Just go mail order. Because it isn't cost effective to repair any but
state of the art computer systems, the repair people who were the bread
and butter of the parts houses are gone, and the parts houses went with
them.
A mail order place can locate in a low cost area, like rural
Pennslyvania, ship via FEDEX, and put the product in your hands first
thing in the morning.
There are only a couple of bona fide repair places left in the Newburgh
area. It only survives as a drop off at a store and have the work
contracted out and picked up by a guy who is going to do the work in his
basement.
The numbers aren't there for a guy to set up in a mini-mall and wait for
people who are willing to spend a hundred bucks to have an XP system
repaired when they can buy a tower with a Windows 7 license for $300.
Be sure that you get the specs right on the part that you need, because
there will be a restocking charge on returns, so say nothing of postal
expenses.
The continued movement away from XP as being an obsolete package no
longer supported by the evil empire has people thinking of pentium IV
processors with 256k of memory as junk.
It is also almost impossible to get a three year old tv set repaired for
the same reasons. The guy who fixes mine has terrible problems getting
parts.
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Robert Mark Wallace
60 Delaware Road
Newburgh, NY 12550-3802
Telephone; (845) 566-0586
my Daily blog is at:
http://markwallacefollowingchrist.blogspot.com
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