The PC needs to go back to the shop again *sigh* Sounds like the CPU fan is starting to bind. If I wasn't impressed with the shop before, I'm even less dazzled by them now. The PC has literally been rebuilt, the only original parts remaining being the drives. This was done four months ago at the end of January and the fan is already giving up. Anyway, the parts are still new, so it's going back to be fixed, even though I swore I'd never set foot in the place again.
It's really quite a sorry state of affairs. When we first moved to the area we were very much impressed with this shop. The two guys who ran it were obviously very knowledgeable about PCs and spoke to you like a real person. This really impressed upon me as most PC shops patronise you. They talk to you as if you know nothing about computers, regardless of whether you do or not. I liked them so much that I would by peripherals, media and cabling from them even though I could most likely get them cheaper elsewhere.
That was three years ago. Since then, the little shop has expanded and staff have come and gone. The owner now works almost exclusively from home and the shop is manned by a couple of young lads. One of them looks like he's just left school. Now, they probably do know quite a bit about IT, but their lack of experience is quite evident and it is having a detrimental effect on the reputation of the shop as far as I'm concerned.
