Once, I was arranged a traveling admin for money. Everyone was attached to their clients, and I was placed in emergencies, such as an ambulance. A good thing. In these four months, I have seen so many accidents that I can’t count. All sorts of blue screens, white smoke from the body and so on. And I have an experience, clean ten years have come up by that time. Well, it is understandable, in my farm I just never brought to such a point that the computer from birth never understood until the hard is covered. With all the accounting, ah.

One case I remembered and I now tell it to young admins as an anecdote-instruction. I was invited to the accounting office of a small but well-known publisher. The black screen. Of course, it happens.

I sat down, turned on the computer. There is a bios, there are booklets, then instead of the screens a black screen. The light bulb flashes, as usual. The VGA cable? No, there were booklets in the bios. Video drivers are flying? No, it would be seen. The monitor blinked? I turned off the monitor and turned it on. The black screen. The second monitor to check, no. I regretted that it was not Linux, so maybe in the neighboring console would be able to get out. With a short double press, I turn off the computer. I lay under the table, pulling the rubber on the food block. Well, the fuck knows, with a drum, there is nothing to jump if there is no thought. I Include. I go to the bios - nothing unusual, the key is normal, the video built-in. It’s a pity that it won’t work, and the booklets are here. I am out of bios. Loading and black screen. Double press, turn off, turn on, F8, safe mode. The black screen. and fucking.

And it has been 7 to 8 minutes, for this time the accountant has already managed to go in three times and ask how things are and what is so long.

I turn my mind again. Wood - no, video card - no, cable - no, monitor - no, everything is not. Ordinary accounting in accounting. The monitor... Here I lean to the table and see three cables going from the back of the monitor. The WTF? It turns out the day before that my colleague, attached to this publishing house, configured the server, connecting it to this comp DVI cable and so it turned on the monitor and left. One end in the monitor, the other on the floor. Windy, feeling that this monitor port was busy with something, pulled him in. Wow to all of you. Everything is ready, take it. And he made a fat side on his nose - before looking at an unfamiliar computer in the front, bypass it from behind for surprises.

The next day the boss calls. “How is it?” He asks. I tell how things are. “Someone has to go to the publisher again.” “Well I go.” “No is. They ask for another master, they say, you sent us something new yesterday, we asked him to help, and he was sitting like a dude, looking at the black monitor for ten minutes.

Sometimes it’s much easier than you think :)