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| Thread ID: 101550 | 2009-07-18 23:32:00 | Must Be New Record | nedkelly (9059) | PC World Chat |
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| 792834 | 2009-07-18 23:32:00 | Cant believe it my mate sent me a txt at 9.30am yesterday saying that he just reinstalled xp. And then while at work got a txt at 7.30pm asking how to fix corrupted registry hive files. When i read it i just could not stop laughing at it. Anyone able to beat it or had the same thing happen to them? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 792835 | 2009-07-19 07:15:00 | yep - Took a PC back to a person a couple of years ago delivered it just before mid day - around 4 ish got a call from the mother, her son that knows all about computers decided that it had to much space taken up, so went into the windows folder and started deleting folders :groan: finally locked up and crashed and wouldn't boot up. ( wonder why) Also 5 years ago I delivered aNew PC to a Mate of mine - it was around 4.30pm - got a call about 6.00 while doing the shopping - saying it had blown up. ??? When I asked what had he done - the reply was " I did nothing" - his daughter yelled out --- "tell him what really happened dad". He had plugged in a BIG electric heater into the same Multi box as the PC was running from - caused a huge power surge -- and BOOM-- fried every component. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 792836 | 2009-07-19 21:21:00 | Also 5 years ago I delivered aNew PC to a Mate of mine - it was around 4.30pm - got a call about 6.00 while doing the shopping - saying it had blown up. ??? He had plugged in a BIG electric heater into the same Multi box as the PC was running from - caused a huge power surge -- and BOOM-- fried every component. So what did you do? Make him pay for another or did he claim it? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 792837 | 2009-07-20 00:37:00 | Actually managed to claim it under the warranty - At the time I had brought a UPS for another customer - when I contacted the supplier told them the whole PC had fried from a power surge - they looked up the record and said to me " you got a UPS from us at the same time-- OK - the UPS didn't work so we will replace the lot". They didn't ask me if the UPS was on the PC concerned - and I never told them - they assumed it was. Dishonest -- Maybe but they never asked. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 792838 | 2009-07-20 01:57:00 | Actually managed to claim it under the warranty - At the time I had brought a UPS for another customer - when I contacted the supplier told them the whole PC had fried from a power surge - they looked up the record and said to me " you got a UPS from us at the same time-- OK - the UPS didn't work so we will replace the lot". They didn't ask me if the UPS was on the PC concerned - and I never told them - they assumed it was. Dishonest -- Maybe but they never asked. Your only dishonest if they ask you what happened and you lie. if they dont ask and just assume it can hardly be called dishonest... just not telling the full story |
PCT Joe (15018) | ||
| 792839 | 2009-07-20 02:04:00 | Murky... :p Dead right though, it's not a lie if you were never asked. I've had an overnight stuff-up that resulted in a reinstall, but never the same day. I've done a few utterly muppet-like things, one of my better ones was connecting a molex - sata power adapter upside down, I was doing it all by feel cause the case was really tight - thought I had it on right, power the PC on and *fzzt*, one bricked HDD. I switched the logic boards around so I could get the data off the drive, and RMA'd with no issues - put a note on the RMA sheet about what happened and they didn't seem to have an issue with it - I've seen other people do this exact same thing and haven't had any issues with RMAs as of yet. It's very decent of suppliers to sort out issues like they do - I guess they send it back to the manufacturer, and quite possibly leave out the details about how the part died. A 'power occurrence of sorts' or something like that... ;) |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 792840 | 2009-07-20 05:50:00 | when I contacted the supplier told them the whole PC had fried from a power surge - they looked up the record and said to me " you got a UPS from us at the same time-- OK - the UPS didn't work so we will replace the lot". I never get all the parts from the same supplier so it wouldn't work with me I'd say. As for confessions, colleague forgot to plug in a CPU fan once, it actually ran all weekend and then died. I cleaned the scorch marks off the CPU and sent it back marked just "DEAD". Got a replacement. And they hate it when you just put "dead". |
pctek (84) | ||
| 792841 | 2009-07-20 06:39:00 | And they hate it when you just put "dead". :D What are you meant to put --- "Went down kicking - gave it mouth to mouth - but it beyond help" :lol: | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 792842 | 2009-07-20 09:05:00 | I once repaired a laptop DC jack (ie replace stuffed jack with new one), and the poor woman took it home and dropped it AGAIN on the plug the next day, breaking the new jack! | george12 (7) | ||
| 792843 | 2009-07-20 12:11:00 | Cant believe it my mate sent me a txt at 9.30am yesterday saying that he just reinstalled xp. And then while at work got a txt at 7.30pm asking how to fix corrupted registry hive files. When i read it i just could not stop laughing at it. Anyone able to beat it or had the same thing happen to them? I've had that happen within 30 minutes of installing windows It was my first experience with faulty RAM |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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