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From: "Thane Sherrington (S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Re: -SOT- Warranty on repairs
fix it" and "You decided not to fix it." For instance, a computer came
into my shop with bad capacitors. Every other shop in town doesn't know a
bad cap if it mugged them, so the customer had been told that the entire
computer had to be replaced. I took a look, saw the bad caps, tested the
Isn't that just terrible!? Total loss because motherboard is bad. Two nights
ago a customer of mine came in with a toasted motherboard on a computer I
had built for him. His cable was not grounded and it got fried via the
onboard NIC. I hope he pushes the cable company to pay for it.
Total loss! It took me 30 minutes to change his motherbord while he waited
and watched. His bill? $140.00 including labor. This is not a typo. It is
one hundred and forty U.S. dollars.
Total loss for some, but not for my customers!
I wish everybody would right now call the person they bought their computer
from and ask how much a motherboard replacement is and how long it will take
to have it done. My method may not be cost effective as replacing a bad
capacitor, but it far more cost effecive and more quickly done than over 99%
of motherboard jobs in the U.S. I feel.
Chuck
