Packard Bell POS

[CodeDragon]

Took a while to post this but anywho:

I took a look at the home machine of a member of staff today. Packard bell, Pentium 4 1.4GHz, nice machine.

He was having issues when trying to run a DVD. The shop he bought it from (Dixons) had installed a Creative DVD Encore package in it (Dxr3 etc, nice package).

I took a look in device manager and found this:

<img src="http://www.caddarn247.fsnet.co.uk/wdrv1.jpg" alt=" - " />

What can I say? Proprietory POS with a good peripheral installed by monkeys (no offence to firemonkey <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> ).

CD

[cc_penguin]

I was under the impression that Packard Bell had closed up their consumer end of their business.... Guess I was wrong....

[freddy]

no unfortunatly ,,,,,,,,live and kicking in the UK ,,,,retail group "dixons" even has carrier bags with the logo on ,,,,
If u ever felt like kicking someone up the *ss ,,its someone with a "pcworld" bag with that writen on it ,,,,,,,,

[Jeff the Brit]

Unfortunately for the sanity of UK techs, Packard Bell are alive and well and sticking it to the punters on this side of the pond. I guess they got out of the US side after they ran out of fresh mugs who hadn't heard how bad they were. As for Dixons, think Circuit City/Frys but without the same knowledgeable and highly skilled staff

[cc_penguin]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Jeff the Brit:
<strong>Unfortunately for the sanity of UK techs, Packard Bell are alive and well and sticking it to the punters on this side of the pond. I guess they got out of the US side after they ran out of fresh mugs who hadn't heard how bad they were. As for Dixons, think Circuit City/Frys but without the same knowledgeable and highly skilled staff </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As a worker of Circuit City (Tech not sales...whew) thank you, I think
Man I feel for you guys over there, well I guess it is job security though

[CodeDragon]

Worst luck is that I used, when I was naive and innocent, to work as a Tech at PC World. Actually learnt a lot too, until the management changed and they were more interested in the following transaction than helping the customer:

Customer: Hi, I have this machine, it's 18 months old and it won't (blah blah blah)
Tech: No problem, here's a new one for only £1,250...

The reason I left (read: was pushed out) was that I wouldn't conform to this attitude, and went out of my way to satisfy the customer. Sucks be to them, their loss.

CD

[talltech]

I hate to say it but we still have em here in australia to, sold by department stors etc. but i dont have to fix em cos i am no longer employed as a computer tech.