Today we head east for a long visit with family & friends for Thanksgiving and beyond. We’ll spend the most time with my mom in Red Feather Lakes, but also see people in Fort Collins and Boulder. We’ve been back in Colorado for a couple years now, but have never taken the time to catch [...]
Hopefully this will be the last time I post about the saga of my malfunctioning HP Presario V3000z.
Thanks to a compassionate FedEx driver, I was spared the drive to Montrose to pick up my computer (see my last post). He made the arrangements to bring the box to me himself. What a guy!
The Presario [...]
As of today, my theoretically repaired notebook is sitting at a FedEx facility in Montrose (an hour away). You may ask, "But Mike, why is it in Montrose, and not delivered to your doorstep?" A fine question - thanks for asking.
Despite telling two separate HP customer service reps that my address had changed, HP never [...]
Wow - when I wrote my last post I never imagined I’d be down for 9 DAYS. But thanks to some very tall trees between the new house and the wireless transceiver, I had to switch back to DSL. And thanks to some VERY unhelpful people at TDS, it took several days longer than it [...]
So the big move is tomorrow. As soon as I finish posting this I’m tearing down the new Dell and packing it up. I should have Internet access again on the 3rd or 4th.
HP has diagnosed my motherboard problem, and given me a date for the return of the repaired laptop - November 4. It will be interesting to see if they pull it off. If they do, I will be happy to change the name of these posts to "Update: HP Sucks Sometimes."
