Well today kinda got pretty mad. Let me go back some.
Some of your may remember my thread
Win98se Shutdown Re-visited
Well I had gone out on a limb with this computer, Traded i for some stuff. Actually ended up getting the worse end of the deal but that was alright because these are suppose good friends of mine. Their old 120 computer supposably died and I offered them my 333amd in exchange. I had purchased memory some time back for this particular computer to set it to 196. the memory was purchased during the time the prices were high. Anyways, come to find out that this computer was having the exact same problem as the 120 which I did not find out too way too late. So only two components being in the computer was from the former computer it was determined it was the modem that was causing the problems. I had told him to replace this modem about 2 years ago which he never did. So I had told him I would snail mail him directions of how to replace the modem. I emailed the first copy in case he checked his mail eslewhere and also stated that I will be snail mailing a copy of it as well.
The whole point in doing this was I wanted a case/350watt psu from them. I got some fans as well out of the deal. it just so happened that thier 120 computer had "died". And the other whole point is that they are broke, his wife was just in a car wreck and they had to come up wih th deductable first before the insurance company would fix thier brand new rig. its a jeep something 2000. Very nice rig IMO. Anyways, I knew this and I also knew that he was laid off for the summer from his job and I thought what a perfect opportunity I'll make tem a sweet deal so I can get my other mobo loaded. (didn't have an atx case). So did this and fixed the computer up for them. Spent many hours on this computer cause when I left the first time only issue was shutdown, it would NOT shut down during operation. only when you were finished with the computer, come home 1 hour drive. and get paged saying its restarting and shutting down.
so I went back up the following week and worked on it again, and I said I am not sure what your problem is, only issue is when you go to shut down the computer it only hangs. It runs perfectly fine. Get home this time took more than an hour to get home cuz of rush hour. I get paged yet again. and again and again. and i call him up. Long Distance. And find out its doing same thing as old computer, and only happens when he is playing games. Duh...he should have told me that in first place. Anyways.
now what makes me sooo damm pissed, is that I went out on a limb to help these people (who are suppose to be my good friends) and they send me email back and said, this computer is so stupid so we went and put an emachine on layaway and he says tey hope they can keep making the payments for 3 months. $600 dollar emachine. (Specs: It's EMachine 1.6 MHz and AMD Athlon with CD-RW, 128RAM, 40GB hard driver and four USB ports, Printer HP 1050, and monitor 15" for $600.)
What galls me the most is the fact that they have no pateinces with computer and don't want to bother with purchasing a new modem for the 333amd i gave them. I asked them what they were doing with computer. He said again, this computer stupid computer we use it till we get our new computer payoff from layaway and then I can have it back. Im keeping the email too. I'll be dammed if i pay to get it back, I busted off many hours working on this computer and NOTHING was wrong with it except it would not shut down correctly, it was running 98se. I ran this computer at home before giving it to him and i ran both linux and 98se and I never had narry a problem with this enter setup. specs are exact same except for hard drive and modem. those were his out of old computer. and he is try tell me its the computer doing it.
I don't think I will beging to understand these people anymore. now that im not around tem all the time i see more of what happens. They spend money like you would not belive and yet at same time they are talking about how they are work hard to get thier debts paid off so they can buy a house. what the heck are they doing just out and spend spend spend money they don't have while that money should be going for thier future. they have a litle girl now too.
Just really pisses me off seeing people making stupid decisions just because they are inpatience or don't want to hassle with getting one lousy part for less then 50 bucks.
I really have a hard time understanding people who are in debt and continue to spend money and at the same time talk about thier dream of owning a home. Owning a home has been a dream of mine for years and i work hard to clean up my credit a now that its finally clean as of 2 years ago, i try hard to keep my credit clean, my credit is extremely important to me.
Sure I could go out and spend abadonly and make be whopping purchases wih high intrest rates but I know in thelong run is gonna hurt me. All the parts i have built up with my computers i have collected and hoarded over several years and keep hanging onto parts so i can hopfully build someting later. I finally now have 2 computers. One for me and one for the kids. To me that is alot, and im gonna get the other one back cuz im not gonna let them throw it away. they are the type of peopl that would just stick it in a dumpster, and if tey do that, they will get my wrath cuz there is nothing wrong with the mobo/cpu/memory. Nothing wrong with it.
This is also the last time I do any servicing or and deals for them.
Sorry for the rant.
just really pisses me off.
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