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Troubleshooting

January 18th, 2007 by Atomictumor

So, a few minutes ago, I found that my lappy’s wifi wasn’t working.

WTF, I said.

The laptop was all like:

wifi1.jpg

Rebooted the router, same deal.

So I checked to make sure that the radio was enabled by going to the properties of the connection, and bouncing through all the little goofy things. Yep, enabled. I disabled, saved, enabled, no good. Reboot. No good.

So, maybe its having a hard time with the little Bluetooth dongle (heh… dongle) being unplugged. The wifi and the Blueteeth may be BFFs, and one might not work without the other anymore in some weird, motherboard bus transcending relationship.

So, I plug it in.

wifi2.jpg

…is what I got.

Well damn.

I go check MastaG’s computer, which runs on wifi, and badow, working like a charm. Hmm.

Now I’m getting pissed. I didn’t wuss out of work today, troubleshooting other peoples computers, just to come home and troubleshoot my own! “WORK, DAMN YOU” I told it. “I MADE YOU, AND BY GOD, I CAN UNMAKE YOU, YOU UNAPPRECIATIVE BASTARD!”

Reboot, and this time I got:

wifi3.jpg
So my Mom called at that moment, while I was looking at the thing, and wondering how expensive the LCD screen is to replace if I run over it with my car, just to teach this machine the lesson that it better straighten up and fly right, and told me that the Bisc is officially retired as of now.
Woot to the Bisc!
Sufficiently distracted, I figured maybe there was something wrong with the Windows wifi, so I tried using the Dell one. I never used it before, because XP does a decent enough job of handling wifi, but since it seemed to be awfully aggressive and smack talking, I figured maybe the jealousy approach would work.

I loaded up the Dell one, and it said:

wifi4.jpg

THE END

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18 Responses to “Troubleshooting”



  1. Allisone Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    Threaten it with linux.

  2. daco Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    Smartass computer.

  3. jenwright Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    Personally, I think you need to give your technology some five across the eyes, because it’s all seeming to get pretty lippy with you. And you need to lay off the acid.

  4. Netmom Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    It’s just crushing to realize that the supergeeks — just like normal people — are also subject to that most sinister of all computer glitches…

    OPERATOR ERROR.

  5. Robbin Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    Oh. Man.

    I know an office that needs your error messages.

  6. Maggie Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 6:19 pm

    hee

  7. alice Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    I think maybe you need to smack that uppity bastard of a computer.

  8. ErinM Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    You know what? I’ve been having the same issue.
    We have a desktop which has our cable internet connection and a router. Husband has a lappy (dell) and I have a lappy (toshiba).
    Mine refuses to connect to our wireless. Connects to unsescure networks, but has some beef with ours. Husbands lights up right away. Go figure.

  9. Bisc Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    What a real d a! Get MastaG to work on your PC stuff from now on.

  10. LissaKay Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    PEBCAK!

    Hee hee!

  11. Nodbob Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    I like your computer, it’s got a good spin on how to word words, you know what I mean?

  12. meice Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 10:31 pm

    xyzzy? Did you think that would work?

  13. timsan1 Says:

    January 18th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    For all the cussing I do toward the computer it is about time the computer fought back. But some how I don’t think a pistol whipping operating system would sell very well. The computer never says that it is operator error. But rather passive aggressivly just implys the problem is with its user.

  14. Judy Says:

    January 19th, 2007 at 8:14 am

    IF ONLY my computer would talk to me in such language…I would certainly understand it a lot better, you know?

    Thanks for the grins!

  15. Kuni Says:

    January 19th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

    Best. Post. EVER!

  16. Heather Says:

    January 21st, 2007 at 1:40 am

    WAY funny! More posts like this please!

  17. miriam1 Says:

    January 21st, 2007 at 3:48 am

    This deFINES my relationship with this compaq piece of qrap.

    Seriously, why can’t it mention the wifi’s shut off? Why must it go through the charade? WHy?

  18. ZaPaper Says:

    January 23rd, 2007 at 7:57 am

    Lol, I did that EXACT SAME THING today. I wish I had read your post before spending all kinds of time trying to get the thing working again. The ‘tumor, computer educational website for the 21st century…