So my computer's retarded, like owner like computer? -.-
it used to run at 1.15ghz, and somehow bumped itself up to 1.92 ghz, which what it was supposed to run at, but today, I turned my computer on and it's back down to 1.15ghz.. help please? =(
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There could be a variety of different issues going on here. A bad power supply, improperly installed heat sync on the processor, voltage fluctuations resetting your Bios, Overheating in general, etc. I'd need to see it.
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Any way I can find out what's wrong with it and start to fix it?
Take it to a local shop you trust / have a computer savvy friend take a look at it.
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I'm going to side with Kao, with additional advice.
If you live in NJ, don't go to CompUSA. A friend of mine took her computer there to be repaired a couple of years ago and it came back with various parts held in place with band-aids.
Band-aids.
If you live in NJ, don't go to CompUSA. A friend of mine took her computer there to be repaired a couple of years ago and it came back with various parts held in place with band-aids.
Band-aids.
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Nekovivie, Guardian of the Glade wrote:
I'm going to side with Kao, with additional advice.
If you live in NJ, don't go to CompUSA. A friend of mine took her computer there to be repaired a couple of years ago and it came back with various parts held in place with band-aids.
Band-aids.
If you live in NJ, don't go to CompUSA. A friend of mine took her computer there to be repaired a couple of years ago and it came back with various parts held in place with band-aids.
Band-aids.
thats almost as bad as the compUSA in Orlando. i had a customer who took her (keep in mind this is a 65+ yr old lady) to compUSA to get it "fixed". when she got it back it was fixed alright. the ram was sitting in the bottom of the case, none of the cables were connected, and the NIC and vid card were just hanging in the case, not fully seated in their slots.
they never did "fix" the problem with the OS. it was so trashed it was faster to format reinstall then to take the time to clean out the system of all the malware, viruses, etc...
I once filled in half a day at a Best Buy computer repair sweatshop.
it was basically a warehouse of about 200 people and boxes of broken sh*t with a piece of paper of hypothetical things that might be wrong with it...
One was a Pc that said "replace motherboard" because it wouldn't boot. I look further into it and found that the problem was actually the video card.... so I went and informed a supervisor about it and he berated me for wasting my time and told me to just replace the motherboard like the paper said...
Apparently they are WAY more about the quantity of things fixed rather than the quality of the work and the wallets of the consumers..
not that I am surprised...
Edited, Jan 27th 2007 7:32pm by Kelvyquayo
it was basically a warehouse of about 200 people and boxes of broken sh*t with a piece of paper of hypothetical things that might be wrong with it...
One was a Pc that said "replace motherboard" because it wouldn't boot. I look further into it and found that the problem was actually the video card.... so I went and informed a supervisor about it and he berated me for wasting my time and told me to just replace the motherboard like the paper said...
Apparently they are WAY more about the quantity of things fixed rather than the quality of the work and the wallets of the consumers..
not that I am surprised...
Edited, Jan 27th 2007 7:32pm by Kelvyquayo
Kelvyquayo the Irrelevant wrote:
I once filled in half a day at a Best Buy computer repair sweatshop.
it was basically a warehouse of about 200 people and boxes of broken sh*t with a piece of paper of hypothetical things that might be wrong with it...
One was a Pc that said "replace motherboard" because it wouldn't boot. I look further into it and found that the problem was actually the video card.... so I went and informed a supervisor about it and he berated me for wasting my time and told me to just replace the motherboard like the paper said...
Apparently they are WAY more about the quantity of things fixed rather than the quality of the work and the wallets of the consumers..
not that I am surprised...
Edited, Jan 27th 2007 7:32pm by Kelvyquayo
it was basically a warehouse of about 200 people and boxes of broken sh*t with a piece of paper of hypothetical things that might be wrong with it...
One was a Pc that said "replace motherboard" because it wouldn't boot. I look further into it and found that the problem was actually the video card.... so I went and informed a supervisor about it and he berated me for wasting my time and told me to just replace the motherboard like the paper said...
Apparently they are WAY more about the quantity of things fixed rather than the quality of the work and the wallets of the consumers..
not that I am surprised...
Edited, Jan 27th 2007 7:32pm by Kelvyquayo
yeah, its get the hardware in and out as fast as possible while raping the customer of every dime they have.
if people are stupid enough to trust companies like BestBuy and CompUSA to fix their computers, they deserve what they get. take it to a real tech or a real computer specialty company. you really do get what you pay for, most of the time.
Kelvyquayo the Irrelevant wrote:
One was a Pc that said "replace motherboard" because it wouldn't boot. I look further into it and found that the problem was actually the video card.... so I went and informed a supervisor about it and he berated me for wasting my time and told me to just replace the motherboard like the paper said... icon
Apparently they are WAY more about the quantity of things fixed rather than the quality of the work and the wallets of the consumers..
Apparently they are WAY more about the quantity of things fixed rather than the quality of the work and the wallets of the consumers..
It's a good thing we have free market competition and free market choices and aren't stuck with a single payer universal computer care system.
still stuck with idiots.
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