Compac Presario - the Walmart version [which I think is cheapened up to get volume]. First the CD-RW went out - so after days of screwing around with techs in India on the phone and finding that getting a repair under warranty is just a little less painful than Lethal Injection - I decided to just buy an external drive-writer.
Now - I turn my computer on and the damned monitor blinks and goes blank. It had done a couple of funny things last nite - but today it just died. So I have an old monitor hooked up for the time being. I hesitate to try and get any warranty work done on it after my last experience. Rather than send a new part they expect you to give then a credit card number -and if you don't return the old one within so many days they charge you. In the meantime who might have my CC number floating about in cyberspace? What a pain in the ass.
I am thinking of just buying a new monitor and forgetting the warranty.
Jeff