Well, my computer finally committed suicide...again

[ignom]

It worked when I got home. After I took a shower, it was DOA. It wouldn't start up, and the hard drive started making beeping noises, which it did last time I had to take it to the shop (and I had to get a new hard drive).

I ran disk repair, and it said the hard drive was OK. It still wouldn't start up. And it kept making beeping noises.

I erased the hard drive and tried to reinstall OS X, but it only made it halfway. When I tried to do it again, even the CD I was was freezing up. The whole time I was trying to reinstall, it was making those beeping noises.

I'm taking it to the shop today. This means that in the two iBooks I've had, I've gone through six hard drives. That's just not right.

[ReBurn]

Are you the only person that has trouble with macs?

[eo000]

shitty. Is work gonna let you use a loaner again?

[ignom]

shitty. Is work gonna let you use a loaner again?

No, the computer I had last time is being used by someone else.

[Infobahn]

Just say no to Porn.

[ignom]

I don't want to go home. At least you all can spend the rest of the night making fun of me.

[eo000]

aw, that sucks.

[Jessie]

I hope they fix it right this time. 

Imagine all the reading that will be here waiting in the morning.

Speaking of that, I think I'm going to work non-stop for two hours tomorrow.  That's my plan.  8-10 is work time for me tomorrow.  We'll see how that works out.

[cnamon]

I hope they fix it right this time. 

Imagine all the reading that will be here waiting in the morning.

Speaking of that, I think I'm going to work non-stop for two hours tomorrow.  That's my plan.  8-10 is work time for me tomorrow.  We'll see how that works out.

Are you mad woman??

[Jessie]

I hope they fix it right this time. 

Imagine all the reading that will be here waiting in the morning.

Speaking of that, I think I'm going to work non-stop for two hours tomorrow.  That's my plan.  8-10 is work time for me tomorrow.  We'll see how that works out.

Are you mad woman??

A little, and I am also a little behind.  I've got to get this month's taxes done.

[Mr. SM Holocaust]

I don't want to go home. At least you all can spend the rest of the night making fun of me.

A decent Dell is ridiculously inexpensive these days.

[Infobahn]

Yet, I always want the pumped up Dell Mac.

[nallen]

Damn that's odd.   I've had 2 iBooks, a G3 iMac, a G4 iMac, and now I have a PowerBook, all of them have never had a hard drive go bad.   One of the iBooks even survived my lab fire.   Crazy.    Which kind of iBook is it?

[ReBurn]

The kind that breaks every time you throw a quarter at it.

[Gamplayerx]

At least you all can spend the rest of the night making fun of me.

What's wrong with you people?  Hurry up and start making fun of ignom before he gets himself to a working computer!

[ignom]

Oh, glorious internets, humbly I return to you.

[ignom]

Damn that's odd.   I've had 2 iBooks, a G3 iMac, a G4 iMac, and now I have a PowerBook, all of them have never had a hard drive go bad.   One of the iBooks even survived my lab fire.   Crazy.    Which kind of iBook is it?

My old one was a G3 iBook, this one is a G4. I haven't even had it a year yet.

[nishi]

i would start writing some letters - first, to the management of the place where you're getting these and having them repaired. after that, i'd start working my way up in the mac universe.

letters are much more powerful than phone calls. and as far as legitimate complaints are concerned, emails are useless.

but this should not be happening. especially when they're doing the repairs.

[ignom]

Well, ok, if you really want to, you can start writing letters.

[DownSouth]

Did you flush it down the toilet?

[ignom]

The guy from CompUSA called and left a message saying that Apple sent back the computer without even looking at the hard drive, and they said the ethernet something was broken. WTF? I didn't take it to the shop because I was having problems with the ethernet.

The guy said he sent it back saying to fix the hard drive.

It's been two weeks already, and they didn't even attempt fixing my computer. Now I have to wait god knows how long for them to fix a problem they didn't even look at before, and which they didn't fix properly three months ago.

And the ethernet better damn well work when I get my computer back.

I think it's time to put the Automatic Complaint Letter Generator to good use.

[Beefy]

Are you on an office laptop again?

[ignom]

I'm using my dad's old compaq, to which nallen graciously supplied a copy of Win2K.

[kelbel]

I have had a new computer sitting on my desk for at least two months now waiting to get hooked up. My old one is suppose to just be for posting and my new one for doing my daily duties. By the time they hook it up it will be obsolete. They f*cked up the cables on this last call. It should of been a USB cable and it was not.

Good luck to you IGGY.

[nishi]

Well, ok, if you really want to, you can start writing letters.

give me a brief point by point history of this piece of shit they have sold you and i'll write your letter. gleefully. i live for this kind of thing. my raison d'etre.....