Funny and Humorous Technical Support Tales and Stories

After Hurricane Harvey, we have relatives staying with us while their flooded house is repaired.

I had just gotten a "new" desktop on clearance - Windows 8 and 4gb of RAM, not the most bang for the buck, but at $99, I wasn't complaining.

Especially when a factory reset, a Windows Update to 8.1, and another $99 on two 8GB sticks of RAM (there was a sale) got it working much better than it had "out of the box".

One of the guests wandered into the computer room after I'd turned off the PC, unplugged it, pressed the power button, removed the side of the case (three screws) and then grounded myself so I could replace the RAM with the new sticks.

Impressed the heck out of them...you'd have thought I'd done something amazingly difficult. It takes less than ten minutes...even with using a screwdriver to get access to the motherboard.

But I saw that relative handing their phone over to their spouse to be "fixed"...so I guess it's something that they aren't going to try doing for themselves.