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In article <3vb6k6$4nj@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, alan@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Alan
S. Mazer) wrote:

> In article <3v8a1a$5lu@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
> The Netcruiser <ftrsblek@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >Do not take your system to these guys for any reason what so ever.
> >It will be returned, in worse shape than when you left it.
> 
> While I'm not a big fan of CompUSA (I think their selection is pretty poor),
> you've just described _most_ PC repair places.  I've been to several, and if
> the PC isn't actually in worse shape, it's certainly no better.  Sometimes
> they've thought Windows needed to be reinstalled, or they didn't have the
> right stuff to test the problem (no monitor that would show high res, for
> example, or apparently no way to test memory).  So they give it back to you
> as "fixed" and then you find it's not and you get to fight with them about
> this $110 bill they gave you.  When they eventually do fix it, it's after
> replacing other stuff with which there was nothing wrong.  In another case
> a shop thought a problem was the power supply and then thought it was the
> CPU.  They have no way of telling for sure, nor do they really care, since
> they get their money.  In a word, most repair people I've dealt with
> are not competent to solve any but the simplest and most obvious problems.
> This is based on at least 7 different repair places, some of whom I visited
> multiple times.
> -- 
>  
> -- Alan                        # Mountain Dew and doughnuts...
>    alan@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov     # because breakfast is the most important meal
>                                # of the day.

Question: have you tried places like Fry's? (JPL is in Silicon Valley,
isn't it?) Fry's doesn't seem to be too bad-I have a Mac so I haven't had
any experience with them, but I figure that if so many Silicon Valley
professionals trust them (especially the one in Sunnyvale) then they can't
be all that bad. That said, you SHOULD watch out for these mom-and-pop
computer places that have sprung up all over the place-chances are good
they have no clue what they're doing. 

Bryan Cowan    loquismo@aimnet.com     San Francisco, United States

(but I'm a computer nut who spends some time in Silicon Valley)