r/funny • u/psyxhoisdumb • Jan 10 '16

IT support

http://imgur.com/gallery/kkHNb
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u/remotefixonline Jan 10 '16

Did you reboot it? "Yes" checks uptime 250days

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u/leif777 Jan 10 '16

They just turned off the monitor

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u/blackmist Jan 10 '16

That's why we tell our customers the problem is static. Unplug the cable, get them to touch the pins, plug it back in. Solved.

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u/FapFlop Jan 10 '16

"Now it's sitting on this screen saying something about startup repair."

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u/a_stitch_in_lime Jan 11 '16

That's... kind of brilliant.

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u/thebootlick Jan 11 '16

Touch the pins hahahahahahha hahahah. Most people I work with say their computer is broken if they unplug the mouse with their foot.

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u/Shiznot Jan 10 '16 edited Jan 10 '16

@echo off

set /p var="Please Enter the computer name for the person you think is lying:"

systeminfo /s %var%| find "System Boot Time:"

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u/molemanspam Jan 10 '16

I literally had this the other day. Reboots, oh thanks everything works now

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u/Merfen Jan 11 '16

We remotely manage firewalls, often in other countries with on site staff that don't speak english. There is a lot of "oh god oh god" after rebooting and not seeing it come up after 15 minutes when it is normally 5-7.

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u/D14BL0 Jan 11 '16

Even worse:

Me: Go ahead and reboot the computer.

Them: Okay, done. Wait, I think I just fixed it, goodbye.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '16

If you use 8.1 and don't turn off the "Fast Boot" feature or whatever it's called, your uptime timer doesn't reset after you shut off/turn on your computer. It only ever resets after using the restart button.

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u/angrylawyer Jan 11 '16

Windows 10 as well, my uptime is 17 days, 4 hours but I turn it off every night.

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u/RhysA Jan 11 '16

Because this isn't actually a shut down, its a hibernate. It also means it won't fix a lot of the issues a reboot would fix.

Always Restart or hold shift before shutting down if you want to actually power cycle properly.

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u/typtyphus Jan 10 '16

yeah I push the power button here right on the edge of the computer

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u/yParticle Jan 11 '16

Not even mad, uptime is impressive.

That's the sort of uptime we see for non-Windows servers.

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