Your "too easy" experiences?

[Princess Luna]

So today my Acer Aspire notebook featuring an i7 7500u, Win 10... laptop stuff... had the silliest issue... I noticed when I took it off the power wall it was turning off immediately despite Windows showing 100% battery.

 

Tested a few times issue was repeating itself, despite full battery it would auto shut down right after unplugging from the wall.

 

As any good savvy went to google it out... found a post somewhere, very old like from 2012, saying similar issue, stated that fix was simply turning the laptop on only on battery... Well why not unplugged it and tried to turn it on, so it did, been working perfectly fine now since... lolz...

 

I felt about sharing and before someone shout status update! status update! It did come across me we all probably have similar stories of a silly tech issue that had an even sillier fix, why not share with each other? sounds suitable conversation about tech no? ^^

[Crunchy Dragon]

My Toshiba Satellite P755 with a Core i5-2430M and GeForce GT 540M was overheating, I kinda figured it was a CPU thing so I looked it up on Google as well, and found recommendations to replace the thermal compound and blow out the dust. Been running cool and quiet since

[NumLock21]

Had a laptop where the brightness key was in reverse. The brightness key will make the screen go dim and the dim key will make the screen go bright. Went online and said to remove the gpu driver from Device Manager and restart. Did that and the problem went away.

[NinJake]

95% of the help desk tickets at work.

[Guest]

I spend days troubleshooting my Corsair Lighting Node Pro not updating its firmware. Tried everything including mounting the firmware storage partition and flashing the stock BIOS back to it. Turns out all I needed to do was remove power to it, then plug it back in. Sigh...

[Techicolors]

I have an old laptop with a power LED that's brighter than the sun. so I covered it with tape. also did the same with my PS4 controller 

[Enderman]

My ethernet cord was slightly unplugged when troubleshooting my web server issues.

Took an hour of troubleshooting to find the issue because I have dual lan and the internet was still working through the second cable

[Dissitesuxba11s]

When I first got my Toshiba Satellite L645-S4102 back in 2009 (I still use it today), it would not hold a charge for more than 30 mins. Looking through the Toshiba messages in the built-in Toshiba program showed that there was a BIOS update for it. After updating, it worked perfectly.

[TVwazhere]

Thought I killed either my motherboard or my PSU multiple times after cleaning my system

Issues were as follows:

1. Forgot to plug it in

2. Forgot to flip the PSU on

3. I actually dont know, it started working after 45 minutes of me not doing anything

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Just now, TVwazhere said:

3. I actually dont know, it started working after 45 minutes of me not doing anything

Not knowing scares me the most, especially if it happens again.

[NoxiousOdor]

After taking my computer apart and putting it back together I put it back under my desk and tried to power it on but it wouldn't work. Nothing I tried worked, I tried the psu switch I tried reseating things, anything I could think of

 

It turns out I had forgotten to plug it in

[minibois]

Grandfather was mad, because "his PC was not working". Go check it out, monitor says "no signal". Do the obvious checking the cable.

Cable is fine on monitor side, cable was slightly unplugged from PC, presumably from him messing with it and moving it (despite him saying he didn't do it.. Hmm..). Anyways, since it was DVI I screwed it in on both sides (monitor and PC side) so this wouldn't happen again. Also made the cable have a little more slack, so it wouldn't break when he eventually moves it again.

 

And have had this happen a million times already (yesterday even).. Mother wants to move stuff from PC to phone (or other way around.. Anyways, irrelevant to the story), connects her Android phone to PC. AND IT DON'T WORK. Anyways, show her you have to go to your notifications and set it to media transfer, instead of just charging.

 

Also, I had a customer come in and her laptop wouldn't charge. Did all the regular stuff, when my colleague drops by and asks if I had tried to remove the battery yet.. I hadn't and that fixed the issue.

[TVwazhere]

1 minute ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Not knowing scares me the most, especially if it happens again.

It's powered on every time since. I did the PSU check, fan check, everything I could think of (sadly I didnt have a spare psu) and i actually started looking up used mobo's on ebay when i just decided to try turning it on again and it worked...

[minibois]

3 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

2. Forgot to flip the PSU on

The amount of customers complaining we sold them "a broken PC", while they just haven't flipped the PSU switch is way too high..

But a similar thing happened to my colleague. He got a monitor and than promptly complained how it was broken. Turned out there was a physical switch next to the power port... 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Another thing I did was when I built my first PC, I forgot to put the slowest DIMM in the primary DIMM slot. And also forgot to plug in multiple systems as well as turning on the PSU.

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Here's another one that will relate to a lot of people:

 

I blew on the cartridge and it worked.

[TVwazhere]

Just now, Minibois said:

The amount of customers complaining we sold them "a broken PC", while they just haven't flipped the PSU switch is way too high..

But a similar thing happened to my colleague. He got a monitor and than promptly complained how it was broken. Turned out there was a physical switch next to the power port... 

I that was a modern monitor, I cant say I blame him. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Here's another one that will relate to a lot of people:

 

I blew on the cartridge and it worked.

I've done that a couple times with USB ports actually haha

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've done that a couple times with USB ports actually haha

I still do that to USB ports 

[Princess Luna]

14 minutes ago, Enderman said:

 

 

16 minutes ago, Legendarypoet said:

Sigh...

How about spend over an hour troubleshooting sound issues, messing with the drivers and all only to find out the issue all along was that the volume thingy in the headset was all the way down.

[ElZamo92]

When I had just installed a shiny new GTX 1070 in my PC I began to have a lot of problems with games crashing and blue screens. I ha this problem for weeks, asking here on the forum,  and looking for similar problems in google, but I found nothing. Then, when I got fed up with it and decided to RMA the card, I discovered that the eight pin VGA connector wasn't plugged all the way into the card. I  felt like the biggest idiot in the history of man kind. 

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

 

How about spend over an hour troubleshooting sound issues, messing with the drivers and all only to find out the issue all along was that the volume thingy in the headset was all the way down.

Haha... that made me face palm for real. Reminds me of when I was on the phone w/ my CFO and we were both trying to figure out why he couldn't connect to the VPN. An hour into it I stop, take a deep breath, and ask if he was connected to wifi. He was not (the hotel wifi was down).

[paddy-stone]

11 minutes ago, ElZamo92 said:

When I had just installed a shiny new GTX 1070 in my PC I began to have a lot of problems with games crashing and blue screens. I ha this problem for weeks, asking here on the forum,  and looking for similar problems in google, but I found nothing. Then, when I got fed up with it and decided to RMA the card, I discovered that the eight pin VGA connector wasn't plugged all the way into the card. I  felt like the biggest idiot in the history of man kind. 

I'm pretty sure someone would've said to you about checking your power connectors and other connectors on the PC, most logical thing when BSODs... ahh well, least you found it in the end.

[njmyers3]

I'm sure a lot of people have experienced this but the first time I dusted my computer I thought I broke something because it wouldn't turn back on. Turns out I left the power supply turned off.  

[Corsair Nick]

Went to clean and update my peripheral setup.  Plugged my M65 Pro into the K70 Rapidfire I upgraded to, and got not response from the mouse.  Tried 3 different mice and none of them worked.  Turns out I forgot to plug in the second USB cable for the USB pass-through because I didn't need it with the last gen K70 RGB I had installed previously.  Yup, that was pretty embarrassing.  But hey, we're all human, even when we do this every day for a living.