What tech support fix you discovered by accident that actually worked and made no sense at the time

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Ryan98

Turned my router off and physically upside down once out of pure frustration and the connection dropped fixed itself, still don't fully understand why and it's happened again since

Brittle Olivia

Restarting a printer with the paper tray removed fixed a persistent jam error that a full factory reset hadn't solved, still don't understand the actual mechanism behind it

Hollow Panther

Unplugging a laptop charger and plugging it back in a different outlet fixed a battery charging issue that a full driver reinstall hadn't solved
Quantum leap over Monday, faceplant into Tuesday

TheGreatMoney

Holding down a specific unrelated button while restarting a stuck phone fixed a freeze issue that a proper reset hadn't touched, found it completely by accident

CaptainStatic56

Disconnecting and reconnecting a monitor cable while the computer stayed fully on somehow fixed a resolution glitch that every driver update had failed to resolve
Normal is overrated

LunarDrift Maya

Switching a mouse to a completely different USB port fixed a cursor lag issue that reinstalling the driver three separate times had failed to touch at all

Freddy52

Moving a smart speaker two feet to the left fixed a connectivity dropout issue that a full network reset couldn't solve, still don't understand why location mattered that specifically
Not financial advice. Not medical advice. Just qubits.

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