rob356 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ Here they have TONS of statements, phone calls and other sayings of the people who don't have a clue. or don't care. one of my favorites is Do you sell Mac OS X for Windows? tons of other funny conversations there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95705-computer-stupidities/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
djet Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 By the way, what does BTW stand for? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95705-computer-stupidities/#findComment-682617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2L Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I was giving instructions to a caller once, but his son was the one physically sitting at the computer, so all my instructions had to be relayed. Here's a snippet of the conversation: Me: "Click on 'start', then select 'shut down', then select 'restart in MS-DOS mode'." Customer: (to his son) "Ok, press 'start', 'shut up', and 'sit down'!" The really scary part was what his son said then: Customer's Son: "Ok, I'm at the C: prompt!" Do we really want to know what goes on at that house? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95705-computer-stupidities/#findComment-682754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 OH MY GOD A friend of mine had managed to order a new AMD CPU and a motherboard from another friend of ours that owned a computer store that, at the time, did not sell AMD, but was willing to get it in to help out my friend. My friend picked up the gear and brought it around to my place, and we built the system together. Upon finishing it, we ran some test programs on it, and everything was fine. My friend then decided to check out the system properties. Windows XP told him that he had an AMD Athlon 1700+. Now, he knew he had bought a 2.4 gig CPU, and the 1700 was not fast enough, so, while I was out of the room, he went into the BIOS and changed the Front Side Bus to try to get it from 1700+ to 2.4 gig. Within a few moments, the PC died a horrible death. He took the PC back to our friend's store, where it was dismantled. We found that the motherboard was fried and the CPU had small craters in it. The friend that owned the store managed to get a replacement motherboard and CPU. When the replacement gear arrived in the store, the store owner's assistant wrote in huge letter on the motherboard box, "Do Not Change FSB!!!" So, after explaining to the friend, that Windows picks up the AMD as a 1700+ but it is still a 2.4 gig processor, and that the original PC was running optimally, we went back to my place and started installing the replacement gear. Everything was fine, and my friend was happy with the way everything ran but was convinced it still loaded programs quicker when he changed the FSB on the old PC that he fried. But he'd been told not to change the FSB, and so he didn't. He took the PC home. The next weekend he told me he had changed the FSB again and fried another CPU and motherboard. PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95705-computer-stupidities/#findComment-682905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2L Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Tech Support: "No, sir...clicking on 'Remember Password' will NOT help you remember your password." Gold Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95705-computer-stupidities/#findComment-683033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scj312 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Control-Alternator-Delete is the only one that made me truly laugh Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95705-computer-stupidities/#findComment-683046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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