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Mum phoned me up from work the other day, she travels to a few different buildings within the area, and she went in to the head office and they have an office with 10 computers, 10 keyboards, 10 mince and 10 monitors, all in a pile for the bin.
She asked what's wrong, and they said they are all passworded, no one knows the passwords as the guy who set them left years back, so they are no use.
So she phones me up and asks if anything can be done, as her work only has 5 computers, and it's a shame for this other building to just chuck away 10, so I asked her to bring 1 of them home for me to mess abouts with, and one of the guys there said he'd tried everything and there's no way to get round the password, he said for me to try a new hdd etc, plonker didn't realise that the password was actually set in the bios, what does the bios use to store it's info?
A small battery lol.
So, opened it up, removed the battery, turned it on, it had a hissy fit...turned back off, put the battery back in...works beautiful.
Took under 60 seconds lol.
However, they have another 9 computers with the same problem...and I can go in and fix them all within 20mins, do I do it out of good will, or seeing as I'm doing work for the council should I:
A. Say they can be fixed and hire someone
B. Say I'll do it for £50  
lol Seriously, there's always ways round passwords, and they were just going to bin 10 computers that easilly?
Me thinks they want new computers, so they are just saying they are useless.
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faultymonkey
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Ask to have the rest of the computers from the bin, then fix them all and sell them. U'll make more than £50!
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Never know where to sell them mate, had 1 here for a year untill i just stripped and binned it last month.
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haynesycop
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What plonkers, the guy they have working there obviously can't do his job properly.
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themarques
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Well if you thought about it carefully, you would go in fix them all for FREE, and hand in your CV as well and try and get a job, even part-time. |
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You know, that's exactly what I thought whilst in the shower (I do some amazing thinking in there).
Fix them for free, and just ask for a nice letter or something so when I apply to the RAF/Police force, I have a letter saying I have done some volunteer work
I mean technically I already have, I used to fix around 4 comps/laptops a week which my dad would bring home from the college he worked at, but the problem is proving it.
God knows what the guy there done, why he put a bios pass to stop the computer even booting up I don't know, maybe they fired him and he done it to be spiteful? He no longer works there, so they don't know though pass.
Although I agree, the person working there now really should have known, I told my mum how to fix it and showed her, and she's useless with computers but said she'll give it a go when she gets in work tomorrow morning, but failing that I'll probably just pop in and do it, I don't mind helping out, stupidly I do most things for free lol.
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Use the ubuntu disk i sent u... Its easy to install 
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You know, I actually installed that way back, but still haven't tried it, I try to keep myself as busy as possible and forgot about it, will have to try it soon 
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