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[jaybee]

Tiny/Time would give you a restore disc, but only if you signed upto their usless 3 year coverplan, which more than often was a 1/3 of the cost of the pc.

[lincs1]

3 months ago i bought a tiny 1.3ghz laptop out the local paper for £140 the laptop is a A360+ and its in mint condition with all software and manuals and loads of extra's. the only problem i have is when i bought it, it cannot run off the battery as there is a fault with the charging side of it. but it's well worth £140 alone. it runs all the mame perfectly and fruit's aswell.

spec:

processor celeron 1.3 ghz
memory 256
harddrive 20 gig
rom drive cd/dvd

and i use my laptop more than my brand new home pc that i bought at xmas.



lincsleisure1

[wearecity]

For my £1700

Athlon 64 3800+, 1gb Ram, 300 GB Sata HDD, 2 * 6800GT Graphics, Soundblaster Audigy 2 and top 7.1 surround sound speakers, Dvd Rewriter, dvd drive, 19inch TFT, Card Reader, Wireless card.

Now I do not have a problem with the spec or the performance of the graphics etc, but sadly had the following problems.

1/ It arrived 3 days late, I was lied to twice about delivery and it caused massive inconveince.

2/ Switched on when arrived, worked for 5 mins, then hard disk failed.

3/ Spent ages getting through to Tech Support, told I would get a call back same next, never did.

4/ Next day get call, engineer will come in in 10 days time!!!. Er hello I have a 3 yr onsite warranty.

5/ Engineer came, opened case and had to tidy cabelling and remount dvd drives as they were not in properly either.

6/ Marketted for games, but TFT sold is 25ms (not to bad once you get used to it though).

7/ PC is now making an awful noise as if something is caught in the fan, but strangely the noise varies and comes and goes as well. So someone else will need to come in.

I'm not the only one, if you check the Computer Shopper forums and others, loads of people are complaining about Mesh and their shoddy service.

Maybe I was lucky with my Time PC, but my mate also had one and never had a major problem and never needed to re-install windows either.

[Jamesbond_007838]

I'm not the only one, if you check the Computer Shopper forums and others, loads of people are complaining about Mesh and their shoddy service.

Said it before and I'll say it again,

November 2001 I bought this machine from Mesh, £1049.99.

Great spec at the time for the money, arrived when they said it would arrive, has worked perfectly for four years+.

Only one fault occurred with it, PSU blew up spectacularly (which was my fault, but Mesh dont know that ). Second year of warranty was RTB, and it was sorted out quickly, I had the machine back within 7 days working 100% again.

Seriously, this company must have hit the shit severely over the past two years as the service was f*****g excellent when I needed it. Worst part of this system is the parts I have added to it .


-Edit - Oh yeah, Time PCs are arse, so you mustve just been lucky with yours

[frankie4fingers]

For my £1700

Athlon 64 3800+, 1gb Ram, 300 GB Sata HDD, 2 * 6800GT Graphics, Soundblaster Audigy 2 and top 7.1 surround sound speakers, Dvd Rewriter, dvd drive, 19inch TFT, Card Reader, Wireless card.

Now I do not have a problem with the spec or the performance of the graphics etc, but sadly had the following problems.

1/ It arrived 3 days late, I was lied to twice about delivery and it caused massive inconveince.

2/ Switched on when arrived, worked for 5 mins, then hard disk failed.

3/ Spent ages getting through to Tech Support, told I would get a call back same next, never did.

4/ Next day get call, engineer will come in in 10 days time!!!. Er hello I have a 3 yr onsite warranty.

5/ Engineer came, opened case and had to tidy cabelling and remount dvd drives as they were not in properly either.

6/ Marketted for games, but TFT sold is 25ms (not to bad once you get used to it though).

7/ PC is now making an awful noise as if something is caught in the fan, but strangely the noise varies and comes and goes as well. So someone else will need to come in.

I'm not the only one, if you check the Computer Shopper forums and others, loads of people are complaining about Mesh and their shoddy service.

Maybe I was lucky with my Time PC, but my mate also had one and never had a major problem and never needed to re-install windows either.

f*** me, did they rip you off...?

[wearecity]

Normally when a cd drive stops reading/writing cd, the drive is knackered, there are no serviceable parts and a new drive is required.

Your best bet would be to try to use the drive in another pc first, if it still doesn't read/write then the drive is knackered for sure. Also try a working cd drive say from your machine in your mates and see if it works.

My first computer (a mesh by the way also) suffered from a failed cd drive, the engineer came in and said what I said in the first sentence of this post and replaced the drive. I got a good deal as he replaced by 6x drive with an 8x drive, as 6x drives were no longer in any of their machines. That was back in 1997, when 200mhz processors were the dogs bollocks.

:-)

[cliffc]

Normally when a cd drive stops reading/writing cd, the drive is knackered, there are no serviceable parts and a new drive is required.

Your best bet would be to try to use the drive in another pc first, if it still doesn't read/write then the drive is knackered for sure. Also try a working cd drive say from your machine in your mates and see if it works.

My first computer (a mesh by the way also) suffered from a failed cd drive, the engineer came in and said what I said in the first sentence of this post and replaced the drive. I got a good deal as he replaced by 6x drive with an 8x drive, as 6x drives were no longer in any of their machines. That was back in 1997, when 200mhz processors were the dogs bollocks.

:-)

Hi there

As a PC engeneer i can tell you that the restore disks will not help you in this case, If the drive is not reading any cd's its almost certinly the drive thats died, so pop down to your local frendly computer shop (or internet site) and buy a new one.
I would never buy any branded pc unless it came with a full set of restore disks as standard, allthough some machines do now come with the images on a hidden partition on the HDD and all the restore disk does is activate the hidden partition and start the restore off, but i would still not buy that pc unless i had a full set of restore cd's/dvd's because what happens if the hdd failes after the warrenty is up.

CLiffc

[Jamesbond_007838]

That was back in 1997, when 200mhz processors were the dogs bollocks.

:-)

Ooh, in 1998 i got a 32x drive fitted to my P1 166mhz MMX machine, when the 16x one packed up.

16x out of the box in 1997 though.........

-edit- yeah, 200mhz was the dogs bollocks, but it was £400 more for 34mhz...........

[Gazeyre1966]

If it's still playing CD's then the only other possibility is that the CD player only reads CD's and won't write them....or have I misread your last post?

If it plays "Normal" cds ok then it's probably your CD laser packing up and time to take a shopping trip as they are harder for the CD player to read.

[cliffc]

It reads cd's and dvd's ok, but when I try to put stuff onto the cdr/rw it says that there is no cdr/rw present. I can play music cd's fine and put a dvd game in fine. Just cant copy to cdr/rw. Dam time. Mine is a packard bell, only problem i got is cyberlink media services and norton.

HI

If it wont write the cd but can read them assuming it is a cd writer then it looks like the write head has gone, so you will still need to repalce the full drive, for the cost you might as well get a DVD re-writer in there

CLiff C

[Magz]

You might consider one of these. They're end of life, but for under £25 it's a damn good drive...

http://www.scan.co.u...roductID=171000