Trying To Call OverClockers, Dial Up Tone.

[ScreamSlasher5X]

I've been trying to call Overclockers about a suspected faulty motherboard but cannot get through. The phone rings through and sounds like it is answered. I am then met with a loud dial up tone to the ear drum. Can someone else try and confirm that it isn't just me, please?

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

Make sure you're not using the fax number.

Telephone:
From the UK: 01782 44 44 55
International: +44 1782 44 44 55
Calls charged at standard rate, contact your service provider for more information.
Business customers click here

Fax:
From the UK: 01782 565 746
International: +44 1782 565 746

 

[ScreamSlasher5X]

Make sure you're not using the fax number.

Telephone:
From the UK: 01782 44 44 55
International: +44 1782 44 44 55
Calls charged at standard rate, contact your service provider for more information.
Business customers click here

Fax:
From the UK: 01782 565 746
International: +44 1782 565 746

Yeah, I'm a ******* idiot.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Make sure that you post in GD regarding your Minecraft query

 

[Bailey]

Yeah you are defo calling the fax number LOL

Our lines are working perfectly fine!

 

[Randomface74]

Never had/used a fax. Don't people just send you rude drawings?

 

[Bailey]

Never had/used a fax. Don't people just send you rude drawings?

We have had something like that sent though before

 

[NMBlack]

We have had something like that sent though before

Surely better than receiving poo through the letterbox?

 

[Tute]

Try answering the dial tone by making sounds like a fax machine and see what comes out at OcUK's end.

 

[chroniclard]

A fax? proper retro OCUK!

 

[Participant]

Yeah, I'm a ******* idiot.

New username plsthx

 

[Hades]

Never had/used a fax. Don't people just send you rude drawings?

Great idea! BRB...

 

[ScreamSlasher5X]

Well at least this spawned a conversation out of my stupidity.

 

[Werewolf]

A fax? proper retro OCUK!

I remember reading a couple of years back that in the likes of China and Japan they're still very common even in private homes as it is/was easier to fax a form, get it signed/filled in and faxed back than do the data entry on a PC due to the language.

 

[Megahurtz400]

If im not wrong, I believe the fax is still one of the most secure ways to send a document as it will be going directly from one fax machine to the other (obviously via the exchange/cab/etc).

Meaning that it's a lot harder to intercept/get ahold of unless you have access to the actual phone line somewhere.

 

[Meddling-Monk]

Back before there was decent writing input in Windows and other OS (so, from 90's up to around early 2000's; around 2005 I think), you needed to go through crazy steps to get the Far East language(s) installed and then configured properly to get it working. At least, within the OS itself. Then they had third party software that was in use even up to now (depending on preference) which entered the text in for you, but this was more propietary and didn't work everywhere. Meaning that you're much better off just writing it and then put it through the fax.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Did you try screeching back at it to see if you could get it to draw a pic?

 

[FortuitousFluke]

For fax sake OP.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Yeah, I'm a ******* idiot.

Seven posts from the OP and this is one of them.

Now this is how you post, GD regulars

 

[Nick1881]

Why do they even have a fax machine still?