<3 IBM Support
Feb. 10th, 2005 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
IBM: "IBM support, how may I help you?"
Me: "I have a Thinkpad T40, with serial number blah-blah-blah. My disk is dying."
IBM: "You sure?"
Me:"Yes, I get SMART errors and now my disk driver is complaining too."
IBM: "Okay, we'll send you a new disk. What's your address again?"
No bullshit. Awesome. Give them love if you're buying a PC laptop, folks.
Me: "I have a Thinkpad T40, with serial number blah-blah-blah. My disk is dying."
IBM: "You sure?"
Me:"Yes, I get SMART errors and now my disk driver is complaining too."
IBM: "Okay, we'll send you a new disk. What's your address again?"
No bullshit. Awesome. Give them love if you're buying a PC laptop, folks.
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Date: 2005-02-10 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 07:11 pm (UTC)When I had a dying hard drive, Dell told me to defrag. Then they told me to run their Windows diagnostic test. And this one on a known-bad model of hard drive.
(Sadly, that wasn't as bad as one time I had to convince a coworker that a drive was dying. "You sure?" "Yes, it just deleted a chunk of php and broke the web calendar, and it's making a horrendouse clunking noise." "You sure?" "No, I'm making this up because I think restoring from backups is fun. Yes, of course, I'm sure.")
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Date: 2005-02-11 01:51 am (UTC)Me: My CPU is dying.
Dell: Can you run the diagnostics software?
Me: No, I don't have Windows, I have Linux.
Dell: We don't support Linux. But you think it's the CPU?
Me: Yeah.
Dell: New one will be there tomorrow morning.
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Date: 2005-02-11 05:28 pm (UTC)