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Had a weird week where every fix seemed to create two new problems
This Tuesday, a client brought in a gaming PC from a house with three cats (you can guess where this is going). I cleaned the dust out, but then the CPU started overheating because the old thermal paste was shot. Replaced that, and then the system wouldn't post because I must have jostled a RAM stick. Got it running, only for the client to call back saying their second monitor wasn't working, which turned out to be a driver issue from a Windows update they'd paused months ago. It felt like playing tech support whack-a-mole for about 48 hours straight. Anyone else have a week where simple jobs just keep unraveling?
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schmidt.grace1mo ago
Sounds like a standard troubleshooting chain to me. Each step just revealed the next actual problem that was already there. That's not things unraveling, it's just proper diagnosis.
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Do you think that kind of chain reaction happens more with older systems? I see what @schmidt.grace means about it being a proper diagnosis, but it still feels like you're just finding new ways for the machine to fight back. Makes a quick clean-up turn into a whole project.
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