Worst Computer Ever.

[Seth]

I got a service call to reinstall 98 on a customers computer. The computer was an old MDG. What a royal piece of crap!

When I picked it up, it was so light that I actually thought there was nothing inside the case. When I got it to my shop, I literally opened it up just to see if it was missing half of the devices...but they were there, in all there crapola glory.

The cd drive barely opened, and when I managed to get it to read a cd, it sounded more like a jet taking off.

The floppy drive refused to read anything...not even the flat head screwdriver I shoved into it.

The pathetic hard drive sounded like a cross between someone chewing on marbles and a machine gun.

Above and beyond that, there was very little dust in the heatsink, but the computer ran so hot that it would have given a fireplace a good run for the money.

I ended up pulling the ram, nic, and tossed the rest in the junk pile. I then sold the customer an older IBM Aptiva that I just refurbished.

Not too long after that, I got another call for a brand new MDG. It was just as crappy as the old MDG's. I won't bore you with the details, but I could not get it to run right even after a full recovery. (Even the recovery process was a nightmare!).

So what's your "Worst Computer Ever"?

[mylanta]

I haven't had any real pieces of crap but I happen to have a "Dell from Hell" here right now I am afraid to mess with. It isn't that old (4100) and didn't have that much use with Windows Me 128 ram 1.0 P III 40 gb maxtor hdd dvd player-cdrw.
Initially it had a little spyware on it eWido took care of. No virus but would not update to IE 6 SP...would not complete. I have it on cd also but no difference. I reinstalled over top...forget it. I was getting a few spooling error messages also so I decided to reinstall Me to brand new hdd and up ram to 512, do updates, add Spyware prevention, Avg antivirus and then put in client hard drive...took forever to get set where both were seen and I don't think it was an issue of mismarked drives but finally got her files in. Put side back on after pulling olf hdd out and nothing! "Please remove disk from drive A" etc...drive was deader than a door nail on 3 pc's.
So I figured it was a new 40 gb Wd, but maybe defective so I reinstalled me, updates etc all over again to anew Samsung drive. Slaved client drive and copied her files, pulled her drive out, put side of case back and another dead hard drive!
So I called her and told her "plan B" which we had already discussed was a refurb Compaq I had just completed ...was her course of action. Needless to say every inch of that box is going in dumpster because who would have the courage to try to save any of the parts. I mean obviously the motherboard is toast, but how would I know if it killed anything else.
Oh and one of the hard drives (WD) isn't returnable as the serial number is incomplete and I have too many drives here to be sure where that one was really shipped from.