That's it.  I'm buying a Dell.


-- Lawrence Lile, P.E.
Who used to build his computers from scratch


> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve@tla.co.nz [mailto:steve@tla.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:15 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Beware IDIOT!! assemblers of PC power connectors.
> 
> > I thought consumer law meant that the dealer is the person who
> > fixes the customer. The dealer then has to seek restitution from
> > the supplier and so on. That's how I'm sure it is in NZ.
> 
> I'll find out tomorrow.
> I had a noisy fan in my PC and bought a new fancy PSU to get a quiet
> fan. I installed it and the PC stopped working. By swapping parts with
> another computer, I found that the motherboard, CPU, RAM & video
> card were all dead. Hmmm. I must have bumped something, or trapped
> a screw under the motherboard, I thought. (I also thought @#$%&).
> So I go and buy replacements, put it all together with the old PSU and
> we're back in business. Except the fan is noisy. No problem, in goes the
> new PSU, turn it on and smoke billows off the motherboard.
> Initially the shop were going to replace the parts that blew up the second
> time, but then changed their mind and offered just another PSU.
> So far, getting a quieter fan has cost me $1200 and a couple of days of
> work. We go to court tomorrow.
> 
> Steve.
> 
> 
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