[identity profile] katyism.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] techrecovery
A professor called in today with a direct question: "A computer won't work if there's no RAM in it, right?"

Well, yes, pretty much.

Turns out she bought an older surplus computer, and it was working to some degree, booted into Windows, etc. She had a technician come out and do some work on it but she didn't say what kind of work.

She says after he left, she tried to turn on the computer and it wouldn't boot at all. She opened up the case to find that there were no RAM sticks in the slots at all, period. She has no idea if they were there before. My answer is they had to be there before, and the technician stole misplaced them maybe.

She then tells me he was only suppposed to be reinstalling Windows and wasn't doing any hardware, but he did "for some reason". Hmm.

Luckily this was not one of our techs. Who would steal old ass memory so stupidly?

Date: 2005-04-28 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalidor.livejournal.com
Maybe he thought he could replace his lack of brain cells with some 'memory.'

Date: 2005-04-28 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com
Put this guy's ass in jail and introduce a phallic instrument into said ass where there is nothing but empty space. The "little head" seems like it's got more brains than this thief does.

Putting the rest of him in jail is optional :). Yes, I'm quite vindictive today.

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