I normally give everyone a funny friday and then get set out to finish off the weeks work and get ready to chillax as I normally do Friday evenings. I love doing nothing on Friday evenings.. I hate making plans for this one night normally because I am just wanting some alone time with my favourite guys…

But today is different, today I will not only give you a Funny for Friday —>

But I will also include some interesting and possibly helpful information aswell!

As many of you may or may not know I used to be exclusively in the PC Repair/Networking and Sales Industry up until 3 or 4 years ago and owned a little shop which also housed a little internet cafe in it here in Durban. And being in that industry you learn a few things, techniques that make the job easier, which on its own are simple yet effective tool of the trade so to speak.

Anyway, I remember one particular trick I learnt in the early years of troubleshooting when I was working from a garage with the GreekBoy and we were tinkering with the idea of doing PC repairs for money instead of mahala together (aka back in the day).There it was, on the bench – It was an old P2 that just wouldn’t start up. Everything was tested -  the power supply, the ram, CPU, drives, IDE cables and it still wouldn’t power up. So all that was left was the board.. and back then a board was expensive but yet still repairable so we took the board off.. checked the tracks for any obvious damage.. eyeballed the capacitors to see if any had popped and reseated any chips that we felt were  maybe a little wobbly Finally reconnected everything and still. NADA.

We were about to say our final words and call the guy and give him the bad news when I suggested we try one more thing. I promptly leant over, and told Greekboy to discharge the board again but this time to remove the CMOS battery when doing so.

After a few minutes, we crossed our fingers and pushed the power on and were rewarded with the sweet sound of the PSU fan and the POST bleep! IT worked! We were champions! We were going to take over the world.. One CMOS battery at a frikken time!

It was a random day in April.. and from that day onwards, it was fondly referred to as the “April Special”.

So when in doubt – pull the battery out

Have a Fantastic weekend everyone! See you on the other side…

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