I feel I did something wrong here.

[MrEd]

I just went to a garage sale that Lewan and Associates was having. I have a friend that works there, so that's how I found out about it. I got 64MB Compaq SDRAM, 2 Cat 5 cables with connectors(10ft each), a mga millennium pci vid card (which has a price tag on it still of $379.00, with a mem upgrade of $600.00[i think they were robbed on that, haven't researched it]), 2 keyboards, an hp pavillion 8240, and a 14" monitor. All for 20 bucks!!!!! They told me the Pavillion is locking up, and it's prolly the mobo, I said I'd look at it because it's prolly the cpu or something. Well, I've got to tell you, I been putting it through it's paces, and not a single problem. They removed the sound and nic cards, which is not a problem, but I think one of those devices are what was causing the lock-ups...... Needless to say, I'm happy with the transaction.

-MrEd aka Happy right now

[bdj]

What could be wrong? Sounds like you got a good just for the video card alone.

Good going

Bdj

MrEd aka Happy right now

So does that make you Mr. Happy?

Wow, and people are loosing their jobs to cut corp. expenditures.

You got a great deal, someone at the company should be fired.

[Mike]

That should be a sales lesson on how NOT to sell something.

[Richard Cranium]

The only thing you have done wrong is not sending it to me->

please send "Post Paid" to


Dr ItchyBod Cranium
549 Br Blvd
Dahlonegah Ga 12345

If you feel THAT guilty, offer them some free tech support on their next PC purchase. Maybe that will clear your conscience.

Now Doc, How is it your phone number is the same as your street address??



BR-549

Hee Haw!

[Ed_S]

Don't feel bad, the stuff has been written off on their taxes anyway. Kinda surprised they sold it at all, they'd be better off to contribute it to charity.

Regarding the HP's potential lockups - not sure about the 8240, but the 8140 was lockup-prone due to one of HP's apps that came on it. As I recall, this was true on much of the 8xxx series. It was a diagnostic app of theirs which conflicted with W9x. Simple fix, just disable it.

[MrEd]

Well, come friday everything that's left IS going to charity. Might have to get my friend to squeeze me back in there

I've decided, after tinkering with this HP, I'm going to fix it up and sell it to a friend of mine that needs it. BTW, I've put Win98SE on it, 128MB Ram, a 2.5 gig HD (7GB total), added a nic, and a SB16, and STILL not one lockup.... Makes me ? why they stopped supporting hardware 6 months ago

They won't OFFICIALLY let me handle all the hardware calls they get, but my friend and some of her co-workers have been giving out my number on the side, which is a lifesaver right now (every little bit helps).