[3o3]

Going from happy to extremly sad, disapointed and mad.

Why? The computer didn't even work for 24 hours. - and no i am not kidding.

-"Errr.. what are you talking about 3o3?".

Long story short; i was installing Reason + Cubase. All of the sudden the computer starts to load and load and load and load and load (you get the picture). Since it has a feature called something like; Cool and quiet which means that whenever the CPU isn't used 100% it goes down in speed - it clocks down which prolongs the life of the CPU. And i start to think; hey it's alright - it's all good, an installation can't take 100% of an AMD 64 3200+ CPU.

So i go an watch some television, when i come back it says -> "Windows can't locate blablabla.dll - please use checkdisc to see what's wrong". I press "Ok" and press the start-menu, which works fine and whenever i try to click any of the icons the all the 'links' starts to jump 'around'.

That's odd to say the least. I'll just find the program thru "This computer" on the desktop instead - now this i shouldn't have done. I press it and it comes up; "Major fault in windows xp blablabla press ok" "Ok" "Windows can't locate veryimportantfile.dll press ok" "Ok" "Windows is missing muliple .dll files press ok" "O...." *beep*.

Errrrrrrrrrrr....... what the fuck? I press the powerbutton; nothing happends. I wait like 10 minutes and all of the sudden the computer reboots.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... does this thing have it's own little life?

Everything seems fine until when it's about to open start XP up. *beep*. It takes about 3 minutes for it all of the sudden to reboot again; Aha - faulty powersupply? After going thru the computer i can assure it isn't any virus first of all. It's not the powersupply either. So i think; i'll just let this be and let my brother have a go and see if he can find the fault.

Aha; The windows XP installation is corrupted (oh, i do hate windows xp).
We install windows 2000 pro instead; it works great for about 20 minutes when all of the sudden the same problem. but this time i get the error; "Can't read from C:\????" Errrrrrrrrr.. Now i am starting to get really pissed at this computer

We reboot it again; what happends now it can't find the harddrive. We check bios and it finds the harddrive. We reboot. It can't find the harddrive . we check the bios it finds the harddrive.

It reboots ok, but this time it claims that i've got an CPU with the lightning-speed of 100MHZ. and this time it isn't the cool and quiet-feature since we un-checked the box.

All of the sudden it wants to reboot - sure thing; when it reboots it can't find any OS-installation whatsoever. I put the windows 2000-cd back in and guess what? my harddrive is completly empty. Aha! Faulty harddrive. Oh no since the installation goes smooth and it works but now it claims that the CPU running at a even lightning speed of 101mhz. Aha! faulty CPU? Oh no. Reboot and it works fine. but now the RAM is missing instead claming that i've only got a whopping 32megs of ram. Aha! Faulty ram? Oh no. Aha doesn't get enough power from the outlet i am using? Oh no. That doesn't work either.

I call the support now because i am so _pissed_ off. "Have you checked that the computer wasn't faulty when you got it?" "How am i supposed to check any hardware problems without booting the computer up?" "Well, did you see any visible damages to the computer." "Errr.. no, if i've would have seen it i would have sent it back to you". "Thats good" "Errr. yes, since i am not going to pay for anything that's broken" "Well, it's not broken.. you just gotta install everything correct" "Yes, i know that - and that's why i got my brother here who works as an computer-tech." "That's good, let me talk to him instead".

We follow his direction and do _everything_ he says. Still the same problem. from each reboot i get another hardware-problem so in the end the computer-tech says that we should flash the motherboard with a new bios instead. We do that. guess what? it didn't help at all. We have tried alot of different versions of windows xp/2000/NT- we have even tried installing win98. and still it doesn't work.

And all of this the tech-guy at the company said that we should do - now the even more funny part.

I've spent 10 minutes in telephone with them and after alot of fighting i get this answer from my demand (which is give me an computer that works); Since you installed windows 2000 on it and it came with windows XP you gotta pay for a new Windows XP licence and the cost of sending your new computer out, sending your old computer back here and the insurance-cost.

Which comes to around 4900:- SEK. My rent is 4500:- SEK. I get 8200:- SEK / month. It's fucking x-mas coming up aswell. Fucking hell. I am so fucked up mad right now.

How the hell could i see that the whole computer was faulty without even starting the fucking think up first? it didn't have any bumps/scratchmarks or anything that could be the reason for the faulty hardware _inside_(since not even the tech-guy at the company couldn't come to any other conclusion that it's gotta be some major hardware-fault in the computer).

I am trying to find the number to where you can call if you feel that you have been mistreated by a store. I can't remember what it's called again.

Right now the computer wont shut off aswell as boot up properly for me so it just stands there looking like crap.

This for me is another reason _why_ computer should be banned from my home. I am so unlucky with computers.