Best bit of advice

[murdoch]

So whats the best bit of advice to do with PC's or IT anyone has given you?

 

[BigJay]

Dont fix your pc in the bath

 

[murdoch]

what is that with the bath full or not

 

[psd99]

dont use a hammer on a pc!

 

[Reefsmoka]

Take your time.

 

[itsme]

Confucius say if it works don’t try to repair it.

I say read the instructions twice! Then throw them away! Now take your time and use your own initiative! If your stuck ask on this forum
Above all purchase the best>compatible hard-ware

 

[Me__2001]

try to keep calm, when your'e annoyed you make mistakes

 

[Techy]

Be a gardener!

 

[murdoch]

Mine was to listen to the user when something goes wrong as they may have played with something to screw the pc up! So Techy you any good as a gardener then

 

[cirianz]

Best bit of advice? "Push this switch to turn it on" & "You are not going to break it if you make a mistake" You can tell this was a L O N G time ago, but after that there was no stopping me

 

[murdoch]

nhs

Oh and always remember your representing the IT department on the wards so no mucking about, no chatting up female nurses or heath assistants or pretending to be doctors. They just take the fun out of working in a lowly paid nhs job Oh and we stopped carrying id badges when walking around the hospital after someone got mugged for the pc they were taking back to IT, hope the thiefs enjoyed their new pc, had a psu problem.....it was leaking electricity, if you touched the case you got a big shock, well a really BIG shock hopefully

 

[floppybootstomp]

Only advice I've ever recieved was when I first joined a computer forum. Prior to that, I found out things the hard way, which caused a trail of destruction in the learning process

The first time I got stuck was when I bought an Abit KT7A RAID board and couldn't figure out how to connect hard drives up to work in non-RAID mode.

It was just before Christmas and the Abit web-site was closed and directed me to Icrontic Forums, a US (Florida) based Forum.

I'd never seen a forum before but within 10 minutes I had my answers and within half an hour I was loading Win 98 on to my new machine.

I thought to myself 'These guys seem like a good bunch' so I stuck around.

And, 6 or 7 years later, through various routes, here I am

 

[Adywebb]

If you don't know - don't be afraid to ask.....