[RESOLVED] Classic...

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Originally posted by RacerTech:
<STRONG>had a HP driver disk in the floppy. </STRONG>

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I actually ran into that last week, My dad called, and he is a basic user, but smart enough to troubleshoot himself. Sure enough, he is getting the "Could not find NT Loader" error, indicating a floppy in the drive. We checked, but there was no floppy. What in the heck? As it turned out, my cousin (who lives with them) had burned a CD and made it bootable, but not set an image for it. It was trying to boot from the CD and failing.

UGhhhh.

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Originally posted by RacerTech:
<STRONG>had a HP driver disk in the floppy. </STRONG>

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I actually ran into that last week, My dad called, and he is a basic user, but smart enough to troubleshoot himself. Sure enough, he is getting the "Could not find NT Loader" error, indicating a floppy in the drive. We checked, but there was no floppy. What in the heck? As it turned out, my cousin (who lives with them) had burned a CD and made it bootable, but not set an image for it. It was trying to boot from the CD and failing.

UGhhhh.

One time I did an upgrade on this ladys machine. She had mentioned that her floppy drive was not working. During the upgrade I checked it, and even used the Wn 95 driver disk to load 95 on it. She took the computer back. Few hours later, the owner of the shop comes in and yells at me for not fixing her drive since she just called and bitched him out.

I said it worked fine for me.... he said go over there and replace it just incase it is flaky. I drove 30 miles each way, to get there and find out the stupid b*tch was putting her disk upside down.

And then I sat and trained her on how to use quick books because she was too damn stupid to figure it out even though she had been using her machine with QB for a whole yr. Some people should just be banned from owning a computer. <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/redface.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/cool.gif" border="0">

not realated, i have driven 350Km's to unjam a photocopier, 3 hour driver man. what a pain

Believe it or not Once i had a call from Somebody that his computer Don't work but Don't make anything.
Arrived and i saw that the Screen was off.

Kill 'em All!!!

Ok, I'm going to admit something now, but please don't tell anyone 'cos you'll ruin my reputation.

Replaced a motherboard in a PC for a friend, quick 5 minute job, everything went fine...until I came to switch it on. pressed power button, nothing. Hmm, said I. No power, checked the connections - fine. Put the old multimeter in, all voltage levels fine. What could be the problem?

While reaching round the front to hit the power button, accidently pressed the reset switch, power came on.

DOH!!! (Forehead slapping time...), made a quick excuse about the flux capacitor not being correctly wired to the 2:1 surge protection system (while swapping the power and reset button's over).

Good thing is, I've never forgotten and now always check before powering up. I also us this when teaching other people how to troubleshoot.