Have you ever gone to use something like a train controller or something electrical to find it does not work. So one checks the track, the controller, the wiring... (Or if it was a computer one would be checking all the leads etc)... Everything!... Only to find out one has forgot to turn the power on at the mains!
Is there a word for this type of thing? 
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