I've purchased three Compaq PC's in my life. Two desktops and one laptop. NONE of them lived much beyond the warranty. I remember when Compaq used to stand for quality - When they were IBM's direct competitor in the 80's. Now they are the crap at the bottom of the clearance bins at any local ...
Back in 2004 I bought a Pavilion Desktop. I paid roughly 800. Warranty was for a year. In July the motherboard blew. I was taking online classes, had just started the summer semester and had to have a computer so I immediately bought a laptop from HP within a couple of weeks. (Aug) for about 750 ...
Mine is a Compaq Pentium Computer that was 10 months old. For some reason, the colour on the monitor turned mostly pink. I called the tech and we did some trouble shooting for over 2 hours trying to find out what the problem is. He finally diagnosed that the problem was the video card. So, he sent ...
I bought a HP Photosmart C5180 printer for my mother when we upgraded her to a wireless network and a laptop (also HP). This printer DOES NOT work with Vista over a wireless connection. I also found out the hard way that is uninstalls itself over USB with Vista. I traveled to my mom's house, a 45 ...
Hewlett-Packard has caused me much grief over the past few weeks. My laptop kept spontaneously losing power. After much troubleshooting with the online chat-based technicians, it was determined the unit needed to be sent to the company for repair. I gave the online chat tech my information and ...
PC purchased Feb with 2 year warranty was faulty and replaced in April. HP indicated they would transfer warranty to the new PC. PC again had problems in April and HP refused to honor the two year warranty indicating the 1 year manufacturer's warranty had expired and the purchased warranty was ...