Why am I getting a DISK WRITE ERROR message?

[Patrick]

More experiences like this and I'll be just like Wombat.

Turns out this so called "techie" that diagnosed the computer I referred to earlier is quite a dipstick. It didn't take me long when I got the computer home to see that the heatsink was mounted on the 1 GHz Celeron backwards. (He did this when he replaced the defective motherboard.) For anyone who may not be familiar with this Celeron/heatsink combination, the thermal pad on the heatsink is off to one side, it is NOT in the center. Therefore, when this idiot installed the heatsink, only about an eighth of an inch of the pad was actually touching the raised (hot) part of the processor. Gawd, that makes for great heat transfer.

[cbman]

That's nothing compared to this one guy where I live... I will just call him Andy P.

Anyways... he is quite the talker and very, very sure of his skills.

We had sold RTCW and Harry Potter to a nice gentleman who went on and on about how he picked up this system from Andy P for a good price and how Andy is so knowledgeable and helpful and how he says this and says that and yadda yadda yadda. Anyways he came in the next morning saying that Harry Potter worked fine but RTCW didn't work at all.. kept giving errors and such... He said that he asked Andy what it could be and as always... he wouldn't have anything to do with it, it must have been a bad CD. So I said... well... bring it into the shop and we could straighten it away for you quick, it will either be the CD or something else. Since Andy said it was the CD that was what it had to be.

He brought his system into the shop and said.. Oh and my wife was trying to copy some files from a diskette and it wouldn't work... think you could fix that... well sure we could.

Man was this system messed... The sound Driver was improperly installed, the Video Card Version was some Old Beta Detonater Driver, and now for the clincher.

The floppy drive didn't work because the cable was on backwards, So instead of flipping the cable around... this Andy guy disabled the Floppy Disk Controller in the Bios

Hahaha... I haven't seen something so lame in a fairly long time.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Patrick
Turns out this so called "techie" that diagnosed the computer I referred to earlier is quite a dipstick. It didn't take me long when I got the computer home to see that the heatsink was mounted on the 1 GHz Celeron backwards. (He did this when he replaced the defective motherboard.) For anyone who may not be familiar with this Celeron/heatsink combination, the thermal pad on the heatsink is off to one side, it is NOT in the center. Therefore, when this idiot installed the heatsink, only about an eighth of an inch of the pad was actually touching the raised (hot) part of the processor. Gawd, that makes for great heat transfer.

It's even worse when its done to a duron or athlon!
They usualy don't survive it!

Originally posted by cbman
That's nothing compared to this one guy where I live... I will just call him Andy P.

Anyways... he is quite the talker and very, very sure of his skills.

We had sold RTCW and Harry Potter to a nice gentleman who went on and on about how he picked up this system from Andy P for a good price and how Andy is so knowledgeable and helpful and how he says this and says that and yadda yadda yadda. Anyways he came in the next morning saying that Harry Potter worked fine but RTCW didn't work at all.. kept giving errors and such... He said that he asked Andy what it could be and as always... he wouldn't have anything to do with it, it must have been a bad CD. So I said... well... bring it into the shop and we could straighten it away for you quick, it will either be the CD or something else. Since Andy said it was the CD that was what it had to be.

He brought his system into the shop and said.. Oh and my wife was trying to copy some files from a diskette and it wouldn't work... think you could fix that... well sure we could.

Man was this system messed... The sound Driver was improperly installed, the Video Card Version was some Old Beta Detonater Driver, and now for the clincher.

The floppy drive didn't work because the cable was on backwards, So instead of flipping the cable around... this Andy guy disabled the Floppy Disk Controller in the Bios

Hahaha... I haven't seen something so lame in a fairly long time.

What a coincident!

We have a competitor that also seems to have that level of expertise.....