User Error
I was working in IT at a hospital. We had received a call regarding a computer that was not turning on, so I went to one of the offices. This wasn’t strange because we got these types of calls all the time.
Ninety-five percent of those calls were due to “user mistake”, so I was bracing myself for the worst—however, not to this extent. When I arrived, I confirmed that the computer would not power on.
I first examined the plug. It was affixed to the wall and appeared to be in good working order in the computer’s back office. I asked, “So, what were you doing when this computer stopped working”? She responded, “Well, I thought it was too hot, so I used the water cooling option”.
The computer featured a fan port on the top of the machine that looked like a funnel. She pointed to the fan port when she said “water-cooled”. When I returned to my desk with the sloshing PC, my IT colleagues were bewildered as to why I had pulled the machine without permission.
Then, I emptied the water into a garbage pail.