Second post

All right, here’s another one of those “you know you’re getting bad when…” stories. Recently I purchased a barebones system from a computer “superstore.” No problem. I received all the pieces and proceeded to put them together. Not a problem with that, since I have been putting together my own systems for over 15 years. After a fairly short period of time came the moment of truth - I hit the power switch. Problem. It won’t go. Absolutely nothing. Not even a beep or boop or belch or anything. Tried this, that and the other. Tested parts, plugged this in and unplugged that. Still have a problem.

Okey-dokey, time to call the place I bought it from. I make the call and the tech/salesman/return clerk tells me something that I had forgotten long ago. I had forgotten it because it was not something that you really have problems with, considering how those things are made, nowadays. Yep, remove the RAM stick. I removed. I powered up. It beeped. Don’t ask me how, but somehow I had managed to put the RAM stick in the wrong way. Actually, I had taken it as a “gimme” that RAM sticks were made now so that you couldn’t put them in the wrong way. Once again, the computer industry put it’s thumbs in its ears, wriggled its fingers, stuck out its tongue and went “Pllblblblblblttttttt” at me.

Par for the course, eh?

Heh.

[tags]Michael, McMaster, computer, tech, RAM, ram, industry[/tags]