For some reason, when I read your story, I think of House M.D.
Clients lie.



On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]>wrote:

> Craziness, I say.
>
> So Friday evening I get a call from a very, very small client that is
> break/fix.  It seems that the phone system was having issues and she had
> someone from her church come out and check out the system .  But now the
> network is down and the PCs aren't connecting to the internet.  She doesn't
> really know why it is, but the church friend has her trying to login to one
> of the three workstation because he says the problem can be fixed from that
> PC.  I tell her that makes no sense and asks if she wants me to come out.
> She says Monday morning is fine.
>
> I show up Monday and the SBS server doing DNS and DHCP and AD has a BIOS
> password set on it and isn't booting into windows.  I open it up, change
> jumpers and erase the password.  Everything up now.
>
> No one has any idea how a BIOS password was set.  Her church friend did
> tell her she should contact ATT and get a new DSL modem because the new ones
> will increase speed by several times and the yellowing of the plastic
> enclosures of the AVAYA cards means her cards are going bad.  She claims the
> closet with SBS is always locked, but I don't think it has ever been locked
> when I was there.
>
> Happy Monday, all.
>
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