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maddog troubleshoots a broken Windows system and saves his niece some money in the process.

My niece was having problems with her system, which because of her work must run Microsoft, and she decided to take it to a repair depot to have the hardware checked to see if anything was wrong. Nothing wrong could be found by running hardware diagnostics.


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Great experience!

Renich Bon Ciric Feb 23, 2010 8:51pm GMT

This was nice to read. I have lived similar situations a thousand times; here, in México.

FOSS helps solve this kind of things. It's nice to read your story blunk

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