I'm beginning to like the stupid ones...

[catmmo.livejournal.com]

I've been keeping track of my daily *wins* for problem tickets I get. Today's win was for a computer not booting up. 
When I went to check it out, there was a lovely blue screen, & a message that said something to the effect of, "ROM error, ESC key may have been pressed during boot."

Lo and behold, they had a little radio sitting right on the ESC key on the keyboard. I removed it, and it booted right up. 

Sometimes I really wish people would just read the error messages that they get ... but then again, job security is nice.

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[moopste.livejournal.com]

Not quite a tech support story, I work for a games company, but related to the original post and amusing I guess.

A guy from work a few months ago began complaining that the joypad on his PS2 devkit wasn't responding. Flailed around and complained a lot for a few hours then suddenly realised that he had a USB keyboard plugged in with a stack of paper on it. For whatever reason it will ignore all other input if you have a keyboard plugged in and a key held down.

That alone would be fine - especially since they don't put out any error messages about it - but he does this every time he moves desk and never seems to learn from it.

[kallell.livejournal.com]

OMGWTFBBQ Why did you move our radio!
*move radio back*

Hey bill, call the 'puter guy back here, its not workin' again!