We will be closed on Friday Aug 29

August 29, 2008 we will be closed. We will re-open September 2, 2008. We rarely close a day early but we all needed a break! Everyone please have a fantastic weekend!

-Absolute Computers

Dell Precision M90 bad video card

We have had more Precision M90s in lately with bad video cards.

the latest one was still under Dell warranty. Upon trying to get the parts covered under warranty, Dell informed us that they are out of the video cards and can not get more. They said the Precision M90 laptops under warranty that have a bad video card will be replaced. We are currently waiting to see what they are going to replace it with. We just know it will be something similar or newer. This blog post will be updated once we have more information.

For Precision M90 laptops with a bad video card that are out of warranty, well, not so good news. We have found a few but they seem to go for $400 - $500 when they are available.

Toshiba Satellite ERROR F3E1000001

If you encounter error F3E1000001 while running your recovery disks on a Toshiba Satellite A105 or P105, it is most likely because the hard drive is BAD.

As of right now, this is not documented on Toshiba's site.

This threw up for a loop for a few minutes today- a customer's P105 came in with a bad hard drive. Our new hard drive kept giving us an error- it turned out the new hard drive was bad as well. It would show up in BIOS just fine but Windows XP Media Center Edition couldn't find it. Running DFT revealed the drive was defective. Drive #3 is in and working! Yay!

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First Citizens Bank CRASHED

Well, this is weird, but our bank just crashed.

First Citizens Bank is down. We began experiencing problems where our credit card would not work. We tried calling 1-888-FC-DIRECT and the line would say the call volume was too great and hang up. Then we tried to log into online banking but just got a message that reads "Notice to Online Banking Customers - Online Banking is currently unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and appreciate your patience."

It has been down for hours. If it isn't fixed soon, we will not be able to process credit cards, either! There are no details on their website as to what is wrong.

October Break in

We just bumped into a pic of our front door that was smashed in back in October 2004 and thought we'd add it to our blog. The 3 people that did this didn't get away for long, they were thrown in jail a month or two later. An anonymous tipster had their license plate #. We're "prepared" for this type of situation; some of our retail inventory was stolen but no customer computers were harmed.