[TML] Computer problems

[Derek Wildstar]

On Jul 26, 2008, at 2:50 PM, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> Compaq BIOS doesn't post worth a damn unless you know the right key  
> to press at the right time.  But I think it will give *that*  
> message.  [...]  Compaq, like most of the mass market prebuilt  
> systems, is
> *deliberately* designed so that the only upgrades are drives, cards  
> and RAM. For anything else, you replace the entire box.

There's a reason I've always hated Compaq.

The first company I worked for bought all Compaq desktops and servers  
(this was in the days when 286's were standard and 386-based servers  
were starting to stand in for "big iron").  I hated working on those  
machines: they used Torx screws, non-standard mountings, and similar  
annoyances.

---Derek