# The Smoking Power Supply:

Category: Joke Board

## Post 1 by Thunderstorm (HotIndian!) on Monday, 29-Dec-2008 8:43:53

The Smoking Power Supply
From an ex-field sales/support survivor:
I used to work in a computer store and one day we had a gentleman call
in with a smoking power supply. The service representative was having a
bit of trouble convincing this guy that he had a hardware problem.
Service Rep: Sir, something has burned within your power supply.
Customer: I bet that there is some command that I can put into the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file that will take care of this.
Service Rep: There is nothing that software can do to help you with
this problem.
Customer: I know that there is something I can put in... some
command... maybe it should go into the CONFIG.SYS.
[After a few minutes of going round and round]
Service Rep: Okay, I am not supposed to tell anyone this but there is a
hidden command in some versions of DOS that you can use. I want you to
edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the last line as C:DOSNOSMOKE and
reboot your computer.
[Customer does this]
Customer: It is still smoking.
Service Rep: I guess you'll need to call Microsoft and ask them for a
patch for the NOSMOKE.EXE.
[The customer then hung up. We thought that we had heard the last of
this guy. But NO; he calls back four hours later!]
Service Rep: Hello, Sir, how is your computer?
Customer: I called Microsoft and they said that my power supply is
incompatible with their NOSMOKE.EXE and that I need to get a new one. I
was wondering when I can have that done and how much it will cost....
Raaj.

## Post 2 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 29-Dec-2008 9:05:33

the end of that is actually quite funny but I bet most of the people will think the funny bit is meant to be the begining.

## Post 3 by SingerOfSongs (Heresy and apostasy is how progress is made.) on Tuesday, 30-Dec-2008 1:20:01

lol very nice. Gotta love a good game of id10t pingpong.

## Post 4 by Sword of Sapphire (Whether you agree with my opinion or not, you're still gonna read it!) on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2008 8:39:32

Some people. Wow.