IT BS thread

Apparently there's a shortage of butlers in the UK. Take that H1B visa lovers!

 

Sometimes I run into things I can't explain.

I have had a new Probook that shuts down randomly for over two months now. HP has taken it back four times. They replaced the board twice, fan twice, RAM, and processor. The third time I got it back I asked them at what point they would just replace it. They said "let's take it back one more time." Came back, I went to image it, it shut down halfway through pulling the image from WDS.

Got it on video this time showing exactly what it was doing (PXE booting, then pulling an image from WDS), that there was nothing near the thing to cause it to overheat, etc. Crazy thing is, it comes back up saying it overheated but the exhaust air feels like it's room temperature to me. Sometimes it will be sitting there in the BIOS (or in Windows at 0% CPU utilization) and all of a sudden the fan goes wild and it shuts down. Sometimes it will behave for the user for a full week, sometimes it shuts down minutes after I turn it on when I get it back from HP.

Sent them the video, time to see what they say. I wonder what they have paid for shipping for it to go back and forth four times?

 

HP sucks. I paid extra for an onsite warranty for my wife's laptop, still had to send it back when the screen broke.

There is a reason I go with Dell. They will all have issues, at least Dell comes to me.

 

Try running it on AC w/o the battery. And try different power brick, I've seen some weird stuff when these go bad.

 

Yup, did both, same result. I actually have about 50 of these so I've been able to swap parts back and forth and the issue always happens on that laptop. Can't explain it at all.

 

Put the HDD into one of the other laptops, return to customer. #done

 

Yup, that's what I did (I had one on hand because it came back from someone who retired). Buys me time to get the other one replaced or working.

HP probably thinks I'm insane since they have replaced everything that could cause it.

 

Of all our stuff, the Lenovo machines are the most bulletproof. Don't have much from Dell--about 100 Optiplex 390s but nothing else. HP usually comes in at the lowest cost, though occasionally Lenovo will.

 

I have a Thinkpad that's going on 10 years now. It's now running Ubuntu, but nothing physically wrong with it except for a couple of bubbles in the screen near the bottom.

 

We have maybe 150 of their desktops and haven't had a single failure of any kind on any of them. Probably 50 ThinkPads all the same age (about three years now) and I sent one in last week because the display would occasionally get some green lines unless you pivoted it, so just a bad cable in the hinge. Other than that, no issues.

 

I fully expected the ribbon cable to fail on my Thinkpad Tablet because it's the 360* hinge. So far, no issues whatsoever with the display cable. I even pick the laptop up by the display sometimes, haha.

 

Pray you have no issues with those lenovos. Here is a graphical representation of our experience with their support:

 

This is why I don't code

 

Yup! Took C++ and Java courses at one point. Hated them and didn't do so well.

Compiler complains about line 76, the problem is actually in line 42. Very aggravating.

 

Rough night at work. We support the IT staff at the local arena. They are hosting the first and second rounds of the ncaa tournament. Kansas, Kentucky, UCONN, and Indiana are all playing here. I got to walk around on the court a lot tonight.

 

http://www.ic3.gov/media/2016/160317.aspx

 

That feeling when your EIGRP routes won't redistribute into your OSPF network....

 

Routing and ACLs are the two reasons I couldn't pass a CCNA at this point. We just use RIP for routing so that's all I really know anymore. Simple and don't have to mess with it.

...and a sig quote? Apparently I'm TW famous now.

 

Looks fun! I would love to get into those configs and poke around.

 

It's literally a CCNA lab I was rebuilding.

Oh and I 'bout died on that quote. That was the thread about taking of the 110mph limiter.

If really interested I could pack up the proj files.