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one of the people i occasionally game with is an absolute moron when it comes to computers.

 

He's been saying for months that he wanted to build his own PC and i guess he got a lot of stuff for christmas. I got a message from him saying that the computer wont boot. So i go though all the normal steps. 

 

monitor wasn't plugged in to begin with. so now was getting a display,

says he can figure everything else out.

 

Spoiler

press x to doubt

 

Get a call from him an hour later saying he's still having issues and it still wont boot.

 

ask what the problem was

 

error was "no bootable device, insert disk and press any key"

 

great, maybe dead or corrupted drive already

 

ask if he was able to install windows before this error.

Quote

 

Him: What do you mean?

 

Me: did you plug in the USB and get into the windows installer?

 

Him: What do you mean windows installer? this is a windows PC.

 

Me: not right now it isn't, you have to install windows onto the computer.

 

Him: .....i didn't know that. Aren't all of these parts built for windows PCs why doens't it come with windows?

 

 

 

 

......shit

 

I think i might avoid him for a while. i'm not going to help that level of troubleshooting.

  1. Cyberspirit

    Cyberspirit

    Good luck! xD

     

    Hope he at least got hardware that are compatible with each other.

  2. TopHatProductions115

    TopHatProductions115

    I think I wrote a guide on that (installing Windows 10) a while back. But I'll follow your lead on this and steer clear ?

  3. Arika

    Arika

    @Cyberspirit Before this situation i would have said he's at least smart enough to research a bit to make sure he buys the right stuff. but now i'm not so sure.

     

    though he got an R5 3600 with a b450 MB (cant remember the exact one he said), so that's a good start at least. He hit the ground running and immediately tripped over his own legs

  4. Flying Sausages

    Flying Sausages

    I think you encountered a troll. 

  5. Spotty

    Spotty

    Poor dude probably sabotaged his own build and is just pretending he doesn't know what he's doing so he has an excuse to invite you over for some troubleshoot & chill ;)

  6. Arika

    Arika

    @Spotty god i hope not

  7. Spotty

    Spotty

    @Arika S I can see it now


    4 years time
    "Honey... My computer is broken again. Can you come in and help me?"

    You walk in to the room...
    He's kneeling down in front of you
    On the screen you see this
    image.thumb.png.ce7ae75784f6ed47d074574c64c21a72.png

     

    What do?

  8. TopHatProductions115

    TopHatProductions115

    *instant rejection - and a swift kick to the pants* :3

  9. Arika

    Arika

    1. Format the drive
    2. boot pc
    3. error "no bootable device"
    4. place thumb over "bootable device"
  10. Cyberspirit

    Cyberspirit

    Were you guys playing on console or did he have a prebuilt and just never had to do any troubleshooting before?

  11. Arika

    Arika

    it was probably an old pre-built. only had a GTX 660 and some AMD FX CPU.

     

    we also used to play FF14 a lot, he played on ps4 while i played on PC. cross platform works quite well on that game

  12. Cyberspirit

    Cyberspirit

    Ah, yeah crossplay is always nice. Still, it's impressive that they never had to reinstall Windows at least once before, to be honest.

    Windows loves to bork itself, especially on older hardware.

  13. Spotty

    Spotty

    @Cyberspirit Just because they haven't reinstalled Windows before doesn't mean their computer didn't look like this...

     

     

  14. Cyberspirit

    Cyberspirit

    @Spotty I know that feeling all too well. xD Some relatives were complaining about ads a while back so I went over and cleaned things up and installed an adblocker and they were like "Witchcraft! Is this even legal?!"

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