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# christ on a bike
holy fuck. I'm having problems with my old skool games machine, as Tart Monkey will attest to if he's about, and I'm reading severalteen forums populated by the Great Unwashed.

I came across this. Read and wish your PC support was done by someone else (bear in mind I've been involved with customer support since 1985)

'Hi all i were reading all 14 pages to do with that issue and i have a definate resolution to it .... no its not the reset button lmao
i posted here coz i thought people will see it more
here goes iv been a pc tekkie for 15 years ms certified and all that cack
i noticed that nobody said they left the mobo about 10 seconds after switchin socket on i done that for last 2 months and its worked also i av checked bios temp from 18c to 25c ...never a reboot
if u think im talkin cack il tell u what u need 12v to the cpu and 12v to the board it has to even all this out b4 it can boot properly its like switchin a tv on the tube takes time 2 reach full capacity
thats why msi cant replicate the prob coz there givin it time b4 switchin it on
btw the bit about coolig it down to make it reboot is cack as i have tried'

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(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:52, archived)
# um
what the hell was that all about?
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:53, archived)
# The thing about my job
is that I get stuff handed to me all day long written by people like that.
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:53, archived)
# Yup.
You don't have to deal with the fuckwit customers who write like that though, and still expect you to fix their PCs when they can't find the Start button because there's too many boxes which say "EXPLORER has caused an error in <unknown>" on them, when actually, you're there to support their broadband connection and not their cruddy PC World shitepile of a "computer"! Go back to fucking PC World, you stupid, idiotic, single-celled fuckwits!

*pant*
*wheeze*

/bad day at the office...
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:58, archived)
# Too fucking right mate!
Had a rebuild in last week. 'NTL won't support it'. Fair enough. Turns out it's three pikey OS upgrades on a base e-machine box (cheap SHIT) and suddenly doesn't have the antivirus software I installed eight months (and two OS's) ago.

Why the watermelon aren't they taking this piece of shit back to PC world?

(Edit). Please insert kitten. I'll be alright in a moment.
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:00, archived)
# I get the feeling
I may have spoken to that person... Getting a 169 IP, perchance?

EDIT: And please, please, please remind these people it's not our job to support their PCs? Ta.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:03, archived)
# Sorry, I didn't
mean to cause apoplepsy :)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:04, archived)
# No problems all.
But I contravened the first rule of support shortly after they got this machine. Turned out they wanted a CD writer. Sight-unseen, I decided to pick up a cheapy and fit it in my spare time.

So I get a drive. Went to fit the bloody thing. While I started to fit it I noticed the 'CD-Recordable' flash on their existing drive. Shit.

While trying to ascertain why they wanted an *additional* cd-burner, the guy paying for it pointed me to his HAPPY BABY ORANG-UTAN WATERMELONTARD of a son who told me exactly why it was not a burner.

He had some difficulty fifteen minutes later when I allowed him to browse his my docs folder from a laptop though...
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:11, archived)
# this is exactly
why I tell mrs witchy I won't ever be a freelance PC support bod.....I think I'd be arrested within days!
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:16, archived)
# To be fair
occasionally you get a thought-provoking issue.

However your name gets viralled to a load of lowbrow arsewits who expect you to provide the same level of cheap support you give to people who have *bought their cranberrying machine off you*.

(Calm. Calm. Kittens. Kittens. Watermelon.)
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:19, archived)
# Yes, kittens,
teddy bears, beer, warm baths, beer, soapy tit wankanother bath with aromatic oils....

I know the feeling. I think I'll sod off to bed while the going's good!

night!
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:23, archived)
# See you later.
Have a good (STW/spongebath/leer at Ming the Merciless), whatever floats yer boat.

E-MACHINES ARE SH1T3. F34
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:28, archived)
# I can now recognise certain first line people by reading their tickets
Sadly, I don't get to say "Ah yes, so-and-so wrote that, I recognise their clear, concise and gramatically correct memo" very often.
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:03, archived)
# hehehe
Generally because those who have two brain cells to rub together and thus could write clear, concise and gramatically correct memos don't need a lot of level 2 backup in the first place...
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:04, archived)
# Slightly different on our side of the building
Level 2 isn't so much about backing up level 1, but more about having logins for things that they wouldn't dare let level 1 near.
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:07, archived)
# Ahh,
right-o. Understandable.

Not that I'm saying Customer Services can't do their job, you understand...
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:11, archived)
#
chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/images/015.gif
(I helped save b3ta! gracielou, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:07, archived)
# We have one of those.
I don't know what he looks like, but I was tempted to wander the 109,000sqft building today, find him and bitch slap him.
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:09, archived)
# I posted this link down there
www.chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/

it's possibly glasscock, but I don't care. It makes me laugh.
(I helped save b3ta! gracielou, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:11, archived)
# I think I know George!
I sit next to him on a regular basis (not by choice!)
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:16, archived)
# Used to be a semi-regular poster on the forum there
Always nice to rant with understanding people.
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:17, archived)
# Well,
wouldn't you want to be able to send external emails from your hole area?
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:12, archived)
# longest

sentence

ever
(vork and burlap, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:54, archived)
# was that a helpful support
message or not?
I have no idea
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:54, archived)
# A "PC tekkie"
Christ. Remember the old dig at engineers: "Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer, and now I are one"?
I think that may have moved with the times. No offence intended to you, but...
(Astatine, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:55, archived)
# Let's say,
he's such a good engineer, he could be a PC World manager...
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:02, archived)
# don't get
me started.......*fume*
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:06, archived)
# I read that several times...
but I still have NO IDEA what they are on about!
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:55, archived)
# I'm more stumped than Stumpy McStump
after he's lost a leg. Apparently this has something to do with the problem I'm having, but WTF?
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:02, archived)
# is that English??
?
(I helped save b3ta! pippy is a truck, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:55, archived)
# It's jibberish.
(Astatine, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:56, archived)
# mmmm could be
but if it is i should be able to understand it, as i can write it perfectly
(I helped save b3ta! pippy is a truck, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:58, archived)
# Jibberish comes in many dialects
Such as "Drunken", "Legal", "Technical", "Semi-literate" and "Philosophical". I think that lot comes under "Semi-literate", at best.
(Astatine, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:00, archived)
# you wanna see
the rest of the posts on that forum, being as it is 'supported' by a major motherboard manufacturer. Or perhaps not :)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:03, archived)
# I used to have enough trouble
getting "helpful" suggestions from know-it-all sales team members whilst being part of a web team.

Talk, they can do. Communicate through the medium of prose, they can not.
(Astatine, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:06, archived)
# George? Is that you?
chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/
(I helped save b3ta! gracielou, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:56, archived)
# 12v to the CPU
souds summarily crap to me.

Apologies if anyone knows any better...
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 0:56, archived)
# Yes, something in my head tells me
that CPUs get 5v...
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:02, archived)
# Sounds right to me
and I'm not very 'techie'!
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:15, archived)
# I wish mine was
damn that's unreadable
(I helped save b3ta! Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:03, archived)
# well scary.
Night!
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sun 23 Nov 2003, 1:24, archived)