[aclug-L] Re: CD-R and ATX case vendor recommendations

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Behalf Of Greg House
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:02 PM
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> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: CD-R and ATX case vendor recommendations
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> But.. I haven't ordered anything from them in 6 months or so. My friend
> bought some SIMMs from them awhile back that were bad. We put them in 3
> different motherboards (different brands of mobos even...) and they wouldn't
> even show up. Comp Geeks jacked him around on returning them, claiming the
> memory was fine, just "incompatible with his motherboard". Well, if so, they
> needed to provide the name of a motherboard it'd work in 'cause as far as I'm
> concerned it was cooked before he got it. They finally did refund his money,
> but charged him a 15% restocking fee, which I thought was bogus. That one
> deal totally soured my friend on mail order/internet purchases. He won't buy
> anything except from a local dealer now.

They may or may not have been bad. I've seen some MB's that would only work with
PC66 DIMMS, and others that would work with anything you put into it. I've also
seen MB's that were very picky about what size chip was in which slot, though
most of the problems seem to appear on older hardware.

--dwh

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