You won’t believe this! My parents were looking for a new occasion car right? Well they found one and they were going to bring it home today. Now, in NL we have this organisation called the “RDW” which registers the cars and stuff. If you sell a car, you log onto their system and fill in some forms when the customers come to pick it up.
About 1,5 hours after my dad left for the garage we get a call. “Umm, we need your drivers license cuz the computer doesn’t work here”. So I drive my mom there in possession of her driver’s license, which she apparently didn’t need for the procedure if the computer worked.
So I talk to the sales men and you know how they are, “always glad to share a story”. Apparently they sent another employee to the nearest post office to get the transfer done with my mom’s drivers license. “So what’s up with the computer?” He said: “Friggin’ thing don’t work”. So my mom said: “Oh she’s the expert, she’s in IT”. He said: “O RLY? Please come take a look at it!”
OKAY
I shit you not, I was taken to the office and saw “NO INPUT SIGNAL” on the monitor. *facedesk* So I checked all the cables and told the guy to get another monitor just in case it’s not the cable but the connectors on the screen itself. I says: “You heard any strange beeps booting?”. “Beeps?”, he said… “Yeah now that you mention it!”. I said: “Turn the thing off and reboot it so I can hear?”. There it was: “Beep beep beep”. I said: “I heard that one before! Your video card is either loose in it’s slot or it needs to be replaced. So what you’ll have to do here is get a screwdriver, open the thing up and punch the sucker back in (gently)”.
Hehe… I think he nearly got out a screwdriver to hand it to me. lol. But then again, I wasn’t about to seriously mess with any company’s property as a customer. “If it isn’t busted, get the thing open; take it out and push it back in”.
You know, once they really “jack cars up with enough electronics” so it has a decent operating system I’d be interested :D
