On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:43:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > There you go. Most likely one little transistor that went belly up. > > Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no > > surprise at all. > > Oh, don't be like that! You're saying, like, another "little" transistor > will soon be going. ;-)
Considering the enormous complexity of modern PC's, I'm always amazed that nay of the bits and pieces inside them ever work at all :-) > > Glad you got it sorted out and that is better than a lot of other > > options. Since it is new, I hope you have a good warranty that will > > make it a cheap fix as well. > > I bought my PC components from a premium quality shop, the sort that > behaves like a gentleman and honours its guarantees. Its email support > gets back to you within an hour or so (in business hours). The > proprietor said I needed to send back both RAM sticks (since they have > a joint serial number), but he's sending me a replacement pair first, so > my machine remains working. Nice to see that decent responsible vendors still exist out their who do TheRightThing(tm) for their customers, even the ones with little orders. I get that level of service from Dell, but I think that's more because we're ordering 1000+ servers a year all with extended 3-5 year warranty and Next Day Corporate Service Contract -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
