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I was laughing at that message for years... Until I bought new tires for my car: In that dusty, oily workshop where the guy was balancing the tires, this balancing machine was contolled by a PC. I was the first customer that morning, watching him boot up the machine. In that environment, a keyboard would be clogged up with dust within a few days, so there was no keybaord! Besides, the guy was wearing protecting leather working gloves, which would make typing impossible.
This famous error message appeared right above a huge green square, with an equally huge "F1" label, filling half of the screen, over which was stretched an elastic, clear plastic cover. The guy hit the F1 square with his fist, to make the PC complete the booting. All furhter operations was done by knocking on fairly large selection rectangles on the touch sensitive screen - typically 6 to 8 selections.
In that dusty, oily environment (which car workshops are, almost by definition), it made perfect sense not to have a keyboard.
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They got the last laugh! 
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If it is old enough for a battery change then it is possible that the older components on mother boards are flaky in more ways than 1.
I have seen soldered in capacitors and transistors and resistors which have lost part of their physical being (in fact if you rubbed your fingers over a transistor it actually dusted down to nothing) and have thus changed their characteristics affecting such things as the real-time clock (slowing down / speeding up/ unreliable).
Since the boot process does a timer check routine, if it fails then by even a couple nanosecs it says nogo (obviously because timers are heavily used for interrupt control along with the real time clock).
In other words, hi ho, hi ho, its off to the shops we go.
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Hi,
It's probably been said but, clean the battery contacts with fine sand paper (or nail file!) and a cue tip dipped in IPA. Also mutter about a new PC if that is possible might be awkward due to drivers and ports...
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Look up Resetting the Motherboard on google there are various way to do
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Look at the capacitors around the processor and where the power supply plugs into the motherboard. If any of them look like the bad ones in this pic [^] that will be your problem. End result will be a new motherboard or computer.
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Try re-flashing the BIOS.
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Is a fanfare what cabbies charge Elvis impersonators?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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then unfair is what they charge North Korean supreme leaders.
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No Griff, it is called funfare and it applies to dogs in funny headbands and glasses!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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As opposed to the Fan Fair, where cool people gather?
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So we have this new "security policy" where we are required to where our badges on lanyards around our neck at all times. No longer clipped to our shirt or belt.
I just get that creepy "another way to impose our mastery over you slaves" feeling doing that. Maybe it's just me. Plus I really don't like wearing anything around my neck. I guess I'll wear the damn thing when I go to the bathroom.
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Marc Clifton wrote: So we have this new "security policy" where we are required to where our badges on lanyards around our neck at all times. No longer clipped to our shirt or belt.
I just get that creepy "another way to impose our mastery over you slaves" feeling doing that. Maybe it's just me. Plus I really don't like wearing anything around my neck. I guess I'll wear the damn thing when I go to the bathroom.
Get it caught on something while you are walking around the office, fall over while making a lot of painful noises. See how long that lasts.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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May the gods, all of them, bless you.
Up until now I thought I was the only one thinking that way.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Even our parent company aren't that authoritarian. As long as our visible they are happy.
But they are bringing in the global firewall so I think that even CP may be stopped by the firewall 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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In Texas they would quickly wrap the rest of the lasso around your hands and feet and then put a nice brand on your rear parts. It's probably embedded in their genes to do that by now.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess I'll wear the damn thing when I go to the bathroom.
You have to wear it in the bath too, that is just wierd. 
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Sounds like someone's finally caught up with Dilbert as of roughly 2 years ago (I kinda miss the strangely contorted tie).
Have they hired a Wally yet?
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dandy72 wrote: Have they hired a Wally yet?
No, but there's quite a few PHB's. 
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Start wearing shirts with pockets. Around the neck and into the pocket.
Or draped around you neck like a towel?
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Or draped around you neck like a towel?
There we go! Or, I should get a 6 foot lanyard so the badge is down by my feet. 
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Or have it long enough that the card dangles just under the belt buckle, sorta like Trump's red ties 
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That's the spirit!
I was going to suggest having the card hang down my back inside the shirt. It is worn around the neck. I've been around the block long enough to know that if we're going to start playing this game, I'll promise it will hurt you as much as me. Pinky-swear even!
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Tell them you have aphephobia, particularly around your neck. Or do what I do - just ignore stupid rules that no one can explain the rationale for.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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