Odd day today. There was an audit at work today, which basically means a lot of important people and our team have some sort of meeting where they discuss the year so far. Don’t really know more than that, being as I’m not really an employee, I did not attend the meeting.
But I did get the chance to dress up for the important people, wearing a long-sleeved shirt and slacks, it felt unnatural. I spent the morning making copies for the meeting, which means I watch a copy machine do the job for me. Modern copy machines take a stack of papers and neatly copy the whole thing, and arranges them accordingly. Its idiot-proof.
I then spent time gathering sodas and ice and putting them out for the people once they get out of their big important meeting. I ended up doing a lot of grunt work throughout the day.
We found what could only be described as a magnetic field located solely within a cubicle. I made a new machine for an employee, and brought it over to him. It gets to the Windows loader and freezes. I restart and the same thing happens. I take it back to my desk, it starts up flawlessly.
Back at his desk, freezes.
Back at mine, starts up flawlessly.
We decided it was an electro-magnetic field and will now pray to the computer gods to fix it.
Zel-kun out.
Sabrejack | 08-Aug-07 at 3:24 pm | Permalink
This sounds odd, but check the peripherals such a keyboard, mouse, and especially the monitor. If you made a new machine but re-used the old parts, one of those parts could be giving you problems. Make sure his video drivers are the most recent possible, too.
I don’t have to remind you of the monitor that crashed our nVidia drivers on boot-up.
Zel-kun | 08-Aug-07 at 3:28 pm | Permalink
Yeah, I ended up swapping out his USB keyboard and mouse for PS/2 ones. It boots up fine now, go figure.