What's the easiest thing you have ever fixed?

**Dark Millennium** · July 7th, 2002, 03:22 PM

For myself it was a Compaq Alpha server. I popped it open, cleaned it, reseated all the cards and it worked.

This had apparently been annoying the techs at school for quite some time but they had never bothered to clean it or reseat the cards. If anyone wanted to know, it would boot into any OS for about 5 minutes then crash.

Works beautifully now on Linux. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

**Poseidon** · July 7th, 2002, 03:40 PM

Edjected the floppy disk. Sad thing is, the person did not use her computer for three days because she could not get it to boot.

**Outcoded** · July 7th, 2002, 04:52 PM

Pressed "On line" on a printer. At 3am, after a 35 mile drive. Damn that paid well (1 hour minimum, plus driving, doubled for out of hours).

**The Rifleman** · July 8th, 2002, 02:06 AM

Flipped the power switch on the back of the master speaker to collect $50 for fixing the sound.

**Pluto** · July 8th, 2002, 02:51 AM

Pulled the curtains when user was complaining about "black line" running down screen.

**NooNoo** · July 8th, 2002, 03:43 AM

Swapped the keyboard and mouse connectors over... £20 thankyou!

**talltech** · July 8th, 2002, 05:28 AM

pluged the telehone line into the right jack of a modem

**Quiet Thunder** · July 8th, 2002, 07:49 AM

Plugged the computer back in to the outlet.

**techguy13** · July 8th, 2002, 08:21 AM

Turned on the power bar after getting attitude about the PC not working.

**Commander Klarg** · July 8th, 2002, 09:33 AM

Nothing.

Seriously; there are many times when malfunctioning PC equipment will just spontaneously start working when I walk in the door. I can't explain it.

**deseqer** · July 8th, 2002, 09:41 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Lt. Cmdr Klarg:
Nothing.

Seriously; there are many times when malfunctioning PC equipment will just spontaneously start working when I walk in the door. I can't explain it.

<hr /></blockquote>I had service calls like that before.

**MacGyver** · July 8th, 2002, 10:06 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Lt. Cmdr Klarg:
Nothing.

Seriously; there are many times when malfunctioning PC equipment will just spontaneously start working when I walk in the door. I can't explain it.

<hr /></blockquote>Oh, computers know. They just know when somebody who is willing to beat the snot out of them with an aluminum baseball bat walks in the room.

Then they behave because they know who's boss.