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My first post and hope you enjoy.

Where I work there are mostly temps and a lot of them go to a certain nationaly known private tech school for computers. All well and good.

One of my users flags me down one afternoon, having no video display. I go to the station and at first glance, nothing seems unusual. The monitor is on with a green indicator. The PC is running apparently normally too. I look on the back of the unit and the video card is loose and dangling out in the open. This person is going to learn computer hardware? It is scary.

There was another one who didn't last but a couple of weeks. He asked me about memory on a board and where it went. He didn't know what RAM looked like or where it plugs in. A product of the same diploma mill.

I consider myself lucky. My A+ classes were fairly intense. My last exam had alot of troubleshooting. My instructor would do things like putting a small piece of paper between contacts, loosening hard to find connectors, ETC.  They really made you look outside the box, sorta speek, to resolve issues. It all starts with the basics.

You're instructor sounds like mine.  He would switch out a Cat 5 with a cross over cable, remap the keyboard and stuff like that.  I remember once we were in one of the labs where he actually before class he actually cross connected the serial cables to at least 4 PCs.  You would be watching the actions of a fellow student as he worked and this would drive the students crazy.

I went to a junior college who had one of the best rated technical training department.

No.  I lost my job and couldn't afford to pay for the testings.  It  is hard to pay for an exam when you have no income.

Computer Science / Computer Information Systems