Posts by Captain Scarlet 3227 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Dec 2010
:O well tbh I brought a load of 4250's cheap so everyone had one even if they didn't print much (Ended up with users asking for smaller printers and meant I could replace the invoice and despatch note printers every 1 million prints when they started wearing out).
Yup NTL, the network cable had become detached from her NTL Modem from my mothers computer I built her.
Instead of calling me she called NTL, after 4 hours she was told the computer needed windows reinstalled.
As this was a machine I had built I obviously told I needed to reinstall Windows, then came after 2 seconds I had said there its reinstalled.
What is this, every single LAN I have ever been to has had a mountain of Cider/Beer (On some occassions a somerfields trolley which ended up in the garden for some reason).
When we moved to a hall it was the hot water dispencer (For Pot Noodles), with those mini kegs in the fridge (Although we did have an issue with power, so had to ensure only one person turned on at a time when full).
Yup and always production machines someone brought by stealth that no-one knows about until it dies.
Replaced such a machine with an ISA card, to then get a frying because it didn't have Windows 98 on (No-one asked and I wanted it on our Windows Domain and network), so Windows 98 installed, all networking removed and its probably still there chugging away (Still no idea what the bleeding thing did).
Erm but I can't see anything from the screenshot showing it is reporting an issue.
I assume its hung during initialising the program used to display the ads, however I'm more used to seeing Kernel panics or if anything has failed, Failed showing in red on Linux based Operating Systems.
Edit: DOH last two lines clear state error and failed. I clearly need to go to specsavers (Other opticians are available)
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