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Doctor Feelgood · Administrator

My wife's office had some horrid old computers they still used for every day, important stuff... Pentium 133s with 14" monitors!! And their file server wasn't much better, a P-II 333!

Two years ago they upgraded 2 of them to Dells with 2.4 GHz Celerons, and 17" monitors. Except for a PSU that died, they are still running strong.

This fall they upgraded the other 3 computers, but Dell's lead time when they ordered was 6 weeks or something, so they went to HP.

Decent computers, 2.8GHz Celeron D based... Everything installed fine, but after only a month or two the one filling in as their file server has already developed a bad hard drive! And its a Seagate of all things!

So, they call HP, let them know, and they immediately ship out a new 'drive' that arrives the next day with a complete set of recovery CDs.

I get there (well here, I was about to do this tonight) and open the first box... 11 CDs, OK. Open the second box... And all it has it a DVD burner... no HDD! Its a really nice dual layer 16X burner with LightScribe, but umm, it doesn't really solve the problem! Bang Head

So, I guess its back to trying again on Monday.

Luckily I talked them into a backup hard drive when I set the file server up... All the files are nice and safe on the other (Seagate) drive, just in case the main one totally dies soon!

I spend way too much time at this office...

Rant Over!