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So my mate has just rang me & asked if I can go round & sort his Dads Wifi out.
Apparently his Dad has rang support & told them that the CD they sent him is borked as there is No sound on it !!! :mad:
The Guy on the other end of the phone explained that the CD goes in the Laptop Not his Hifi CD player. :D + :p:p:p

Got any Fail to share ? :cool:
 
Heard this from a mate, he said he got a call from his mom that she can't find the 'any' key on her keyboard and the computer said 'hit any key to continue'

Don't know if it's true but still funny.
 
I know that my brother in law had a good one..

He was speaking to man who said his internet was down and his modem felt hot - so he put it in the freezer!

Can't think of any of my own expierances..
 
That is a corker, I've worked in a PC shop part time for years, but never come across anything as bad as that. I'm trying to remember some.
 
There was also a website about a repair shop with pics of what people did, had lots of pics about memory being inserted wrong way around and forced in with a hammer, CPU coolers installed with the plastic still on the bottom, no thermal paste and sticks shoved into fans to stop the noise, I lost the link though :(
 
lol, reminds me of the time I worked for Freeserve and some guy was on the phone complaining that the USB cable on the modem wasn't long enough, I was puzzled as you can put the modem anywhere really... So I said to him "you can just put the modem on top of your PC" to which he replied "But then I'd have to sit on the floor to use it"... It turns out he was trying to use the new modem as a mouse.
 
That’s one of the best PC fails I’ve heard in a while. The frightening thing is that we will all be like that one day. :D
 
I wish you lot knew him though as it would make it funnier (if poss)
This old Dude is a genius engineering type dude who whittles away in his garage & rebuilt his old British motorbike/Triumph Herald etc etc etc till the beginning of time.

Later on in the convo with his Son he told me that Dad had already had the HD out of the laptop & tried to put the CD in there. :D
It has an external CD drive that was still in the bag. :p:p:p
 
Skyfall said:
lol, reminds me of the time I worked for Freeserve and some guy was on the phone complaining that the USB cable on the modem wasn't long enough, I was puzzled as you can put the modem anywhere really... So I said to him "you can just put the modem on top of your PC" to which he replied "But then I'd have to sit on the floor to use it"... It turns out he was trying to use the new modem as a mouse.
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Wow. Just wow!
 
malc30 said:
So my mate has just rang me & asked if I can go round & sort his Dads Wifi out.
Apparently his Dad has rang support & told them that the CD they sent him is borked as there is No sound on it !!! :mad:
The Guy on the other end of the phone explained that the CD goes in the Laptop Not his Hifi CD player. :D + :p:p:p

Got any Fail to share ? :cool:
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Oh dear! I bet the guy on the other end had to bite his tongue to stop laughing :p
 
I was hoping somebody was going to post saying they just took the call & haven't stop laughing yet as I haven't. :p
I have to go round there soon & face him. :D
 
Where do I begin? I ran a computer supply/repair business I had quite a few OAP's as clients due to word of mouth.

I had one geezer who wanted a top of the range PC and after looking around he bought one of the i7 systems from here (about a year ago) and a £700 monitor and lots of other bits and pieces (probably £3.5k all in) but when I explained to him he should really get broadband as he was only going to use it for internet and Word he said he couldn't afford it! I did tell him a £500 Dell would do but no!!!

I then get a phonecall from his missus complaining that the internet was no faster and that I'd promised it would be really quick as they had spent so much!! :confused:

FAIL


I had another guy buy a second hand system off me - I used to always get people down to my workshop to see second hand kit working before buying (that way no excuses). Anyway, guy paid up (£200) and off he goes. System had a brand new GFX card in, some ATi PCIe I got for £50, nothing special.

Anyway, later that day I get this total nutty woman screaming down the phone at me saying I'd basically stolen £500 and that the PC wasn't working, blah blah blah. Anyway, I calm her down and say that if it wasn't working I'd refund £200 if it hadn't been tampered with...... woman turned out to be guys mother (guy was 27!!)

Long story short, the guy had bought this off me, sold it to his brother for £500 and tried to swap over an AGP gfx card and didn't seat it properly (figures as mobo was PCIe!) and turned the thing on, blowing the mobo. I ended up looking at the PC and gave this guys mother a call back explaining what her other darling son had tried to do.

EPIC FAIL


Sorry for long post but some people should not be allowed to own a PC
 
Best one I ever had was taking a phone call from a guy who complained that his mouse was too sensitive. I took him through control panel, mouse sensitivity settings, everything. He still said he couldn't control his PC at all. In the end I went to see him and find out what the problem was.

Turns out he was using his bog standard rollerball mouse upside down like a trackball.

FIAL.
 
Working for a support line I once had this guy call up saying his password wasn't working, the usual password issues I thought, and asked him what error he was getting, he replied:

"I don't get an error message, but every time I try to type it in, black blobs appear where the password should be..."

FAIL
 
My wife asked me to arrange a chimney sweep for her mums house. When the sweep arrived he pointed out they didn't have a chimney :(
 
Some family friends at the bottom of the road (we grew up to call them aunt an uncle when young) Decided to buy a laptop to do their shopping and try emailing people to help keep in contact.

Anyway my mum got a call from them as they were struggling to get it started. Turns out when she got their he was just typing in the password and not pressing enter afterwords. :D:D:D

Made me laugh
 
Spunkey said:
Best one I ever had was taking a phone call from a guy who complained that his mouse was too sensitive. I took him through control panel, mouse sensitivity settings, everything. He still said he couldn't control his PC at all. In the end I went to see him and find out what the problem was.

Turns out he was using his bog standard rollerball mouse upside down like a trackball.

FIAL. <------------ :)
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I once had someone ring me up saying their computer monitor wasn't working. I asked her if she had turned it on so I asked her to check. Surprise, surprise it suddenly worked. :D
 
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