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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.
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