Hi Wayne, Lona, Wayne, I must say that I agree with you. These cowboys seem to get away with tricks like this too often ! Hanging is too good for them.
On Saturday 24 September 2005 16:38, you wrote: > At 09:56 AM 9/24/2005, Lona typed: > >Have a question for you all. My CPU fan was making a lot of > > noise. I had a tech come check it and replace it. Wasn't home > > when he was here. I had not rebooted since he installed the new > > fan. He said he had to change something in the bios to make the > > fan work as the computer kept rebooting? I didn't understand. > > Last night I had to reboot and I thought my windows 2000 pro > > would never load, and the toolbar took forever to show up, same > > with my desktop. I called him and he said maybe the CPU was > > toast. Here is the deal. He was here one morning and never came > > back till the next day to replace it. He contends that the CPU > > would have been ruined before he came the first time if it was > > ruined. So, I have no idea what may be going on and am not going > > to try rebooting over the weekend. I'm not knowing if he did > > something crazy with this or, it is just one woman's experience > > with hardware. > > I'm sorry but you've gotten taken to the cleaners. If he didn't > clean the existing CPU & then apply a new coat of adhesive before > applying the heat sink fan then that could've toasted your CPU. He > may have done this just to get you to buy a new CPU from him. OBTW > one never has to go into the bios to tweak anything if all they're > doing is replacing a fan anywhere in the system. Whatever you do > don't use him for any further computer work. > > I would just love to hang this guy as it's people like this that > give the rest of us a bad name & helps the likes of Dell. > > ----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson > Ashland, OH, USA 44805 > <http://www.wavijo.com> -- Best Regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
