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

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

My experience with Compaq, Gateway, and Dell is that you get what you pay
for. If you go with ultra-cheap systems you get crap. If you go with
something a lil off the bottom you'll usually get something okay. My main
complaint is that all three frequently use specialized parts of their own
design and tend to do bad things like glue cables in place. They also
usually cost a lil more than an equiv whitebox system would have cost.


The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org/projects/

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Ross, Matt wrote:

> 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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