Start Me Up!
Blimey! I wasted about 3 hours in the office today no thanks to XP's foul up.
Opening my Outlook file, I edited my PC's clock to change the date today since Outlook displays Nov 6 as today's date. No problem so far even after I entered my new task.
Four hours later in the afternoon, when I restart my PC I was suddenly locked out by the PC's security system. Error message says my PC's current time is different from the network's.
Yikes! a frantic call to mother IT in Europe is no relief as apparently the whole IT staff at the HQ was on a meeting so I didn't have much choice but to wait for the remote IT help.
In the early evening (after grudgingly staying put one hour past off or otherwise I would have to wait until noon tomorrow for those IT guys in Europe and foresee myself sitting with nothing to do for half day) , one mate volunteered to check my PC and after tweaking the BIOS'current time setting, voila! the PC suddenly cranked up and accepted my password!
Now I never really thought thatmere changing time and date in your PC would really create that mess that would bother IT guys across continents and time zones! Thanks Windows XP!
posted by YelJay @ 9:45 PM
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Bro, have u received the certification from our HRM. they told me they'll e-mail it to you....
regards....
hey - is that building where you work?
me too - the elevators are killing me!
yeah, nzm!
were the elevators too fast? i didn't notice? ;=)
The problem isn't with XP. The problem is a:
USER ERROR.
User IS the error. PEBCAK. Problem exists between chair and keyboard.
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anon @11.41
It isn't a user error. The user should be able to change the time/date of his/her pc without causing an error. If ever changing time/date will lead to an error, the system should have a warning message advising the user of such.
What the hell happened to you?
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