I feel like a newbie

[timeshifter]

Was at customer site reinstalling her rebuilt computer. Had done a backup, clean install, restore, etc. prior to this reinstall and everything worked beautifully. I power on the computer - BAM... BSOD. It worked fine for me I tell her. WTH! I'm sweating. Eventually I figure out that I had brought back the wrong Dell Dimension 2400.

 

[cypress]

Was at customer site reinstalling her rebuilt computer. Had done a backup, clean install, restore, etc. prior to this reinstall and everything worked beautifully. I power on the computer - BAM... BSOD. It worked fine for me I tell her. WTH! I'm sweating. Eventually I figure out that I had brought back the wrong Dell Dimension 2400.

Oh man! Lol that was rough.

 

[glricht]

... found out that I had brought back the wrong Dell Dimension 2400.

You actually spent time and the customer paid money to work on a Dell Dimension 2400?? That's a 2003-era PC!! Hard to believe unless you're just using the case to hold all new components,

 

[glennd]

You actually spent time and the customer paid money to work on a Dell Dimension 2400?? That's a 2003-era PC!! Hard to believe unless you're just using the case to hold all new components,

That's an awesome machine: 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD, CD-RW, Celeron 2.4GHz, XP Home, Corel Word Perfect. Who wouldn't want a beast like that?

 

[timeshifter]

You actually spent time and the customer paid money to work on a Dell Dimension 2400?? That's a 2003-era PC!! Hard to believe unless you're just using the case to hold all new components,

Where did I say that this happened recently?

 

[Altster]

Was at customer site reinstalling her rebuilt computer. Had done a backup, clean install, restore, etc. prior to this reinstall and everything worked beautifully. I power on the computer - BAM... BSOD. It worked fine for me I tell her. WTH! I'm sweating. Eventually I figure out that I had brought back the wrong Dell Dimension 2400.

oooops LOL

Been there, done that. Most of the old 2400's are now in the scrap heap - although the ones that still work just work!

A lot of people just don't seem to appreciate good quality older equipment that continues to work. I know of several users who could care less about speed. Just as long as the equipment continues to function like they want it to, then they are happy.

 

[River Valley Computer]

oooops LOL

Been there, done that. Most of the old 2400's are now in the scrap heap - although the ones that still work just work!

A lot of people just don't seem to appreciate good quality older equipment that continues to work. I know of several users who could care less about speed. Just as long as the equipment continues to function like they want it to, then they are happy.

Correct - we had a couple come in yesterday. He is a retired nuclear engineer with NASA and she is an author with 8 books under her belt.

He bought one of our refurbished i5 Dell Optiplexs.(He still kept his Dell Optiplex 3000 as backup after we transferred his files). She is still using a Dell 2400 with XP. She NEVER connects to the Internet (smart person) - she just uses it for writing her books using Word Perfect. "It it isn't broken - don't fix it"!

Newer isn't always better. Probably the reason I'd rather drive my 1990 Honda CRX anytime rather than my BMW Z4.

 

[DeanB]

I keep an '09 Optiplex 360 under the bench for the occasional cloning of a hard drive. It also had the video card and yes it took me several misconnections to put the tape over the onboard connector. But, at least Dell was kind enough to have a screen that told me I had done it again and not just a black screen.