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Working as a compaq repair technician let me state my feelings with Compaq. Many of their systems are very much under cooled. If you have a AMD processor, keep your home at 60 degrees. Their built for you units never have the right drivers, sometimes 7 new releases with updated drivers. Compaq cares less about a operating system upgrade. If you slap windows 98 on top of 95 your S.O.L.

The quick-restore software is very buggy, loading far too many unwanted programs. As with any non clone product, why do we need all the cab files on the hard drive when the CD has all this info.? Does HP, IBM, Gateway and Compaq think we are all Blonds or what? Finally, when I try to repair a system, about 30% of the time I receive a part that is DOA. I very seldom get a new part, rather a part that has been used before for who knows how long.

No I am not a Compaq employee, just someone who works on them daily. Cooling is a key to the blue screen of death. Be careful loading programs [one by one] and test before loading another. Though adding cards or memory is available, the system board will sometimes lock-up not knowing what to do a a new PCI device. And how about their cable select options? Why not master/slave. Don't try putting in that burner with Compaq's 39 pin ribbon!

It will have you taking far to many asprins. In my own words, Compaqs work great if, and I repeat if, you don't plan on adding any hardware or software. Any new software can crash the operating system, and most hardware will do the same. If your running NT, keep it as is. Do not add a foreign NIC. Adding a [for example] a d-link card for DSL can cause a nightmare. Compaq also has far to many modem problems due to the cheap a** modems they use and again the heat problem .{some have heat shields} A heat shield around a modem should tell compaq something!! My advice for buying a Compaq: 1: Don't 2: Ah, go ahead, they keep me employed. 3: Buy a big box with 2 fans in the rear. 4: Move to the North Pole. 5: Plan on using the software forever without a upgrade.

By the way, I also work on all the major P/C's. They all have their flaws mostly due to the software they have. If we as consumers demand just the drivers for the system and a copy of the operating system, it would be a flawless event. But because of consumers that don't know their head from their a**, companies try to make it easy for these stupid, uneducated group. So if your smart enough to build your own, do it, and if your not play by the rules with the P/C you buy. Good Luck you losers who pay me! Just a joke, now do a Q/R.

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