New PC problems

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EveryWhere, I've been mostly involved on the business end. The HP/dell/tosh have always been generally fantastic, never seen a returned lenovo to the bench. Had little happiness with consumer Acer... always the Mboard on the few i dealt with. always just after the warranty had run out by two months, and they were not the cheaper acer either.

With a little bit of imagination, a fault could easily appear

Yes, you would think before one shells out hundreds of quid, one would do research. Possibly become so cheap that perhaps it is now a throw away item, like tissues? I am amazed with what people throw away, even at work. Currently in our scrap pile among the i5's there are two xenon PCs with 36gb ram, 500Gb ssd and decent 2gb graphics cards ... and we are not allowed to take them.

EveryWhere

that wrote: »

EveryWhere, I've been mostly involved on the business end. The HP/dell/tosh have always been generally fantastic, never seen a returned lenovo to the bench. Had little happiness with consumer Acer... always the Mboard on the few i dealt with. always just after the warranty had run out by two months, and they were not the cheaper acer either.

With a little bit of imagination, a fault could easily appear

Yes, you would think before one shells out hundreds of quid, one would do research. Possibly become so cheap that perhaps it is now a throw away item, like tissues? I am amazed with what people throw away, even at work. Currently in our scrap pile among the i5's there are two xenon PCs with 36gb ram, 500Gb ssd and decent 2gb graphics cards ... and we are not allowed to take them.

Galling. Do they sell them to refurbishers or just send them to be destroyed?

debitcardmayhem

giraffe69 wrote: »

Seems worth checking whether it is updates. You can do this via settings, updates and security. If there are some waiting then as suggested let it run overnight to catch up and see if this makes a difference.

Also make sure it is not participating in update rollout https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-uploading-updates-other-computers-windows-10

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EveryWhere wrote: »

Galling. Do they sell them to refurbishers or just send them to be destroyed?

Don't laugh, they pay for them to be removed by green recyclers. The real benefit is that the recyclers have a confidential disk data destruction mechanism, so we get a report back saying disk s/n xyz from hp123 has been securely processed. ... yup ebay!

I do not know how true this is but apparently the green recyling company (charity?) get a grant to train people in IT skills, and they end up being 'trained' on the PCs to get them working - free labour. We get rid of hundreds or computers a year.

Computer_Beginner

Thanks for all the replies.
I'm away from home this weekend, but I'll take another look at the PC when I get home.

EveryWhere

Computer_Beginner wrote: »

Thanks for all the replies.
I'm away from home this weekend, but I'll take another look at the PC when I get home.

Just get rid...

EveryWhere

that wrote: »

Don't laugh, they pay for them to be removed by green recyclers. The real benefit is that the recyclers have a confidential disk data destruction mechanism, so we get a report back saying disk s/n xyz from hp123 has been securely processed. ... yup ebay!

I do not know how true this is but apparently the green recyling company (charity?) get a grant to train people in IT skills, and they end up being 'trained' on the PCs to get them working - free labour. We get rid of hundreds or computers a year.

Crazy....why don't they have someone in-house destroy the data and recycle the PCs?

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EveryWhere wrote: »

Crazy....why don't they have someone in-house destroy the data and recycle the PCs?

Well we dispose of about 2000 PCs a year - a continual refresh cycle. They are generally between 3-6 years old, have been written off the books. majority will be i3, some i5, very very few i7, about 7 years ago it cost over £50 to process one invoice. this task will take a team of people and a manager, a storage area, inventory system, the org is not in the IT game, nor do we want not handle warranties, or the potential liability if the someones house burns down, or corporate data leaks. 99.9999% the will not self ignite, but if disposed of as scrap 100% wont ignite - 0 personal liability and risk.

Plus documentation, testing, repair secure wiping and then re-installation takes time. still the majority are better than what the OP just shelled out around £270 on, but after being carted in a barrow, somewhat scratched and dented.

EveryWhere

that wrote: »

Well we dispose of about 2000 PCs a year - a continual refresh cycle. They are generally between 3-6 years old, have been written off the books. majority will be i3, some i5, very very few i7, about 7 years ago it cost over £50 to process one invoice. this task will take a team of people and a manager, a storage area, inventory system, the org is not in the IT game, nor do we want not handle warranties, or the potential liability if the someones house burns down, or corporate data leaks. 99.9999% the will not self ignite, but if disposed of as scrap 100% wont ignite - 0 personal liability and risk.

Plus documentation, testing, repair secure wiping and then re-installation takes time. still the majority are better than what the OP just shelled out around £270 on, but after being carted in a barrow, somewhat scratched and dented.

Excuse me, I would reply....but I'm busy setting up a 'green recycling company.

Computer_Beginner

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Also make sure it is not participating in update rollout https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-uploading-updates-other-computers-windows-10

I was under the impression that it was important to allow your computer to update, as this allows software ''patches'' to improve security weaknesses?