Computer Renaissance

[essial.livejournal.com]

I doubt I spelled it right.. but is it just me or do ALL of those computers suck? Literally ever one i've come across has had caps that have either bulged, leaked, or literally exploaded. I mean where the hell do they get the boards from? Its no surprise that horrid company went out of business..

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[hoffman-log.livejournal.com]

Renaissance

waaaayyyyy off.....

but as long as you can figure out how to hook up "that-thar-paper-color-machiney", you'll always be a genius to your users :-D

_MaH

Computer Rennaissauce?

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

I think you mean Computer Renaissance.

Some of them do suck. I used to work for one of them that sucked far less than most because it was run by an honest man. I quit before the whole leaky caps thing hit the fan, but I know we were very picky about what used boxes we'd buy.

AFAIK, it's still in business. CR is a franchise and they are all independently owned and operated.

nonetheless, the very store I worked for had a site created in its honor by a rather dissatisfied customer asshat.

www.ComputerRenaissanceSucks.com (http://computerrenaissancesucks.com/)

really, we bent over backwards and gave that guy back every dollar he spent, and he's still spewing bullshit. We aren't the first place he's done it to either

Motherboard go boom.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

BTW, about motherboards and other gear with leaky caps:

No one had any way of knowing those caps were bad. They were made with a stolen incorrect chemical formula by a bootleg company, marked to look just like known good brands and everyone got screwed... Apple, IBM, Intel, ABIT, Gateway, all of 'em.

I've replaced boards from very cheap and very high quality machines due to popped caps.

Chances are all of the CR branded boxes you are looking at were all built with a bad batch of boards.

Re: Motherboard go boom.

[essial.livejournal.com]

Even still, its sad when I open the case and see caps like that.Thankfully, 99% of the time the customers are understanding about their machines having rounded caps.. every great once in a while you'll run into those who want the system "fixed anyway" -- nevermind the fact that the thing will never run stable with caps that look like soda cans that have been dropped on the floor.

Re: Motherboard go boom.

[tsutton.livejournal.com]

>>No one had any way of knowing those caps were bad. They were made with a stolen incorrect chemical formula by a bootleg company, marked to look just like known good brands and everyone got screwed

That's the first I've heard. Do you have any furthe rinformation about it?

Thanks.

Re: Motherboard go boom.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Google for capacitor scandal (http://www.google.com/search?q=capacitor+scandal)

Lots of info.

Re: Motherboard go boom.

[tsutton.livejournal.com]

Interesting read. Thanks for the link!

[achernow.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who worked for a CR. His store was pretty reputable but there were some in the area that were shadily run.

-A

[torkell]

For some amusement, take one electrolyic (the sort that only work one way round) cap, rated for a few hundred uF at 6 volts or so, hook it up backwards to a nice, meaty, 6 amp 20 volt powerpack, switch on and wait. If you're lucky, it will explode. If you're less lucky, it'll just sit there for a bit, then spray a load of stuff out one end.

I suggest you put the cap on a bit of scrap paper or card first, as the stuff that comes out isn't particularly nice.

[essial.livejournal.com]

Bordem is a scary thing...

[torkell]

In this case, it was the last physics lesson ever with one of the school's resident mad scientists.

We also got to spend a couple of lessons playing around with dry ice. Great stuff - stick a bit of oraneg peel in it for a bit, and then whack it with something to shatter it! You can also play air hockey with a lump of dry ice - the CO2 gas produced makes a good cushion of air.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

I've done that with liquid nitrogen. Even more fun :)