On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:32 -0400, vern wrote:
> AHHH! MAN! Another "gotcha" on this PC!!
> This "name brand" (Hewlett Packard Pavilion 6540C)
> has more traps than I can imagine!! I just replaced the
> modem, the video card, the sound card and now a
> memory "gotcha" WOW! Nice case though :-) but
> it only has a 90W power supply!!
I've been doing hardware troubleshooting from 1988 to 1999. One
thing I learned at these times:
Never ever buy IBM and HP built computers. They are not bad, in
fact some of their models were and still are excellent. But
there is a whole lot of off-mainstream stuff in them which makes
it hard for an innocent guy to deal with.
Just one example:
In a company I worked for they used IBM personal computers. All
were shipped on one day and were the same model with same
configuration.
After one year I had the task to buy memory modules to soup up
the whole bunch. I had to buy 4(!) different models of original
IBM modules! I had to give the serial number of each
motherboard and from a list the vendor picked the modules which
would fit. That was an everlasting lesson for me.
wobo
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