{"id":22903,"date":"2008-04-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/04\/02\/maybe-thats-how-you-do-it-but-around-here-we-have-a-different-convention-for-indicating-which-things-are-broken\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:00:00","slug":"maybe-thats-how-you-do-it-but-around-here-we-have-a-different-convention-for-indicating-which-things-are-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080402-00\/?p=22903","title":{"rendered":"Maybe that's how you do it, but around here, we have a different convention for indicating which things are broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reactions to my story of investigating a dead computer struck me as rather strange. Commenter Steve wrote, “Usually video cards left on a table don’t works well (the one inside a computer have a better probability)<\/a>.”\n While it’s true that the ones inside a computer are more likely to work, it’s not the case, at least around here, that the cards on a table are unlikely to work well. Many people have a small stash of cables and other spare parts specifically for repair purposes. If you see a video card on a table, odds are that it’s part of somebody’s spart parts stash and works just fine.\n At least around here, we follow a different convention for indicating when things are broken beyond repair: We put them in the garbage can.\n Joke-ruining clarification<\/b>: Or the recycle bin, as appropriate.\n Computer repair follow-up: Last Thursday morning, I turned on my home computer and it didn’t boot. The symptoms were exactly the same as the previous death, so started with what worked last time: I unplugged the video card. The computer booted up.\n It looks like my home computer eats video cards.\n Now what? Do I feed it cheap video cards? Was this just a fluke and my replacement video card happened to be a dud? Are the video cards actually just fine, and it’s the motherboard that can’t cope with them<\/a>? Do I abandon the computer and start over?<\/p>\n

I’m going with option two: Assume I just got a bum video card and try again. But if the second replacement video card also dies within a short period of time, then I’m going to have to decide what I’m going to do with the computer that eats video cards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the reactions to my story of investigating a dead computer struck me as rather strange. Commenter Steve wrote, “Usually video cards left on a table don’t works well (the one inside a computer have a better probability).” While it’s true that the ones inside a computer are more likely to work, it’s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,26],"class_list":["post-22903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-dead-computers","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

One of the reactions to my story of investigating a dead computer struck me as rather strange. Commenter Steve wrote, “Usually video cards left on a table don’t works well (the one inside a computer have a better probability).” While it’s true that the ones inside a computer are more likely to work, it’s not […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}