I’ve been working on this one computer problem for about a week now knowing damn well that it is either the motherboard or processor.  Since I don’t have an AM2 processor to test I can’t know for sure.  Thankfully I decided to check HP’s part warehouse today and it made my decision for the customer about what to do with the computer.

I wasn’t sure which part for sure needed to be replaced so I tried to get a quote on both.  The computer is only about two years old, but I couldn’t get either part.  They just don’t sell to repair businesses so they can make money having the computer sent to them.  How much money?  It’s about $400 for the repairs to be made.  That doesn’t include shipping, and this was a desktop computer.

“Fuck that” is what I would say.  The customer hasn’t called back about what they want to do with it but if it were me, I’d take it as a good opportunity to get a new computer.  Something with Windows 7 on it rather than Vista.

What would you do?