On a rollout of new workstations for the local bank, which were moving into a nice, newly built, office building. On the trader floor, one of the workstations would not finish setup and would constantly reboot. And one of the (three! awesome back in the late '90s) monitors wouldn't work properly. Turned itself off and on all the time.
I said to a colleague that the power circuit was probably borked, off-spec and faulty somehow.
Since the building had just been put up, there was still a flurry of electricians and plumbers and painters and everything else inside trying to get everything ready over that weekend.
After my colleagues and others had tried figuring out the problem for a good time by trying everything else, I asked one of the passing electricians to get the circuit for that specific desk checked out.
First time I had right in the workplace by just deducing a cause from experience, as a fresh IT worker in a big company. There was indeed something wrong with the power circuit. Felt good. Never learned exactly what was wrong though. Bad cable perhaps.
I said to a colleague that the power circuit was probably borked, off-spec and faulty somehow.
Since the building had just been put up, there was still a flurry of electricians and plumbers and painters and everything else inside trying to get everything ready over that weekend.
After my colleagues and others had tried figuring out the problem for a good time by trying everything else, I asked one of the passing electricians to get the circuit for that specific desk checked out.
First time I had right in the workplace by just deducing a cause from experience, as a fresh IT worker in a big company. There was indeed something wrong with the power circuit. Felt good. Never learned exactly what was wrong though. Bad cable perhaps.