RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Why do people give you crap about compaq (was: connecting a compu ter to a sound system)

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I should note, my new Compaq (bought last fall) has no hardware problems so
far, though its barely been 9 months since I got it, so its too soon to
tell.  My mother and grandmother bought newer compaq's in January, and have
been mostly satisfied, except for some problems with the CD-RW, which I
believe are software related.  Their CD-RW disks always need to be
'reformatted' for 45 minutes, and then usually don't write.  CD-R seems to
work fine though.  I should note, both are using WinXP.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross, Matt [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 10:25 AM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Why do people give you crap about compaq
> (was: connecting a compu ter to a sound system)
> 
> 
> > Any way, it 
> > sound like they must have had your outputs marked wrong on 
> > your Compaq. :-)
> 
> More likely I read it wrong.  Green has always been 'line 
> out' on the many
> computers I've seen over the years, so I assumed the black slot was
> headphones.  Both had a musical note by them.
> 
> > Why is it that people give you crap about buying Compaq's any 
> > way? :-) They might be strange, but the quality has always 
> > been decent from what I can see.
> 
> Not always.  The 166 machine I'm mentioning was a POS.  The 
> CD-ROM went bad
> within a year and the floppy drive in two years.  The floppy drive was
> awfully fun.  It has an eject button that is just under an 
> inch long, so
> that it can stick out through the inexplicably thick front of 
> the case - ie.
> you can't replace it with a standard drive.  I got around 
> this by putting a
> standard floppy in the second 5" bay with half a pill bottle 
> to support it.
> The 'sleep' button is both essential (as you can't turn off 
> the timer for
> sleep mode), and non-functional.  I finally found out that 
> you have to press
> this pattern to wake up the computer: sleep, volume up, 
> sleep, volume up,
> sleep.  The memory was barely upgradeable, with most of it on the
> motherboard.  Everything except the modem was built into the 
> motherboard.
> The case requires a phillips screwdriver, and two sizes of 
> torque wrenches
> to remove 7 screws, 5 on the outside, and two on the 
> motherboard to let you
> open it the 2 inches it will hinge open.  The hard drive and 
> floppy drive
> are unremovable without disassembling the case and motherboard fully,
> including some pins which would have to be cut to remove.  I 
> have found
> workarounds to many of the problems, but many require the 
> case to remain
> open.
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