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January 05, 2007

A Situation In Which I Discover I Am Not a Tard

Here's the scene: First day jitters, I'm busy as a one-armed paperhanger, but I finally had a few minutes to check out my new laptop which I'd been told was set up & ready for me. I push the button. It starts booting, then throws an error screen saying it's not getting enough power to run the docking station so it'll be shutting down now, thanks for playing.

Shit.

I check all the cables & try again. Same error. I try undocking & redocking. Same error. Bang head on desk & repeat all of the above. Same error.

Over and over and over. I swear loudly because g-dammit I have a degree in programming and I can't even turn a freaking laptop on. WTF? Try cables & redocking one more time. Nada. And by the time I have a chance to tell someone (which is not until late afternoon), the office tech guy has already left for the day. But I'm promised he'll check it first thing tomorrow. So I get back to work, convinced that I'd done something stupid like overlooked an 'on' switch somewhere.

Next day I had a very nice note from the tech guy, who'd apparently did all the setup somewhere else, so he'd just put the laptop on my docking station when he finished.....not realizing it had the wrong power supply attached.

I was so relieved it wasn't me being a techno-tard I almost did the Dance of Happiness.

Posted by Rita at January 5, 2007 05:22 AM

Comments

We all have those days. Bloody power cables are the root of all evil.

Posted by: Kenny at January 6, 2007 04:36 AM

I could see how he (or someone) made the mistake. The travel power cable, which was what was incorrectly hooked to the docking station, looks almost identical to the correct one. I hate it when it's like that.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 6, 2007 05:00 AM