Wolfgang....add Acer to that list. I worked on a friend of my
son's Acer for him. The bios was so dumbed down as to be almost
useless (and hard to get at with a non-standard key combo to
activate it), the mb had only a single channel IDE controller
and the sound card was hooked up to the cdrom, but wouldn't play
the analog sound coming to it over the wire hookup. All-in-all
a pretty cheesy box.
Alan
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> 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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