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"I hate packard bell PC's"

i absoloutly hate packard bell pcs they are so annoyying and always crashing why dont they spend time on thier pc's cant they make there product worth what it is. why cant they be like dell? there much better

I got my PC from an independent shop. Their technical support is flawless, and they are only the price of a national phone call away. Furthermore when i go in they remember me by name. And thats always nice.

My last comp was a Pakard Bell, which was naff. At one point we lost all sound on the PC for no reason, and we couldn't find out how or why this had happened, nor could we fix it, so we had to restore the entire system resulting in all saved work being lost. We also had problems with the mouse which sopped working for no reason, and even one of the speakers just gave up and broke. We got a replacement, which funnily enough, also brok after a few months.

Meh, bit of a crap comp, but I now have a much better Compaq which has had real problem whatsoever since I got it 3 yearts ago.

is it really that hard to build a PC yourself?

Pfft, 133MHz? That's what this system started at.

www.powerleap.com might interest you, although if you feel like putting the K6-3 400MHz in, you will need the Unicore / Mr.Bios (sounds so damn corny, stands for Morgan something BIOS) bios upgrade. I tried phoning the UK branch, they had no idea my PC even existed, and helpful salesrep bod suggested not bothering to pay but asking around PB upgrade forums instead. Found a newsgroup specifically for that, posted a message, someone replied with the bios upgrade attached to the mail. Hence the 40GB HDD, 400MHz AMD CPU etc. etc. etc.

packard bell are the best! i have an old P133Mhz running here for 9 yrs! got me self a HP pAvilion 7950 and less than 1 yr. technical assistance stil hasnt figure out problem to so many slowdowns and crashed! still hp trying to fix it over 6 months now they given up really i think they might just give me a new one or money back! PACKARD BELL RULE! HP ARE CRAP and 1 more thing. dont blame a pc just coz urs or a few pcs are craply running. but i know from hps service i recieved they r crap!

Dell?!... Just as bad a company. Infact in this day and age, it's better to get your comp built at a trustworthy PC shop, than it is to buy from a company - as they're inept and have pathetically poor excuses for technical support.

What you'll likely find with the PC is that the problem is really small, and simple to fix... of course, the Packard Bell helpdesk knowledge is also small and simple. This system I'm running is an older model PB, I stopped asking the company anything about it years ago, when I discovered I knew more about the PC than the cretins who built it.

"Motherboard goes upto 233MHz"

"Where exactly did you learn to count? It goes to 200, no further."

"There isn't a more recent BIOS update than 1998"

"Erm? Unicore.com anyone?"

"I'm sorry, your PC does not support AMD processors, or HDDs over 4GB in capacity"

"Ok... I'll just tell it to stop using the 40GB HDD, and AMD K6-3 CPU, thankyou for your time"

Bottom line with Packard Bell: Download the motherboard manual, be prepared to find mistakes in it, and fix everything that goes wrong yourself - NEVER let them anywhere near it, as it'll likely come back in worse condition.

I have a cheese PC made from fubby Alerican snoord crows.

ok all is forgiven

I had a Packard Bell. It crashed a lot. So I got a Dell. Which crashes less. Which is good. Hope that helped.

Okay, sorry :c)

Just try and use grammer though.