The fault that took you longest to solve...?

Shakeel

Shakeel

Shakeel

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What was the fault that took you longest to solve. It not everytime you solve a problem real quick.

Heres mine

I built a PC 8400/X48T DQ6/4GB RAM

When i built i put in all the motherboard standoffs put screwed in 1 less screw. The pc would crash often and i changed the ram psu and mobo and still no luck. Then after about 8 months i noticed i didnt have a screw in one of the standoffs

After that it never crashed

Yours?
 
Years ago my PC would occassionaly stutter every 10 seconds or so and the sound would mess up. Once it started it wouldn't stop. Turned out to be the PSU which I only discovered when it blew everything up.

Nowadays I would spot it instantly
 
My HP P1006 printer across a network. Ive just solved the 3-4minutes before a print issue by specifying the network port as a local port.
 
Computer just wouldn't turn on one day, couldn't figure it out. After a couple of weeks past, I got fed up with the spare pc and unplugged all the cables inside my pc, reconnected, worked fine.

Cant quite understand now why I didn't think of that in the first place.
 
On my current set up, my graphics would keep on crashing everyone 5mins on running any video or game.
They would just go MENTAL and had no idea why.
Tried differnt graphics cards on the mobo, underclocking, overclocking, and reseting the bios. NOTHING then tried new thermal paste on EVERYTHING still nothing.
Finnaly, installed windows seven, AND BOOM FIXED. Ended up, I just need the new bios update.
Boy was i ****ed off.
 
My mate came round with his PC after he couldnt work out what was wrong, basically we'd get the splash screen but then the signal would die and no HDD activity so it was having trouble POST-ing.

Logically I swappred the RAM around a bit, unplug the HDD and optical, removed all the expansion cards, removed my graphics card and tried it in his, removed my PSU which was no small task as I went a bit crazy with the cable ties and put it in his rig...still nothing. He had a Hyper PSU so maybe I did that earlier on.

Ok maybe the case switch is faulty disconnected that, use a screw driver, same problem.

Ok maybe its shorting out on the case, removed it from the case and powered it on, hey presto! it worked! Then rebuilt it all outside the case, yep all working. Examined the case and motherboard, no obvious short circuiting. Put it all back in the case, still working. Very odd I thought.

Reconnected the front panel connections...problems back. Anyway it turns out that the USB pins on the front of the case had been bent and 2 were making contact and must have been causing a power surge each time.

Took about 2 hours of solidly trying different combinations of hardware.
 
Mouse issues my stepfather was having, it was intermittant and he could discern no pattern to it, eventually some months later I happened to be there when it started doing it again and I discovered it was the sun coming through his window and shining through the gap left between the mouse buttons interfering with the sensors.
 
Some one brought in a PC with what appeared to be a video card problem. The card was quite old and they decided to upgrade. On installing the new card, i still had problems.

After stripping the system, trying different CPUS etc, changing PSU, memory, it turned out the new card was DOA. So two dead cards didn't help my diagnosis.
 
Friend of mine had a PC that was constantly giving him a BSOD.

I went round but it hardly did it.

I was 50-50 but he did say that it can go for hours without a problem, then it can be a pain for ages and crash every few minutes.

I asked him to write down every time it did BSOD the numbers and the error etc and I went through it according to the info we collected, but again, the PC seemed to be just fine?

In the end, I said to him that I will take the PC home and let him borrow one of mine... I gave him my XP2400 Setup ( Aty the time, that was a good one ) as that one NEVER crashes, and the next day after his PC had been running at 100% doing all kinds of banches and folding and various other stress tests including converting loads of AVIs to DVDs all at the same time, well you know the score, and it was still solid as a rock, I phoned my mate up, who told me that the Pc I gave him was just as bad.

Clearly it cannot be the PC then.

So, a bit of detective work needs to be done here...

What has my mate done recently?

Well, he said he installed this or that, but I told him that for both PCs to do teh same thing like this, has NOTHING to do with the software, it must be somethign else.

He said he moved the PC, Again, I said that this is unlikely because both Pcs are fine at my house and bad here, but I asked where he moved it from...

It was in teh living room, its now in the bedroom.

Will he move it back? He could but he moved it here for reasons and so, I said to use an Extension cable from the living room into the bedroom, and see what happens?

Needless to say he didnt phone me at all for 3 days.

When I phoned him up he said that his PC hasnt crashed once.

So, I re-wired his flat and he has not had a problem since then. Billed to his landlord of course.

Turns out the wiring in the flat itself is just crappy.

In total, these problems had gone on for a few weeks but it took us about a good couple of days to actually resolve.
 
I know this isnt to do with computers but i had this motorbike once , finished work and couldnt get it to start. I tried everything , i was cursing it and ranting and raving. I am quite good with mechanics so decided to strip it down right there and then , stripped it down , all the electrics to test them , found nothing wrong. I phoned the mrs up to come and get me and she stepped over to the bike and sais "Matt , whats that button there" , AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH ID FLIPPED THE KILL SWITCH ON BY ACCIDENT.

I looked such a fool hahahahah
 
On the theme of motorbikes, I loaned a mate my Guzzi so he could get down to Guernsey.

They were at a petrol station half way down england somewhere and he could not get the bike started... He worked on it for about 2 hours and eventually gave up, he phoned the AA and they came to pick it up.

They were bringing it home to me, when he phoned me up.

I asked if he had taken it off the side stand and then the penny dropped... When the sidestand is down, it kills the engine... You need to either have it on the center stand or you need to be sitting on it for it to start.

Luckily he was in the AA cab when I said this and so they stopped to have a look and it started as always first time.

He must have felt such a tool

Anyway, few phones calls and half a day later they waited for him to catch up at least.
 
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