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 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
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 ·RoadRunner Cable
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Re: [video] ABC Crash Get Burned Computer Repair Loved the CRT dropping in the vid. 
And the "don't know our RAM from our hard drive" bit, where it showed a picture of the animal Ram.
But let's jump into the geek's shoes a minute: he's going into a situation blind, having only an often useless description of the problem. Granted, first time he punches the power button, that hard drive failure message the bios so kindly provides should be a dead giveaway to open the case, and once the case is open, bam: unplugged power cable. But beforehand? The customer may ask (and did in the video) what might be wrong, and the tech may just start throwing out possibilities. Once the machine is powered on, all those ideas go out the window of course. Kinda like so:
"So what might be wrong with it?"
"Well, it COULD be any number of things. The motherboard, the ram, or the hard drive, or even corrupt windows files.."
*punches power button*
"Oh, it's the hard drive."
OTOH, in the video, it looked like a couple of those guys had the thing on and still couldn't figure it out. Those guys... need to find a different line of work.
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 OlegBellsouth FastaccessPremium
join:2003-12-08
Birmingham, AL | O yea corrupt windows files when you can't even get into OS | | |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
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 ·Frontier FiOS
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said by sivran:OTOH, in the video, it looked like a couple of those guys had the thing on and still couldn't figure it out. Those guys... need to find a different line of work. I'd want to see the entire video before passing too much judgment. It's hard to tell from a 3 second clip how long he's been there. While "Is it plugged in" is one of the basic checks that should be done, I know it's not my first thing. I'll usually check to see if it shows up during boot, appears in the bios, etc. I couldn't tell if he had done other steps first and I doubt anyone else could either. | |
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