PEBCAK and frustrated stupidity still exists -- be warned!

les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Tue Jan 4 10:29:35 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:27 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:06:22 -0500
> William Case wrote:
> 
> > Only then, in my frustration, did I think to take the side panel off my
> > computer, jiggle the cables to the harddrive, remove the cable and
> > reattach it.  Fixed everything.
> 
> Check the dumb stuff first - that's my philosophy! (Had the same
> problem with a sata drive cable, but at least I wound up with
> a spare disk for my efforts :-).

I wanted to, but the coat check kept trying to put my brain on a hook!
It hurt!  ;)

Personally I replaced the whole computer only to find out that the error
was a driver error that was fixed later.... DUHHH!!!

Regards,
Les H



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