Help please

[wizzer59]

a tip I was given some time ago and seems to cure a lot of my issues similar to yours now, turn off wifi, count to 5, turn back and pray, usually works and I even cheat on the pray bit

Heathen

 

[wizzer59]

Turn it all off and stick to the chocys and a good book for the rest of the day

 

[cruiser]

Or to the scotch.

 

[jnn]

When you turn it off and on again wait a good few minutes as above, with some devices just needs to be 20 secs or so but with a networked device I'd have a brew and hten go back to it.

There endeth my satruday tech knowledge

 

[Minxy]

Anything that has a computer chip in it of some sort and starts playing up often benefits from being turned off and left for a while, then being turned on again ... some also need their batteries removing too as they power stuff in the background even when you think they're off!

Personally though I find that giving it a good kicking helps ... me that is, not the item itself which is the usually b@ggared ... but it does feel most satisfactory at the time!!!

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[Gromett]

Personally though I find that giving it a good kicking helps

In the trade we call that percussive maintenance

 

[TheCaller]

Gromett's post reminds me of a very old computer joke. This dates from when a computer had a whole room to itself & was the size of a couple of double wardrobes.

Computer went wrong, so the computer repair man was sent for.
The guy turns up, walks round it a couple times, sucks air through his teeth, then gives it an almighty kick in the bottom right hand corner of the rear panel. Computer whirrs a bit, light flash & then it settles down & runs sweetly.

His bill arrives a couple of weeks later & the boss is horrified to find it's £795 + vat. He calls the repair chap & says "You were only here 5 minutes & all you did was kick it. I expect to receive a revised bill".

So a little later a revised bill duly appears.

To attend computer breakdown:
call out fee, travel to site, 5 minutes labour, kick computer - £95
knowing where to kick computer - £700


Then there is an aphorism I had pinned on the office door for a good many years:
'If you think training is expensive, consider the cost of ignorance'