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So brought a desktop computer back to the office to sort out. Friend of the family, needed a new DVD drive as the old ones done for and they also needed a new keyboard there one was broken and doing random stuff.

Anyway i picked it up last night and brought it into the office. set it up this morning and turned it on. nothing on screen "oh Sh*t" what's happened it wasn't like that last night. OK I'll try the other setup of monitor keyboard and mouse. still nothing. so unplug it all turn it round to unscrew side see if anything has come loose in transit.

From above i cant see the ports for the graphics card they have installed and last night i just unplugged without looking.

Plug in the monitor to the graphics card all works because of course that would be the problem with nothing on screen if plugging into the internal graphics when they're using a graphics card


Silly me
 
One of the worst feelings I've had in this business is bringing a customer PC back to the shop only to find there's no display or it won't even turn on! What? It worked at the customer site, but now ...?

In this case, I'm sure you had a big sigh of relief when you realized the monitor was plugged into the wrong graphics adapter.

We've all been there!
 
TECCS said:
So brought a desktop computer back to the office to sort out. Friend of the family, needed a new DVD drive as the old ones done for and they also needed a new keyboard there one was broken and doing random stuff.

Anyway i picked it up last night and brought it into the office. set it up this morning and turned it on. nothing on screen "oh Sh*t" what's happened it wasn't like that last night. OK I'll try the other setup of monitor keyboard and mouse. still nothing. so unplug it all turn it round to unscrew side see if anything has come loose in transit.

From above i cant see the ports for the graphics card they have installed and last night i just unplugged without looking.

Plug in the monitor to the graphics card all works because of course that would be the problem with nothing on screen if plugging into the internal graphics when they're using a graphics card


Silly me
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oh i do that a lot ( or allot as they say here)
 
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I always cover those ports with the dust covers out there such as these http://tinyurl.com/zms678u ( this is just the first site I found on Google).

I also always have dust covers for Ethernet, USB, and any other connectors that are not in use. Saves a lot of headache down the road and the are not that expensive.
 
glricht said:
One of the worst feelings I've had in this business is bringing a customer PC back to the shop only to find there's no display or it won't even turn on! What? It worked at the customer site, but now ...?

In this case, I'm sure you had a big sigh of relief when you realized the monitor was plugged into the wrong graphics adapter.

We've all been there!
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It's worse the other way around! When you spend time fixing the computer and return it to the client and it doesn't boot!
 
I had built a machine for my brother a few years ago, maybe 4 or so... it was a pretty solid
i5 2500K machine with a (I think) radeon HD4870 in it. Maybe 8 GB of ram, some other stuff
don't remember a ton of details but I do remember him asking me why he got such crappy
framerates in WoW and Skyrim.

He wasn't using the 4870, he was trying to play those games on integrated graphics lol. So while
the machine did function, it was certainly a lot better when the 4870 was in charge!
 
Barcelona said:
It's worse the other way around! When you spend time fixing the computer and return it to the client and it doesn't boot!
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I've done that this week as well. well kind of worked fine on the bench and then was sluggish when taken back. worked fine after a restart. thankfully. He also works for himself and laughed and says it always happens like that works fine till your in front of a customer doesn't it
 
brandonkick said:
I had built a machine for my brother a few years ago, maybe 4 or so... it was a pretty solid
i5 2500K machine with a (I think) radeon HD4870 in it. Maybe 8 GB of ram, some other stuff
don't remember a ton of details but I do remember him asking me why he got such crappy
framerates in WoW and Skyrim.

He wasn't using the 4870, he was trying to play those games on integrated graphics lol. So while
the machine did function, it was certainly a lot better when the 4870 was in charge!
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Used to have exact same system - 2500K CPU rocks
 
Something similar happened to me yesterday.

Got a call, while doing some other callouts on a Saturday afternoon, from a customer panicking that her computer is not even turning on and her daughter is having exams in a few days (and just started studying) :D So I just drove to her, 2 minutes away from me... sure enough it wasn't powering on. Did some checks, and told her I'll take it to my office, have a proper look and bring it back to her if it's something that can be fixed in a matter of an hour.

Long story short, after some more checks, removed the CMOS battery (polished it) and it worked. Few shutdowns and reboots, all fine... took it back. Connected it and no power!! What the... ? :D Then I noticed I left the power switch on the PSU off.
 
Haha goto a clients place with pc, chatter chatter plug it all in get back ache plugging cables under desk groan. Push power switch....nothing, turn to client is power on - oh no sorry.

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glennd said:
Ok I give up! Where's the power button?!?"
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haha - I try to make a joke of this when it happens - "Well, I think you're in trouble, the computer guy you hired can't find the on switch!". Stupid monitors with those invisible touch switches, or the desktops where it's cleverly part of a chrome strip or something. :rolleyes:
 
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