Got to love a PC shop...

WARburton · 25 Oct 2024 at 09:02

so me and the DPD guy are no first name terms as it here more that the wife.
he asked if he could drop off an old PC for me to look at, after taking it to a shop and saying it getting for old and slow as there any way they can save it for just a general purpose home PC
you know youtube, facebook and so on... he was told it needed a good clean, new thermal paste and some more ram as 4gb just didn't do it now days

at 8:15 this morning when dropping off my sons new phone he dropped off his PC

here is a good clean on his 2500k system, heat sink looks clean id say they had done it

here is 4gb (2x2) of DDR3 ram

and here is 16GB (2x8) of ddr4 they had half jammed into the sockets

he as taken it back twice and said it wont boot, and if it dose it just crash's and lock's on the windows logo.
shop told him there is nothing wrong with it and maybe it was just time to bin it and start again.

ill find out the same of the shop when i see him sunday

linktoinsanity · 25 Oct 2024 at 15:10

That's awful, it is a shame that there are some cowboys about really, I know a local one to my grandparents up north took advantage of my grandfather a few times.

DDR4 vs DDR3 RAM though is a pretty obvious one. The person putting in that upgrade...

hornetstinger · 25 Oct 2024 at 15:14

What's the point of having a hammer if you don't use it to hit home memory modules into the sockets?

WARburton · 25 Oct 2024 at 16:17

Yes the ram obviously was only clipped in at one side.

I’m going to do a fresh windows install today after work and see if it works but tbf I think it now as a memory controller problem as it just blue screens all the time

Thekwango · 25 Oct 2024 at 16:26

have you removed and repasted the cpu cooler. i'd not trust that was done properly if done at all - even if they cleaned the cooler up nicely.

WARburton · 25 Oct 2024 at 17:13

Thekwango said:
have you removed and repasted the cpu cooler. i'd not trust that was done properly if done at all - even if they cleaned the cooler up nicely.

Tbf this a sound idea

Thekwango · 25 Oct 2024 at 17:49

Aye, I’d be going over anything they’ve likely touched and rechecking it, seeing as what they did with the ram tells me they’ve no clue what they were doing.

WARburton · 25 Oct 2024 at 20:22

Thekwango said:
Aye, I’d be going over anything they’ve likely touched and rechecking it, seeing as what they did with the ram tells me they’ve no clue what they were doing.

i have to assume it was the new lad... this time of year you get apprenticeships i know i did one(carpentry) and at the same time there was a few lads that was going to PC shops..

WARburton · 25 Oct 2024 at 20:27

the system did boot and work. it would just BSOD after 5 mins of say youtube
now i have pulled the sticks it will boot and get to windows loading screen then BSOD...

my hope is the constant BSOD's are just corrupt the OS, and not killed the memory controller with the half jammed it sticks of DDR4