Well now. That was an exciting day. Got up, turned on the coffee, fed the dog, turned on the computer, hit the power button on the computer, and nothin'. Yessir, my power supply failed. At 7:45 am this presents problems. After several informative phone calls (sample: "The machine is how old? 1997? It's a Pentium MMX processor? If it were me, I wouldn't fix it. Listen, you can replace it for. . .") I found a repair shop which seemed to understand that even if I wanted to replace the machine (of course, but not now!) I still needed power to offload data to any new machine I might purchase. Then there was the question of whether a power supply for such an old machine was in stock (yes, fortunately), and the placement of the machine on the shop's "to do" list. Much whining about my absolute requirement to have it back ASAP ensued. Finally, after only four hours in the shop, they called to say I could come get it. Relief, followed by dread; uh-oh, what's the In-box gonna look like (40 messages, some of them even important). However, this is a going concern once again. $130 poorer, but a going concern.
How was your day?
Posted by Linkmeister at April 17, 2002 09:58 PM$130?!?! For a power supply?? That's unbelievable! I hope everything is working as it should....
Posted by: Scott at April 18, 2002 07:45 AMMy day? It just started. Lemme get back to you on that in awhile.
Posted by: hoopty at April 18, 2002 07:51 AMScott, that's $50 for one hour's labor and $75 for the part, plus tax...does that sound more sensible?
Posted by: Linkmeister at April 18, 2002 08:09 AMTo retrieve the data you could just take the hard drive out of the old machine and fit it into the new one. If you bought a new one.
Posted by: Shelagh at April 20, 2002 10:04 AM