CLI wrote

linktopower wrote

CLI wrote

linktopower wrote I would say that the geek squad is useless... I know my sister took a Dell Mini netbook to them becuase it something wrong with it and they had it for three days and told her that they knew no way to fix it.

I took a look at it and seen that the SSD firmware was corrupted I managed to reflash the firmware on it and install windows 7 on it.

I told her not to bother with them anymore that I would look at her computer issues for now on.

I am the same way, I have just told everyone in my family if they have a problem to call me. Needless to say some of them still go and use useless services.

That happens to me as well, some times my family don't trust me with their hardware and the say they would rather have a paid profession do it.

But it usually ends the same way it ends up with me looking at it after the "professional" looks at it and can not fix it, lol.

Anymore, anyone that knows how to turn a computer on thinks they are a "Professional." I am currently enrolled in college for a CIT-Network Administration degree(2nd year student) plus 2 years taking technical courses in High School my Junior and Senior year. I don't claim to be a professional, I just know everything I need to know to repair systems.

Yeah I know what you mean I know that most of the people who think they know quite a bit about computers know how to make a web page (Facebook or something else) and dust the computer out.

And I wish you luck in getting your degree

linktopower wrote

CLI wrote

linktopower wrote

CLI wrote

linktopower wrote I would say that the geek squad is useless... I know my sister took a Dell Mini netbook to them becuase it something wrong with it and they had it for three days and told her that they knew no way to fix it.

I took a look at it and seen that the SSD firmware was corrupted I managed to reflash the firmware on it and install windows 7 on it.

I told her not to bother with them anymore that I would look at her computer issues for now on.

I am the same way, I have just told everyone in my family if they have a problem to call me. Needless to say some of them still go and use useless services.

That happens to me as well, some times my family don't trust me with their hardware and the say they would rather have a paid profession do it.

But it usually ends the same way it ends up with me looking at it after the "professional" looks at it and can not fix it, lol.

Anymore, anyone that knows how to turn a computer on thinks they are a "Professional." I am currently enrolled in college for a CIT-Network Administration degree(2nd year student) plus 2 years taking technical courses in High School my Junior and Senior year. I don't claim to be a professional, I just know everything I need to know to repair systems.

Yeah I know what you mean I know that most of the people who think they know quite a bit about computers know how to make a web page (Facebook or something else) and dust the computer out.

And I wish you luck in getting your degree

I don't know many people that understand Basic HTML. The "Pros" that I know can turn on a computer and get to Facebook. xD And thanks! I am going to take both MS and Cisco courses this year to get both sides of Network Administration, should be fun.

Geek squad is seriously a 0/10
I took my laptop in once just for the shiggles (Nothing was wrong with it at all)
and they told me it had like 4 trojans and that the disk drive was broken.