On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2012 21:57:43 Alex Schuster wrote: >> I wrote: >> > Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will >> > be okay then. >> [...] >> So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it >> might be the processor instead that has the problem, so I let the PC >> shop diagnose CPU and board. This took until today, and they >> confirmed it was the board indeed, not the CPU. > > Let me get this straight. The shop ran tests and concluded that the > motherboard was faulty, not the CPU? > >> Fine, I bought the board > > ...it having been tested and found faulty! > >> guess what - it doesn't work. > > Sorry, but I must be misreading this. You've said that the board was > diagnosed faulty, but you bought it anyway and it turned out faulty. > Where is the mystery?
The test would have been done on his old board, which the shop diagnosed to be faulty. Having had that diagnosed, he proceeded to buy a new board, which also failed. > > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it inside- > out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet your account > has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault. Too many uses of the insufficiently-explicit "the board"...but (in English) such ambiguities are usually resolved by surrounding context. -- :wq
