My computer SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

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I have had about all I can take of my computer. It is a piece of crap. I've had it for almost three years now and it is a complete lemon. So far Best Buy has replaced the power supply twice, the mother-board, the memory, the CD drive, and finally the processor. I tried to get it replaced under the no-lemon part of my three year agreement, but they say it only has three repairs because they replaced several of these at the same time.
 
Build one yourself 4x.......it's easier than you think, and cheaper too! I've built three and haven't spent much more on all three than most people spend on one of the major brands!!:)

http://www.alphacomputer.com/


This is a local company I've used, but there are plenty others out there in your area too. Check out what you can get and all you have to do is remove the hard drive in that computer of yours, and any other hardware you want to keep and put in the new one! You would probably have to buy a new operating system (not an upgrade, but the full version) and you are set. Much better stuff for less!!:)
 
I didn't know a whole lot about computers when I bought mine. So I asked quite a few people and everybody told me Hewlett-Packard was a pretty good quality unit. I guess mine is the exception to the rule. Lucky me:satisfied
 
Originally posted by 4xchampncountin
I didn't know a whole lot about computers when I bought mine. So I asked quite a few people and everybody told me Hewlett-Packard was a pretty good quality unit. I guess mine is the exception to the rule. Lucky me:satisfied
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My wife's last computer was an HP......it must have been an exception too!!:) Her "home built" rocks........and nowhere near as expensive as that HP either.:)
 
Thanks for the info Wrangler. Best Buy is suppose dto have to replace this if it needs anything else replaced by the end of my warranty (12-31-02). If it miraculously makes it two more months without anything else failing I will probably try building my own. I actually think it not recognizing my scanner/printer is a defect, but they are trying to say I have a virus. They will do anything to get me to the end of my contract without honoring the contract.! The last thing they had to replace, they waited three weeks to get me the part I needed.
 
Did you try the the restarting yet?

If that doesn't do it you might have to delete the driver for your scanner then restart and let Windows reinstall it for you. Almost all Windows based computers drop drivers every now and then.....not a computer problem just an Operating System problem.
 
Originally posted by DE Wrangler 2
Did you try the the restarting yet?

If that doesn't do it you might have to delete the driver for your scanner then restart and let Windows reinstall it for you.  Almost all Windows based computers drop drivers every now and then.....not a computer problem just an Operating System problem.
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I tried that and several other things when I had their Technical Support person on the phone for like an hour last night. I've restored the computer several times. Uninstalled and reinstalled almost everything on it. Ran Disc Cleanup and Defrag many times over. Nothing seems to help. It keeps locking up.
 
I gather you are running Windows.......what version? 98, ME, or XP? Sounds like ME to me. Sounds like this has been going on for some time so it might be hard to remember, but what was the last thing you added or installed when all this started.......that may be your problem. Doesn't sound like a virus to me. Sounds more like a hardware or software conflict.
 
windows 98. It has been doing this for over a year now. I have restored it many times since it started doing this, so it shouldn't be one of those issues. Oh well, I'm sure it will puke again before the end of next month.:eek:
 
Next it pukes and you decide to restore again make sure you have have a recent set of startup disks. And before you you do your restore, restart your computer using the startup disks. Type in "help" and read the whole thing......about 1/2 hour of reading. Then do a "format" of drive C (or whatever your hard drive is) using the startup disks. That effectively deletes everything on your hard drive. Then do your restore. Sometimes the restore feature of OMC's (the operating systems manufacturers use to install your Windows and other bundled software) don't do a complete format before reinstalling the system......if it didn't and it's leaving a corrupted file, the the problem keeps coming back. That's about all I can say without actually seeing what happens with your computer. OMC's are notorious for problems like you are discribing.
 
Thanks for the advice. Something has to give sooner or later.
 
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