Bullshitting Twats

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No not the Apprentice...

Not been on here as my main PC fried on Saturday morning, powered up but just hung before it even got to POST, I suspected fried RAM or motherboard, but am not very good at digging around inside machines, so I called an expert to come and take a look at it.

He said he didn't really know what was wrong and said he would have to take it away and recover my data from the hard drive. I said I could do that myself, I wanted to machine fixing if possible. I didn't really want my PC taking away by someone I didn't know from Adam (not Blake) especially with the amount of porn and especially with Beer & Bollocks in the history on it, plus remembered passwords to all my affiliate accounts etc. So I said if it was fried and he couldn't fix it, I would just fish the HD out and recover the files myself.

"You can't do that, it's all encrypted if it's XP." I told him no, I have done this before (in fact had to use file recovery when a friend's disk partition process went wrong), it's simply a matter of banging the drive in a housing and USBing the stuff to my laptop for now. "Look, this is my job, don't you trust me, there is no way you can see any of the files on an XP hard drive, I don't care if you've done it before it's impossible, I will need to take it away with me."

Told him to piss off, put my HD in a casing and voila, there is all my stuff (most of it backed up anyway but missed last weeks backup so needed a few emails and what have you).

Would have been nice to get it fixed but needed a new PC anyway, think I will go Alienware - but my Sunday morning was rather spoiled by this chap trying to bullshit me - I bet he makes a fortune from gullible types by doing his "impossible" data recovery.

I think I will put an ad in the paper as a data recovery expert and cash in :character0079:

[Geezer]

I had a problem with my old laptop so I phoned some bloke cos it was out of warranty. He said the HDD had failed and I would need a new one blah blah blah

I thought I might as well give Dell a ring and see what they would say, they talked me through some technical stuff then said all was fine. I did a few things and it was all back and ready to.

The thing is if you don't know you don't know.
Last year my missus' car wouldn't start, we had a mechanic out and he didn't know what was wrong. In the end she had to get a bloke out with a computer, he plugged it in to diagnose the problem, cost me about £68 and was told a fuse had gone, the fuse cost £2 from Halfords.
My missus thought it was a rip off but I said "you could have gone somewhere else and they could have gave you a load of bullshit and charged £200"

Like I said if you don't know you don't know so you just have to accept what is being told to you...sometimes

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I bet he makes a fortune from gullible types by doing his "impossible" data recovery.
all you need to do is go to any PC World or the likes and stand close to any sales pitch in progress, you wouldn't believe what nonsense is dished out by the "experts" and happily eaten up by the customers.

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I forgot to mention, he asked me where the "on" switch was 3 times, even the PCworld staff know that :noway2:

[rogue]

No not the Apprentice...

Not been on here as my main PC fried on Saturday morning, powered up but just hung before it even got to POST, I suspected fried RAM or motherboard, but am not very good at digging around inside machines, so I called an expert to come and take a look at it.



My PC did that a week or two back and i had a hissyfit about having to get a new PC built but after i calmed down i had a think about it, removed the casing and noticed that the processor fan had an uneven layer of dust on it. its worked fine since i removed the dust. i'm pretty sure that it was the BIOS refusing to go into boot to protect the processor from over heating.

[redwhiteandblue]

My PC did that a week or two back and i had a hissyfit about having to get a new PC built but after i calmed down i had a think about it, removed the casing and noticed that the processor fan had an uneven layer of dust on it. its worked fine since i removed the dust. i'm pretty sure that it was the BIOS refusing to go into boot to protect the processor from over heating.

Had exactly the same happen on mine, was running painfully slowly and I thought maybe the motherboard had failed somewhere, turned out to be dust on the heatsink.

[gawdi]

I forgot to mention, he asked me where the "on" switch was 3 times, even the PCworld staff know that :noway2:

You mean the 'dynamic' tech team - who wouldnt know a good PC from a Badgers Arse!

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You mean the 'dynamic' tech team - who wouldnt know a good PC from a Badgers Arse!


Ruth Badger's Arse? Now her and Kate, there's a combo that turns me on :cheer:

I've set my laptop up basically as the desktop for now with the rest of the office attached to it, using a monitor etc. Just having fun reimporting Itunes playlist, but thank Lord Sugar I've got a registry file with all my Dreamweaver sites backed up :)

Don't know what the prob was with the other one, but any excuse to get a new setup - the laptop is much quieter, quicker, think I might stick with it for a bit and give it some hammer before splashing out :cheer:

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Ruth Badger's Arse? Now her and Kate, there's a combo that turns me on :cheer:



Ruth Badger - Hmmmmmmmm forgot about her when I put that quip up.

I could see Ruth 'raping' Kate - in fact I'd pay good money to see that!!!

Cummon Kate tonite :cheer:

[Dionysius]

all you need to do is go to any PC World or the likes and stand close to any sales pitch in progress, you wouldn't believe what nonsense is dished out by the "experts" and happily eaten up by the customers.

I worked for PC ServiceCall (now The Tech Guys) a good few years ago. For those who don't know, buy a PC from DSG - Dixons, PC World etc.. and PC ServiceCall is where you'll be directed to phone when things go wrong. Anyway, as you've found out, most people who work in PC repair have no diagnostic ability what-so-ever. The number of times I'd take a call from a frustrated customer who'd been told to remaster (re-install) his/her computer ten times because somebody either couldn't be bothered to send an engineer to replace parts or because they didn't know how to solve problems. Made me sick to represent the company so I left (as did a lot of other people).

To be fair, 80% of the time, most computer problems are resolved by re-installing the OS - if you know what you're doing you should be able fix the OS without a re-install. The rest of the time, faults are down to user error/expectations or duff hardware.

Incidentally, most of DSG sales staff are taught to box-read - they read the specs as they carry the goods to customers; they've not a clue what the specs mean, and they don't need to, they just need to sell them to non-tech savvy/gullible people. When employed by DSG, because I worked in PC diag whenever I walked into Dixons or PC World I had to let it be known I worked for PC ServiceCall so their sales staff wouldn't embarrass themselves.