[robz71lm7]

My Hewlett @ss Packart (yes that language is necessary). Is acting up again. It's having the same problems it did last year. Last Summer it took HP 3 months to fix it (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) . I'm going to see if I can get them to replace it-they refused to do that last time. In the mean time my internet access might be limited. Of course it's not as if we need a huge team of moderators. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Needless to say-I'm building my next computer.

[00 Trans Ram]

I, too, have terrible luck with these damn "miracles of modern science"! I had a Gateway for 4 years, and it worked great. Then, out of the blue, it started acting up (shutting off, crashing, losing documents, etc.). So, we figured that it was time to get a new computer anyway. We heard great things about Dell, so we got a new, close to top-of-the-line Dell. Well, we've had the Dell for 4 months, and it's dead. It will start up, but we cannot start any applications. Actually, we can use Excel. But, no other icons or programs work. Even when we start them directly from the Program file, it still just won't do anything. We tried to call Tech Support, but they couldn't do anything. (They said that we'd need top reinstall Windows, so we had to save our files to a backup, like a CD. I told them that our CD burning software wouldn't work. Then, we tried a few other things. And then they say that we need to reinstall Windows, and to backup our files to CD. I told them again that the software required to do that doesn't work. We went through this same conversation 2 other times in less than 30 minutes. So, we finally hung up. I think we're just going to send them the damn thing and let them fix it under warranty.).

So, I'm now using the almost 5 year old Gateway. Slow and reliable. Oh well!!