Who's smart idia was this?

[Rainechan]

Re: Who's smart idia was this?

Few words of advise: LET THE THREAD DIE. Already ordered a dvdv rom last night, *cough* 1am while doing promys*cough* Sojust let it die...please?

And the reason I'm scared to open the box cause the last 3 computers I did it to:
1.melted
2.exploded
3.stoped working

So yeah, I don't wanna ruin a 4th computer cause I'm technicly challanged.

[bungiefan]

Re: Who's smart idia was this?

Much profit is made off of people who don't want to learn how to do simple things in thier computer. Find any computer repair store, including the highly advertised "Geek Squad". I gaurantee most of thier business is 5-10 minute installs.

I can vouch for this claim. Working interneship on the community's computers at the vocational school I went to, most jobs were simple part upgrades in computers that took less than half an hour, or were jobs where we had to nstall antivirus software and then just start a scan and go do another job while we waited for the scan to finish and give us a diagnosis. Most times during jobs were just spent with progress bars on the screen and us doing other jobs, or if there were no other jobs in the queue, which was common with 16 of us doing work for a town of 2000 people, we'd just sit there and "hurry up and wait".

As for how inexpensive DVD drives are, I found a burner for ~$30 US. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827151118

Heck, even hard drives are cheap now. for under $400 in hard drive cost, my computer will have a terabyte worth of drives this week, since Outpost.com had 400 GB IDE drives for $109 each a few days ago, and now has 300 GB SATA drives for $80 each.

It's pretty sad if adding more RAM or a new hard drive or optical drive causes your computer to break. Most PCs have those upgrades in easily accessible places, and it's fairly hard to plug in a cord backwards to do damage. Drives don't even need you touching the motherboard. It's essentially as simple of a task as hooking up a game console, since you just match 2-3 plugs. Heck, my entire class at school had to assemble their class computers from scratch on the second day of class. Over half the class started the course with no computer experience whatsoever, and nobody broke their computer while putting it together. They just gave us the parts in the sealed boxes and said to work in pairs to assemble. The teachers gave no actual instruction on how to assemble the computer, just some basic instruction on proper handling of circuit boards with anti-static equipment, so all we had was the motherboard diagram sheet, the manuals that came with the parts, and the experience that a few people in the class already had. All 16 computers were assembled within about 6 hours, with most having Windows XP Pro finished installing by that time.