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On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:43:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > There you go. Most likely one little transistor that went belly up. |
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> > Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no |
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> > surprise at all. |
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> Oh, don't be like that! You're saying, like, another "little" transistor |
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> will soon be going. ;-) |
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Considering the enormous complexity of modern PC's, I'm always amazed that nay |
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of the bits and pieces inside them ever work at all |
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:-) |
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> > Glad you got it sorted out and that is better than a lot of other |
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> > options. Since it is new, I hope you have a good warranty that will |
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> > make it a cheap fix as well. |
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> I bought my PC components from a premium quality shop, the sort that |
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> behaves like a gentleman and honours its guarantees. Its email support |
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> gets back to you within an hour or so (in business hours). The |
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> proprietor said I needed to send back both RAM sticks (since they have |
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> a joint serial number), but he's sending me a replacement pair first, so |
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> my machine remains working. |
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Nice to see that decent responsible vendors still exist out their who do |
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TheRightThing(tm) for their customers, even the ones with little orders. |
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I get that level of service from Dell, but I think that's more because we're |
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ordering 1000+ servers a year all with extended 3-5 year warranty and Next Day |
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Corporate Service Contract |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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