- SimonJester753
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Don't drink to excess– You might shoot at tax-collectors... and miss
Computer: Power Mac G5 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 1.25 GB Bus Speed: 900 MHz
ATi Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
Display Type: LCD Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Depth: 32-bit Color
Posted by: Master Kim
Hey, the laptop is not mine. This desktop PC which I am happy to say has been fixed and brought back to life by a power supply unit transplant which I am posting from right now is mine.
Yes, it's true. My father knows a friend who works with computers, and we just gave him around fifty dollars and he gave us a PSU to replace our dead one, and everything is fine. Everything seems in place, I still have 1 gigabyte of fully functioning RAM and nothing seems out of place with my memory. Seems quite odd that the Geek Squad stated that a price of around four hundred dollars was necessary to even replace all the damaged parts of my PC. Take that.
However, there is one minor quirk. When my PC shut down and I couldn't get it started up a few days ago, I had my Halo disk inside. Today when we opened up the drive - there was no CD! We're assuming the Geek Squad at Best Buy has it, and we're going tomorrow to get it. Fat lot of good those guys did us.
An associate bought a new Mac and got the extended 3 year protection plan including onsite service. You call Apple and they contact some general PC repair service and send someone over. He knows less about Macs than my friend does. He thought it was the video board. He left– had to order board. Another technician came with the video boaed a few days later. He found 2 screws that connect the PSU to the Motherboard were missing. Special screws... had to order them. New technician comes with screws, motherboard, CPU, and video board. Installs it all. Still does not work. Each technician was talking to their supervisor over the phone and being talked through the procedures.
They ended up taking the computer to a Mac-only computer store that does warranty work. They found that the techs had damaged the comp while working on it, (bent pins in the CPU connection, lost screws, etc). Turned out it was all a software problem.
Moral: If you can find someone who knows what they're doing, especially if the price is good, keep going to them.
I'm not suprised they found all sorts of things "wrong" with your computer– more profit for them.