It’s like a West End farce, honestly. What a week. What follows
\nis only a brief<\/i> outline of the main events …<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks ago, desktop computers A and B (situated in the same office)
\nfail on the same day. On investigation the diagnosis was “System A has a
\ndead motherboard and System B has a dead hard disk”. Fate takes an early
\n2-0 lead.<\/b><\/p>\n
OK, the first step is easy. We take the hard disk from A, put it
\ninto B and, after a small amount of re-configuration, we have one
\nworking system, B. Hurrah, 2-1<\/b>.<\/p>\n
We need a replacement for A of course, so a new machine is
\nordered. Meanwhile, a new machine is also ordered for
\nPatient Member Of Staff whose current PC is slow, old and horrible –
\nshe can make do with the one she has for now, but a new one will
\neventually be appreciated. When A’s replacement appears, let’s call
\nthis one C, it is effectively dead on arrival. 3-1<\/b>. We
\narrange for this to be returned to the supplier, who in the meantime
\nhas shipped the second new machine, D, destined for
\nPatient Member Of Staff. However, replacing A is more urgent than
\ngetting a new machine ready for Patient Member Of Staff and, since D
\nappears to working without problem, I put it on the desk where the
\nsmouldering wreck that was A still remains. 3-2<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Whilst waiting for the repaired system C to be returned from the
\nsupplier, in anticipation of being able to equalize at 3-3, fate
\nonce more rolls the dice …<\/p>\n
Another PC, E, belonging to Important Person, fails. Well, it’s
\nold and clunky and probably needed replacing anyway. Still, we’re
\nnow trailing 4-2<\/b>. Important Person really needs to have a
\nnew system up and running quickly, so, given that the owner of A
\n(now replaced with D – are you keeping up?) has suddenly decided to
\ntake a few days off with a particularly nasty case of
\nfood-poisoning, I get D and put it on Important Person’s desk and
\ndispose of E. That was Thursday lunchtime. 4-3<\/b>.<\/p>\n
On Friday morning, Important Person tells me that D won’t start.
\nOn investigation, D is truly lifeless, despite having worked
\nperfectly since its arrival. Fate keeps up the pressure and takes a
\n5-3<\/b> lead. I begin to suspect that Important Person might be
\ndoing something to affect the life of his PC, when the fixed
\nreplacement C re-appears, just in the nick of time. So, I replace
\nthe now-dead D with C, which does indeed appear to have been fixed.
\n5-4<\/b>.<\/p>\n
So, the state of play at the end of Friday is that we need a
\nreplacement for D, itself a replacement for A; and we still need a
\nnew machine for Patient Member Of Staff, who is finding she needs to
\nbe more and more patient as each day passes.<\/p>\n
And that’s where we are right now.<\/p>\n
Also, during the course of the week, my own shiny 19-inch monitor \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n This sounds too good to be true, especially at the end of a week It’s like a West End farce, honestly. What a week. What follows is only a brief outline of the main events … A couple of weeks ago, desktop computers A and B (situated in the same office) fail on the same day. On investigation the diagnosis was “System A has a dead motherboard and System… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndecided to give up working – it’s about 9 months into a 3 year
\nwarranty. On speaking to our usual supplier (who sold us the
\nmonitor originally), he said that monitors of that brand – Hansol<\/a> – offer a good swap-out
\nservice on in-warranty monitors. “They’ll just turn up with a
\nnew one.”<\/i>, he says. I’m understandably a bit doubtful that it
\ncould be so simple, but ring up the service centre. Bloke asks for
\nthe model number, the serial number, my name and address and then
\nannounces “We’ll be round at your office between 9 and 5 on
\nMonday and will bring a replacement.”<\/i> He didn’t seem much
\ninterested in finding out what exactly was wrong with it, or
\nanything else.<\/p>\n
\nlike this, but I guess Monday will reveal all …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"