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hobiecat
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Smoking Computer

Post by hobiecat » April 6th, 2004, 3:28 pm

I used to work in a computer store and one day we had a gentleman call in with a Imageg power supply. The service representative was having a bit of trouble convincing this guy that he had a hardware problem.

Service Rep: Sir, something has burned within your power supply.

Customer: I bet that there is some command that I can put into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file that will take care of this.

Service Rep: There is nothing that software can do to help you with this problem.

Customer: I know that there is something I can put in... some command... maybe it should go into the CONFIG.SYS.

[After a few minutes of going round and round]

Service Rep: Okay, I am not supposed to tell anyone this but there is a hidden command in some versions of DOS that you can use. I want you to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the last line as C:DOSNOSMOKE and reboot your computer.

[Customer does this]

Customer: It is still Imageg.

Service Rep: I guess you'll need to call Microsoft and ask them for a patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE.

[The customer then hung up. We thought that we had heard the last of this guy. But NO; he calls back four hours later!]

Service Rep: Hello, Sir, how is your computer?

Customer: I called Microsoft and they said that my power supply is incompatible with their NOSMOKE.EXE and that I need to get a new one. I was wondering when I can have that done and how much it will cost....
I was drunk the day my momma got outta prison.

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Re: Smoking Computer

Post by fishin » April 7th, 2004, 2:56 pm

Good one Hobie!
"Now there's too many fools makin too many rules,
that's one thing you can't say about us."

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Re: Smoking Computer

Post by hobiecat » April 8th, 2004, 12:18 pm

Thanks
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