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- From: cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Packard Bell experiences
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 02:06:52 -0600
- Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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- Packard Bell computers are POS's, they are junk dont buy 'em.
- My father unfortunately bought a Legend 725DX (a 386 25mhz DX, I dont
- know why they call it a 725????) and it is full of problems. First of
- all the 3 1/2 in floppy died. (Waited 2 months for Best Buy (NOT!) to
- return it fixed!!) Then a month later more trouble! When the computer
- was turned on (or rebooted) the POS gave a fixed disk error and said to
- press F1 (or F2 for setup). My dad was tolerating that for about a week
- but then the computer starting to mysterious reboot when it felt like it!!!
- He brought it to Best "BAD" Buy and had to wait 2.5 months for those
- SOBs to replace the motherboard and hard drive!!! (Oh yea, when he got
- it back, it lacked its 4 meg that it had!! Another trip to Bad Buy!).
- A happy ending right? WRONG!!!! GUESS AGAIN!!!
- The computer started to ask for that F1 message again (for the hard
- drive, does any one have any clue way the PB does this??? Please write
- me about it.) My father is not too thrilled about waiting 2 to 3 months
- for his computer to get fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- In addition, the cpu makes a high pitch ringing!!!! Also the junk PB
- 8538 SV monitor is garbage too. It makes noises too!
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- I have also heard that PBs are not very accepting when it comes to
- reprogramming the timer interrupt at higher speeds.
-
- Packard Bell computers are garbage. They are EVIL!! Dont buy one!!!!
-
- Since I am in a poor mood, I'll mention I hate Seagate drives. Those
- pieces of garbage suffer from stiction! I thought only cars got
- stuck!!! In fact my rear wheel drive car got stuck massively fewer times
- than that drive I knew! (BTW I live in Minnesota brrrrrrrrrrrrr! dont
- move here, it is way toooooo cold and tooo snowy)
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