looks like someone put it into mud, then back into thier computer! that and they have tons of dust!
My uncle smokes in front of his computer all the time, if for some reason he replaces his computer I'm tearing into the tower case for some myth busting.
I had a customer who used his water hose to wash his computer out. Needless to say, it didn't work anymore. We introduced him to compressed air. He was not pleased.I remember once that a guy came in to the computer repair shop and said that he had broken his computer while trying to clean it out. Apparently he didn't know what to do so he decided to use a vacuum cleaner and see if it worked. Haha, that would've been funny if that guy wasn't me 4 years ago.
He must have singlehandedly kept Hewlett-Packard afloat for years.I had a customer who asked if we recycled computers.
He brought in a bunch of crushed cases.
Every time his computer did something he didn't like, or if it wouldn't work, he smashed it with some kind of tool and bought a new one instead.
Title says "Horror stories" not how i made a quick 20 dollarsi once offered computer help at summer to earn some money.
this women called me and said her computer dosn't work.
i come to her house and see the words "out of sync" all over the screen.
apparently she just powered up the screen, not the pc itself.
i pressed the button and got 20$ XD
Roman, I've submitted this story for SysAdmin's Day contest on ThinkGeek if you don't mind :DAnd that's the story about biohazard laptop lady.
As I've mentioned in other threads, you see some pretty horrific shit when you're a PC tech. This thread is dedicated to sharing some of the best/worst tales I've encountered.
Note: Names, if used, have been changed to protect the innocent
I had a customer call me with an email problem. He couldn't send emails from Outlook. This is normally caused by someone attempting to use Outlook who didn't set it up properly. That's OK, not the end of the world. Normally you can just Google server and port settings and call it a day.
When he came in, he brought his wife and his laptop. Standard work laptop, bare-bones OS, XP. This means he's using Outlook Express. I ask him who he uses for email, and he says "AOL." Well, normally I don't fuss with AOL shit, but this is a quick fix, so whatever.
I go online, find the directions, and open Outlook. And that's when you piece everything together in a second.
Let's take a step back and go on a tangent. You know of Craigslist.org, right? Classifieds site. You can buy a car, arrange a riot, or find random people who want to fuck. When you click on their email address, it opens your default mail client--in this guy's case, Outlook Express
In his outbox (that opened by default, with his wife standing there) are a good handful of m4m emails. This guy was going online, finding gay guys that wanted to blow an older dude, and was trying to hook up. In the fastest Ctrl-A/Del movement, I got them off of the screen before they knew what was going on.
And that's the first time I saved a marriage.
did you win?Roman, I've submitted this story for SysAdmin's Day contest on ThinkGeek if you don't mind :D