Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!mallari From: mallari@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Mallari) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Who is Packard Bell and why are they making clones? Keywords: Packard Bell PC Clone Message-ID: <19135@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 3 Nov 89 19:10:46 GMT References: <1153@elmgate.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: mallari@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Brian Mallari) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 33 In article <1153@elmgate.UUCP> frh@elmgate.UUCP (Frank Hubbell SOFT) writes: >Who is Packard Bell? Does anyone know anything about them? >I am thinking about buying one of their PC Clones. Any information >would be welcome. I bought a Packard Bell compatible, not clone, a year and a half ago. I had some problems. First, my serial card had a large crack in it so that my printer printed garbage instead of graphics. Then the 640K memory that came on the motherboard was defective. I kept getting a Memory Parity Error message. I got a free serial card from someone as well as free 256K chips from someone else. That was fine. I didn't complain. Then I tried to install a 1.44 Mb 3.5" drive and the bios didn't allow me to configure that drive. I called the people at Packard Bell and they said it was my BIOS Setup program. They told me to send a disk and they would give me a copy of the latest version of the Setup program. Well, I sent a disk 4 weeks ago and it hasn't come back. I've called the tech people there several times and all they say is that they sent my disk to Customer Service to be mailed out. This was 3 weeks ago. In short...their service SUCKS. I think you can find a better buy in something other than this idiotic company's products. -Brian Actually if you're buying a true CLONE, I guess there would only be one way to design it and you wouldn't have any problem expanding your syst ENERGIZER BATTERIES.......THEY KEEP GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND G O I N G A N D G O I N G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Mallari University of California, Berkeley mallari@cory.berkeley.edu