Wolfgang,
I think I may have another 'honey to add to your list. My friend bought
some type of limited edition Compaq for $1800 a couple of months ago.
It's pretty to look at, slower than snot on a cold morning and has
56RAM! It's supposed to be running under a K2-400. I'll bet that puppy
has onboard video, modem and sound because She likes her P133 Acer
better!
Pj
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Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> 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
