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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:17:47
Message-Id: 201208290115.30740.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? by Alex Schuster
1 On Tuesday 28 August 2012 21:57:43 Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > I wrote:
3 > > Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will
4 > > be okay then.
5 > [...]
6 > So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it
7 > might be the processor instead that has the problem, so I let the PC
8 > shop diagnose CPU and board. This took until today, and they
9 > confirmed it was the board indeed, not the CPU.
10
11 Let me get this straight. The shop ran tests and concluded that the
12 motherboard was faulty, not the CPU?
13
14 > Fine, I bought the board
15
16 ...it having been tested and found faulty!
17
18 > guess what - it doesn't work.
19
20 Sorry, but I must be misreading this. You've said that the board was
21 diagnosed faulty, but you bought it anyway and it turned out faulty.
22 Where is the mystery?
23
24 Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it inside-
25 out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet your account
26 has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault.
27
28 --
29 Rgds
30 Peter

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>