weight of your hard drive..
I've had several people worrying that they'l lose all their desktop icons when their monitor is replaced.
A user reading an older manual that referred to the 'Return' key and not knowing how to continue.
User holding the mouse in the air and trying to move the pointer.
User using the CD/DVD rom tray as a cup holder.
User that pulled off the shift keys because their hands kept resting on it and screwing up their typing by adding captial letters and odd symbols. This person thought the using the caps lock key was the correct way of capitalizing.
User that setup their computer by plugging in their monitor and then the mouse/keyboard into the USB hub on the monitor and expecting to work with no CPU. When asked why they hadn't taken the case/cpu out and set it up, they responsed that they thought that was just a stand to put the monitor on.
Not so much an issue these days, but people who would have their CRTs flickering madly at 60Hz when it was designed and capable of 70+. One person actually told me she got headaches. After a quick settings change, things got much better.
I had a call from a customer a couple of years ago, telling me her computer wasn't working. At first it seemed she didn't turn it on, but flipping the switch didn't turn it on. I asked her to look behind her computer to check if the power cable was unplugged. After a few seconds she told me she couldn't see because it was to dark under her desk. So, I asked her if she had a desklight she could turn on and take below her desk. She told me that wasn't an option. The lights were down because of a power failure…
I was dispatched to set up a wireless router for a home user. Turns out, the customer did not have an ISP, but bought his "Internet Ready" laptop and a wireless router and thought I was the "challenged one" when I asked him about his ISP and where his modem was.
Hands down switching the "voltage" switch on the back of the power supply on a computer a few years ago when the computer was running.
It actually explodes, pretty awesome. Why she decided to take a screwdriver and flick the switch I will never understand.
I was working as IT help once in a campus, one sunday morning at about 8. No one's there. A guy comes in and sits down. He stares at his computer for a while, and then beckons me over.
"The screen is black"
I stare at it thoughtfully for a moment, noticing the lack of a light on the monitor, and reach over and turn the switch on. I say, "Sir, you have to turn it on", and then walk over to my desk and sit down.
We teach computer classes to new employees. Teaching them how to use our software for charting patients etc. One of the nurses, when she got to the edge of the mouse pad and still needed to move the pointer further would hold the mouse in place and move the mouse pad which would of course move the pointer back the other way, she would then move the mouse to the edge of the pad again and start the whole process over.
My dad called me down because the mouse wasn't working. I tabbed through the Windows dialogs for 10 minutes, then the following exchange happened:
Dad: "I sprayed Lysol on the mouse. Could that have broken it?"
Me: "Why did you do that?"
Dad: "Well, you've all been sick, and I didn't want your germs!"
For some reason I don't quite remember I was trying to add a hard drive to a PC at home.
I was so despaired about the "shutdown everything/count to 5/unplug/start/" cycle that I decided to skip step 1: "shutdown" ( why not? ) .
The next thing I saw was a small smoke fog, coming from behind the pc.
Since then, the closest I get to hardware is the keyboard. :)
I had a user who thought that the mouse had to remain on the mouse pad for it to work properly. He called with the comment that his mouse was about to fall off the mouse pad and that I needed to get over to his cube right quick. Well, when I lifted the mouse up off the pad, he screamed "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" almost as if he were in pain.
after a LONG description of how the mouse works, (I took it apart actually) and explaining to him that the pad had little to do with the working of the mouse, except for the ball to get clean traction he started to get the picture.
Same guy hit the power strip on his desk, turning off his computer and cube desk lamp. Called me about it, I called it a PEBKAC (do you know that one?)
Not a personal story, but something I found that's been in my .sig for a long time now:
Well, I can get the "a". But how do I put the circle around it?
Ever used a Apple remote in a classroom full of apple laptops? They will usually not have disabled the reception of remote controls and so you can have some fun e.g. putting up their volume or starting Front Row. Even techies start to wonder what happened to their computer!
Here's a story my dad tells me -- I think I've heard it once before, a long time ago, but my dad insists it really did happen to him.
So, my dad is preparing for to demo his company's latest software. He sets up a demo box, connects it to the company's network, loads it up with the latest and greatest software. A user is scheduled to stop by and demo the software later that day.
This new user, my dad assures me, was estimated to be at least 7000 years old. Gnarled hands, white receded hairline, blotchy skin that barely adheres to the rest the man's flesh -- a living personification of the phrase "old geezer". So my dad sits the old geezer in front of the machine and instructs him to start the program and give it a test run.
Old geezer is flabberghasted, but seems to have a vague idea of what to do. He grabs out to the mouse, turns it upside down, and uses his fingers to move the little ball around. My dad corrects his error, says "no, do it like this", and proceeds to show the man how to maneuver the mouse with ball-side down.
So, old geezer grabs the mouse two-handed, and for next 5 minutes move the mouse cursor crazily around the screen for 5 minutes. Wide-eyed, old geezer is clearly enjoying himself, clicking and dragging icons all over the desktop.
He says to my dad, with the biggest grin on his face, "this is really great, did you make all of this??!"
This allegedly happened in 2006.
I went over to help a friend's friend get on the Internet. She had just bought a new laptop, and she had told me "the card doesn't work".
I asked her "ugh, the card?" and she showed me where she had pulled out the plastic piece which sits in the PC Card slot (to keep dust out I guess) and had placed a card that the ISP had given her (just a laminated piece of plastic with login details) on top of the piece of plastic, and then reinserted the whole thing into the laptop.
I pulled it all out, and set her up on the Internet. She then offered me a few measly dollars in return... the amusement of her antics were worth the effort!
One time I was trying to walk my mother-in-law through the process of plugging in the USB cable for her printer. She told me that she had indeed plugged it in and that the printer still wouldn't work so I drove over to her house to see what was going on. She had taken the USB cable and jammed it into the serial port where it got stuck on the pins. Since she took her hand away and the cable stayed there she thought it was plugged in.
Once upon a time I worked at an anti virus company, and while I was not there long enough to have it happen to me, several of my coworkers swore that people had faxed them floppies when asked to send an infected one in.
The CEO one place I worked ran his 17" monitor at 640x480 so he didn't need to wear glasses at it.
One of the doctors (he is the medical director) where I work recently got an email address, he is old school to say the least. He had had email for a few weeks at this point and had sent and replied to some email already. He received an email from one of the cardiologists at a hospital we had transported a patient to, telling him how good of a job our Paramedics had done, and complimented our system as a whole.
He was so excited about the email he printed it, and faxed it to the director.
This same doctor, was told I'll email you such and such, said "Just mail it to me, I'll probably get if faster."
Really meaning he reads his real mail more often than checking his email. But funny just the same.
I've seen help desk tickets for cats using the laptop keyboard as a litter box.
Well this one was just... bad.
My girlfriend's sister was plugging in her camera via firewire cable into the computer, and needed my help for transferring the files. I ask her first, "Does your computer even have a firewire port?" to which her reply was, "yes". I was then called away for something, so I told her "well, plug it in, and let me know how far you get."
It wasn't too long before I was called back with a "it's not working!". My first instinct was to jump down on my knees and see if she pushed the plug in the entire way.
Oh, she did alright. Right through an empty USB port (as in there was nothing there - a blank hole), bulging out the metal shielding on the case. Yes - she plugged the thing into an empty hole and because the casing held it in, and because it "fit", it was "plugged in".
If that wasn't bad enough, the computer didn't have a damn firewire port to begin with!
I have two stories
The first went something like this:
A Mother and her 2 year old daughter came into the store, the child seemingly apprehensive. They put down their computer at the front desk, the dvd drive was ripped out and several front panels were pushed in. Out of curiosity I asked how it happened.
Mother: So would you like to tell the nice man what happened to the computer?
Daughter: Well.. I was playing as a princess and I went to sit on my special throne but it fell right off...
That and my friends sister thought the computer was hungry because it said "Low Disk Space", So she feed it a peanut butter and jelly sandwich through the floppy drive.
I've done my time as a tech.
I've also spent half a day trying to work out why a computer wouldn't turn on when I'd used an extension lead to plug it into itself. (The monitor turned on, so CLEARLY the power-cable was ok).
A friend of my sister somehow screwed up her computer so that the Internet wasn't working anymore. In a panic, she installed a 1000 hour free trial of AOL, complete with all the promotional software, to add to the several dozen Flash game icons she had on her desktop.
Same user later daisy-chained about ten or more USB extension cords so that her wireless dongle could be duct taped down to a better location on the wall, near the ceiling.
The solution was to have the wireless router not stuffed into a dark hole, buried under five feet worth of books and other junk.
A boss called me in his office asking for help. While staring at his keyboard he asked "Hey, where is the 'Save' button?"
It turns out the Save button was in the software on his monitor. So I instructed him to click it with his mouse.
Then the problem escalated because he kept on using the middle scroll wheel as the primary button and not the left mouse button.
Then I realized that he's never used a computer before. So I made up excuses to get as far away from him as possible as fast as my feet can carry.
we used to have a secretary in our office that (on more than one occasion) would email pictures for me to print out so i could scan them.
Being a Web Developer, I often ask clients with a problem to produce a screenshot if possible. I usually run them through some instructions or give them a link on how to do it.
One time however, we got a screen shot. A real screen shot! It was a large photo (complete with timestamp in the corner) of the LCD monitor showing the site, taken by a digital camera.
One of my flatmates bought a rice cooker, and then told our other flatmate (who was studying for a PhD in Neuroscience at the time) that it was voice-activated.
He tentatively tried saying “Cook rice” to it before realising it was a joke.
Well, when I bought a brand new iMac, my brother thought it would be awesome to play some old 3" CD in it. Of course, the CD drive of the iMac can't handle those things.
So actually I had an iMac just for a few days and I already had to turn the thing upside down because the CD had dispeared in the drive. Took me a lot of tools and time to finally get that thing out. And luckily, nothing was damaged.
A user had a problem with some program.
I asked him to send me a screenshot.
A few minuites later I received an email with screenshot: a scan of a printed version of the error.
A friend just told me yesterday that a coworker handed him a CD-R that he had just burned and labeled -- on the data side.
Conversation with my mother: Her: "My CD won't play" Me: "Mom, There's nothing in the CD drive, where's your CD?" Her: "I put it in the drive" Proceeds to pull a CD out of the 5 1/2 inch floppy drive
This was a while ago...
I used to work at Best Buy in the early 1990's. On more than one occasion, a customer would ask "Do I need to have a color monitor to use these color diskettes?" I guess they thought certain computers weren't allowed to have colors. Worse yet, every computer we sold at the time had a color monitor.
I've got a couple of amusing ones:
Installed this huge linux thin-client setup at a huge law firm (500+ people), and got a call from the firm three days after we'd gone live that EVERY SINGLE machine in the building had crashed and no one could work. Small army of screaming furious lawyers. But when we checked the system remotely, everything seemed normal. They insisted it wasn't so we hopped in our cars and drove half an hour to get there, jumped out of the cars, and ran into the building.
First thing we see is that every single computer is blue screened...But it's a Windows blue screen. Windows 2000, to be exact. I walked up to the closest machine, and wiggled the mouse...And the login screen popped right up. We'd left the screen saver on "random" and it had (eventually) pulled up the "bluescreen" screen saver. The server saved cycles by only rendering it once and serving the same image to every client computer, so every computer got the blue screen.
And not one single person in the entire building had hit a key, or moved the mouse, or tried to reboot.
Worked for a government agency supporting a legacy webapp (this is about 7 years ago). When I got the job, they started complaining instantly about all the flaws in the UI. I went down and sat with the data entry clerks and inadvertently discovered that the users had been trained so poorly that they didn't realize that the application WAS a web app...Had no notion of "minimize" or resizing the window. Didn't know what the back arrow did, just crazy stuff. To get back to an earlier page, they'd close the app, open it back up, and go to the page.
Got a call to fix a mac that had one of those keyboards with the power button on it? Swapped out one computer with two different backup computers because they wouldn't power up, finally picked up the keyboard and a stream of coffee poured out of it...The keyboard power button was shorting out, and keeping the computer from turning on.
I knew someone who use mouse with his two hands ...
At the time DVD were getting popular my mom rented one at the box-office for the first time. We always used to rent VHS-tapes.
After watching the movie she asked me to rewind it.
My mom once called me and asked how she could type a € sign....
I was diagnosing a problem where a computer didn't connect to network. I had previously asked over the phone, wheter the network cable was connected (it was), and as I arrived at the site, with a quick glance everything did look connected.
After the first quick diagnostic steps failed, I began to check the wires anyway - maybe a connector was flimsy. But they were ok, the phone line connected to the HPNA box quite firmly, and the wire to phone seemed to continue ok too. Then I realized - of course - they must be connected to wrong slots on the box, the uplink being in the phone port and the phone in the... wait... phone...? These people don't even have a wired phone!
So after tracing the wires behind the desk, I found there was only one wire - the phone line was connected to the ADSL box from the box itself! As I connected the wire to the wall socket and pointed out what had been wrong, they were thankful but quite embarassed, trying to explain they'd thought it was a wireless connection...
I worked for a call center it dept where the users referred to the Windows Clipboard as "Copying to the mouse".
Pressing [ALT] and [2] at the same time to get the @ sign ...
(keyboard layout my be different for you)
[Alt Gr] + [q]. - voyager
A while ago ... I gave a computer lab to a group of university students who had never used a mouse before. When asked what it was for, I picked it up and gave spoken instructions to it. Some students knew I was joking, but others didn't notice anything strange.
One of my most common ones. People complaining their files don't save. I walk over and point on their screen to the [READ-ONLY] in the header. Happens all the time. I have to then explain how network stored files work. But it's really sad when I have done this process with the same user 4 times.
I work at a company with "technology" in the name, yet these things still happen:
In a forum I saw screenshots of a (Windows) application made by using a camera.
Even worse, if we request users to send us a screenshot, we often get Word files back with the screenshot embedded.
I once saw a printed Word document containing only a screenshot.... of a Word document.
(No, Word was unimportant, there was no reason that they couldn't have just sent the original document instead.)
The printer at my dad's office was printing blank pages one day. He walked over to tech support to ask them to fix it. They told him his pixels were too big.
Using Windows Picture Viewer's zoom feature + the Print Screen key + Paint (just for remove the GUI...) to shrink/enlarge a picture.
when i was in school,
i heard two girls who are talking about some game. [ they were, students from top 5 in class ]
A : "hey i will gave u some games which my brothers had installed, its very nice !";
B : "ok... give me in this cd. gave all..";
NEXT DAY.....
A : "hey this is ur cd, i have filed it full, and store all the game.
B : "thanks....",
NEXT DAY....
A : "how was the game? "; B : "what game? all are not working. ";
then they came to me and told me check the cd as i having a laptop....
THEN IN THE CD....
THERE ARE ALMOST 70-100 games , but it was only ICONS of it?" :)
I firmly believe that nobody becomes a computer expert until they destroy some hardware.
In my case, I
Changed the voltage switch from 220v to 110v.
Connected the power cord or a DVD recorder while the computer was on (because it was a SATA drive, and I figured out that if it worked for the information cord it also would for the power one).
For no particular reason, played with some wires from my motherboard, accidentally disconnecting the one that powered the fan...
...And, not being able to make it work again, use my computer with the case opened for a long time.
Thanks to that, I have a great half-job as Technical Support in a big company.
My English is not too good, but I think it can handle this one.
One of my friends, who worked at the computer store for some time told me:
a woman walked in our store and requested computer "that had everything the best in it" and we built a custom PC with all the high-end parts for her. The next day she rused in and screamed: "I told you I wanted the best PC! The coffee rest has already broken!!".
So we tried to calm her down and asked for the PC. She brought it in and...
Yes, the poor CD drive had been broken off, it coldn't take the weight of the coffee cup.
