IntaCepta
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Mill Hill East, Greater London
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!!!DO NOT RETURN THE PC BACK TO THEM!!!
try fix it urself, but to be honest i don't see how u've gone wrong as its not very hard thing to do..
anyways mate had problems sent it back to time or tiny, (forget which one)
but he didn't get it back till 9/10 months later !!
but they gave him a decent upgrade spec, didn't compensate or anything!
its not worth the wait, they'll take the piss, so many letters were sent off, they kept saying '2weeks blah blah'.
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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im not dumb. I dont regard PC specialists as people who know what they are doing. Pop into PC Worlds tech support section for an idea of what i mean 
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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update: Just tried to flash bios with flash utility and new BIOS code, now it says not compatible with NT/2000  AARGH!!!!!!!!
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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yeah but there not proper pc specialists... there just given a badge to say they are!
In one of my old jobs, we had the amazing task of repairing all the faulty stock these supposed 'PC Specialists' at PC World couldnt fix... (we bought them as damaged goods & sold them on as refurbs)
Best one, they said that they had tried a new CPU, RAM, GFX Card, MB...
but when we got it it was just the power switch on the front which was plugged into the HDD LED pins on the MB... was nothing wrong with it when it was powered up!
Also the ammount of porn some people download 
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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shocking innit. Just downloaded new flash ultility from Award, so hoping it works. Then overclocking shouldnt be a problem!
Dave
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Happy_2008
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Registered: 13th Mar 01
Location: Kent
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I bought from time i.e. Tiny and all i ever had was endless no of probs. Ended up binning the machine and built my own
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Joff
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Registered: 17th Oct 00
Location: Cambridgeshire
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I bought my 486 from Time in 1994/5 and could have told you not to buy from them.
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Joff
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Registered: 17th Oct 00
Location: Cambridgeshire
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Tiny have always been shit.
Time had a revamp a few years ago and improved for about 6 months, then went back to being shit.
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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joff this is true. I have a good machine now, i got rid of all the factory crap like the 10gb partition on my drive for the copy of XP. Bloody rip off Time. Well update, There is currently no flash utility that supports windows XP so i will have to make do or spend $25 on an upgrade through the post.
Dave
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Paul H
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Registered: 11th Aug 03
Location: Lincoln.
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not had a thing go wrong with mine and iv'e had it 2 years.all iv'e done is just upgrade little bits and bobs and it's worked perfect all the time iv'e had it
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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mine is very stable too, up to the point when you want to clock it, and it freezes with only a small adjustment of the clock speeds and multiplier.
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Mad Moe
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Registered: 14th Jun 01
Location: Northumberland
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Time and Tiny are both fucking useless, end of story.
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Tim
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Registered: 21st Apr 00
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey24
joff this is true. I have a good machine now, i got rid of all the factory crap like the 10gb partition on my drive for the copy of XP. Bloody rip off Time. Well update, There is currently no flash utility that supports windows XP so i will have to make do or spend $25 on an upgrade through the post.
Dave
You don't flash from Windows XP, you boot from a dos boot disk, making sure you load no drivers at all, and flash from the floppy...
http://www.drd.dyndns.org/fr_index.html?/disks.html
Use a std disk from there 
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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First ever PC I got was from a company called MJN in Burnley...
Was a bloody good machine, real high-quality parts, top stuff!!
2 years later, Time bought them out (they were major competition)
6 months after they bought out MJN, they closed them down, so I lost the last 6 months of the warranty I had, and Time wouldn't honour it 
1 reason of many why I hate Time!
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey24
joff this is true. I have a good machine now, i got rid of all the factory crap like the 10gb partition on my drive for the copy of XP. Bloody rip off Time. Well update, There is currently no flash utility that supports windows XP so i will have to make do or spend $25 on an upgrade through the post.
Dave
You don't flash from Windows XP, you boot from a dos boot disk, making sure you load no drivers at all, and flash from the floppy...
http://www.drd.dyndns.org/fr_index.html?/disks.html
Use a std disk from there
Yeah thats what i did, i did it from dos prompt, since there is no way of shutting windows down into dos, or is there?
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Tim
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Registered: 21st Apr 00
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DOS prompt as in running 'cmd' in a Window? Or actually booting from a floppy?
Booting from a 98 floppy the award bios program will run
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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You lot are talking in crazy ways 
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
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quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
You lot are talking in crazy ways
yes my head hurts
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
DOS prompt as in running 'cmd' in a Window? Or actually booting from a floppy?
Booting from a 98 floppy the award bios program will run
Duh where is my brain All i have to do is change the boot sequence in BIOS then. Easy peasy.
Dave
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