Computer ready to croak

[cokey]

I just fixed a gateway recently. Throwing it out the window worked best..   

[Monster Dave]

I've never understood why people get so frustrated by a brand name with a system which has run fine for years and then starts having a problem. It's 99.9% got nothing to do with the brand - these things happen over time with most PCs. And MOST of the time it's a software/OS issue, and at most a hard drive problem - and most mfgs get thier hard drives from the same factories.

Most of people's reasons for complaining are due to ignorance of them not really knowing what they want and need when they buy a system. 


This isn't one of those cases.

[zooom]

I've never understood why people get so frustrated by a brand name with a system which has run fine for years and then starts having a problem. It's 99.9% got nothing to do with the brand - these things happen over time with most PCs. And MOST of the time it's a software/OS issue, and at most a hard drive problem - and most mfgs get thier hard drives from the same factories.

Most of people's reasons for complaining are due to ignorance of them not really knowing what they want and need when they buy a system. 

for the most part...I agree with you...it isn't like 10-15 years ago when manufacturers would have their kind of proprietarily designed motherboards which limited what you could add in and so forth...

[Monster Dave]

Thankfully they aren't doing that crap any more!!!!

[zooom]

Thankfully they aren't doing that crap any more!!!!

yeah, they all use pretty much the same stuff, just a question of whom is the assembler and assumes the role of responsibility for any warrantable actions....hence why it is sometimes ALOT cheaper to build your own machine from a kit via newegg or one of the many other vendors like that....unless you feel like paying for a warranty and for the IZ_ and warm sense of security so that you have that someone to scream at if something should fail...

[ducatiz]

when you say "close a window" do you mean close the browser?

IE can be linked with a internet connection (for dial up purposes) and it will shut your internet off when you close it.

[MendoDave]

I thought you were talking about an actual real life window, and not a program, making me think you had a bad/loose connection  with your hardware or cables.

[cokey]

It was a joke.. but brands do count for some things.. 

[IZ]

yeah, they all use pretty much the same stuff, just a question of whom is the assembler and assumes the role of responsibility for any warrantable actions....hence why it is sometimes ALOT cheaper to build your own machine from a kit via newegg or one of the many other vendors like that....unless you feel like paying for a warranty and for the IZ_ and warm sense of security so that you have that someone to scream at if something should fail...

You had to throw that in there, didn't you?! 

[ducpainter]

You had to throw that in there, didn't you?! 

I know...I know...I'm an asshole.

[IZ]

I know...I know...I'm an asshole.

uh huh!