compaq @&^%$#$@

A friend called me the other day about his desktop computer. The computer I recommended he didn't by 2 years ago.

Its not booting up anymore and wanted to know if I would help fix it as its no longer under warantee.

He described the problem and before I got off the phone I knew it needed a new CMOS battery

I went over to help him. Needless to say the battery was soldiered to the motherboard and no indications of pins for an external battery.

I had to cut the battery off the board being careful to leave enough of the lugs to soldier a pair of wires onto. What a pain! Who designed that? While I was in there I also noticed that the memory appears do be proprietary. I didn't like compaq before. Now I really don't like them at all.

Fixed it. It works now. The new battery is in a battery case velcroed to the chassis.

Been there done that Had a compaq junk
in over the weekend did every hardware test
known to man couldn't get it to do anything
wrong, customer takes it home and it blows
up, locks up spits and sputters, brought it
back monday, so I said to hell with this
ripped everything out but the mobo and
put it all on a new board, gave it back
haven't heard from him since, I can't
believe they would design a system that
was limited to 96 megs of ram also had a dell
that was limited to 64 megs of ram and this
lady paid almost 4 grand for this thing
she wasn't happy when I told her that was
all I could put in it, she does autocad on it
and could have used all the ram I could give
her but thanks to Mr Dell and Mr Compaq I
didn't make any money maybe I should have sold her some new mobo's and cases, would have been better off in the long run


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