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[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

My Wife > HP.

Cliffs:

Exactly a one year old HP machine, (vista 64-bit dual core yadda), has a 500gig Seagate internal HD. The HD has a recall on it, it fails 14 days after the one year warranty. Three levels of HP customer service people tell us that because it did not fail within the one year warranty time, they will not honor the recall. Me and wifey were le pissed! Wifey calls up and emails HP corporate, they call back extremely apologetic. They are shipping us a shipping box to put the machine in to ship back to them and they will repair in with in 4 days and ship it back.

Moral of story, don't by HP if you need a PC and you plan to use it.

[///M5 2,833]

What puckers.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I thought it was funny that they were trying to get us to believe that a warranty and recall were the same thing.

[KU40 173]

mothertruckers.

[topgun 262]

Didn't buy much at the surplus sale, two carbide countersinks for 2$ and then 22lbs of .020 stainless sheeting and 22lbs of cp-3 titanium .070 sheets. About came home with a 3/8" titanium plate, but then I tried to figure out wtf I would do with the damn thing.... Wasn't sure.

[///M5 2,833]

Make a nacelle silly

[Tirefryr 1,742]

My Wife > HP.

Cliffs:

Exactly a one year old HP machine, (vista 64-bit dual core yadda), has a 500gig Seagate internal HD. The HD has a recall on it, it fails 14 days after the one year warranty. Three levels of HP customer service people tell us that because it did not fail within the one year warranty time, they will not honor the recall. Me and wifey were le pissed! Wifey calls up and emails HP corporate, they call back extremely apologetic. They are shipping us a shipping box to put the machine in to ship back to them and they will repair in with in 4 days and ship it back.

Moral of story, don't by HP if you need a PC and you plan to use it.

All of our printers/copiers/fax machines at work are HP. We have all the service manuals for these things, but it's a joke. For one problem, there are 50 possible solutions and none are concrete. If you call HP support, only half of the people actually know anything about the machines. Even the techs that come out to repair them can't fix them. We ship them back to get refurbed and they come back DOA, ALL THE TIME.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

My Wife > HP.

Cliffs:

Exactly a one year old HP machine, (vista 64-bit dual core yadda), has a 500gig Seagate internal HD. The HD has a recall on it, it fails 14 days after the one year warranty. Three levels of HP customer service people tell us that because it did not fail within the one year warranty time, they will not honor the recall. Me and wifey were le pissed! Wifey calls up and emails HP corporate, they call back extremely apologetic. They are shipping us a shipping box to put the machine in to ship back to them and they will repair in with in 4 days and ship it back.

Moral of story, don't by HP if you need a PC and you plan to use it.

All of our printers/copiers/fax machines at work are HP. We have all the service manuals for these things, but it's a joke. For one problem, there are 50 possible solutions and none are concrete. If you call HP support, only half of the people actually know anything about the machines. Even the techs that come out to repair them can't fix them. We ship them back to get refurbed and they come back DOA, ALL THE TIME.

It took a lot of time and effort to get someone who enunciated normal English words. (ie. not outsourced Indian CS).

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Dammit. I am so ready to get a DD with trunk space, and power windows and locks.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

Dammit. I am so ready to get a DD with trunk space, and power windows and locks.

Don't think of it as "power windows, power locks"; think of it as "having complete control of the car using only your left hand"

yet more words of wisdom from the dealership training seminar

[Duran 387]

My Wife > HP.

Cliffs:

Exactly a one year old HP machine, (vista 64-bit dual core yadda), has a 500gig Seagate internal HD. The HD has a recall on it, it fails 14 days after the one year warranty. Three levels of HP customer service people tell us that because it did not fail within the one year warranty time, they will not honor the recall. Me and wifey were le pissed! Wifey calls up and emails HP corporate, they call back extremely apologetic. They are shipping us a shipping box to put the machine in to ship back to them and they will repair in with in 4 days and ship it back.

Moral of story, don't by HP if you need a PC and you plan to use it.

I've had mine since christmas of 2007 and no problems *knocks on wood*

[///M5 2,833]

My Wife > HP.

Cliffs:

Exactly a one year old HP machine, (vista 64-bit dual core yadda), has a 500gig Seagate internal HD. The HD has a recall on it, it fails 14 days after the one year warranty. Three levels of HP customer service people tell us that because it did not fail within the one year warranty time, they will not honor the recall. Me and wifey were le pissed! Wifey calls up and emails HP corporate, they call back extremely apologetic. They are shipping us a shipping box to put the machine in to ship back to them and they will repair in with in 4 days and ship it back.

Moral of story, don't by HP if you need a PC and you plan to use it.

All of our printers/copiers/fax machines at work are HP. We have all the service manuals for these things, but it's a joke. For one problem, there are 50 possible solutions and none are concrete. If you call HP support, only half of the people actually know anything about the machines. Even the techs that come out to repair them can't fix them. We ship them back to get refurbed and they come back DOA, ALL THE TIME.

My HP all in one printer really sucks balls to. It has network support via cat 5, but regularly flakes out so I have to connect direct to uSB. Then it gives messages every fucking time you print and requires a 90mb install file which takes a shit regularly. I will never buy HP anything again.

[///M5 2,833]

Dammit. I am so ready to get a DD with trunk space, and power windows and locks.

Don't think of it as "power windows, power locks"; think of it as "having complete control of the car using only your left hand"

yet more words of wisdom from the dealership training seminar

The one thing you won't learn at a dealership is that a customer DOESN'T want to hear you spout off about a car, instead just ask the up open questions and determine his needs. After this is done carefully present what you feel is the right solution for him at the lot. Most dealerships preach the show up and throw up style of sales which fails miserably in ALL sales situations.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

My Wife > HP.

Cliffs:

Exactly a one year old HP machine, (vista 64-bit dual core yadda), has a 500gig Seagate internal HD. The HD has a recall on it, it fails 14 days after the one year warranty. Three levels of HP customer service people tell us that because it did not fail within the one year warranty time, they will not honor the recall. Me and wifey were le pissed! Wifey calls up and emails HP corporate, they call back extremely apologetic. They are shipping us a shipping box to put the machine in to ship back to them and they will repair in with in 4 days and ship it back.

Moral of story, don't by HP if you need a PC and you plan to use it.

I've had mine since christmas of 2007 and no problems *knocks on wood*

Thats good. My issue has not really been with HP quality, well at least not since the mid 90's. But the quality of the company and service. This has been an issue through past jobs too with HP machines, most offices just over paid someone internally to fix the HP machines themselves. One thing the Gov't got right on a large scale, that I have experienced, was when they moved towards large amounts of PC's, they went Dell and have continued to do so far a while.

[///M5 2,833]

Morning Aaron & Ryan. Guess we know who has children on the site.

[///M5 2,833]

Little dude has already eaten twice today and I've only had a coffee.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Dammit. I am so ready to get a DD with trunk space, and power windows and locks.

Don't think of it as "power windows, power locks"; think of it as "having complete control of the car using only your left hand"

yet more words of wisdom from the dealership training seminar

The one thing you won't learn at a dealership is that a customer DOESN'T want to hear you spout off about a car, instead just ask the up open questions and determine his needs. After this is done carefully present what you feel is the right solution for him at the lot. Most dealerships preach the show up and throw up style of sales which fails miserably in ALL sales situations.

Ever saw that show king of cars?

[///M5 2,833]

No I haven't.

[///M5 2,833]

My second month with the dealership though I broke their margin record and tied the past three years best sales in units. Best part of working at a car dealership is that most of the sales people really suck.

[///M5 2,833]

ie Peng, be careful what you "learn"

[///M5 2,833]

Feel free to post up questions though

[dem beats 1,223]

now that we've torn the wall apart in the den, we're contemplating putting a structured cabling system in for LAN...decisions decisions...

fixing the house turns into a giant snowball it seems...

wonder where I can get an inexpensive router to service the whole house (8+ ports)...

my father in law gave me an amazing 50 port(I think) buisness switch. I need to hook that bad mutha up.

my entertainment system alone has 3 units that need it the PS3 the yammi Z7 and xbox.

3 tower pc's in the house, buisness class printer, few lappy toppys that i woulf love to have hard line capable just in case wireless porn surfing isn't as quick as I need when the mood strikes, and i dont feel like making the long walk down the stairs....

We could use some of the CPU power crunching for SETI.USA.

i used to have that on my machine. I my quad core would crunch some numbers. Im going to OC it this week.

[dem beats 1,223]

my new fur child gets me up at 5:30-6:00.

its his time to do his buisness. cant wait untill im hung over and he gets me up then. at least he goes right back to sleep after his buisness and breakfast.

[dem beats 1,223]

poasting from bed.

the wife got up and started cleaning the kitchen.... she never gets up b4 me... and never cleans the kitchen.

she might even be making breakfast. I better stay put. she might be trying to bribe me for something...

Something is afoot here.

[dem beats 1,223]

drats!

It was the worst kind of morning cleaning. Twas my night last night to clean. Fogo erased all memory of household duties and chores.