Re: Bizarre hardware

On Tuesday, 21 April 2026 23:43:55 British Summer Time Wol wrote:
> On 21/04/2026 23:16, Philip Webb wrote:
> > May I recommend building your own machine from parts ?
> > -- it's not difficult & if anything is defective, it's only  1  part.
> 
> Until the part is not defective but it doesn't work ...
> 
> I bought a compatible mobo and cpu, which wouldn't boot. I even told the
> repair shop what was wrong, and they botched it. (Unfortunately, I'd
> hung on to the gear far too long before actually getting round to do
> anything with it.)
> 
> Basically, the problem was the obvious one - the mobo had been lying
> around in the shop, and the cpu was too new for the bios. All it needed
> was for the shop to find an old cpu, boot and update the bios, and
> charge me £50. Instead, they replaced the mobo and charged me £200. All
> of a sudden I realised the mobo was still in warranty, sent it back to
> the manufacturer, and they updated the bios and sent it back.
> Unfortunately, I never got round to getting another chip, so that mobo
> is still sitting there unused, and probably never will be :-( Oh well...

[sigh...]

You know where the path leads that's paved with good intentions... Yeah. me 
too.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.