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. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
