Makes me feel more professional and honest. Thanks Videosift!

I saw one of these before when all they did was disconnect the IDE cable from the CD drive. 9 out of ten shops tried to screw them over by saying they need a new one, a new processor, a new MoBo or whatever. Only one said "Your cable was unplugged" and didn't charge them.
Thank God I'm a geek and build my own. To hell with repair shops.

I used to do in-home computer repair, and I was always amazed at how easily I convinced people to buy the parts I suggested. I was always honest, but amazed at how little I had to pressure them to follow my recommendation. It's seriously easy pickings.

It's no different than the car-repair industry. They've been doing the same thing for generations. A bad spark plug suddenly turns into "you need a new head-gasket and four new tires."

If they really wanted to help customers they could have at least mentioned the names of the places that were honest. And I suspect half of those who failed were just incompetent rather then crooked. But still that's pretty awful results over all. No wonder I'm always getting wrangled into fixing compys for free, people know not to trust professionals.

i never usually watch marketplace and such, but ones like this are my favorite.

Wait! Woah! Which three?! Which threee!! Wait! Noooo!

I do my own repairs but I still manage to convince myself I should buy new better stuff...

To be fair, a failing ram stick is often tough to spot as a problem, unless, of course, you bring your own replacement ram, or have a copy of memtest86, which I don't think it in most techies repair kit.

They said they replaced it with a totally faulty memory stick. I guess how bad it was will affect how easy it is to diagnose. Really dead ram often involves the startup beeps.

that just happened to me 2 weeks ago. the computer was working properly for about 10 minutes at most, usually crashed right after re-booting. blue screen with different errors. so i thought perhaps its overheating but it wasn't. in fact it was stable longer if overclocked. so the second thing i checked was ram.
i used DFIs motherboard BIOS memtest and some other test software. it seemed fine, i even changed the slots and used just one of each ram sticks at a time to test them out. so i thought it must be the motherboard cause everything, even the power supply, checked out fine. so i spent 40 euros on a used motherboard before i remembered to use my friends ram in my original DFI motherboard. my point being - i was being the geek that cost me my money. at least i have a spare now

I think most these guys just don't know what they are doing and aren't very good at troubleshooting. I do think it was a little misleading with the guy talking about the hard drive data recovery. It doesn't seem like he was saying that was the problem. It sounded more like he was describing what would be needed to get data off of a dead drive if that ended up being the problem. For someone that doesn't have a backup of their data that is a reality they may be confronted with.

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Grimm has a point. That being said, that nerd is so fired.

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