In a message dated 11/29/04 6:09:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
llile@projsolco.com writes:

> had the same kind of experience with a Hewlett Packard PC.  The suckers 
> sold me an on-site maintenance guarantee (Nya Nya NYA!).  I am 130 miles from 
> the nearest on-site maintenance tech, so he had to make several trips to 
> replace a hard drive, hard drive cable and a CD rom drive (twice!)  
> 
> Whenever I have built a PC, I have usually had two weekends of hair pulling, 
> cursing, teeth gnashing and randomly punching out hapless passersby before 
> the *&^$%# thing started working correctly.  
> 
> Lets see, I bought a computer off the shelf at Sam's club, it was DOA. 
> 
> I can truthfully say I have never had a PC that didn't cause trouble at some 
> point early in it's career, homebuilt or factorybuilt. I have never tried a 
> custom built computer, maybe that is the solution!
> 

I have never had any good luck with an HP or Compaq since HP bought them.  As 
I said before I build quite a few PCs for use in industrial machine controls 
and it usually takes me about 4 hours to assemble them, then about 4 more to 
get the operating system and software in them.  However, I have not had much 
trouble at all with them.  I usually use Intel Mainboards with Intel chipsets 
and Pentium 4 processors.   On occasion I use AMD processors and am actually 
starting to lean more toward them than Intel as the last 2 systems I did were AMD 
and they seem to run faster and cooler at a given clock rate and front side 
bus speed.  Not to mention they are usually cheaper.

Well anyway, that is just my experience.  Of course, I build quite a few of 
these as many of the machines I service or upgrade will take from 2 to 5 PCs to 
run them.

Randy Abernathy

4626 Old Stilesboro Road NW
Acworth, GA 30101
Ph / Fax: 770-974-5295
E-mail: cnc002@aol.com

I furnish technical support, repair, and other related services for your 
industrial woodworking machinery. My background as Senior Service Engineer for the 
SCMI Group for nearly fifteen years with factory training, combines with my 
extensive background in electronics, mechanics, pneumatics, electrical and CNC 
machinery to offer you needed support for your machinery. 

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