Just wondering, have any of you ever done something stupid with a computer? It can be hardware installation, software or even just something stupid while using the machine!
When I was putting together the new PC for someone at work, I decided to power up the motherboard just by itself (outside the case, no HDD, CDROM or floppy) to make sure it wasn't dead-on-arrival. With most BIOSes, provided the CPU, memory and graphics card is installed, it'll do a beep and then say something like "Disk boot failure" on the screen.
Well, the board powered up but nothing appeared on the screen. I checked everything... or so I thought. Finally I realized that the aux power connector (4-pin plug from ATX PSU) wasn't connected to the board!
After connecting it, the system went through POST fine and I was able to continue with the HDDs and installing the OS. But I can't believe I missed something that obvious...
Another time when I was moving a monitor from one room to another, the sales director came into my office and put the glare filter (which I'd left behind) on my desk. He declared "You forgot your screen saver"
Anyone else had similar stories of 'computer stupidities'? There are a ton on this website: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
When I was putting together the new PC for someone at work, I decided to power up the motherboard just by itself (outside the case, no HDD, CDROM or floppy) to make sure it wasn't dead-on-arrival. With most BIOSes, provided the CPU, memory and graphics card is installed, it'll do a beep and then say something like "Disk boot failure" on the screen.
Well, the board powered up but nothing appeared on the screen. I checked everything... or so I thought. Finally I realized that the aux power connector (4-pin plug from ATX PSU) wasn't connected to the board!

After connecting it, the system went through POST fine and I was able to continue with the HDDs and installing the OS. But I can't believe I missed something that obvious...
Another time when I was moving a monitor from one room to another, the sales director came into my office and put the glare filter (which I'd left behind) on my desk. He declared "You forgot your screen saver"

Anyone else had similar stories of 'computer stupidities'? There are a ton on this website: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
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