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- Dirty Sennin
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I agree with 100%Saiyah wrote:Meh, bad tech support breeds bad behavior. If you've ever caught a bad one like I did then you would understand.
I bet if he still had the job he would actually help people now, lession learned.
After hearing the horror story of what one local computer chop shop did to my friend, I called them up and threatened to see their asses in court.
They offered a full refund of all money spent on said machine.
The problem was that the chop-shop charged hi-dollar for an upgrade to relatively decent computer. Instead of recieving a 900mhz Pentium3, they got an overclocked Celeron. That is a price difference of 300 bucks at the time. In order to get the Celeron to work, they upped the voltage on the motherboard to in order to get the Celeron up to same 900mhz and be stable. Well this worked for awhile, however the caps on the board started to fail. I mean, leaked... literally brown shit all over the board. See picture below:
... and ...
see that brown and nasty shit, and the caps themselves bulging? Yeah, that is a bad thing, and can cause reboots under heavy load early on, later... it is just reboot 5 seconds after booting, till finally, no booting at all.
Good news is that with a solder iron and a local radio shack, you can pick up replacements that may cost a bit more ($1.00USD per 4 cans) but do a BETTER job than stock cans.
Most computer owners don't have a solder iron, nor know why anyone would want to goto a local radio shack, and most people (not all) that work as 'geeks' to fix computers or 'techs' down know any better and would rather replace the whole computer to make more money rather than fix the problem.
It is very hard to find an honest tech, just like it is hard to find an honest auto-mechanic. Yes the work on both side is blue collar work and I believe that is should be regulated as such.
