Has this ever happened to you?

[Chewie]

I came across the "Green Switch" header many years ago, but I knew what it was.

I did once buy a new mobo and drive 200 miles to take it back to Coventry because it wouldn't boot.
Once there, they tried it on a bare test bench and it worked perfectly but when I put it back in my case it failed again.
Imagine how stupid I looked when I found a metal standoff from the previous mobo shorting across tracks on the underside!

[clocker]

Imagine how stupid I looked when I found a metal standoff from the previous mobo shorting across tracks on the underside!

Give me a moment, I'm imagining....
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Wow, you really did look stupid!

Dealing with the general public every day certainly feeds my (generally undeserved) sense of superiority...I've pulled some classics in my time as well.
The first PC I built was a comedy of errors (I couldn't even find the pinouts for the front panel connectors. Actually, I saw them but couldn't believe they used such a half-assed method as bare pins sticking up from the board...still don't) and since then I've managed to garble my first F6 dance with SATA drives and won't even talk about trying to RAID.

The absolute classic error was my first full Windows install.
"Press any key to boot from CD"...no prob.
Load files, etc...reboot.
"Press any key to boot from CD"...uh, OK.
Press.


Wait a minute, didn't we just do this?
"Press any key to boot from CD".
Press.

And over and over and over.

Now that's feeling stooopid.

[Wolfmight]

I hate how computers have to hard restart during the installation of software. There has got to be another way, because restarting seems to put some added stress on the hardware over time. Hell, why does the windows xp installation even restart after it's first step? Couldn't it just load the next step? Seems very possible, because I've seen linux programs do it.

I've used Suse 9.3 for about 5 months now and it's never requested me to restart the system, except for an operating system update, but besides that, all the software can be installed and run without a restart of the system. (that's 99.9%)

[tesco]

The absolute classic error was my first full Windows install.
"Press any key to boot from CD"...no prob.
Load files, etc...reboot.
"Press any key to boot from CD"...uh, OK.
Press.


Wait a minute, didn't we just do this?
"Press any key to boot from CD".
Press.

And over and over and over.

Now that's feeling stooopid.

Now that has happened to everyone.

[Virtualbody1234]

The absolute classic error was my first full Windows install.
"Press any key to boot from CD"...no prob.
Load files, etc...reboot.
"Press any key to boot from CD"...uh, OK.
Press.


Wait a minute, didn't we just do this?
"Press any key to boot from CD".
Press.

And over and over and over.

Now that's feeling stooopid.

Now that has happened to everyone.

Not me.